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Isabella Monaghan and Lennon Whitehead
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Offspring will return in 2016... it's not a rumour
By TWR Staff September 20
Offspring will return in 2016. Nina fans throw on your multi-layered outfits, don your Misuzi necklaces and rejoice at whichever inner-north hipster café tickles your fancy.
Channel Ten dropped the news on Sunday, confirming rumours that had been circulating quicker than Nina’s personal life around St Francis.
Ten’s programming chief, Beverley McGarvey said it was “no secret” that the network had always wanted to continue “Nina’s adventures”.
“We are thrilled to announce that Offspring will return to Ten for a sixth season in 2016,” Ms McGarvey said, as reported in the Sydney-Morning Herald.
“There are so many more chapters left in Nina’s life.”
Here at The Weekly Review, we can’t get enough of the Proudmans, and this announcement has us giddier than the first time we met Dr Chris, who, FYI, has a Facebook page, albeit one that hasn’t been updated for years. Check it out here. (“Chris Havel, Chris Havel, Chris Havel”).
The returning cast has not been confirmed yet but here’s what we want to see in the next series of Offspring. Fingers crossed.
5 things we want to see in the new season of Offspring
1. More Patrick… even if only in fantasies
Last season’s finale, when Patrick (Matthew Le Nevez) gave Nina that look as Leo (Patrick Brammall) joined the Proudman family photo, our hearts melted. Not a dry eye in the house, I tells ya. But just because time has passed, doesn’t mean we want to forget about Dr Patrick! Keep those fantasies coming, Nina.
2. A first date for Ange and Elvis
Ange and Elvis, or as you might know them; Celia Pacquola and Lawrence Leung, are two of our absolute favourite… umm, actors just doesn’t seem enough, let’s say: favourite humans on this planet. They’re quirky and endearing real life personalities were blissfully accentuated on screen and by the end of last season there were sparks a-brewing. Please let these two return and bring on a first date,along with the delightful awkwardness that will no doubt ensue.
Remember this conversation:
Ange: “Hello.”
Elvis: “You’re lovely.”
Ange: “I’m not a full time fairy.”
Elvis stammers.
Ange: “Do you have a speech impediment? Who are you? I don’t care, you’re gorgeous.”
3. Kat Stewart, everyday
Kat Stewart has provided us with endless laughs, cries and ‘oh my god, them feels’ moments in the last few years and lordy, we just cannot get enough. News that she will be back on our screens has our hearts singing and our hands reaching for the tissues/tequila.
4. A wedding
Look, we don’t really mind who gets married, we just want a wedding. We’ve been starved of tv wedding bliss and well, after The Bachelor finished (#Team Snez, am I right?), we are in desperate need of some romance. Nina and Leo? Elvis and Ange? Martin and Cherie? Anyone!
5. Quirkiness from Clegg
Speaking of Martin and Cherie… Lachy Hulme has been weirding us out since season one with his epically uncomfortable portrayal of Dr Martin Clegg. Long may he reign.
SOURCE: http://www.theweeklyreview.com.au/play/offspring-will-return-in-2016-its-not-a-rumour/
Loved my years on #Offspring and wish it well, but like Deb, I'm not involved with season 6.
Michael Lucas
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Is Offspring set to return?
The Proudman family could be headed back to our screens.
Hit drama, Offspring is expected to go into preproduction for a sixth season according to reports in News Limited publications.
It’s believed TV WEEK Gold Logie winner, Asher Keddie will reprise her role as mum Nina Proudman for the next season.
The news comes as a surprise turnaround.
It was widely believed the show had finished at the end of the last season.
In the final episode, Nina admitted her feelings for Leo (Patrick Brammall) and a video montage of the whole Proudman family gave a sense of finality.
Patrick has previously told TV WEEK he didn’t think another season was going ahead.
“Everything I’ve heard has been no,” Patrick, 37, says.
“I was really lucky to be there.”
However fellow star Kat Stewart, who portrayed Nina’s sister Billie, has always been coy about the show’s future.
