Neighbours cancelled by Amazon after 40 years and 9,000 episodes

Australian soap Neighbours has been cancelled for a second time, after Amazon pulled the plug on the TV show.

The final episode of the 40-year-old series will air in Dec 2025 after production company Fremantle Media failed to secure a renewed deal with the streaming giant.

The soap follows the lives of residents in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne. It was first broadcast in Australia in 1985 and launched on BBC One a year later. There have been more than 9,000 episodes.

The show was credited with helping to launch the careers of Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, and Margot Robbie.

Hollywood actors to have made appearances in the soap include Liam and Chris Hemsworth, and Russell Crowe – while Holly Valance, Delta Goodrem and Natalie Imbruglia have gone on to have chart success as singers.

In 2022, the show was cancelled by Channel 5 after it failed to secure new funding.

A few months after what was meant to be its final episode, the series was revived by streaming site Amazon Freevee and Fremantle.

Executive producer Jason Herbison said: “Audiences all around the world have loved and embraced Neighbours for four decades and we are very proud of the huge success over the last two years including often appearing as one of the Top 10 titles in the UK and the show’s first ever Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Daytime Series in 2024.

“As this chapter closes, we appreciate and thank Amazon MGM Studios for all that they have done for Neighbours – bringing this iconic and much-loved series to new audiences globally.

“We value how much the fans love Neighbours and we believe there are more stories of the residents of Ramsay Street to tell in the future.”

Neighbours is available on Amazon Freevee in the UK and the US. It is also available in Australia on 10 Peach and streaming service 10 Play.

Channel 10 said on X: “They’ve been our neighbours for almost 40 years, we’re so sad to be saying goodbye. We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to this remarkable Australian story over the years.”

New episodes will continue to air on Amazon Prime Video and Australia’s Channel 10 four times a week until the end of 2025.