When is neighbours back on five

In a statement explaining the changes, a spokesperson told Digital Spy : "As Channel 5 continues to attract larger audiences, its news output is an ever more crucial part of the offering it creates for viewers.

Related: 11 huge Home and Away spoilers for next week. A separate statement outlined: " Home and Away will no longer air weekdays at 6pm on Channel 5. Read more Neighbours spoilers on our dedicated homepage. Type keyword s to search. However, there has been no official confirmation of the weekday serial drama coming to an end after almost four decades on the air. Currently, the UK is four weeks behind the Australian schedule and as a result, fans are usually informed of what happens before the episodes air in Britain.

It was hoped the programme would continue to air over the Christmas period last year but Channel 5 decided to take it off the air for a week. There is, again, no confirmation on when the UK and Australian schedules will synchronise after they finally caught up with one another in EastEnders: Dotty pregnant but she doesn't know who the father is? Channel 5 confirmed at the time there would not be any chance for the extra episodes to be slotted in anywhere in their schedule.

This meant there was further delay put on the UK and Australia synchronising when they would air the same episode at the same time. The chief executive behind production company, Fremantle Media, Chris Oliver-Taylor spoke last year about the show being cancelled.

Following the impact of the pandemic on filming, the chief executive explained the show could be at risk if the situation behind the scenes were to change dramatically. Chris said: "'I think in the free-to-air environment Neighbours could most certainly be at risk if the quotas [for Australian content] were to change. Neighbours airs weekdays at pm and pm on Channel 5.

Neighbours: Pierce and Dipi are confronted over their affair. The new schedule has been finalised so the Australian episodes line up better with the UK release of the TV series. British TV network Channel 5 began airing just two episodes of Neighbours a week in , due to the pandemic.

It remains unclear whether Neighbours will return to five episodes a week anytime soon but TV Tonight has reported that the production company will continue to film six episodes a week in Melbourne.

Neighbours was one of the first TV shows in the world to resume filming after the COVID pandemic saw a global shutdown of productions.