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Hollyoaks began airing on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995 and has gone through a series of changes throughout.

2000's

In 2002 Lesley Crawford quit her role as Laura Burns to become a midwife.

2004 saw Mikyla Dodd quit her role as Chloe Bruce after four years in order to persue other projects. Helen Noble also quit, but agreed to return for four episodes in 2005 which saw her character Abby Davies make her final appearance. Mandy Richardson became the longest featured female character in 2006 when Sarah Jayne Dunn decided to leave to try other projects.

Exectutive producer David Hanson left and on the 16 January 2006 Bryan Kirkwood joined as his replacement with the aim of rejuvenating the serial. In his opinion he felt it challenging to change the perception of the serial. His first character he created was Mercedes McQueen played by Jennifer Metcalfe. He also recast the role of Clare Devine from Samantha Rowley to Gemma Bissix. Kirkwood's arrival saw the axing of several characters including, Jeremy Peterson (Simon Cole), Joe Spencer (Matt Milburn), Olivia Johnson (Rochelle Gadd), Mel Burton (Cassie Powney), Sophie Burton (Connie Powney), Sam Owen (Louis Tamone), Rob Owen (David Prosho), Carrie Owen (Jaq Croft), Nicole Owen (Ciara Janson), Bill Ashworth (John Jardine) and Foz (Benjamin Hart).

Sarah Jane Buckley filmed her final scenes as Kathy Barnes in 2007 and left in a "bonkers storyline" in which she started harrassing the Ashworth family, at the same time Jessica Harris was also written out as Jennifer Biddall decided to concentrate on theatre roles. The year Kirkwood also introduced new character Katy Fox but after only one year in the serial Hannah Tointon quit.

In September 2008, Kirkwood announced the introduction of a family for established siblings Ravi (Stephen Uppal) and Leila Roy (Lena Kaur). Govinda (Anthony Bunsee), Bel (Nila Aalia), Anita (Saira Choudhry) and Ash (Junade Khan) joined them on-screen in November.

In October 2008 it was announced that Kirkwood had decided to quit and his deputy Lucy Allan would take over the role. Her first credited appearance as producer was on 1 June 2009.

November 2008 saw Emma Rigby quit the show in order to pursue other projects, with Hannah scheduled to depart in June 2009. Rigby extended her contract by a further six months after new producer Lucy Allen convinced her to stay. She finished filming in December 2009 and Hannah departed in early 2010.

Allan's first signings came when she decided to introduce both Loretta Jones (Melissa Walton) and Cheryl Brady (Bronagh Waugh) into the main show, after the previously featured in Hollyoaks Later.

In June 2009 Zoe Lister quit her role of Zoe Carpenter in addition to her departure, Loui Batley quit. Batley's character Sarah Barnes died in a skydiving accident caused by Lydia Hart (Lydia Kelly), the storyline was a first for British Soap Opera. The scenes went onto win a British Soap Award in category of "Spectacular Scene Of The Year". The scenes also drew nominations at the 2010 Inside Soap awards in the categories of "Best Exit" and "Best Stunt".

In July 2009, Allan axed three members of the newly introduced Roy family, including, Ash, Bel and Govinda. Allan felt that there was not enough cohesive family story to drive the them forward, also struggling with them as a unit.

In November 2009, character Loretta Jones became the centre of media controversy when various media outlets revealed that Loretta would be part of a child murder storyline. The controversy began when tabloid newspaper The Sun compared the storyline to the real life murder of James Bulger. Bulger had been murdered when he was two years old by two young children. Being just 10 years of age they were handed small sentences to serve and were later released with new identities. Bulger's mother, Denise Fergus, condemned the storyline and when interviewed by Click Liverpool, she criticised the decision to air a plot without consulting her first. Channel 4 released a statement defending the plot. Soon after the plot was axed and scripts were rewritten.

2009 also saw the first time Hollyoaks' history that it recieved praise from reputable Broadsheet's such as The Times and The Guardian who claimed the soap had become compelling viewing.

2010's

Mike Barnes left after Tony Hirst decided he wanted to try producing plays. It was announced on 15 January 2010 that Marquess would succeed Lucy Allan as the series producer. His first episode was broadcast on 5 July 2010. In February 2010 he axed three characters, Josh Ashworth (Sonny Flood), Suzanne Ashworth (Suzanne Hall) and Neville Ashworth (Jim Millea) as well as replacing three of the soap's leading producers including, Henry Swindell, Caroline Roby and Rachel Hall who were replaced by Trina Fraser and Claire Fryer. In the same month it was announced that former Emmerdale actress Sheree Murphy would join the cast as Eva Strong, the biological mother of Anita Roy (Saira Choudhry). This was his first signing since becoming series producer. Stephanie Waring (who plays Cindy Hutchinson) then revealed that all remaining cast members feared their character would be axed. In March he axed further characters, including Sasha Valentine (Nathalie Emmanuel), Lauren Valentine (Dominique Jackson), Leo Valentine (Brian Bovell), Zak Ramsey (Kent Riley), Spencer Gray (Darren John Langford), Archie Carpenter (Stephen Beard), Jake Dean (Kevin Sacre), Dave Colburn (Elliot James Langridge) and Des Townsend (Kris Deedigan). Nico Mirallegro who plays Barry Newton and Gerard McCarthy who plays Kris Fisher, both quit to persue other roles. Marquess decided to write Loretta Jones out after he felt there was no where left to take her as a result of her child murder plot being rewritten. It was also revealed that Marquess would introduce a new family to the soap. In the same month it was announced Marquess would reintroduce Lee Hunter (Alex Carter). It was also announced that Footballers Wives actress Phina Oruche would join the cast as the mother of the soap's new four-member mixed race family.