“I’m just keeping an open-mind about the future,” Kat, 42, told TV WEEK earlier this year.
“If it [another season] happens, great, but you’ve got to be open-minded.
“I couldn’t speculate and I don’t know what all the factors are.”
Network Ten has always expressed their interest in keeping the show on-air.
“There have been five seasons but dramas can go a lot longer than that,” Ten’s chief programming officer Beverley McGarvey has said in the past.
“It is certainly our intention to make that series last as long as possible and as long as people want to keep watching it.”
SOURCE: http://www.tvweeklogieawards.com.au/news/articles/2015/8/is-offspring-set-to-return/?adbsc=social_20150831_51694126&adbid=10153645448824684&adbpl=fb&adbpr=23766624683
Will Offspring return? Hit Channel Ten drama set to return to the screen amid rumours Asher Keddie is being lined up for a sixth season
By Alicia Vrajlal for Daily Mail Australia 30 August 2015
Fans of television show Offspring were left devastated last year when the Channel Ten show wrapped up after five drama-filled seasons.
And while viewers mourned what they believed to be the end of the program starring Gold Logie winner Asher Keddie, whispers are getting louder it may return in 2016 with a sixth season.
According to The Sunday Telegraph, the show's pre-production will be given the green light as Endemol, the production company originally behind the project, and producers from Shine, finalise a planned merger.
Earlier this year the finalisation of the merger was announced for Endemol Shine Australia, with Offspring masterminds John Edwards and Imogen Banks remaining very much a part of the team.
It is said the joint production company will be based in Sydney from October this year.
For more than a year the network has stated it is still locked in discussions with the show's producers to commission a sixth season.
A Channel Ten spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia on Sunday: 'We are in talks with the production company and hopeful Offspring will return, but nothing is definite.'
Meanwhile earlier this year a Channel Ten spokesperson told AAP that while the series remains in a holding pattern, the network is still keen to revive the drama in 2016.
'It is not fair to say it will not return. We want it to return,' a Channel Ten spokesman said in April.
'We are in discussions with its producers and continue to work on how we can move forward with a new season.'
In October last year Beverley McGarvey, chief programming officer at Ten, told Daily Mail Australia a final decision regarding the popular program had not been made for 2015.
'We want Offspring to return in 2015. We are in discussions with the producers and they are, in turn, in discussions with the key creatives and cast,' she said.
It had been reported that Offspring would not return due to financial reasons - with the series now having passed its 65th episode, the production will no longer receive a rebate from Screen Australia, increasing the costs of making the show.
Speculation began about whether the series, starring Logie Award-winner Asher Keddie, would return in 2015 after the season five finale last year tied up each character's storylines.
The last episode ended on a happy note with Nina finding love with Leo, and knowing she wants to continue her work as an obstetrician - with late husband Patrick imagine smiling down on her.
Frustrated fans took to social media, urging Ten to announce a sixth season.
Created by Debra Oswlald and John Edwards, the show won countless awards include the Logie Award for Most Popular Drama in 2011.
It starred some of the country's top acting talents including Eddie Perfect, Kat Stewart, and of course Asher Keddie.
One of the most memorable storylines included the devastating on-screen death of Nina's lover Dr Patrick Reid, played by Matt Le Nevez.
Following the on-screen anaesthetist's death, Nina struck a romance with tradesman Thomas.
And when the love turned sour following a cheating scandal, she found a spark with male nurse Leo played by Patrick Brammall.
Nina's original love interest before Dr Patrick arrived on the scene was fellow medical practitioner, Dr Chris Havel, played by Don Hany.
And earlier this year Don said he was keen to return to the project if it got the green light.
Speaking to Daily Mail Australia at the ASTRA Awards in Sydney, the 39-year-old said: 'Of course, I would love to go back... it's a fun show'.
Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Channel Ten for comment on the future of Offspring.
SOURCE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3215732/Reports-Channel-Ten-Offpsring-starring-Asher-Keddie-renewed-sixth-season.html