Editing Soap opera (section)

===Belgium===
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[[File:Leah Thys thuisdag.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Leah Thys, actress in the Belgian soap ''[[Thuis]]''. At the back Peter Rouffaer is visible.]]
In [[Belgium]], the two major soap operas are ''[[Thuis]]'' ("Home") and ''[[Familie]]'' ("Family"), both prime time soap operas. Soap operas have been very popular in [[Flanders]], the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. ''Familie'' debuted in late 1991, and with more han 6,700 half-hour episodes, it has the highest episode total of any soap in Europe outside of the United Kingdom. The highest-rated soap opera is ''Thuis'', which has aired on "[[één]]" since late 1995. ''Thuis'' is often one of the five most-watched Belgian shows and regularly garners over one million viewers (with 6.6&nbsp;million Flemings in total).

During the 1990s, foreign soap operas such as ''Neighbours'' and ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' were extremely popular, the latter having achieved a cult status in Belgium and airing in the middle of the decade during prime time. Both soaps still air today, along with other foreign soaps such as ''Days of Our Lives'', Australia's ''Home and Away'' and Germany's "Sturm der Liebe". [[Vitaya]] unsuccessful attempted to air the Dutch soap opera "[[Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden]]" in 2010. Other foreign soaps that previously aired on Belgian television include ''The Young and the Restless'', ''EastEnders'' (both on VTM), "Port Charles" (at één, then known as TV1) and "Coronation Street" (on Vitaya). "[[Santa Barbara (TV series)|Santa Barbara]]" aired during the 1990s on VTM for its entire run.

In the early 2000s, the only teen soap opera on Belgian television was ''[[Spring (television soap)|Spring]]'' ("Jump" in English), which aired on the youth-oriented [[Ketnet]] and produced over 600 15-minute episodes from late 2002 until 2009, when it was cancelled after a steady decline in ratings following the departures of many of its original characters.