Neighbours producer Jason Herbison has spoken about how they will address the transmission gap, since Neighbours went off air.
Speaking to Digital Spy, Herbison explained that the soap opera will feature a time jump, new faces and some much-loved stars will return.
Herbison said: "We knew there was going to be a transmission gap, so life for the audience would have gone on and time would have passed for them too.
"Of course, other soaps have done time jumps, but in our case, we were actually going to have been off air as well.
"We felt that it was a great opportunity – and two years felt like a really nice timeline."
"Some stars were also "unavailable" to return or have "moved on to other projects".
Jason teased: "But I will say that, just because a character is not back in episode one, it doesn't mean they may not return in the future.
He said: "We've got wonderful new characters. I think one of the many beauties of Neighbours is that it has always been multi-generational.
"With this next chapter of the show, it's starting afresh and it was a great chance as well to just reset that."
The serial drama returns for a brand-new season on Monday, 18 September RTÉ One, RTÉ 2 and on Amazon Freevee,
