Qualitative Analysis Home And AwayHome and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney

since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longestrunning drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television. The series originally screened on Sunday, 17 January as a 93-minute pilot episode, or a television film as it is known, and a day later aired at its usual time of 22 minutes. At the beginning, the show was screened on seven at 6.30 pm and currently airs at 7.00 pm, five days a week.Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional life of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa (Vanessa Downing) (later played by Debra Lawrance) and Tom Fletcher (Roger Oakley) and their five foster children Frank Morgan (Alex Papps), Carly Morris (Sharyn Hodgson), Steven Matheson (Adam Willits), Lynn Davenport (Helena Bozich) and most notably Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie). The show also originally and currently focuses on The Stewart Family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and only after a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, which was the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to tackle such storylines during the early timeslot. The show has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines and breaking the rules of its restricted timeslot. The show has seen much success in several countries. It is extremely popular in Ireland, being RT Two's most popular drama series since the channel began airing the show just several months after its premiere in Australia. It is also popular in the UK, although it is the only country in which rival soap Neighbours is more popular than Home and Away; it was regularly edited for content on ITV and is occasionally edited on Channel 5. The show remains successful in New Zealand and France where it is titled as Summer Bay. Seven's new digital channel 7Two has begun airing episodes from the very beginning.Home and Away has earned many Logie Awards; it has picked up more than 30 Logies for Most Popular Australian Drama. The cast earned several awards including Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television, Silver Logie Award for Most Popular Actor, and Most Popular Actress.

Casualty
Casualty (styled as Casual+y) is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The producer was Geraint Morris. The programme is based around the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency Department. The show has very few ties to its sister programme Holby City which began as a spin off from Casualty in 1999 and is set in the same hospital, but upstairs. The show's plots and characters occasionally crossover between the two programmes, but this is rare, and each show can be followed without having to watch the other. Casualty is shown weekly, with the exception of a break in the summer when the series ends. This break is between 3 and 6 weeks in duration.

Eastenders
Eastenders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. Eastenders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The series primarily centres around the residents of Albert Square, a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street, and which encompasses a pub, street market, night club, community centre, caf and various small businesses, in addition to a park and allotments. The series was originally screened as two half-hour episodes per week. Since August 2001, four episodes are broadcast each week on BBC One, with each episode being repeated on BBC Three at 22:00 and an omnibus edition screens on Sunday afternoons. It is one of the UK's highest-rated programmes, often appearing near or at the top of the week's BARB ratings. Within eight months of its launch, it reached the number-one spot in the ratings, and has consistently remained among the top-rated TV programmes in Britain. The average audience share for an episode is currently between 35 and 45 percent. Created by producer Julia Smith and script editor Tony Holland, Eastenders has remained a significant programme in terms of the BBC's success and audience share, and also in the history of British television drama, tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on mainstream television in the UK. Eastenders has won six BAFTA Awards, as well as ten National Television Awards for "Most Popular Serial Drama" and eight awards for "Best Soap" at the British Soap Awards. It has also been inducted into the Rose d'Or Hall of Fame. It has also won eight TV Quick and TV Choice Awards for 'Best Soap', five TRIC Awards for 'Soap of The Year' and four Royal Television Society Awards for 'Best Continuing Drama'.

Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford in North West England. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960. It is produced in Manchester by Granada Television and shown in all ITV regions. Since first being aired, it has been one of the most financially lucrative programmes on commercial television, underpinning the success of its broadcaster ITV and its franchise Granada Television. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera currently in production.

Hollyoaks
Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill. The programme is set in a fictional suburb of Chester called Hollyoaks and is centred around a local higher college called Hollyoaks Community College, with the characters generally being in their late teens or early twenties. Since 1995, the cast has expanded from just seven major characters to approximately 50 cast members. Since the long-serving producer Bryan Kirkwood quit in 2009, the role of series producer has seen several changes. Kirkwood's successor Lucy Allan stepped down from her position in 2010 after just twelve months, and her replacement, former The Bill producer Paul Marquess took control later that year. Like his predecessor, Marquess left the series after a year and Gareth Philips was appointed as series producer. In the 2000s, Hollyoaks became more popular than it was in its first five years, when it was a newcomer to the British soap scene. By the turn of the millennium, it had a substantial fan base and was seen as a vibrant, modern and young person's soap. In 2002, creator Phil Redmond considered withdrawing his programme from airing on Channel 4, after the network axed his other soap opera Brookside. However, Hollyoaks continued to air on the channel. In 2009, the soap opera became the centre of many headlines because of planned storylines for Melissa Walton's character Loretta Jones, which resulted in a public debate. Marquess' changes in 2010 included a shake-up of the production team, a cull of over fifteen characters and the introduction of over thirty new characters.