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
Channel S 1:00am, news coverage is of Bengali. The channel has increasingly been providing programmes in Sylheti, which is the first channel to do so, the abbreviation of the channel's name S, refers to Sylhet. It recognises that Sylheti is a separate language than Bengali, targeting the majority Sylheti-speaking community. Talk show programmes include, "Obhimoth" (English: "Opinion") – focusing on events of politics in Bangladesh, during the 2008 Bangladesh election it has broadcast the process by viewing the voters and the communities opinions on the elections, in the electoral constituencies of Sylhet, Habiganj, Maulvi Bazar and Sunamganj (Voter Matthe). "Let's Talk" –