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How many soaps do you watch?
Since 2003 when I gave up Eastenders, I now only watch Corrie. Back in the day I watched Corrie, EE, Neighbours, Home & Away, Elderado.... I don't know how people find the time to watch a lot of soaps - especially in the multi-channel age. I guess i've replaced the soaps with other shows.....
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I used to watch all the big 3, Neighbours and Home & Away. Now I watch Emmerdale all the time and Home & Away sometimes. I don't watch other shows instead of the other soaps though, I just do other things rather than watch telly.
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I used to watch the lot even included family affairs as a child I was quite sad I'd know the times each were on and plan going out around them. though most of them were only on 3 times a week so it wasn't as bad now because of working nights I have to watch on catch up so I only bother if a really big storyline is happening or a live ep
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In the late 90s to early 00s, I watched EE and Neighbours.
From 2002-04, I watched Corrie quite regularly in addition to the other two. Went back to watching EE and Neighbours regularly. From 2006, I watched those two plus Hollyoaks. Stopped watching Neighbours regularly after it moved to Channel 5. Watched HO regularly until 2009. Watched EE until mid 2010, took a break, started watching it again from late 2011 then got bored of it by early 2013. From late 2013 until present, I watch EE and HO regularly. |
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I have watched quite a few soaps but now only Emmerdale, Casualty and regrettably Corrie.
Corrie: (2002 - present): This is the main soap in my hosue, but lately one by one we are all going off it. Emmerdale: (2003, 2006 - present): My first episode was when the storm of 2003 happened. I watched again from the showhome explosion in 2006, and have not missed an episode since. Eastenders: (2003 - 2011): I watched it as it had lots of drama and violence but the baby swap cot death story put me off. Neighbours: (2002 - 2011, 2013): I watched Neighbours as it was on at teatime, and every one in my class at school watched it. I gave up to concentrate on college work, but watched the wedding explosion in 2013. Now I work occasionally until 6, and forget to catch up, I don't watch. Casualty: (2001 - present) I like the medical drama, and to watch how each patient will end up in the ED. The occasional crossover with Holby with Guy and Hanssen makes for interesting viewing. It is perfect Saturday night viewing. Dallas: (2012 - 2014): I had never watched the original series - before my time - but as my parents raved over it, I gave the new series a try, and enjoyed it. I have also watched The Bill and Waterloo Road, and would still do so if both were around today. |
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Emmerdale and Corrie at the moment, Stopped watching Eastenders three weeks ago.
Pretty much from around 1993 until now for all. |
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Corrie - 1978 - present
Eastenders - 1985 - 2002, 2003 - I gave it another chance with Den back from the dead. Neighbours - 1987 - 1997. Home & Away - 1989 - 1993 - Stopped to watch Paradise Beach - a new Aussie soap that was starting on Sky 1...I loved it but it lasted a year. Never went back Paradise Beach - 1993 1994 Elderado - 1992 - 1993 Dallas - 1982 - 1991, 2012 - 2014 Dynasty - 1984 - 1989 |
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Only Emmerdale now. Must be nearly 2 years since I gave up on Corrie. I watched EE once - that was enough. Haven't watched the others.
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In order of when I started watching - EastEnders, Neighbours, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Casualty and Home and Away. Never miss any of them. Also catching up on The Bold and the Beautiful on YouTube, which I used to watch years ago.
Gave up on Hollyoaks last year after 12 years as a regular viewer. Sad. |
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I watch Corrie, Eastenders and Emmerdale. I miss Corrie and Enders very rarely, but I catch up if I do. Emmerdale, however, I can quite happily miss and pick up the next episode. I was starting to drift away from Corrie, but I've decided to stick to it.
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I'm down to Corrie and non Carter EE episodes. Sometimes watch a bit of HO just to laugh at how bad it is.
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Just Coronation Street. I'm not really a fan of soaps.
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I watch EE, Corrie & Hollyoaks regularly. If I go out, I catch up via online viewing, the omnibuses are at such wrong times. I've always watched EE, Corrie & even ED but now I watch Hollyoaks on E4 instead. I watched Hollyoaks from 2006-2008 because at this point the Simpsons were on C4 & it follows on.
