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  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,377 Championing

    After being addicted to EastEnders for almost 30 years - I managed to wean myself off watching it completely a few years ago and now, I have absolutely no idea what is going on and who the actors/actresses are….

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,807 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1106446#Comment_1106446

    Not much difference to me tbh Wibbles!! I've started watching it again, 2 wks ago (after c 15 yrs) and not quite their with who everyone is/storyline etc. I'm sticking with it, for now. I think it will all fall into place ... I hope so anyway!!

  • gussiefinknottle1
    gussiefinknottle1 Online Community Member Posts: 46 Contributor

    I used to watch Eastenders, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks, until about 15 years ago first to go was Hollyoaks. I was over 6 months behind and snapped that I was never going to catch up so deleted the lot! Eastenders went about 8 years ago for the same reason. Now I’m only keeping pace with corrie but I’m getting increasingly annoyed with the storylines they are often very predictable and are now being driven by “issues” corrie was never driven by issues, yes occasionally they’d tackle something challenging and yes I realise they are trying to attract a much younger audience because in 20 years time if they fail to do this now they could be in a position with no audience at all however they’re missing the point that younger people, ie those under 35 are no longer watching television in the same way, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok for instance and much like Chopper bikes, Wimpy bars and video cassette recorders, soap operas may ultimately be consigned to history.

    I’m off now to watch last night’s Coronation Street.

  • HelloYes
    HelloYes Online Community Member Posts: 13 Connected

    Their “back from the dead” plots always make me laugh haha 🙄

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,790 Championing

    I'm a great fan of brookside

    Watching the re runs

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 746 Connected

    I used to watch Brookie, mainly because I'm in love with Claire Sweeney, who's currently in Coronation St, she's gorgeous and seriously hot.

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 240 Empowering

    Along time ago I used to watch Neighbours with my mum.. I'm glad its come back although I haven't got back into watching .. My partner has no interest in soaps so I've not got the time to watch it solo :D

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 746 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1109734#Comment_1109734

    It actually finished last year.

    Although rumour has it it's coming back with a different name at some point.

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,790 Championing

    Watched home and away from day 1

  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,882 Championing

    I love all the soaps there are good story lines at the moment

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,256 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I've never watched that one @Amberpearl! Do you recommened it?

    Do you have a favourite at the moment @Lisatho11987777?

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,790 Championing

    Brookside yes highly recommend

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 4,010 Championing

    I love all the soaps.

    I think they are all good at the moment.

    Football is on tonight so unless you watch on catchup, no Corrie or Emmerdale.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 746 Connected

    Bloomin' football! Ruins the TV schedules most weeks! 😡

  • luvpink
    luvpink Online Community Member Posts: 4,010 Championing

    Tonight we have Corrie and Emmerdale

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,790 Championing

    Yes thank. God

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 746 Connected

    Yeah because they were both cancelled last Friday in favour of the bloomin' Football!

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Online Community Member Posts: 656 Pioneering

    always loved the soaps

    Brookside was always my favourite seen the whole series through a few times. Ironically the body under the patio storyline was the first week I ever watched it as a kid and the timing was genuinely a coincidence as I was unaware that was happening that week may 7th 1993 remember it clearly.

    I watched EastEnders from the Eddie Royle Whodunnit in 1991 and watched everything else up to then on drama

    coronation street I started around 1993

    Emmerdale also 1993 About 10 episodes before the plane crash where Elizabeth Pollard threw a typewriter at Eric.

    I always loved the aussie ones I have the entire series of prisoner CBH and sons and Daughters on DVD.

    we live in a great time for classic soaps as PCBH is also on 5 on demand, brookside on stv, classic EastEnders on iPlayer and drama, classic Emmerdale and Corrie on itv3/x

    and shortland Street is being uploaded to YouTube by the official licensor the first five years are there, stv shows modern episodes and the gap between ITV axing it in 2003 will soon be covered.

    sunset beach occasionally turns up overnight on a channel cbs I think

    nostalgia rules.

  • SheffieldMan1976
    SheffieldMan1976 Posts: 746 Connected

    There's several classic Home and Away episodes on My5.net and Dailymotion.com

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,790 Championing

    From hiw far back?

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