[Kojak]

What about the signed overnight versions which presumably goes some distance to meet the quotas, though I don't think OFCOM specifies it has to be new content (C5 still use programmes from the 90s in their signed slot).

Wow. You mentioning that made me go on to the Channel 5 website to check this... and they're STILL showing House Doctor overnight with BSL. That's got to have been on in that slot for, what, close to 20 years? Absolutely mad.

The omnibus is the original box setting really and when people watch 4-5 hour long eps of a drama back to back in a single setting then 3 hours of soaps isn't too much, and arguably easier than committing to half an hour a day.

I suppose the omnibus is pretty much obsolete now. It's much easier, I'd imagine, to just bingewatch the week's episodes on ITVX, rather than waiting for an omnibus on ITV2.