Hollyoaks "in crisis" article published...
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HO can get itself out of crisis it it wants to
stop writing ridiculous storylines
bring the every revolving, repetitive storylines to a close (Maxine/Patrick, barmy Sienna to name 2)
stop making characters bed hop and sleep with anyone
stop having someone get killed every week
to name but a few suggestions
stop writing ridiculous storylines
bring the every revolving, repetitive storylines to a close (Maxine/Patrick, barmy Sienna to name 2)
stop making characters bed hop and sleep with anyone
stop having someone get killed every week
to name but a few suggestions
I see the silly season has started early this year and a Mirror journalist has been trawling the boards and cobbled together what some forum members have said in various threads!
While there is no denying that the show's ratings aren't as great as they used to be, the reasons being given for the decrease in ratings are absolutely ludicrous. Jorgie Porter has left once before and the show hasn't suffered because of it. Frankie Osbourne spends months without being seen on screen and Stephanie Davis' character Sinead has got its fans, but also plenty of detractors. I don't think Hollyoaks fans care two hoots about Daniella Westbrook's character and most of them can barely remember her name.
While there is no denying that the show's ratings aren't as great as they used to be, the reasons being given for the decrease in ratings are absolutely ludicrous. Jorgie Porter has left once before and the show hasn't suffered because of it. Frankie Osbourne spends months without being seen on screen and Stephanie Davis' character Sinead has got its fans, but also plenty of detractors. I don't think Hollyoaks fans care two hoots about Daniella Westbrook's character and most of them can barely remember her name.
Originally Posted by ravensborough:
“I see the silly season has started early this year and a Mirror journalist has been trawling the boards and cobbled together what some forum members have said in various threads!”
“I see the silly season has started early this year and a Mirror journalist has been trawling the boards and cobbled together what some forum members have said in various threads!”
With a liberal sprinkling of fiction. I don't think any of us has ever said "Jorgie Porter is Hollyoaks"
It's the number of badly constructed sentences in this article that stand out for me. Surely if you write for a major newspaper you should be able to string a sentence together?
Originally Posted by sorcha_healy27:
“Imo Hollyoaks is in crisis but not because of recent events but solely because of Kirkwood.”
“Imo Hollyoaks is in crisis but not because of recent events but solely because of Kirkwood.”
Exactly. It's what the articles completely fail to realise.
Originally Posted by seventhwave:
“With a liberal sprinkling of fiction. I don't think any of us has ever said "Jorgie Porter is Hollyoaks"”
“With a liberal sprinkling of fiction. I don't think any of us has ever said "Jorgie Porter is Hollyoaks"
”
You beat me to it!!! I was going to reply to that post & say the same thing!!! LOL
Originally Posted by qwertye:
“http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/h...hannel-6102678
new article...”
“http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/h...hannel-6102678
new article...”
LOL!!
It's the previous article slightly altered.
It's still saying that 'to some Jorgie is Hollyoaks'. *rolls eyes*
Originally Posted by Marianne_321:
“LOL!!
It's the previous article slightly altered.
It's still saying that 'to some Jorgie is Hollyoaks'. *rolls eyes* ”
“LOL!!
It's the previous article slightly altered.
It's still saying that 'to some Jorgie is Hollyoaks'. *rolls eyes* ”
It's just click bait. I am sure no one at channel 4 will pay any attention to it. Has nothing to do with HO's actual problems. If the Mirror is to be believed all they would have to do would be to give Jorgie a big pile of money to stay on the soap and most of their problems would go away.
Originally Posted by Pete Callan:
“"Jorgie Porter, to many fans, is Hollyoaks".”
“"Jorgie Porter, to many fans, is Hollyoaks".”
😂😂😂😂 omg that is the best thing I've read all day
LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.
Originally Posted by hopeandfaith06:
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.”
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.”
This totally!!
It was like when EE had crisis articles every week, most of them were completely wrong claiming the crisis was because the show was to depressing etc when actually it was because it was dull with no exciting story lines. Hollyoaks could be a great show but Kirkwood doesn't seem to care about making a quality serious show anymore like it was during his first era.
Originally Posted by hopeandfaith06:
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!”
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!”
Plus making it clear that the writer knows nothing about the storylines at all (e.g. saying that Jason is sleeping with Holly behind Cindy's back ...)
Originally Posted by broadshoulder:
“Hollyoaks has never troubled its big three soap competitors in the viewing figures department but last month ratings fell so low that even its biggest fans would be right to be worried.
The show has always split its audience by airing the main episode on Channel 4, and the day after's episode on E4, but with an episode at the end of June bringing in just 430k viewers, fans could be right to be worried.
When the press pick up on this - it is doomed..
”
“Hollyoaks has never troubled its big three soap competitors in the viewing figures department but last month ratings fell so low that even its biggest fans would be right to be worried.
The show has always split its audience by airing the main episode on Channel 4, and the day after's episode on E4, but with an episode at the end of June bringing in just 430k viewers, fans could be right to be worried.
When the press pick up on this - it is doomed..
”
The "journalist" clearly reads Ds or has the same mentality
Originally Posted by soap-lea:
“The "journalist" clearly reads Ds or has the same mentality”
“The "journalist" clearly reads Ds or has the same mentality
”
The journalist is lazy but let's not pretend Kirkwood hasn't damaged the show.
Originally Posted by sorcha_healy27:
“The journalist is lazy but let's not pretend Kirkwood hasn't damaged the show.”
“The journalist is lazy but let's not pretend Kirkwood hasn't damaged the show.”
How does this article begin to fix any of HO problems? I doubt Kirkwood will pay much attention to it. If he did the only thing he'd take away from this is that he should spend more time policing the private behavior of the cast because its causing problems on screen. That's not what I think would make much difference.
Originally Posted by hopeandfaith06:
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.”
“LOL. The Mirror strikes again with high class journalism!!
Love it when it says C4 have put their plan into action to boost ratings, and have started a load of sensation rating boosting storylines etc and the six weeks of summer stuff.... Err, except C4/Hollyoaks do this every year, its not a new thing. And HO are always killing people, blowing things up etc, again nothing new!
And like others have said, quite a few things mentioned have no or little impact on the ratings. Why didn't they discuss storylines repeating themselves (Maxine/Patrick), storylines not having good aftermaths, characters shacking up with other characters left, right and centre, regardless of gender and sexuality, and the huge number of affairs that take place.
You'd think (and no doubt they do) the producers/writers pick two character names out of a hat and decide those two people will sleep together.”
Well said!!! Totally agree!!
You should have written the article for them instead!!
Originally Posted by pearlsandplums:
“You'd think from that article that a lot of fans arent watching because Helen Pearson was caught drink driving.”
“You'd think from that article that a lot of fans arent watching because Helen Pearson was caught drink driving.”
I laughed
A part of me wishes this was true because then it could inspire some change.
Originally Posted by Flukie:
“Most interesting thing about that article was the fact that Helen Pearson lives in London!
Long haul to work every day!
And she can't even drive herself now.”
“Most interesting thing about that article was the fact that Helen Pearson lives in London!
Long haul to work every day!
And she can't even drive herself now.”
Or the fact that she's only 55 years old!
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