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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 375502" data-attributes="member: 673">Yes. I think we’re in the last days of soaps as we know them. The last English language soap to launch (to my knowledge) was Australia’s The Heights in 2019 but as good as it was, the broadcaster treated it halfheartedly in terms of how it was scheduled. The legacy soaps (EE, ED and Corrie) are still seen as central(ish) to the BBC and ITV schedules but it’s no longer felt that you must have a soap to prop up your schedule in the same way as when new channels like Channel 4 and Channel 5 launched back in the day. If you have a pre-existing soap that pulls in the viewers, that’s fine, but a new soap is seen as too much of a gamble and an expense these days I think.</blockquote>