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McLeod's Daughters is officially returning to television screens.
A reboot of the beloved drama was announced at the Nine 2027 Upfronts in Sydney on Thursday.
The new series will be seen on streaming service Stan and is set to air sometime next year.
While the cast has not yet been announced, it is likely that Bridie Carter and Lisa Chappell, who played Drover's Run farmer sisters Tess and Claire, will return.
The show also starred Jessica Napier, Sonia Todd, Michala Banas, Zoe Naylor, and Simmone Mackinnon.
Rachael Carpani, who played Jodi Fountain McLeod, sadly died in December last year.
McLeod's Daughters is officially returning to television screens. The cast is pictured
The series will be produced by Werner Film Productions, with original showrunner and creator Posie Graeme-Evans at the helm.
The hugely popular Nine drama series ended 17 years ago, back in 2009.
Bridie Carter, 55, has been in recent months dropping hints that a reboot was underway.
In an Instagram post made late last year, Bridie said she was about to board a flight and was working on something that would make fans 'flip their lids.'
While not disclosing her intended destination, Bridie said that she was meeting someone who was also sure to have people 'excited.'
'I'm about to jump on a plane and I'm about to go and see someone and I know I'm very, very excited, but I think you're going to be even more excited,' she said.
'There's a term in Australia: "I'm gonna flip my lid". I think you're gonna flip your lids,' she added.
'I know it's been a long time and I've been very low key this year. You'll understand later why.'
While the cast has not yet been announced, it is likely that Bridie Carter (right) and Lisa Chappell (left), who played Drover's Run farmer sisters Tess and Claire, will return
Bridie Carter, 55, has been in recent months dropping hints that a reboot was underway. Pictured last year
A McLeod's Daughters reboot had been in the wind for a few years now.
Creator Graeme-Evans had earlier attempted to revive the popular series in 2017, but to no avail.
There was also talk of a big screen film adaptation, reportedly an origin story that charts the McLeod family history in Scotland.
McLeod's Daughters remains one of Channel Nine's biggest hits of the past twenty years.
Running over 224 episodes, the high-budget drama was a fan favourite after debuting to a massive audience of 1.89 million viewers in 2001.
Over the course of its eight-season run, McLeod's Daughters was nominated for 41 Logies, winning eight, including one for Most Popular Australian Program in 2004.
The series followed the lives of five women running a cattle station – Drover's Run – in outback South Australia.
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