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Old 07-02-2004, 12:09
garymonc
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Yes its WEATHERFIELD GENERAL, a daytime spin-off soap which will feature characters from the street in cross-over storylines!

The soap will be made by GRANADA and filmed in an office block which they will make look like a hospital

The storylines will be "self contained" in each episode [just like DOCTORS] and will have a few star names poping up on the show from week to week.

This show sounds like a winner, i mean you can just imagine old grannys watching it as well as the younger housewives!
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Old 07-02-2004, 12:11
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Oh please no, not more Martin.

*sighs* Oh Katie.
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Old 07-02-2004, 13:04
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Sounds good to me, specially if it's got Todd and Karl! (tho I agree with Sazz about Martin!! )
When does it start?
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Old 07-02-2004, 14:17
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Originally posted by garymonc
Yes its WEATHERFIELD GENERAL, a daytime spin-off soap which will feature characters from the street in cross-over storylines!

The soap will be made by GRANADA and filmed in an office block which they will make look like a hospital

The storylines will be "self contained" in each episode [just like DOCTORS] and will have a few star names poping up on the show from week to week.

This show sounds like a winner, i mean you can just imagine old grannys watching it as well as the younger housewives!
You just made this up, right?
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Old 07-02-2004, 21:10
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This isn't a new soap, this is just a spin-off series like that series in Brighton (not the recent one with Jim McD, it was in 1999 or something). It might end up like the Royal that was only ment for 1 series.
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Old 09-02-2004, 00:08
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Hmmmm, I'm not sure about that one really. I mean you see so much of Coronation Street during the week, I'm not sure a spin off featuring people from the Street will work. I don't think I'd like a spin off where Martin featured all the time. Unless they do what they did with Holby and make it convincing, after a while you kind of forget that Holby and Casuatly are the same hospital.

Although it could be good. Yeh the first episode could lead on from a very dramatic event on Coronation Street. Lets say theres ehmm a tremor in the Street. At number 7 Blanche is knocked unconcious when a plate falls on her head.

Or for the purpose of the storyline, a really nasty character arrives on the Street, briefly moves into Tommy and Angela's gaf. One night a bomb is placed under his car. The next lunch time he starts the car and BOOM! a massive explosion rock the street. The impact sends Tyrone through the glass of Vera's window. Several characters across the Street are severely injured by shattering glass, and one character is written out of the show by being fatally hurt.

Ambulances flood the Street and they're all taken to the hospital where all the characters of Weatherfield General are introduced.
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