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SATURDAY APRIL 2

HOLLYOAKS

Bold Brit soap returns

Streaming: TVNZ OnDemand

Screening: TVNZ 1, weekdays from April 5, 1.00pm

In its 27th year, the famously frank British soap opera returns to New Zealand screens (it had short runs on TVNZ 1 and C4 back in the early 2000s).

, Channel 4’s most-streamed show last year, has broadened out since it launched in 1995 as a youth-oriented drama, but it remains markedly more adventurous than either or – storylines in recent years have tackled racism, mental illness

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