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Well I guess this way it shows that it's not just designed as a replacement over the Christmas break. We've just had it confirmed in the last few minutes that the schedule has been finalised today, and the pilot episode will actually take up the 2-hour slot from 12pm to 2pm on the Monday. So yes it will be the feature-length version. Then it's as stated before, double bills every weekday from 12-1pm, with the entire week's eps repeated on Sunday from 9am-3pm. It'll also be available on the streaming platform, and there'll actually be the first 30 episodes available from launch (i.e. the first six weeks on-screen, or three weeks at 5Drama pace). Then further drops of 10 eps per week. https://www.backtothebay.net/news/2026/11/02/when-does-home-and-away-start-on-5drama/

I don't think UK viewership ever truly recovered once it moved to Channel 5. Personally I'd got out the habit and it took until the Kane/Dani storyline for me to start watching again. Then I moved to a property that couldn't pick up Channel 5 for a year or so. Eventually got back into it from flicking through channels in late 2003 and have constantly watched it since. Virtually everybody I know though never watched it in the Channel 5 era. Some are surprised it's still going and even more surprised that Big Alf is still in it.

Yeah I get where you’re coming from. She apologised which is good.

They definitely do as the original press release included quotes from both Ray & Emily and she talked about fans getting to see Marilyn’s beginning.

I have to admit Amelia and Lacey bonding finally broke me! Lovely scene. However, now Jo's the enemy! I've done Thursday/Friday in one sitting and it was nice to have 40 odd minutes of pure character driven telly, as well as a diversion from the darker stuff with the Fowlers. Laura V has clearly had some fun if the promo is anything to go by but even though it's obvious David moving on with Amelia (and in particular Lacey's hostility) was ultimately setting us up for this, I like the way it's being done.

Preliminary schedules indicate that the 5Drama airings will be commencing with the 90min pilot episode on Monday 16th November at midday. That will be immediately followed by Episode 1 at 1:30pm. Going forward, it looks as though there'll be a double bill every weekday, airing between 12-1pm, with the episodes repeated the following morning between 9-10am. (for those that care - much like the current eps, they won't be having the week ending neatly at the end of the block - it'll be episode 9 at the end of the first week, instead of episode 10)

This is my first ever post on anything Home and Away related. I was always interested in the layout of Summer Bay and was curious to see if there was ever any official map of the town. While searching I recently came across a Facebook post with a full map of Summer Bay and I thought it would be good to archive it here. I pieced together the two pages of the map and added keys for the layout to give a complete sense of the town. For archival sake, I will also include the pages from the article. The article is from 2007. Funnily enough, that's when I started watching the show. '

Welcome and thanks very much for the post. I have a vague memory that I have seen something similar before but I certainly don't have that in my collection. I look forward to some comments from Admin Dan and other long term viewers of the show.