Hollyoaks confirms legendary character return in new opening titles – and fans will be relieved

Hollyoaks has debuted caller opening titles arsenic portion of its marque adjacent era, confirming the instrumentality of a much-loved quality successful the process.

The Channel 4 soap, arsenic viewers know, has reduced its episodes from 5 a week to 3 and, successful bid to people the caller section for the serial, a clip leap took audiences 1 twelvemonth into the future.

As portion of the relaunch, marque new, refreshed opening titles person been unveiled, replacing the rubric paper which has been utilized for the past fewer weeks.

The vibrant caller intro showcases the cast, which is much smaller than it was previously owed to cuts, arsenic the show’s signature characters stitchery successful The Dog successful The Pond for an evening of fun.

Tony Hutchinson (Nick Pickard) opens the pub to Chester’s finest portion Diane (Alex Fletcher) takes the stools down from the barroom and gets things acceptable for their guests.

Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) is seen astatine the array with her recently-extended clan portion Ethan Williams (Matthew James Bailey) joins her, handing his fiancé a rose.

Mercedes McQueen (Jennifer Metcalfe) makes a toast with her chap ladies, including Grace Black (Tamara Wall), Leela Dexter (Kirsty-Leigh Porter) and Sienna, earlier joining her clan connected the creation level for a boogie.

Fans volition beryllium delighted to drawback a glimpse of Nana (Diane Langton), who has been absent from screens for rather immoderate time.

Viewers of the long-running serial wondered if Nana would beryllium portion of the caller epoch pursuing the formed cuts and occurrence simplification – but it seems arsenic if we had small crushed to worry!

Marie Fielding (Rita Simons) besides features successful the titles, arsenic does Lucas Hay (Oscar Curtis), which confirms that some characters volition beryllium mainstays of the caller chapter, contempt their lack successful the archetypal episode.

The caller rubric series features a slowed-down mentation of the signature taxable tune, which has been revamped by A.Skillz – who has worked connected the intro since 2009.

Hollyoaks streams Mondays to Wednesdays from 7am on Channel 4’s streaming platform, oregon drawback episodes connected TV astatine 7pm connected E4.

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