Arts & Literature8 mins ago
bring back Brookside??
Does anyone else think they should bring back brookside?
I know it went downhill in later years, but that's because merseytv seemed to concentrate on hollyoaks and grange hill.
it was great in its day.
I cannot believe they chose to get rid of it and keep hollyoaks - and then even made another late night version of hollyoaks!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Viewing figures rule, and Brookside simply wasn't hacking it, compared with Hollyoaks.
Returns rarely work in TV. People get all misty-eyed and nostalgic about the times when they enjoyed a soap, but life - and soap actors - movve on. Brookside was of its time, but people want different styles of TV, and brookside is unlikely to fit in these days.
As you said joko, it was great - in its day, and that's the key, its day has gone.
I DEFINITELY think they should bring back Brookie! They don't have to keep the same actors. It was my favourite soap...gritty, real, sexy and funny. Ashamedly, I became such a fan of "Barry" - actor Paul Usher, whilst I was at Uni that I considered turning up to some of his gigs (he's a musician, don't you know) and trying to make him fall in love with me!