Hollyoaks has been ushering in the changes as part of its bold step into a new era but, as the first, shorter episode of the new digital led format lands, there’s one thing missing that fans are very unhappy with.
Earlier this year, Channel 4 announced that the five weekly visits to Hollyoaks were being chopped to three 20-minute editions which would debut online in a massive change to their strategy.
As part of this process, huge cost-cutting measures were slapped on the show, which led to job losses for up to a third of the workforce, including around 20 cast members.
In what must have been a logistical nightmare, storylines have also had to be wildly changed, shortened, sped up and even scrapped to fit around the losses of characters and airtime and, to accommodate this, boss Hannah Cheers announced that there would be a storyline time-jump of a whole year, which would follow a stunt-packed …