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Advertising revenue, right? yes, it was advertising revenue. obviously, daytime advertising revenue isnt as big as in the evening. so channel 5, after showing neighbours for 14 years, felt it was better to invest in post—watershed shows. obviously, channel 5 has reinvented itself pretty well in the past four years or so with 9pm dramas and new documentaries, so i think that was part of it as well. right, ok. and, emma, i mean, one thing we do know is that soaps face stiff competition from the ...

Into the ground! unfortunately for all of us, he or she said, "no, it doesnt crash. youre all right." thank god, yeah! i want to get on with phil onto sort of the actual process of putting soaps together. but, daniel, just before we do that, what kinds of numbers, briefly, do the big soaps get these days? and how much of it is linear viewing? they get between about 3 and 5 million viewers, depending on the time of year, depending on if theres a big storyline. id say the catch—up ratings tend t...

They were supposed to be the married couple, thatl nothing was going to break them and they were fantastic, - and for a few years, - i suppose, that was the case. and now theyve split them up because they have - to have an infidelity storyline and an alcoholism storyline i and all this kind of stuff, i and you lose faith in those characters. and when different showrunners come in and out, the characters| seem to morph into people that you dont recognise, _ so i think its about having i people th...

Theres so much nostalgia that feeds into it. - in terms of whos taking - the viewers away, i dont think its as simple as "everyones watching love island" - or "everyones - watching im a celeb." its not that- straightforward... thats just a lot more choice. theres so much more choice! you know, i grew upi in a household where the tv was always on, i and if there was nothing on those four channels, well, you just picked... | you maybe had to read a book! no, joking. just find the best thing on tel...

Hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed good neighbours and the sun went down on ramsay street after 37 years. but cast your minds back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watts divorce papers afte...

And they had her there. and then she died. and i had a scene with her dead body. and i remember going in the studio, which i think i wrote in my book, and there, instead of caroline, was a cushion — because you dont have to pay a fee to a cushion. ok, well, and you do it well, definitely. lets just have a quick last thought about the future of soaps. you know, the bbc has reportedly spent £87 million on the new eastenders set and theyve got a new executive producer, chris clenshaw, also on bo...

Fantastic storylines coming out of the pandemic, coming out of brexit — the worry about the cost of living, you know, immigrants coming in, ukraine. these are all fantastically fertile ground for what the people are really interested in. and are we seeing it on the soaps, do you think? i dont seem to see it across the landscape. you know, but its there. and if you do it, theyll listen to it. because remember that... i used to always say to our teams that you have to remember, and we alluded to...

Today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? whats their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? im joined by sir phil redmond, creator of three of the biggest british soaps of all time — grange hill, brookside and hollyoa ks. daniel kilkenny is soaps editor for entertainment news website digital spy. tv critic a...

I mean, thats when i started to think that it was time to sort of move on, really, you know? and, you know, ive always defended our production crews, and ill also defend every other production crew on a soap, because one of the issues that happened in the sort of �*90s, really, you know, started happening, the broadcasters themselves kept asking for more and more and more and more sensation. you know, they wanted more... they wanted more and more episodes, they want bigger and bigger storyline...

Big storm storyline. so, a deadly storm will hit the village and various characters will be in peril... so some actors are going to be worrying about that! here we go! i think so. i think its likely that someone might be saying goodbye in that storyline. id say eastenders are doing something really interesting soon, which is theyre doing a flashback episode which will take viewers back to 1979. and it will be a bit of a glimpse of the mitchell family in the earlier years. and they have cast jaim...