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Reuters
Reuters
Entertainment
Byron Kaye

Australia's longest-running soap Neighbours calls it a wrap

FILE PHOTO: Fans pose in front of Australia's popular television show "Neighbours" set on the fictitious Ramsay Street, where Australian pop diva Kylie Minogue first found fame, at Pinoak Court in suburban Melbourne May 23, 2005. REUTERS/David Callow DC/KS

Neighbours, the Australian soap opera that launched the careers of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce and all three Hemsworth brothers, shot its last episode on Friday, wrapping the country's longest-running television drama after four decades.

A fixture of the small screen in Australia since 1985 and in Britain since 1986, the cameras stopped rolling on the fictional Ramsay Street and its families after the main financial backer, British free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5, cut the series from its schedule to make way for local content.

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