Home and Away
Australian television soap opera
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| February 6 2025 | Opening titles debuted, featuring the return of show characters posing on the familiar beach setting, with a sequence designed to easily update for cast changes. |
| January 13 2025 | 2025 season return, attracting 881,000 viewers. |
| January 2025 | Wade Sellers of TV Week confirms the theme song will return that year, but not be featured in every episode. |
| January 8 2024 | Opened the 2024 season with 411,000 viewers. |
| March 27 2023 | Aired its 8000th episode, drawing an audience of 512,000 viewers. |
| July 19 2021 | Filming postponed due to new COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in Sydney. |
| May 12 2020 | The show announced recommencement of production after a nine-week suspension, with filming limited to the studio and resuming on 25 May. |
| April 13 2020 | Returned to its usual timeslot after the initial COVID-19 production suspension. |
| March 22 2020 | Production suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the show removed from Seven's schedule. |
| 2019 | Cast sang the theme song while sitting around a table in a season promo, serving as a preview for the upcoming season. |
| November 2019 | Final 29 episodes of first season and first 171 episodes of second season added to Amazon Prime Video UK. |
| November 25 2019 | Web television series 'Home and Away: Christmas in Summer Bay' begins airing on My5 in the UK. |
| September 2019 | Pilot episode and first 199 episodes of first season made available on Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom. |
| 2018 | New eight-second titles were introduced, featuring two men or two women running to the ocean to surf, along with the return of the show's theme song. |
| March 2018 | The end theme is updated for the UK broadcast with the male vocalist's version, which continues to be used even on episodes that open with the female vocalist's version. |
| March 2018 | When the 2018 season debuts in the United Kingdom, the end theme is updated with the male vocalist's version, which remains even on episodes opening with the female vocalist's version. |
| February 2018 | Theme song continued to be used in television commercials promoting the 2018 season premiere and Alf Stewart's sinkhole storyline. |
| January 2018 | Two new eight-second versions of the theme song return to the opening titles after an eight-year absence, one sung by a male vocalist and one by a female vocalist. |
| 2017 | BuzzFeed writer Tahlia Pritchard publicly advocates for the return of the original theme song's lyrics to the show's opening titles. |
| December 2017 | Theme song used in television commercials promoting the 2018 season premiere of Home and Away and a sinkhole storyline featuring Alf Stewart (played by Ray Meagher). |
| March 13 2017 | Revenge is broadcast in the United Kingdom on digital station 5Star in a 95-minute timeslot. |
| January 26 2017 | Release of spin-off episode 'Home and Away: All or Nothing', described as the most violent episode in the series. |
| December 19 2016 | Home and Away: Revenge premiered on Foxtel on Demand, Foxtel Play, and Presto streaming platforms, shortly after the season finale of Home and Away aired on Seven Network. |
| November 2016 | Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley are confirmed to reprise their roles as Heath Braxton and Bianca Scott for the Revenge spin-off. |
| May 2016 | Home and Away: Revenge is commissioned alongside another spin-off, All or Nothing. |
| April 2016 | The theme song was used in a television commercial promoting a storyline involving an explosion at the Summer Bay Caravan Park. |
| 2015 | Home and Away was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame, recognizing its significant contribution to Australian television. |
| 2015 | Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye telefilm breaks Presto streaming records, leading to commissioning of additional spin-off films |
| August 19 2015 | Announcement of spin-off episode 'Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye' featuring former cast members Dan Ewing and Lisa Gormley. |
| July 2015 | Experienced a significant ratings decline of 14% compared to the first six months of 2014. |
| March 2 2015 | The show began streaming on Hulu in the United States, starting with the 2015 season. |
| 2013 | Home and Away began using a series of five-second opening titles that changed weekly, primarily featuring beach scenes with bikini-clad women and shirtless men with surfboards. |
| 2013 | Long-serving cast member Lynne McGranger (playing Irene Roberts) sang the theme song in a promotional video for TVNZ 2 in New Zealand. |
| August 7 2013 | First webisode series 'Home and Away Extras' launched, introducing new characters Andy and Josh Barrett. |
| March 2013 | Home and Away began replacing Friday episodes with Thursday episodes at 7:30 pm to accommodate Seven's AFL coverage. |
| March 2013 | Better Homes and Gardens began replacing Home and Away on Fridays, with Friday episodes now airing on Thursdays at 7:30 pm. |
| 2012 | Axle Whitehead (playing Liam Murphy in Home and Away) recorded a version of the theme song for the show. |
| 2010 | The show's producers remove the original theme song from the opening titles, a decision later criticized by entertainment commentators. |
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