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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 311082" data-attributes="member: 26097">In Australia/New Zealand, they tend to break soaps over Christmas/New Year as no one would be watching over their summer (our winter).There is an exception, when TV2 in New Zealand continued Shortland Street over the Christmas/New Year break of 1995 rather than end on a season finale.It meant the death of Carmen Roberts from a brain aneurysm (caused by being injured in the clinic truck crash) aired on Christmas Day of that year. Not what Kiwis were expecting.Clearly there must have been complaints, as TV2 never aired Shortland Street again over Christmas after that.</blockquote>