Hollyoaks - British Soap description

Hollyoaks is a British soap opera, first broadcast on 23 October 1995.

The programme is set in the fictional village of Hollyoaks, a suburb of Chester. The show is filmed at Lime Pictures in Childwall, Liverpool.

When Hollyoaks premiered, it aired just one episode weekly; it now airs five episodes a week. At its inception, the soap was targeted towards an adolescent and young adult audience, but now has broadened its appeal to all age groups. It has famously covered many taboo subjects rarely seen on mainstream Britsh television. Beginning with a cast of fourteen characters, the serial now has upwards of fifty cast members. The longest-serving cast member is Nick Pickard, who has played Tony Hutchinson since the very first episode; he is the only original cast member still with the show.