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They are advertising this weeks episode is the season finale how can it be? Its only been on since Febuary its March it dosent make any sense. I don't watch it any more because its on the same time as Pretty Little Liars so Im going to wait for it to come on DVD. Is this a sign season 4 will be the last?

Halfway through season 1 there was an episode advertised as the "Season Final" but it was just on a break, maybe there just going to air Season 4 in two parts as well... Anyhow I'm pretty sure it isn't the last episode in the season!

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Found this article on the Sydney Morning Herald website regarding the short season.....

Has Seven just made the boldest programming move of the year? Well, yes and no.

At the end of Tuesday night's Packed to the Rafters, the highest-rating drama series on Australian television, the network announced that next week's episode would be the final this season.

To some viewers, that will have come as a shock: only five episodes have so far gone to air in 2011, each one of them winning the night for Seven, with national audiences (including regional viewers) of around 2.7 million people.

Advertisement: Story continues below It is understood that the season was deliberately planned to be a short one in order for Seven to slot in its new show Winners & Losers, a new made-in-Melbourne drama that Seven is heavily promoting as being ''from the makers of Rafters''.

The new show, pitched squarely at women, was officially launched to the media last night, but details of its timeslot won't be made official until Friday, when Seven is expected to confirm the rumoured Tuesday night berth, from March 22.

Rafters fans need not fear, however. The show will be back. Season five began filming in mid January and is expected to contain between 22 and 24 episodes.

However, there are about 20 episodes of Winners & Losers in the pipeline too, so the question is, who will get Tuesday nights in the long term?

Generally, the lag between filming and screening is about three months, which suggests new episodes of Rafters could be ready to screen as soon as late April. Unless Winners is an even bigger winner than Rafters, you can expect to see it bumped to another night as soon as Rafters is ready to roll again.

So from the sounds of it, Season 4 was only planned to have the 5 episodes, so that they could slot in Winners and Losers. When it comes back later this year, it will be Season 5 with the full 22-24 episodes planned.

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Any sign of Rafters returning anytime soon ? :unsure:

I read it is supposed to be this month, has there any promos been released or anything yet ?

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Any sign of Rafters returning anytime soon ? :unsure:

I read it is supposed to be this month, has there any promos been released or anything yet ?

Nothing yet, all there is on the official site is that it will return later this year.

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