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Neighbours is coming to an end after 37 years on screens across the UK and Australia. It comes after Channel 5 made the decision to stop airing the programme, instead focusing on UK content.

Neighbours’ fans got the devastating news in March that the Australian soap was coming to an end. Before it finishes, many of the classic stars are returning, including Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan.

Channel 5 devastated fans when it confirmed that Neighbours was coming to an end after 37 years.

Kylie Minogue has revealed that there was “quite a bit of pressure” for her to appear in the upcoming finale episode of Neighbours.In an interview on Late Night With Seth Meyers yesterday (June 8), the singer discussed her early days on set of the Australian soap opera and how she will reprise the role of Ramsay street resident Charlene Robinson, who last appeared on the series in 1988.“I got this role in Neighbours in 1986… There was quite a bit of pressure for me to come back, so I shot my scenes back in Australia,” Minogue revealed.Elsewhere in the interview, Minogue credited the show with her later success as a musician, saying that its popularity “exploded” during her tenure and comprised “a large part of how [she] entered the music industry.”“England just went crazy about [Neighbours], so it’s been with me ever since…You know, you’re in people’s households [and] the show was played twice a day,” she recalled.Minogue also talked about how fellow Neighbours alum Guy Pearce, who landed his breakout role on the show in 1986 as troubled high-schooler Mike Young, would likewise return for the finale. The pair played friends during Pearce’s three-year run on the soap, and Minogue hinted at the emotion of their forthcoming reunion.“[Guy Pearce] was also on the show.

THE Neighbours cast have reunited to film the soap's final episode 37 years on - and they all look VERY different. It was announced earlier this year that the much-loved, long-running show - based in Australia - would finally be coming to a close.

NEIGHBOURS have confirmed another Ramsay Street legend will be returning for the axed soap's final episode in August. And the star in question is now a Hollywood superstar.

K.J. Yossman Mister Smith Entertainment has tapped Emma Mason as head of marketing and publicity, the company revealed on Friday.Mason has been overseeing marketing and publicity for Mister Smith Entertainment’s Cannes slate, including features “The Convert” from Lee Tamahori starring Guy Pearce, an action movie about a preacher in 1830s New Zealand, and “Inappropriate Behavior” from Tony Goldwyn starring Bobby Cannavale, about a man’s relationship with his neurodiverse child (and which features Robert De Niro in a major supporting role).She has also been working on Cannes offerings such as Martha Stephens’ “Big Rig,” which will see “High School Musical” star Vanessa Hudgens play a trucker, and Lucy Hale rom-com “Which Brings Me To You,” about a woman who sets out to have a one night stand at a wedding which doesn’t go according to plan.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company in Australia and New Zealand Tuesday unveiled a slate of nine new Australian original films and series. These represent the company’s biggest wave of local content commissions and acquisitions for Disney+ and will launch on the platform in 2022-23.The slate includes three scripted drama series: “The Clearing,” “The Artful Dodger,” “Last Days of the Space Age”; four documentary series, “Matildas: The World at Our Feet,” “Shipwreck Hunters Australia,” “Chasing Waves,” “Fearless: The Inside Story of the AFLW”; and two lifestyle and factual general entertainment series “Donna Hay Christmas” and competition format series “What’s Your Toy Story?” “It was important to us to have that scale to share so we could demonstrate to the marketplace that we are truly serious in this space,” Kylie Watson-Wheeler, senior VP and MD of The Walt Disney Company in Australia and New Zealand told Variety.

Miranda Otto, Jesse Spence and Guy Pearce are among the high-profile stars featuring on Disney+’s debut slate in Australia and New Zealand.

Tom Hanks, Jodie Comer, Olivia Colman, David Cronenberg and Richard Linklater head projects at a Cannes 2022 pre-sales market that looks like the most buoyant in recent years, while also ushering in what is being hailed as a new era in global rights licensing.“We’re very optimistic, expecting a pretty busy market with a lot of titles, the first real market after the pandemic,” said Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz.“Several distributors have told me that this Cannes will be the biggest market for projects in several years — in volume and quality,” said Cecile Gaget at Anton, which is selling Jodie Comer-led apocalyptic thriller “The End We Start From.”Multiple larger packages hit the market late last week. “People are conscious there could still be quite a lot to come in,” said Anne Cherel at Studiocanal, which over the weekend unveiled one hot project, comedy “Wicked Little Letters,” re-teaming Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley.

Iconic Events Releasing is kicking off Pride Month on June 2 with a nationwide rerelease of MGM’s Oscar-winning movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Guy Pearce is to play the lead in epic action feature The Convert from Die Another Day director Lee Tamahori.

Guy Pearce and Te Kohe Tuhaka lead the cast of “The Convert,” an epic New Zealand-set action drama film being directed by Lee Tamahori (“Die Another Day,” “Once Were Warriors”). Mister Smith Entertainment is representing sales rights and will launch the project at the Cannes film market.The story sees Pearce portray a lay preacher who arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.

Australia’s longest-running soap Neighbours is set to air its final episode on August 1, and it looks set to go out with a fitting send-off, with former stars Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan both hinting they will be taking part.

“Memory” opens with a grisly murder. Disguised in scrubs and a facemask, contract killer Alex Lewis (Liam Neeson, looking thinner and greyer than usual) walks into a hospital and garrottes a guy who’s visiting his ailing mamita.

Neighbours may have given us some of the world's biggest pop stars - but it also launched the careers of Hollywood icons too.Many of the original cast including Alan Dale, Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe landed their breakout roles in Ramsay Street, before becoming some of the biggest names in showbiz.They set the stage for more Neighbours alumni to follow in their footsteps, including Hollywood siren Margot Robbie and hunky heartthrob Liam Hemsworth.They're not the only big names to have been part of Erinsborough life however, and here, Daily Star looks at the Hollywood stars you may have forgotten were in Neighbours.Long before she voiced characters in Hollywood blockbuster family films such as Legend of the Guardians, Deborra Lee-Furness appeared in the first ever episodes of Neighbours back in 1985. The star played Linda Fielding for three episodes, but later returned in 2020 behind the camera, where she directed three episodes of the popular soap too.As well as forging a successful Hollywood career in films including Shame and Waiting, Deborra is also married to another Australian legend - The Greatest Showman's Hugh Jackman.One of the Neighbours OGs, Alan Dale played Jim Robinson in Neighbours between 1985 and 1993, before his character was killed off after Jim suffered a heart attack.

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Kylie Minogue has given a heartfelt tribute to the soap which launched her career more than three decades ago.The Aussie pop princess responded to a tweet confirming the sad news that Neighbours will cease production in June.The soap's producers Fremantle announced:“It is with sadness that after nearly 37 years and almost 9,000 episodes broadcast, we are confirming that Neighbours will cease production in June."“Following the loss of a key broadcast partner in the UK, and despite a search for alternative funding, we currently have no option but to rest the show.”This came after Channel 5 announced last month that they would no longer air the show from August. As they provide funding to Neighbours, it was hoped that another UK broadcaster would step in.Sadly, despite a huge #SaveNeighbours campaign from fans, that hasn't happened yet.Kylie responded to the sad news, writing: "I’ll be forever grateful for the experience & the friends I made on @neighbours.

Manori Ravindran International EditorAustralian soap opera “Neighbours” is going off air after 37 seasons.The embattled series has been under threat of cancellation ever since its primary funder, U.K. broadcaster Channel 5, pulled the plug in early February.

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