DS Forums

 
 

Hollyoaks to increase hospital focus to replace University and Student Feel


Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 23-09-2014, 16:11
dublintvfan
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 4,388

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/s1...oQHkj5xaANtlYv


this is a joke i thought Bk was bad but hes now changing the entire premise of the show Seriously he is gonna destroy it its meant to be a show set around young people student dramas fun ect with a bit of edge not a gangster filled erratic town with hospital Dramas

hes becoming the Newman of Eastenders but Hollyoaks might not be strong enough to survive it

Any thoughts?
dublintvfan is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Please sign in or register to remove this advertisement.
Old 23-09-2014, 16:14
mojo5000
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 53,967
It already happened over a year ago.

The halls and SU bar are long gone.
mojo5000 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:15
dublintvfan
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 4,388
It already happened over a year ago.

The halls and SU bar are long gone.
yes but by the sounds of this the whole student vibe willl be come for gone no more student steering it towards a hospital drama... its an awful idea
dublintvfan is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:15
blue_cheese
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: South East
Posts: 2,286
From the opening line in the article, I bet Dee Valley Hospital ends up a spin off it HO goes down the pan.
blue_cheese is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:16
Colonel_Jasper
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 990
Can Kirkwood like go now, please? Before Hollyoaks plummets even further?
Colonel_Jasper is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:16
yohinnchild
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Kandy Kitchen
Posts: 37,694
yes but by the sounds of this the whole student vibe willl be come for gone no more student steering it towards a hospital drama... its an awful idea
Sums up the Birkwood Era for me
yohinnchild is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:21
_elly001
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 11,622
It's just a different show these days, recognisable in name only. The hospital only encourages more sensationalist, short term plots. It's a terrible idea.
_elly001 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:22
Francy
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Italy
Posts: 8,707
Ridiculous. Are they trying to be E.R. or Grey's Anatomy??? These people don't live in a metropolis, how many hospital stories can there be... a stunt every 2 days???

If they wanted to change the premise and the feel of the show...why the hospital?? Why not the gym, or a mall, or whatever???

Francy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:25
dublintvfan
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Posts: 4,388
Ridiculous. Are they trying to be E.R. or Grey's Anatomy???

If they wanted to change the premise and the feel of the show...why the hospital?? Why not the gym, or a mall, or whatever???

i loved the premise how it was used to love ever September new freshers more fun comedy ect Hollyoaks used to a fun show though that reflected young problems and hardcore issues now its a just a sensational drama
dublintvfan is offline Follow this poster on Twitter   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:28
actual_soap
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: locked in the diary room
Posts: 4,976
Not looking forward to this at all.
actual_soap is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:34
TellMeMore
Inactive Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 1,002
I wish Phil Redmond would march into Lime studios, slap Kirkwood around for a bit, throw him and his excuse of a story team out and re-claim control of this show.

I would be VERY interested to hear what he has to say about his show being destroyed like this.
TellMeMore is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:38
idratherjack
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Martika's Kitchen
Posts: 785
This sounds dreadful. I went along with the insanity of the Kirkwood era for a while but now I agree that it's dreadful. The twincest thing was the final straw, it doesn't even make sense. And now turning it into a hospital drama?! If I wanted to watch Casualty I'd watch that instead.

I miss when you used to get the new freshers every September. It kept it fresh and I really don't know why they got rid of the halls and SU bar.

I can really see Hollyoaks going the way of Brookside very soon.
idratherjack is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:39
actual_soap
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: locked in the diary room
Posts: 4,976
Very tempted to give up, after 19 years of viewing. I've had a few breaks but always gone back a few months later. I just don't care about the characters anymore, with the exception of a handful
actual_soap is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 16:52
grazemytvaddict
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 4,588
Does BK know what hollyoaks is about it's probably as there is a character in hospital twice a week and that's not an exaggeration. Hollyoaks isn't about a hospital it's ridiculous why change hollyoaks it wasn't broken.
grazemytvaddict is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 17:10
lady_xanax
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,042
Does BK know what hollyoaks is about it's probably as there is a character in hospital twice a week and that's not an exaggeration. Hollyoaks isn't about a hospital it's ridiculous why change hollyoaks it wasn't broken.
Exactly. It's going to be dull as hell because they can't show blood or anything too unsettling and that's what people watch Casualty for. It's either going to be heart attacks, comas, pregnancies, and minor cuts to the head.

I'd love to know how they decided this would be a good idea. Of course it's purely an issue of cost; they had to build that hospital set so they have to get their money's worth. But it was so much better as halls.

People liked the university element because it reflected a real-world issue that young people go through (even if people didn't go to university, they knew people who did). Hollyoaks is fast moving away from being a young people's soap.

I really think this hospital change is going to turn off viewers. Since when was the local hospital at the hub of any community? They might as well have the police station.
lady_xanax is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 17:30
ally08
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 33,494
HOs hasn't had a student basis for a long time.

They have shoehorned it in occasionally by making random characters sign up to HSCC for short lived storylines.

Darren becoming an accountancy student for five minutes anyone.

Or Cheryl signing up for some course so they could make her interact with people other than Brendan.

Since everyone ends up in the hospital at least twice a year now this almost seems to make sense.

