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What was Brookside like in 2002?
I've gathered that Brookside in 2003 was awful but what was it like when it was still prime time in 2002?
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Very sensationalist from what I can gather. Wasn't it the year where we saw siege after siege?
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A very pale shadow of its '80s to mid-'90s heyday.
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2002 featured Anthony Murray accidentally killing his bully and the siege/helicopter crash to mark the 20th Anniversary. I can't remember any other big storylines from that time and by the end of the year it had been moved to weekend omnibus only.
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2002 featured Anthony Murray accidentally killing his bully and the siege/helicopter crash to mark the 20th Anniversary. I can't remember any other big storylines from that time and by the end of the year it had been moved to weekend omnibus only.
The reason the series went into terminal decline was because of the numerous explosions, fires and shootings as well as gangster storylines. Most viewers thought the plots were becoming increasingly ridiculous and unbelievable and abandoned the show in droves. |
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I shad stopped watching Brookside by this point (stories became stupider by the week), but do remember the titles and theme were messed around with.
Shame, there was a good soap. |
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A very pale shadow of its '80s to mid-'90s heyday.
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I shad stopped watching Brookside by this point (stories became stupider by the week), but do remember the titles and theme were messed around with.
Shame, there was a good soap. |
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Other soaps could learn a lot by looking at Brookside's demise and how repeated sensationalism actually served to alienate viewers rather than draw them in...
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Was only really them two big story that happened, the Anthony Murray story was done really well, and if the siege/helicopter crash would have been good if they didn't put all that music paying in the background, and it went on for ever because of channel 4 putting it on 2 then 3 times a week was all over the place and was on at the same time as EE not the best move from channel 4 lol
The siege/helicopter crash was for the 20th and it was call over the top but it's only what CS did With a train for there 50th and ED had already done. Think maybe people forget about that when they say brookside was ott but what you could say is again it was ahead of the other soaps even in it's dying days lol |
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I still maintain that Brookside could and should have been saved. People always downplay the 1998 to 2002 period but it was still very watchable. For once Paul Marquess did actually do a good job.
What was unfortunate was that Susanna, Sinbad, Mick and Lindsey & Jackie Cockhill all left around the same period. The Murrays were actually a good family but more new additions were needed. Characters like Mike and Rachel had reached the end of the road but the show seemed reluctant to part with them. Fresh blood was needed and it did come in the shape of the Gordon family but they were awful and just sealed the final nail in the coffin. To make matters worse, in 2002 Barb changed the way they measured ratings so suddenly all programmes dropped in figures so it made it seem as though they had lost viewers when they hadn't. This didn't just effect Brookside. It sent EE into a tailspin which resulted in them bringing back Den Watts and Corrie launched the Hillman storyline in an attempt to up its own viewership. Its a big shame we lost Brookside but Channel Four had Big Brother holding up prime time and Brookside just became surplus to requirements. Four had no idea which slot they wanted to broadcast the soap in so it was moved around the schedule weekly. In the end viewers gave up trying to find it. They didn't turn off because the show was crap. They turned off because they never knew when it was on. |
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Other soaps could learn a lot by looking at Brookside's demise and how repeated sensationalism actually served to alienate viewers rather than draw them in...
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I still maintain that Brookside could and should have been saved. People always downplay the 1998 to 2002 period but it was still very watchable. For once Paul Marquess did actually do a good job.
What was unfortunate was that Susanna, Sinbad, Mick and Lindsey & Jackie Cockhill all left around the same period. The Murrays were actually a good family but more new additions were needed. Characters like Mike and Rachel had reached the end of the road but the show seemed reluctant to part with them. Fresh blood was needed and it did come in the shape of the Gordon family but they were awful and just sealed the final nail in the coffin. Its a big shame we lost Brookside but Channel Four had Big Brother holding up prime time and Brookside just became surplus to requirements. Four had no idea which slot they wanted to broadcast the soap in so it was moved around the schedule weekly. In the end viewers gave up trying to find it. They didn't turn off because the show was crap. They turned off because they never knew when it was on. What I would have done, is put it on at 8pm on Tuesday & Wednesday and Thursday at 8.30, three good solid prime time slots, and not on at the same time as any other soap Ask Mr Redmen to step away full stop yes he made and gave it a great name but it's was his baby and he never step away and tried to save it but that was the problem he cared to much and even tho they had EP he was always there. New blood and got back to hard hitting down to earth story's and keep with that for a good 5 years bring right back to it's roots don't need big fires and big bangs lol not to say you can have one but brookie did so much of them it didn't need any more Them 3 simple things would have save it but again channel 4 didn't want to help it but that's all it needed, it's a shame coz if they help it I think it would still be here today. |
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The Anthony/Imelda story was the highlight of the year. The rest, was just nonsense but the thing was, the ingriedents where there, but not utulised.
CH4 moving around it was the death knoll. Saturday afternoon at 5.15 is not the time to sit down and watch a soap. Then the times got ridicilous e.g 12am on a Tuesday night. Give me Brookie over Prettyboyoaks anyday. |
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Didn't it go down hill after the incest?
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Going bk to 2000 and the who killed Susanna was a really good storyline and was done very well the first of it kind to again brookie paved the way for the rest of the soaps
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Didn't it go down hill after the incest?
"Brookside" serves as a warning to the other soaps.....can see "Eastenders" on a critical list soon with all the negative feedback with ratings and about the lack of storylines. |
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It did, but the decline was more slow than rapid in my mind. Around 2000 with the year long "Who raped Nikki Shadwick?" storyline was the main contributor.
"Brookside" serves as a warning to the other soaps.....can see "Eastenders" on a critical list soon with all the negative feedback with ratings and about the lack of storylines. I think EE is been the way it is for so long now but it's is bbc flagship show and I think the bbc will do what channel 4 Failed not to do with brookie and save it's best show |
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The Nikki rape was certainly a major turn off for the soap because it was dragged out forever but also involved another flop family in the shape of the Morgan's. Who thankfully did only last a year.
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The Nikki rape was certainly a major turn off for the soap because it was dragged out forever but also involved another flop family in the shape of the Morgan's. Who thankfully did only last a year.
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There was also the awful Gordon family, introduced in 2002. They were promoted as the new Grants and lived in the same house, but were a total flop. Within a few months the father had to be written out (killed off-screen in the helicopter crash) then the mother was also killed off.
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There was also the awful Gordon family, introduced in 2002. They were promoted as the new Grants and lived in the same house, but were a total flop. Within a few months the father had to be written out (killed off-screen in the helicopter crash) then the mother was also killed off.
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