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Corrie: to go five times a week
It's official. Coronation Street will be going back to five times a week next month. The extra episode will be screened at 8:30 on a Monday.
I was hoping Coronation Street would not go five times a week, but luckily it's on a Monday with the other episode. If Corrie went Mon - Fri I'd be forced to stop watching. |
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Re: Corrie: to go five times a week
Now both Corrie and Emmerdale have gone 5 nights-a-week I've no doubt that Eastenders will do the same.
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I hope not. All the soaps are getting sucked dry with extra episodes all the time. They should have all stuck with 3 epsiodes a week- Brookside was the only soap with the sense to do this. Hopefully EE won't adopt a 5th weekly epsiode
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Corrie, sadly, is deffinately getting a 5th episode per week from the Autumn. This was reported on Teletext yesterday, and may still there there on page 130.
I'm getting sick of all these extra episodes. The scripts have to be written faster, programmes have to be recorded quicker, etc... It adds up to lower quality output. |
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I don't really mind having the extra episode, if it's on the same day. The Hillman storylines with extra episodes on a Monday made a great nights viewing.
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But being a regular thing will just drain the show totally thin.
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This will mean a decline in quality and lead to some people not seeing the outside world ever again.
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This is a sad example of the way that ITV has turned from an excellent broadcaster to a pure chaser of ratings, commisioning few good new shows. ITV is now against over 400 channels (on Sky Digital), of which about 10% are very similar to ITV. Horror of horrors, I can see ITV1 turning into something similar to one of the German channels, showing cheap American imports by day (this could happen if an American buys a merged Carlton and Granada), about 15 soap (Emmerdale AND Coronation Street) episodes a day, and sex documentaries, à la old Channel 5, late at night. Being born and bred in Surrey, I never watch Coronation Street. My mum was an EE fan and watched it from the first episode, shortly before I was born. Quote:
I've no doubt that Eastenders will do the same.
The BBC's ten year charter goes up for renewal in 2006, and towards this point the BBC tries to be more inventive, showing more minority shows, rather than chasing ratings. Eastenders was intended to be different in that it is set in London (most soaps prior to 1985 were set in the north of England). I doubt that the fifth weekly Eastenders will happen in the foreseeable future.
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Quote:
Originally posted by ollyd1985 ...Being born and bred in Surrey, I never watch Coronation Street... Are they mutually exclusive then? I was born in the 'South-East' but have always watched Corrie & never watched East Enders. |
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Are they mutually exclusive then?