They just need to bring in a full time prison set for everyone who ends up wrongly arrested and HOs can fully flush itself down the toilet.
ally08 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 17:33
ally08
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 33,494
I've just remembered my favourite recent student storyline, the Texas/Jodie/Theresa/Dodger dance thing.

I don't even think that was BK was it?

HOs has been so shit now, for so long it all just blurs into one big mess.
ally08 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 17:38
lady_xanax
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 4,042
They should bring back the students
lady_xanax is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 18:01
grazemytvaddict
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 4,588
I've just remembered my favourite recent student storyline, the Texas/Jodie/Theresa/Dodger dance thing.

I don't even think that was BK was it?

HOs has been so shit now, for so long it all just blurs into one big mess.
No I believe that was Emma Smithwick. I didn't realise how much I would miss the university feel of the show but I really do. I'm glad the overuse of six formers have gone they got annoying why does BK want to go down the hospital route anyway?
grazemytvaddict is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 18:39
SecretLifeoBees
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Dorothy Fish Common Room
Posts: 31,209
If BK wants a medical based drama then maybe he should quit HO and bloody well write one!

I know things change and progress over time, but this is a bad move in my opinion. As long as I have been a Hollyoaks viewer the student/college aged characters element has been at the heart of it. Surely in a soap like Hollyoaks with a young cast removing the uni and student element to concentrate on the hospital will be incredibly limiting. Will everyone suddenly become student doctors and nurses? Will characters have convenient accidents every week? I remember a few years ago (during the Justin era) they highly focused on the school and it didn't work as people felt it was trying to be too much like Grange Hill. That didn't work and I feel trying to turn Hollyoaks into Holby City won't either!
SecretLifeoBees is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 18:57
sderr123
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 9,966
If BK wants a medical based drama then maybe he should quit HO and bloody well write one!

I know things change and progress over time, but this is a bad move in my opinion. As long as I have been a Hollyoaks viewer the student/college aged characters element has been at the heart of it. Surely in a soap like Hollyoaks with a young cast removing the uni and student element to concentrate on the hospital will be incredibly limiting. Will everyone suddenly become student doctors and nurses? Will characters have convenient accidents every week? I remember a few years ago (during the Justin era) they highly focused on the school and it didn't work as people felt it was trying to be too much like Grange Hill. That didn't work and I feel trying to turn Hollyoaks into Holby City won't either!
If they wanted to go back to a student University centered show, I think they would have to bring in a number of younger characters and cull many of the older ones. Most of the characters are over the age of 25 which is really to old for a student or university based drama. I know HO has been traditionally known as a teen soap but the majority of the characters are too old to really fit that label any more. Most of the storylines involve adults between the ages of 25 to 35 you can't have a believable student drama when that's the case.
sderr123 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 19:28
margarite6666
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 2,854
BK stated when he came back he wanted to make it a family based programme. It really hasn't been about teens for ages. However as stated ofcom said that 10% of viewers are about 8 years old. You could tell by the recent murders and crashes that they have toned down the violence etc. This is also why the rape storyline didn't work because you never saw the violence so it doesn't have an impact.

I recently followed on YouTube the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal. It was only with the second video coming out that people were really outraged because as one pundit said talking about it and seeing it are totally different.

If they are hoping to increase adult viewer numbers I think they will fail when trying for adult storylines but told in a way suitable for young children. The timeslot is also against them.
margarite6666 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 19:33
grazemytvaddict
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 4,588
If BK wants a medical based drama then maybe he should quit HO and bloody well write one!

I know things change and progress over time, but this is a bad move in my opinion. As long as I have been a Hollyoaks viewer the student/college aged characters element has been at the heart of it. Surely in a soap like Hollyoaks with a young cast removing the uni and student element to concentrate on the hospital will be incredibly limiting. Will everyone suddenly become student doctors and nurses? Will characters have convenient accidents every week? I remember a few years ago (during the Justin era) they highly focused on the school and it didn't work as people felt it was trying to be too much like Grange Hill. That didn't work and I feel trying to turn Hollyoaks into Holby City won't either!
BK medical drama everyone would be blown in a hospital within two weeks and then he will realise he wants a police drama and put more focus on a police station.
grazemytvaddict is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 19:36
grazemytvaddict
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 4,588
If they wanted to go back to a student University centered show, I think they would have to bring in a number of younger characters and cull many of the older ones. Most of the characters are over the age of 25 which is really to old for a student or university based drama. I know HO has been traditionally known as a teen soap but the majority of the characters are too old to really fit that label any more. Most of the storylines involve adults between the ages of 25 to 35 you can't have a believable student drama when that's the case.
The Roscoes can be got rid of Patrick has a sell by date. Tegan isn't great and most of the other characters have been there through the university times.
grazemytvaddict is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 23-09-2014, 19:38
vkmax
Forum Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,053
The halls have been gone since July 2012 and the SU since around October of the same year this isn't new at all. The hospital set is necessary because everyone is always getting shot, stabbed, blown up or pregnant. The "student" aspect of the show stopped existing in February 2013 when the remaining 3 Uni students in the show who weren't in a family were written out and then the other 2 were written out six months later.
vkmax is offline   Reply With Quote
 
Reply




 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 13:15.