Soap opera only lasted one year. Nevertheless, soap operas gained increasing prominence on UK television schedules. In 1995, Channel 4 premiered "Hollyoaks", a soap with a youth focus. When Channel 5 launched in March 1997, it debuted the soap opera "Family Affairs", which was formatted as a week-daily soap, airing Monday through Fridays. "Brookside"s premise evolved during the 1990s, phasing out the politicised stories of the 1980s and shifting the emphasis to controversial and sensationalist stories such as child rape, sibling incest, religious cults and drug addiction, including the infamous 'body under the patio' storyline that ran from 1993 to 1995, and
Soap opera TG4's launch, it originally aired on RTÉ One in the early 1990s. Although Ireland has access to international soaps (such as "Coronation Street", "Emmerdale", "EastEnders", "Home and Away", "Hollyoaks" and "Neighbours"), "Fair City" continues to outperform them all, and is Ireland's most popular soap opera, with the show peaking at over 700,000 viewers. January 2015 "Red Rock" has broadcast on TV3. Red Rock airs twice a week on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The series is base in a fishing village in Dublin. The soaps centres around the local Garda station but also includes stories from the village. RTÉ Radio produced