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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 57286" data-attributes="member: 95">There hasn't been a successful soap since Doctors launched in 2000, and that's a lunchtime soap, but it does pretty well considering.I guess in the age of Netflix, people haven't, or don't want to, have the time to invest in a group of people over a period of months even years, veteran soaps like Corrie, Emmerdale and EastEnders were launched in the days before the internet, even Hollyoaks and Doctors were launched before the internet grew into the monster it is today, when it was new.The only way I see a new soap surviving is when its either in Netflix or series that has 10-15 episodes per season, but the age of the teatime soap has passed.</blockquote>