In April 2010, it was announced that Marquess would introduce a raft of new characters to the serial as part of its major revamp. The characters announced were, the Costello family consisting of mother Heidi (Kim Tiddy), father Carl (Paul Opacic), sons Riley (Rob Norbury) and Seth (Miles Higson)and daugter Jasmine (Victoria atkin), the Sharpe family consisting of mother Gabby (Phina Oruche), father Phil (Andonis Anthony), son Taylor (Shaun Blackstock) and daughter Amber (Lydia Lloyd-Henry). As well as Heidi's cousin Mitzeee Minniver (Rachel Shenton). It was later announced that Marquess would introduce a new family member for established family the McQueen's.

It was announced in April that Channel 4 had commissioned a third series of Hollyoaks late night spin-off Hollyoaks Later and that the series would be headed up by Marquess. Confirmed regular characters slated to be involved were also revealed, Mercedes (Jennifer Metcalfe) and Malachy Fisher (Glen Wallace), Michaela (Hollie-Jay Bowes) and Theresa McQueen (Jorgie Porter) as well as newcomers Carl, Riley and Seth Costello and Mitzeee. In June it was announced UFC fighter Michael Bisping had been cast in Hollyoaks Later as an underworld gangster called Nathan. In the same month it was revealed that Hollie-Jay Bowes who plays Michaela McQueen had been sacked by Marquess due to her behaviour as well as being dropped from spin-off Hollyoaks Later.

In early June it was announced that Marquess would introduce Kevin (Cameron Crighton) who would befriend Elliot Bevan (Garnon Davies), in a new sci-fi alien storyline. In April, Marquess announced the introduction of a third family to the soap. In June the family were unveiled as the O'Connors consisting of stepmother Diane (Alexandra Fletcher), father Rob (Gary Cargill), daughter Sinead (Stephanie Davis) and son Finn (Connor Wilkinson). In the same month Marquess revealed the introduction of a new title sequence and theme tune. Marquess also announced more new cast later in the month, including Cheryl Brady's (Bronagh Waugh) half-brother Brenden Brady (Emmett J. Scanlan), Cheryl's best friend Lynsey Nolan (Karen Hassan) who previously appeared in the first series of spin-off Hollyoaks Later and McQueen cousin Bart McQueen (Jonny Clarke). In July it was announced Marquess would introduce Seth Costello's twin Jasmine (Victoria Atkin). In the same month it was announced that he would reintroduce India Longford's (Beth Kingston) sister Texas Longford (Bianca Hendrickse-Spendlove) who previously appeared in the soap for a short stint in May 2010. It was also announced that Marquess would introduce three new students to the series, consisting of Jamil (Sikander Malik), Doug (PJ Brennan) and Leanne (Jessica Forrest) who would also appear in new internet spin-off Hollyoaks Freshers. Due to the temporary exit of Cindy Hutchinson, because of Waring's impending maternity leave, it was announced that Marquess would introduce Alistair Longford (Terence Harvey) the grandfather of India and Texas Longford who would develop a romance with Cindy.

Carley Stenson became the longest serving female cast member, being a part of the serial for ten years, but then announced her decision to quit. Stephen Uppal who played Ravi Roy then quit. On 9 July 2010 Ashley Slanina-Davies, Glen Wallace, John Pickard and Garnon Davies all announced their decesion to leave their roles of Amy Barnes, Malachy Fisher, Dominic Reilly and Elliot Bevan retrospectively. Ricky Campbell was quietly written out of the serial for six months after Ashley Margolis decided to concentrate on his GCSE's.

In August 2010 it was announced that Sheree Murphy had decided not to renew her contract with the serial because she planned to move abroad with her family. An exit storyline was devised for Eva. Her plans later changed and she decided to stay in the UK, Marquess decided to bring Eva back after a short on-screen hiatus, of which he stated: "Sheree will be taking a little break on screen because of her family commitments, but we're already thinking about how we'll bring her back." Marquess later cast disabled actor Peter Mitchell in a new regular role.

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External links

• Hollyoaks at E4.com
• Hollyoaks at Lime Pictures
• Hollyoaks at Digital Spy
• Hollyoaks at IMDb

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