Many of us who haven’t watched Neighbours for years tuned in for the 90-minute finale episode on Network Ten at 7.30pm on Thursday night and had a lot of fun. And there were a lot of us: an incredible 873,000 metropolitan viewers tuned in to witness the end of a television era, making it the number one program of the night. When you add in regional viewers it was well over a million. On an average night, the show attracted only 100,000 viewers.
Although the return of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan was the focus of much of the press, Charlene and Scott never gave an explanation for why they were back on Ramsay Street and were largely silent.
