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What was more gritty back in the 80's Eastenders or Brookside? |
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What was more gritty back in the 80's Eastenders or Brookside?
Was Eastenders made to try to compete with Brookside at being contempery?... I know Corrie was boring until 97..
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Brookie I would say. It was quite hardcore for a soap!
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They use to swear all the time in Brookside.
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Was Eastenders made to try to compete with Brookside at being contempery?... I know Corrie was boring until 97..
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Brookside I would say. However Eastenders wasn't far behind
Loved Brookside. |
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Was Eastenders made to try to compete with Brookside at being contempery?... I know Corrie was boring until 97..
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You can keep your grittiness - I'll take Corrie, with its wit, humour and brilliant character writing any day of the week.
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It didn't capture real life... It was quite twee until Brian Park came along
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Brookie was gritty northern, and EE was gritty southern they were both pretty good in the 80's
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Brookside definitely. The most realistic of all soaps too (until it got ridiculous towards the end).
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Brookside up until 1995 was the grittier soap
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God I miss Brookside from the old days. It really did reflect real life, it was proper kitchen sink drama.
I grew up on an almost identical new housing estate, built by the same developer that built Brookside Close and have always felt a huge affinity to the show, especially when my mum used to call our neighbours by the names of characters from Brookie 'oooh look Ron Dixons taking that bloody dog out for a walk AGAIN' haha. |
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Brookside made me want to live in Liverpool
![]() ![]() I've since visited it loads and loved it |
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God I miss Brookside from the old days. It really did reflect real life, it was proper kitchen sink drama.
I grew up on an almost identical new housing estate, built by the same developer that built Brookside Close and have always felt a huge affinity to the show, especially when my mum used to call our neighbours by the names of characters from Brookie 'oooh look Ron Dixons taking that bloody dog out for a walk AGAIN' haha. |
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The show was obsessed with Heroin....it featured through out it's history
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Brookside. Shows you what happens though when sensationalism takes over. EE beware.
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Brookside
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The show was obsessed with Heroin....it featured through out it's history
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Brookside up until 1995 was the grittier soap
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They had a much smaller cast too
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They had a much smaller cast too
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They had a much smaller cast too
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Brookside was always cast as 'the thinking man's soap'.
Corrie was hilarious in the early 90's - the best TV sitcom ever! EastEnders was fantastic under Julia Smith when the show first launched, but completely lost its way after she left. It found itself again in the early 90's - about 93 to 97 - when the Jacksons and David Wicks introduced a whole new foundation for the Square. Since then its wobbled along pretending to be great but really being a shadow of its former self. I really feel sorry for people who missed out on the glory days of soap. The danger is they will be the TV producers of the future and will base their quality expectations on shows like Hollyoaks. God help us! |
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Brookside softened as the decade went on, EE persisted, I do remember Barry Grant saying the word 'Boll*cks' in episode 1!
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Was Eastenders made to try to compete with Brookside at being contempery?... I know Corrie was boring until 97..
I would say Corrie was at it's best up until the 80s
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