I even used to watch Brookside with my brother & sister sometimes, but most notably when it used to be on Saturdays because it was always on in the afternoon (don't know why, but I just remember the theme music which I loved). My parents even used to watch Family Affairs but I don't remember anything about that apart from the theme music. In 2013 I really got into Holby City & was hooked on it. I started watching Casualty too when the special was on around Christmas. I love both shows. |
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Eastenders - Have watched it from the mid nineties although it's probably only the last 15 years where I have watched it religiously. It's certainly running out of steam, but I still watch it as there are characters I love and ridiculous plots which make me laugh
Corrie and Emmerdale - As the soaps were always on in our house I have watched plenty of these but haven't watched an episode of Emmerdale in the last seven years and have watched the odd ep of Corrie however I can no longer watch it as it's filled with truly awful characters played by awful actors. HO I watched it for about a year when there was a serial killer in it, the one connected to the Hunter and Dean families. It was complete trash and I soon realised I wasn't gaining anything from watching it Neighbours - Without a doubt my second favourite soap, I just don't watch it anymore. I think it's limited to what it can do and I just got fed up of the new villain of the month storyline that they had. Home. And Away - Again it's probably about ten years since I last watched it, I have never really been a fan mind. Marilyn, Alf and Irene are proper soap legends I just found all the other characters really bland, Doctors - a Whenever I tune i,find the characters seem to spend 30 mins arguing whose turn it is to buy the biscuits and that's about it. I never bother with the medical soaps, I liked The Bill before it became a soap, I switched off after this point. |
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Emmerdale for me. Like this show (once loved it) but I still pursue with it (sack kate oates and bring back Mervyn watson)
Corrie...don't watch this too much...may tune in for Deirdre funeral. Eastenders; A ridiculous excuse of a soap with unbelieveable characters and storylines...pretty much a comedy to watch. |
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Got suckered into watching Holby City by a university flatmate in 2000, been there basically ever since. Watched Casualty because my Mum did, then drifted away and re-connected with it over a year ago.
Don't actually watch the others beyond the occasional special episode i.e. the who killed Lucy reveal. I do read the soap page in my Saturday newspaper TV supplement just to keep abreast - a lot of my colleagues at work do and it's always helpful to have some idea of the key storylines so that they aren't talking gibberish in Staff-room! My mother used to watch Brookside when I was young - she taped it and watched it whilst going through vast piles of ironing, often on rainy weekends when my father was sleeping upstairs having just worked a night-shift and so we had to sit there and be quiet! I therefore have strong memories of it from the Jordache era to round about when Ray Quinn offed that school-bully. |
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My parents have always watched Coronation Street so I grew up with that. I also watched Take The High Road with my gran. I started watching Neighbours, Home and Away, Casualty, Holby, River City and EastEnders when they started, and occasionally dipped into Emmerdale, Brookside, Hollyoaks and Family Affairs.
When I started working and wasn't home for the back of 5pm the Aussie ones fell by the wayside...Emmerdale I still see occasionally. Coronation Street I gave up on five or so years ago and don't miss it. EastEnders I dropped at the time of the baby swap storyline but got back into it about six months ago. I'm already regretting it; the writing is just appalling. Holby got mucked about in the schedules here for a long time, and that - and Patsy Kensit - made me take a break for a while. More recently, I've got into Doctors, iPlayering it when I'm cooking dinner! Casualty and River City are the only ones I have watched since they started. River City is the best soap on UK tv by a mile. |
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Watch NZ soap Shortland Street religiously also Bold and the Beautiful. Sometimes Home and Away.
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My Granny watched all the Australian ones that weren't Home and Away and Neighbours and my Nana watched all the Australian ones except Neighbours because she has this irrational thing against Melbourne! There was Sons and Daughters, The Sullivans, Young Doctors, A Country Practice and The Henderson Kids. I think between the two of them I probably watched some of all of them at various points. Alas, I thought they were a bit crap even as a young kid.
