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Would you watch an OTT parody-style soap?
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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That was pretty much Footballers Wives
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I thought that's what Peter Andre and Jordan were trying to achieve.
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Isn't that what we do already?
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I'd recommend watching telenovelas; no-one will beat Latin America for OTT-ness.
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I watch Hollyoaks. Does that count?
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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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This describes Hollyoaks in the Lucy Allan era.
It's not like that anymore.
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Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..
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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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I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. How could I miss it?!!? It sounds hilariously ridiculous!
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Yes, I would
I love OTT ridiculous storylines.
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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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you mean like 'SOAP'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soap_%28TV_series%29 |
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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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Don't think I'd watch.
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Quote:
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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Sunset Beach was the ultimate over the top soap. Nothing else has come close..
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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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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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If it was like SB yes I would. It'd be a laugh
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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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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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I've just been reading about Sunset Beach on Wikipedia. It sounds so ridiculously brilliant!
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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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