3:35PM Jess McGuire | Although I remember random events on Neighbours which occurred back in 1987 with disturbing clarity, sometimes I can’t remember things which happened a few months back.
Thus, I was surprised to learn today that McLeod’s Daughters would be returning to Channel Nine as the last I could recall, stars of the show
were selling stuff on eBay and struggling to pay off their mortgages since the show had been axed.
But then I remembered “Ahhh yes, the program was ‘boned’ but the final series hadn’t been televised yet, leaving
Simmone Jade McKinnon unable to stroll down to the shops without McLeod’s Daughters fans approaching her and demanding to know when Channel Nine would be broadcasting the remaining 22 episodes… Oh, the tragedy!”
So chin up, Simmone Jade McKinnon – all is right in your world again. Sort of.
McLeod’s Daughters, Australia’s most popular and successful rural drama, promises to go out in a season of great stories when it returns for its eighth and last series on Wednesday, July 23 at the new time of 8.30pm on Channel Nine.
Since its 1996 telemovie debut which produced the Logie Award-winning series, McLeod’s Daughters has captured a unique portrait of life on the land for women, with all its hardship, beauty and romance.
Shot entirely on location in Kingsford, South Australia, the series centres on the vast cattle property Drovers Run and the lives and loves of the women who work it.
And it seems there’s quite a few amazing storylines coming to a small screen near you.
Read it all here, but some highlights (for me, because I am a fool) include -
Romance is in the air as new couples hook up and old ones reunite, while a love triangle causes havoc for the women.
An all woman love triangle? Please, say it’s so – Divers Run has much more of a ring to it. I APPROVE.
This series will also feature an all-singing and dancing musical episode, and some familiar characters return to Drovers Run as well.
I would be surprised about this musical turn of events, except Clem assures me she once saw
an episode of the show where Jay Laga’aia played the archangel Gabriel, so clearly this program knows no boundaries.
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