For fans of Crossroads
tonywilson
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Just a quick email to mention that 2004 is the 40th anniversary of the much loved UK soap Crossroads.
Crossroads was a ratings winner during the 60s, 70s and 80s, often outperforming Coronation Street in the ratings. When it returned in 2001 it also acquired a cult following of loyal fans.
I have started an online petition to persuade Carlton Visual Entertainment to release a "Best Of Crossroads" DVD to celebrate 40 years of the soap.
The petition is at
http://www.petitiononline.com/crossdvd/petition.html
Tony Wilson
Crossroads was a ratings winner during the 60s, 70s and 80s, often outperforming Coronation Street in the ratings. When it returned in 2001 it also acquired a cult following of loyal fans.
I have started an online petition to persuade Carlton Visual Entertainment to release a "Best Of Crossroads" DVD to celebrate 40 years of the soap.
The petition is at
http://www.petitiononline.com/crossdvd/petition.html
Tony Wilson
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Have to agree that was their biggest mistake - lack of patience. Here in Scotland I'm glad the BBC have stuck with "River City" which has managed to mature nicely despite poor ratings and critical acclaim at first. ITV don't have the balls.
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It's maybe getting like American TV where shows have to succeed or are dropped very quickly (a few ITV drama series have been shunted to much later slots - as well as the soap Night and Day - or axed altogether very early on in their run).
Hear, hear. Being from the States, I've been witness to numerous tv injustices like the one you just mentioned. The brilliant shows never get a chance to get off the ground, yet pieces of crap can run for years and years if they have the right time slot.
The New look Crossroads was good and wasn't given a chance.
ITV are so ratings driven now, think back to the 70s and 80s Fools and Horses wouldn't have been a sucess if it had been taken off air so quickly. Even The Street was panned by the critics when it started.
Carlton loved Crossroads it kept Lenton Lane busy, It was ITV Network that didn't like it sadly the big bods didn't give it a chance. Now ITV want a new day time soap why what was wrong with Crossroads.
It needed time to grow. The research ITV did into soap proved that viewers associated soap and Crossroads. The trouble is that ITV is now run by accountants not by people who know and love TV.
This will alway be the way with TV now its accountant TV
I think if they'd came back with Mark 2 rather than launching the OTT Mark 3 it would still be going. Ratings were never as bad for Mark 2 so it didn't need resting.
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I also firmly believe that there is a place for Crossroads on todays TV, it's just a pity the powers that be don't share my views.
BTW, not many people know this but just before Nigel Pickard axed it in 2003 Tony Adams had just signed up to return as Adam Chance which would have been wonderful.
Crossroads was good Mk2 & Mk3. its a pity the killed off Kates family
Those words " Crossroads Motel can I help you" were fab.
I hope ITV 3 show Crossroads along with ATV's Genral Hospital.
Sadly ITV don't care about their viewers anymore all they care about is beating the BBC and Sky.
I have to say that all ITV executives are not programme makers anymore. And so far up their own backsides.
Meg Woz Magic she was a true TV star,
Back to Crossroads, i never watched the Mk2 version, basically because alot of people said it was rubbish and thats why it was axed first time, but i dont think it needed to be 'retooled'. Again, the ratings werent great, but they werent bad! what ITV should have done is moved crossroads out of competition with neghbours at 5.30, and moved it into NADs 5.05 slot. Im sure that would have brought in more viewers.
I did watch Mk3, as there was nothing else on a teatime, so id see what it was like. It was ok, but i thought the high camp, glitzy hotel was just to much a step from what crossroads was about. people liked the 60s version, and as the mk2 version was more modern, it may have lost those viewers, but the Mk3 version would have lost those AND the Mk2 version, so what did ITV expect when it performed poorly.
NAD and Crossroads (mk2+3) were not bad soaps as most people automatically assume, but they were ruined by ITVs meddling and demand for instantaneous success. Consequently, because of what ITV did with NAD and their total disregard for its fans, i now never watch ITV. Its programmes are, as have already been mentioned, appaling and patronising to the viwer (unless your braindead) and are dictated by what is good for the account books!
R.I.P ITV
www.crossroadsonline.co.uk/
http://www.crossroadsfanclub.com/
Crossroads has GONE!!!
Crossroads will never RETURN!!
IT WAS SHITE!!
IT WAS SHITE IN 1964!!
IT WAS SHITE IN 2001!!
IT WAS SHITE IN 2003!!
NO DVD!!
NO MORE!!
THE END!!
AND THE SAME FOR YOU NIGHT & DAY BANDITS!!
And people call me sad:rolleyes:
What is so wrong with a DVD release of Crossroads? It would make all the fans happy and wouldn't affect you at all.
I honestly can't understand people who dislike shows so much that they have to try and spoil it for those who do enjoy it.
I'm not a fan of Eastenders or Corrie but I respect that a lot of people are so I don't try to rain on their parade.
I've reported your post TomL and I suggest others do the same, the Digital Spy forum can do without users like you.
Tony Wilson
i dont like crossroads, but i dont care if people talk about it!