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What happened to Hollyoaks College? And other businesses.
ScottishWoody
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When I started watching Hollyoaks some 10-12 years ago the show was primarily based around a college. You mostly had students, the cursed student flat in dorms, SUBar, the college swimming pool/juice bar. Now they all seem to be gone and replaced with a high school and a hospital. I stopped watching for a few years, did they close down the college, or did it just fade into the background?
Now that I think of it, the only thing that's been in the show since I started watching is The Dog in the Pond, though even that's been refurbished a few times.
Other businesses which have come and gone:
Il Gnosh
Gnot Gnosh
Drive n Buy
The American diner
The smoothie bar
Chez chez
Any others?
Now that I think of it, the only thing that's been in the show since I started watching is The Dog in the Pond, though even that's been refurbished a few times.
Other businesses which have come and gone:
Il Gnosh
Gnot Gnosh
Drive n Buy
The American diner
The smoothie bar
Chez chez
Any others?
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It's now a medical drama
The American diner, Relish was closed down in 2011 and hasn't been mentioned since, Im not even sure what set they used for that
The Smoothie Bar/Gnot Gnosh is now The flower shop owned by Trevor Royle
and of course Chez Chez was renamed The Loft which is owned by Grace Black and Freddie Roscoe, and is currently being renovated (about time and all!)
Although The College and SU Bar have been replaced with the hospital set, I think we are still supposed to believe that Hollyoaks is a student village but without a visible college set
it morphed into a hospital
Chez Chez is now The Loft
Drive N Buy is now the shop owned/run by the Lovedays
not sure about the others - sorry
HCC and the SU Bar is now the hospital.
The school is because they can now use the Grange Hill set.
Il Knosh is Tony's restaurant but was the Spa for awhile.
Gnot Gnosh became MOBs and is now the Florists.
Drive N Buy became part of the Spa, so is now part of Tony's.
There was also a laundrette, which became a salon. I can't remember what it was after that but it became Doug and Ste's deli and is now the junk shop which Dirk runs.
The American Dinner has become the Coffee Shop.
Chez Chez has reverted back to the loft.
Price Slice, was Evissa, Louise's salon and before that it was the Hunters car shop.
Trevor owns a flower shop? I think my ovaries just exploded.
I really hope HO gets a new producer soon as I loathed BK's work the first time (even though everyone loved it) but I actually liked his second run till about late 2013! 2012-13 was was overall good! The only thing that dragged 2013 down was the Roscoes in the end! The Roscoes are TV at its worst! It just doesn't feel like HO anymore! They've lost their roots and their plot lines!
Just like Grace's then.
Bahahahaha! Bad JoP but I'm howling.
and now a police drama
Il Gnosh, Drive an' Buy, Evissa, The Loft, Max & OB's smoothie shop, the Dog, the University halls & the SU bar.
Each place was used and it felt natural. Unlike now with the hospital and never ending reasons for characters to end up there.
I'd like all the above to return all with different owners.
Everything Kirkwood has done since he's come back has been about turning the clock back to 2006 and erasing everything that happened while he was gone. Right down to turning Ste straight and sticking him with another baby and an Amy replacement. It is the weirdest damn thing a producer has ever done to a show.
I hate the whole show now, it's rank. But I've moved on, I just don't watch.
And to answer the original question, no one really knows why, but Kirkwood decided he couldn't be arsed with students any more and he preferred making a stunningly rubbish version of Holby. So they're gone. As are most of the viewers.
It didn't really make sense for it to still be called Chez Chez when Cheryl was no longer there- it would confuse viewers. I think it was right to change it back.
It was Carmel's idea to return it to being The Loft. Carmel really hasn't got any links to wanting it to be called The Loft again, so it would be better if they came up with a new name. Even if the kept it the same it wouldn't have confused viewers, it would have been better to call it a new name.