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Personally I think it's the slow burner soaps that are performing better in this multi-platform market for soaps, Doctors is on a small budget, but the writing is excellent with a small cast and continues to tick PSB boxes. Yet it's a daytime show out of the BBC Daytime budget and takes long breaks between scheduling.

Emmerdale is the soap that really has evolved and become part of the mainstream. Once a sleepy drama about farm life, it's now as mainstream as Corrie and outperforms EastEnders, which with the decline in linear share is really looking to be a bloated soap in comparison to Emmerdale and Doctors.

Neighbours I think will be the benchmark to see if soap can evolve on the streaming services. Without having to worry about ratings, it's something that will be a slow burner and could lead to others moving soaps possibly to either premiering or box set on their streaming service first before the linear showing. EastEnders have for the last two years every summer have uploaded a weeks worth on box sets, which personally for me is more convenient to bulk watch on a Monday evening than wait for the BBC One airing. (Usually I watch just after 8 on iPlayer).