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Margot Robbie's Neighbours run recut as vertical drama for phones

Putri ArdhanaPublished 6d ago2 min readBased on 1 source
Margot Robbie's Neighbours run recut as vertical drama for phones
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Margot Robbie is heading back to Ramsay Street, on a phone screen.

RoseBerry Media is recutting classic episodes of Australian soap opera Neighbours into short-form vertical video, meaning video framed upright for mobiles, for its Epis platform, according to Variety. The launch starts with Robbie. Short episodes. Big hair. Early Donna.

Robbie played Donna Freedman on Neighbours from 2008 to 2011. That run came before her film career. Two storylines built around Donna will form the first release.

Together they total around 150 minutes of content. The material will be re-edited as micro-episodes, meaning very short instalments made for mobile viewing. Viewers will watch a long soap arc in quick bursts.

Neighbours ran for four decades. It premiered in 1985 and ended in 2025 after around 9,363 episodes. Its former cast members include Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Jesse Spencer, alongside Robbie.

No new scenes are being shot. The conversion uses RedSnapper, RoseBerry's proprietary production workflow that uses AI to reshape existing TV and film libraries into vertical series. Old wide-screen frames are reframed and cut down for upright screens.

RoseBerry and Fremantle, the producer of Neighbours, were set to announce the edits on Monday, 28 September 2026. RoseBerry is led by co-founder and chief executive Guy Hameiri. Jens Richter is Fremantle's commercial and international chief executive.

The project sits inside a wider catalogue push. RoseBerry has deals with Banijay Rights, All3Media International, A+E Global Media, Cineflix Rights and Fremantle to explore adapting their programmes for mobile and other technology. Another short-form company, Snips, has a deal with Banijay Rights and BIG Media to adapt series and films into minute-long episodes, according to Variety.

For fans, this means a familiar street in a new shape. Long evening episodes become lunchtime scrolling. A character first met in hour-long slots returns in clips that fit a bus ride.

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