Why do so many people watch soaps? Posted Mon Sep 11 00:06:31 BST 2000 by Captain MUD

Well? why do they? with shows like eastenders and coronation street that attracts 15 or more million views each time it is show, does this mean that at least 15 million people is this country have such sad uneventful lives that they've got to follow the various antics of ficticious characters in these foul programmes?

What's the answer folks? why do so many people watch?

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Posted By TVOD on Mon Sep 11 08:24:56 BST 2000:

Yes.

But let us in on the secret, Captain. What makes your life so very fascinating. We all crave lessons in being interesting.

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Posted By Al on Mon Sep 11 08:53:22 BST 2000:

I *like* Coronation Street.

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Posted By Jon on Mon Sep 11 09:20:08 BST 2000:

Well I've never watched it. I was a big fan Of Eastenders in the good old days (Den & Ang) and it's never interested me very much since. Also I was a Brookside fan, but lost interest eventually. I have dabbled in Family Affairs and Hollyoaks.

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Posted By PJ on Mon Sep 11 12:01:14 BST 2000:

Hollyoaks is great. Starting off as an attempt to portray teenage life as realistically as possible, it failed when everyone realised teenagers had dull, shit lives. It then magically became a sort of "Junior Brookside" and became the ratings success (This is Channel 4) it is now. If you watch it, you'll be hard pressed to find any realism - hence the fun of the soap.

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Posted By Arma on Mon Sep 11 17:31:48 BST 2000:

Hence the 'leisure centre' affair.

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Posted By Captain MUD on Mon Sep 11 20:54:46 BST 2000:

>> "But let us in on the secret, Captain. What makes your life so very fascinating. We all crave lessons in being interesting. "

I never said my life was fascinating, I'd just rather watch television programmes with at least some substance.

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Posted By Al on Mon Sep 11 23:22:23 BST 2000:

I would agree that most soaps lack substance, but would have to defend Coronation Street - it has been one of the consistently best written serials on TV for a long time. It's witty, and moving and generally well-acted. It has its flaws but it is still head and shoulders above any soap I've seen (although I would concede to Jon that the 'golden era' of Den/Ange EastEnders came pretty close. Now, however, it is total shite.)

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Posted By paul twist on Tue Sep 12 00:52:26 BST 2000:

Neighbours is fucking excellent.





































And I mean that, too.

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Posted By TVOD on Tue Sep 12 12:41:25 BST 2000:

>>> "But let us in on the secret, Captain. What makes your life so very fascinating. We all crave lessons in being interesting. "
>
>I never said my life was fascinating, I'd just rather watch television programmes with at least some substance.

Good for you. But chat about last week's brilliant Munich Olympics documentary or Family History, the unsung C4 series about the Carpenter family from Nottingham which finished a fortnight ago, has been notable only by its absence on this forum.
There are plenty of other brilliant examples.
Any suggestions why this is the case?

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