EastEnders
"EastEnders" is broadcast around the world in many English-speaking countries. New Zealand became the first to broadcast "EastEnders" overseas, the first episode being shown on 27 September 1985. This was followed by the Netherlands on 8 December 1986, Australia on 5 January 1987, Norway on 27 April, and Barcelona on 30 June (dubbed into Catalan). On 9 July 1987, it was announced that the show would be aired in the United States on PBS. BBC Worldwide licensed 200 hours of "EastEnders" for broadcast in Serbia on RTS (dubbed into Serbian); it began airing the first episode in December 1997. The series was broadcast in the United States until BBC America ceased broadcasts of the serial in 2003, amidst fan protests. In June 2004, the satellite television provider Dish Network picked up "EastEnders", broadcasting episodes starting at the point where BBC America had ceased broadcasting them, offering the series as a pay-per-view item. Episodes air two months behind the UK schedule. Episodes from prior years are still shown on various PBS stations in the US. Since 7 March 2017, "EastEnders" has been available in the United States on demand, 24 hours after it has aired in the United Kingdom via BritBox, a joint venture between BBC and ITV.
Screening of soap operas in Australia
"Emmerdale" is a British soap opera that began airing on BBC UKTV in July 2006 from episode 4288. It currently airs at 6:20 pm EST each weeknight. In 2006,BBC UKTV Aust. were showing episodes four months behind the UK. "Emmerdale" is a six episodes a week series, but only five a week were being screened. Thus over a period of years since 2006, a time lag of episodes developed.From 16 October 2017 BBC UKTV Aust. commenced screening two episodes nighty from Monday to Friday, as a planned catch up,as episodes being aired in Australia at that time were 2 years behind the UK airings. As of January 2019 episodes being aired are from October 2017.