Dan F

Though they did randomly treat Aussie viewers to the new international closing credits for the season finale.

Yes it's the 5Star ep that drops, as it does now. To put it simply, everything is exactly the same, only the episode will be added at 6am on demand, rather than 6:30pm. The episode uploaded on a Monday (which is still labelled as Tuesday in line with the C5 airings) ends in 2 or 7.

No, it was previously established in 2023 that she dropped out of medical school to pursue music instead.

Onto the 2025 season we go, and as per the norm of the past few years we begin 8 weeks behind Australian airings. A reminder that the thread runs at the (proper) Channel 5 pace, so anyone watching a day early on 5Star, or via 5's on-demand offering, should take that into account and not post any spoilers.

Yep you're correct with the line-up (none from 99-08), though there was also Alf's very first store which was a sort of bait shop/boat repair/bottle shop cross before he teamed up with Celia. I recently wrote the history out for an Oz pace news story, which will no doubt make it's way into a UK pace one soon enough

They haven't been able to use the filming location - the building that houses both the bait shop and diner had to be knocked down in 2022 in advance of a complete rebuild. That was also the reason for the coffee cart being introduced at that time. Whilst it's been up and running again in real-life for a year now, it doesn't seem as though the show were able to negotiate a deal with the new owners to continue using it as a location. Hence the bait shop now closing (we won't make any assumptions about the show referencing greedy landlords in the process ), and why we're still stuck with scenes at the coffee cart.