Did TV3 suffer after losing Corrie and Emmerdale?

where? the space is used by hollyoaks for hollyoaks sets!

are you also kicking the real life residents of brookside close out of their homes ?

WTF? They can rebuild the set somewhere else!

Scotland? Majorca?

wouldn't be brookside then would it

I obviously meant elsewhere in Liverpool. Are you always this dim or is it just tonight?

I just googled Brookside and Netflix and it just seemed to be the speculation of the creator and not by Netflix.

From Netflixs perspective, if they did want a soap they would be better of starting from scratch rather then resurrecting a cancelled show.

I know there are die hard fans on here that would love Brookie to be resurrected, but can that be said by the general public as a whole.

Netflix see resurrecting Gilmore Girls, a show that was cancelled in the states over nine years ago. However, its popularity over there is what has brought back the resurrection. You don't really see Brookie being referenced much. Even most of the stars seem to have vanished into nowhere.

yes because there will be lots of vacant filming lots for them to use.

oh and never mind the actual costs or planning permission or anything else

always dim, I am rather stupid didnt you know

That would take a lot of commitment and investment, without the production team being sure that it would be a success so it's unlikely to happen.

they are all in cyronics chambers waiting on brookie being revived


are you dim too?

You do know they can purpose build sets in and around production studios, right?

Incredibly so.

Out of interest, how often does that happen these days?

Netflix and Phil!!!

Red Rock streams on Amazon Prime in the US. I'd imagine if they were going to stream in Ireland and the UK (aside from catchup on 3 Player and iPlayer) they'd probably go with Amazon too.

Netflix original programming is in it's infancy but their programme slate is growing from original drama to original comedy to documentary to talk shows like Chelsea Handler's so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch that they'd expand into other areas of programming like soaps or reality. The problem with doing a soap that it'd be a big investment and would have to be one that appeals to all of Netflix's markets. Trying to find the right mix would be hard as traditionally, UK and Aussie soaps weren't hugely popular in the US while US daytime soaps are dying out in their own country and were never huge in the UK while the South American telenovela style was never huge outside of Latin America and the US. Unless they did different soaps for different regions.

What with EE building a new set, Corrie extending to 6 episodes next year, and Emmerdale adding a seventh episode for the summer for the second year running, It looks like they are all commited for the future, and I think that will be on TV. However, if soaps did move online (whether it be Neflix or something else ) I'd hazzard a guess at it being in 15 - 20 years time.

Well Red Rock in Ireland has a purpose built set on some lot in Dublin. It was TV3's first ever original soap opera and they commissioned it because they lost Corrie and Emmerdale to UTV Ireland. That would have been expensive and with no guarantees, but luckily Red Rock has been a hit.

Depends if any original soap operas appear on Netflix. If they do and are a hit, that's going to have an impact on the TV soaps. 15-20 years though I think is realistic. At the moment, soaps get better ratings in their time slot than other type of programming. The day other genres do better in those slots, soap's days on TV are numbered.

Red Rock is filmed at an existing studio. you are suggesting building a new one 🙄🙄🙄

Yes, but the sets themselves are original/were converted etc. And Corrie recently built a new set, EastEnders is still in the process of doing so.

But Corrie and EE are established shows. Rebuilding the whole of Brookside would be expensive and risky.

Shows such as Shameless, HollyOaks and Family Affairs didn't build sets until long after they were established and two of those have now been cancelled. They used existing locations first.

I find it unlikely that any UK productions would go the lengths of building an entire set these days.

remember when you called me dim?

was I not saying the existing studio space and sets are now used by hollyoaks (redesigned of course)

that is why I asked where you plannd for it to be filmed.

they would need a studio, sets, locations, production staff etc.

going back and utilising sets is a lot cheaper than starting completely from scratch

Yes for a TV soap, but Netflix is different. Advertisers may fund the set construction etc. so it's more profitable. And if the show can be sold to other countries fairly early on, that can also help.

they would have to build a studio to put the set in

Netflix doesn't have adverts.

If it did have a soap, it would need to offer something different than what the tv based soaps offer. Netflix original programs are used to entice new subscribers.

Haha TV3 has been suffering for years, it's car crash tv, Red Rock is the only good show on it. Everything else is daytime studio shows, old channel 5 "documentaries" from about 10 years ago or else just a simulcast of Big Brother and X-Factor, on at the same time as their UK showing, yet TV3 forget that people in Ireland have access to British channels

But to answer your question, yeah, they suffered big time. They were their two highest rated shows. The 7pm slot is now taken up with a chat show similar to This Morning, creatively called "The Seven O'Clock Show"