And yes Carax - my Granny was devoted to Take the High Road - Mrs Mack is a creation of comic genius! And the eternal game of hunt Holby City in the schedules in Scotland! My student flat's solution was to tape it leaving a good five to ten minutes in of tape either way and then watch it on Wednesday early evening over a plate of comfort food on our laps with a mug of something warming like tea or even cocoa at times to wash it down! River City - that's not a show a lot of people round here seem to care for, probably because its so local I suppose. Good basic idea, took a while to settle down, one of those you watch the odd episode of and find that you can pick things up very well - I think the once-a-week, one-hour format works really well for it, it doesn't over-tax it the way that soap operas can be. I have a strong memory of Lorraine McIntosh aka the female singer off Deacon Blue being very depressive in a living room and straight away I thought - "oh right, junkie", it might have been her first episode. My sister was devoted to Hollyoaks for a good long while, so naturally the TV was turned onto that in the living room quite a bit. She is not amused at all at what's its turned into. I remember my mother taping the episode where Gary Lucy got raped and then going upstairs to my parent's room to watch it to then decide whether my sister who is two years younger than me, got to see the episode. As I remember, it was held back until after the watershed with a special airing. My sister did get to see it, but my mother insisted that they discussed the content after-words to see how she'd dealt with it. I remember it early on - about these six young people going about their lives and becoming adults trying to make sense of an adult world - I think that was a really good idea and wish it had stayed more true to itself. I was the target audience at the time and I do remember Natasha dying from a spiked drink which dates me spectacularly, it was unexpected and felt much more real that any number of deaths since and it really had reprocutions with everybody struggling to deal with it for ages after-words as you would when a young person dies suddenly. |
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In 2003 I started off by watching "Passions", then I added "Days of our Lives" and "All My Children." I alternated between watching soaps on NBC ("Days of our Lives" and "Passions") and NBC ("All My Children", "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital") and then stuck to watching NBC soaps until "Passions" (which is almost the equivalent of HO for American soaps) was cancelled. Then I moved to CBS and watched "Guiding Light" until that was cancelled and then "As The World Turns" until that was cancelled. I went back to "All My Children" until that and "One Life to Live" was cancelled. I started watching "Eastenders" in 2010 when the baby swap was about to begin. Now I watch "Days of our Lives" and "Eastenders" only.
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Corrie was always on in our house growing up, my earliest memories are from the mid 90s but didn't start watching religiously until about 2000 when I was about 10 and I have never missed an episode since.
Starting watching Home and Away as a pre teen in about 2002 and watched it regularly until about 2009 when it was starting to turn stupid with that people smuggling from Indonesia, plus I had to concentrate on Uni and social life etc. Tuned back in again at the beginning of 2012 on hearing there was a new producer and fresh characters, I was gripped but again it turned stupid and I got sick of the endless Braxtons and the new characters were rubbish so gave up in 2014. I still love H&A, it just not the same as what I grew up with Mind you the same could be said for Corrie...Have also watched The Bill on and off from the early to mid 00s, am currently watching repeats from 2002&2003 on youtube. |
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Watched Corrie since I was 7 in 1971 when we got our first TV!! Might have missed a few in mid 90's (probably my least favourite time) but from the Brian Park era through to the present I don't think I've missed an episode, though, sadly these days I only half bother with some late at night on ITV Player, used to record them all & watch several times, how sad is that!!
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I've watched Eastenders since the start, Corrie is on but not really something I watch I see bits.
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So I come from NZ ...
So I was really obsessed with Shortland street between 2004-2009ish rarely missing an episode esp around joey the killer storyline griped me- now I hate it and have not watched it since. Corrie I was really interested with it between 2002-2008 not so much now although watched big weeks like tram week and so forth but that's all I do .EE only watched 2009 to 12 on and off like above watching for big story lines. HO 2006-08, 2010,13 on and of again for story lines ED at the moment watching been loosely watching since 2008 again for story lines But saying that I have been watching older episode in some soaps and will watch when something gains my interest Never got into Aussie soaps.
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I always watch Eastenders, Emmerdale and corrie but I don't care if I miss any corrie episodes at the moment.
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I think it's limited to what it can do and I just got fed up of the new villain of the month storyline that they had.
Mind you the same could be said for Corrie...
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