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 5 (UK) programming H" had also been previously shown on ITV in the 80's and early 90's) running the entire series between March 1998 and 6 November 2005. In addition, the channel showed two popular American soap operas "Sunset Beach" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" every weekday morning. After the end of "Sunset Beach" in 1999, the remaining episodes were screened until early 2000. The channel replaced it with another soap opera popular in America "Days of Our Lives", though after poor ratings it removed both soaps from weekday morning schedules in 2002. The entire run of futuristic New Zealand teenage drama