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Why Hollyoaks is skipping a year and cutting its episodes and cast

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The action in Channel 4's Hollyoaks is jumping forward by a whole year to reduce the number of episodes and cast members.

Executive producer Hannah Cheers says the move was more valuable than a plane crashing on the village.

It's the first week for 25 years that the show has had three episodes, down from the previous five .

In the past few years , Channel 4 has cut its budget because of a downturn in advertising revenue.

Bosses say the main reason for the Hollyoaks episode cut comes from research saying viewers were only watching three out of the five episodes a week on average.

Money plays a big part, Sun newspaper's soaps editor Carl Greenwood says.

Actors' union Equity has said the Doctors cuts mean "continuing drama series have been dealt a real blow".

VR Score

68

Informative language

62

Neutral language

65

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

31

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Time-value

short-lived

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