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
Holy Soap launch of the site, Channel 5's head of digital media, Jonathan Lewis said: "We're not precious. We know that soap fans have voracious appetites and that many of the same people who love "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" love the soaps on the other channels, too. So it makes sense to construct a destination where individuals can share their love of all the big soaps on TV". On 30 June 2011, Holy Soap announced that it was closing that day and the Australian soap operas, "Neighbours" and "Home and Away", were being moved to a new online home at channel5.com.