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Why corrie will always be no.1 soap
Robbedin73
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Apart from mid 80s when Eastenders was at its height
And had the highest ever soap audience on Xmas day 86
(could be wrong but think that's right ) anyway it's been no.1
More less since and watching all 3 last night it's easy to see why
It's story lines are funny ,though sad it's done with humour at same time take Hayley's laughing at Roy's driving
And you think she going to be in pain but isnt
Also Stella looks like she going to catch Eva but doesn't till later
Compare that to the other two and its all vett serious stuff
Tho watching emmer dale is like watching alf widershen pet
Minus about 20 million plus brillant story lines)and EE is well EE
And had the highest ever soap audience on Xmas day 86
(could be wrong but think that's right ) anyway it's been no.1
More less since and watching all 3 last night it's easy to see why
It's story lines are funny ,though sad it's done with humour at same time take Hayley's laughing at Roy's driving
And you think she going to be in pain but isnt
Also Stella looks like she going to catch Eva but doesn't till later
Compare that to the other two and its all vett serious stuff
Tho watching emmer dale is like watching alf widershen pet
Minus about 20 million plus brillant story lines)and EE is well EE
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It can be very good, but it can also be terrible at times. It has some extremely good actors, but a lot who are awful, and whose characters are very two dimensional. Personally, I think a lot of the humour is poor, and I don't like it's tendency to have characters who are only brought in to be comic relief - they always seem to fall flat (the dreadful Mary being a good example). That said, there are some extremely good or likeable characters, played by decent actors - I'm thinking notably of Kylie, Peter, Carla, Stella, Roy, Hayley and Sylvia - these are believable or interesting characters, who are well acted and its easy to take an interest in them.
It does have a warmth about it that the other two lack. Everything looks a lot more colourful which might be the reason for that. However, I also think it's very old fashioned and quite cliched.
Why the dislike of Geordies by the way OP? Emmerdale also has a Lancastrian (Cain),;Moira, who's Glaswegian -although presumably the character is not meant to be from Glasgow itself, given that she has a farming background:D; Rhona's from Essex I think, Laurel is Kentish, whilst Declan, Bernice, Cameron and Dom are all from the south of England too. Why should there not be some Geordies? People do move around and live in different parts of the country from where they grew up!
It's been tradition in many families since the 60's. Grandparents/Parents/Children watch Corrie and as they grow older they carry on doing so.
There's also the fact that characters stay much longer. Even the awful ones.We see their ups and downs for decades of our lives - whereas with EastEnders or Hollyoaks, they're quite frequently replaced/recycled or leave on their own accord with notable exceptions (Ian, Dot etc.)
Corrie will always be number 1, even if they happen to have a spell of awful storylines, hateful characters, poor direction etc. because it spans generations and decades and that's harder to break away from.
EastEnders was number 1 for years, so things can change.
In my opinion Emmerdale has been the best soap for donkey years and EastEnders is slowly getting there
I stopped watching Hollyoaks, so....
Away n bile yer heid. That'll be Emmerdale. I can see the headlines of next week's Sunday Post 'Emmerdale in Scotland's Soap Top Spot, Plans to Conquer Rest of UK by 2014':p:p:p
As bad a state as Eastenders is in at the moment, it doesn't bore me half as much as Corrie. Stopped watching now that the Karl plot has ended.
agree :-)
just get rid of the moron in charge right now, and top class
This allows them to get away with a lot
Not in the ratings it hasn't and it and EE will probably win the awards again which may tell you something. But
Think it will be a case of better devil you know
A BBC myth that never seems to die.
The only year where EastEnders's average was ahead of Coronation Street's was 2001.
Having said that I've enjoyed Emmerdale the most this year. And EE I did used to really enjoy and I want it to be better. It is however in a virtually irreversible tragic position that it has by a long way got the least amount of long-running 'A characters', though so little of note has happened this year it's hard to tell who is a major character and who is a bit player.
And you can be sure it hasn't been matched since then
Anyway here they are with plots as well
1 EE.
Den Angie Xmas day 86 /30.15
2 corrie
Alan Bradley hit by tram /26.9
3 EE
Pat runs down child Xmas day 92 /24.9
These are the only soaps in the all
Time. Top 20 tv programmes
Be interested to see latest updates which I assume are nowhere
Near that seeing those above were when we only had 3 choices
Have to disagree with you there. Emmerdale is on the up and up at the moment, and has an extremely good cast with some interesting stories running just now. I want to know how the Cameron thing is going to play out. I want to know what happens with Amy and little Kyle. I want to know if Moira can keep her farm or not, and if Jimmy and Nicola can overcome their marital problems. I care about the characters involved in these stories. I dip in and out of Corrie, but there's nothing that grabs me about it. Even the Hayley story, well acted and touching though it will be, comes across as just too depressing.
Stop nitpicking.he's doing good job so far.
Corrie will always be the number one soap. There isn't any competition for it at the moment from other soaps. its just too easy for them.