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40 Years of Emmerdale (yawn) time for a new soap?
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberChimpanzees on rollerskates, on drugs.
Or, and this is my personal choice, ban all soap operas and make the masses who watch them read a decent book or engage in conversation with their families instead.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Ironduke
offlineMemberHmmm. For a truly succesful soap-opera you need a spread of age range, appealing to all the family sitting down to watch telly together.
I suspect therein may lay another part of the problem- families viewing together.
I would suggest a multi-layered plot centreing around a school, with teachers, parents and children interacting, and with seperate episodes focussing on the children going out grange Hill style and time, but the same adult characters also featuring in a later evening version looking at the adults lives mainly, with plot lines cleverly intertwining.
That way, all the family can share conversations about the characters, and if the kids creep downstairs after bedtime they can see the Headmistress snogging Jones's stepdad, explaining why Jones was getting teased and missed a penalty in the match.
Its a surefire ratings winner. You're welcome.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Dick Everyman
offlineMemberHow about the school being a posh private school, kids with lots of disposable dosh and going out in smart mini coopers to facebook parties. Politicians, bankers, TV execs and pop star parents on every illegal path known to mankind. Let's collaborate - not that I have a privileged backround...
Posted 8 months ago # -
Ironduke
offlineMember...and the compulsory purchase orders threatening (oh, the cliffhangers) and ultimately delivering closure of a large under-performing secondary school,packed with various ethnic minorities and varying from sink estate to hardworking self-employed, with dissipation of the children equally amongst the four other nearest schools, one of which just happens to be a posh private school and mainly white middle and upper class but with some hardworking grafters who have more in common with the new arrivals...
Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the first parent association meeting!
Posted 8 months ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberHate to tell you this boys, but Jilly Cooper's been there before you...Sex, drugs and detention halls...
Posted 8 months ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberUm.. Isn't Waterloo Road set in a School? Never watched it myself so the above may well be a very clever piss take of the recent plots.
I haven't seen Emmerdale since a (now sadly ex) girlfriend was in it.Definitely time for a new soap. Mine's down to the sticky label bit.
Posted 8 months ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberShe had a few small parts (fnarr!) and was not the big lass who is now strictly dancing either.
Posted 8 months ago # -
dvo4fun
offlineMembermrs 4fun's mother has been staying for the last few days and we indulged her by allowing [Just One!] episode of Coronation Street.
I last watched it about 45 years ago but rather worryingly I was able to recognise 'Miss Nugent'. Of Leonard Swindley there was no sign
Posted 8 months ago #
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