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Old 30-12-2010, 12:40
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Something like sunset beach but a British soap, similar to FW and perhaps even bad girls.

The actors play it straight but the storylines are OTT you cant help but laugh.

Would you watch such a thing?
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Old 30-12-2010, 12:49
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That was pretty much Footballers Wives
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Old 30-12-2010, 12:50
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I thought that's what Peter Andre and Jordan were trying to achieve.
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Old 30-12-2010, 14:30
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Isn't that what we do already?
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Old 30-12-2010, 15:11
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I'd recommend watching telenovelas; no-one will beat Latin America for OTT-ness.
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Old 30-12-2010, 15:24
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I watch Hollyoaks. Does that count?
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Old 30-12-2010, 15:30
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Sounds rather like Crossroads Mk III to me That was fun.

My all-time favourite american parody was 'Soap'. I don't know how they played it so straight, while the audience were in stitches!
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Old 30-12-2010, 16:28
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This describes Hollyoaks in the Lucy Allan era. It's not like that anymore.
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:26
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Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:29
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Yes, I would watch something like Sunset Beach!

I want to watch Sunset Beach again! I miss it.
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:36
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I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. How could I miss it?!!? It sounds hilariously ridiculous!
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:48
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Yes, I would I love OTT ridiculous storylines.
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:49
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I think I could tolerate it for a while, but long-term it'd just be ridicolous.
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:51
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you mean like 'SOAP'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_%28TV_series%29
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:53
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Hollyoaks is a bit like that.

So was Bad girls.

And Home and away. Was very OTT when I watched it.
They found a girl on the beach who was raised by people who spoke a completely made up language. And she could speak english in a few weeks time.
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Old 30-12-2010, 18:57
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Don't think I'd watch.
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Old 30-12-2010, 19:06
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This describes Hollyoaks in the Lucy Allan era. It's not like that anymore.


Sunset Beach was brilliantly trashy though

Corrie's Kate Ford is doing a one-woman OTT-parody at the moment
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Old 30-12-2010, 19:14
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Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..
Totally agree with this statement! I miss Father Fit and Dimples
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Old 31-12-2010, 02:14
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I recall reading that Harry Hill was to star in a soap opera parody which, like the American one, was also simply named Soap. Did that ever materialise?
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Old 31-12-2010, 02:19
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I think we had something like that which flopped majorly...

Echo Beach and Moving Wallpaper anyone???

I think that was the one Harry Hill was involved in too.
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Old 31-12-2010, 02:37
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If it was like SB yes I would. It'd be a laugh
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Old 31-12-2010, 05:43
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Has this been inspired by Eastenders under Bryan Kirkwood?

A cgi fire.
A character (a serial killer preacher no less) faking his own wifes death. Only for it to turn out she was locked next door all along. And none of the residents bat an eyelid.
Characters changing in to other people.
A cgi train.

We're already past the point of parody my friend.
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Old 31-12-2010, 13:17
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Victoria Wood did an amazing parody in the 80s with Acorn Antiques. All the episodes are collected on one dvd. The making of acorn antiques is IMO the funneist piece of tv ever."Whats this??", "Its a haemorhoid preparation , to be brutally frank! Cut?!"
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Old 31-12-2010, 13:22
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I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. It sounds so ridiculously brilliant!
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Old 31-12-2010, 13:31
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I like the mini soaps on E4 ... real piss-takes of American soaps.

"I'm gonna ask Faye to marry me"
"Where?"
"I don't know! Facebook?!?! Or Twitter?!?!?!?!"

Complete with dramatic head swishes



By the way, wasn't there a storyline in Days of Our Lives where there was a serial killer, but it was eventually revealed that nobody was killed, and all the victims were being held on an Island that was a carbon copy of the original town
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