<P> Neighbours' continued low ratings in Australia resulted in it being moved to Ten's new digital channel, Eleven on January 11, 2011 . However, it continues to achieve reasonable ratings on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, and as of March 2013 still reportedly achieved significant international sales . </P> <P> Pioneering series Pukemanu aired over two years (1971--72) and was the NZBC's first continuing drama . It followed the goings - on of a North Island timber town . Close to Home is a New Zealand television soap opera that ran on Television One (Formally NZBC, later becoming Television New Zealand) from 1975 to 1983 . At its peak in 1977 nearly one million viewers tuned in twice weekly to watch the series co-created by Michael Noonan and Tony Isaac (who had initially only agreed to make the show on the condition they would get to make The Governor). Gloss is a television drama series that screened from 1987 to 1990 . The series is about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family . Gloss was NZ's answer to US soap Dynasty, with the Carrington oil scions replaced by the wealthy Redferns and their Auckland magazine empire . It was a starting point for many actors who went on to many productions in New Zealand, Australia and around the world including Temuera Morrison, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Elliott, Lisa Chappell, Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith . Many of them would go on to star in Shortland Street, which has been New Zealand's most popular soap since its debut in 1992 . It airs on TVNZ 2 . </P> <P> Radio New Zealand began airing its first radio soap You Me Now in September 2010 . It is available for podcast on its website . </P> <P> Relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations and networks that carry soap operas airing those imported from the United States or the United Kingdom . Notable daily soaps that did exist included Family Passions, Scarlett Hill, Strange Paradise, Metropia, Train 48 and the international co-production Foreign Affairs . Family Passions was an hour - long program, as is typical of American daytime soaps; all of the others ran half - hour episodes . Unlike American or British soap operas, the most influential of which have run for years or even decades, even daily Canadian soap operas have run for a few seasons at most . Short - run soaps, including 49th & Main and North / South, have also aired . Many of these were produced in an effort to comply with Canadian content regulations, which require a percentage of programming on Canadian television to originate from Canada . </P>

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