HAVE THE SOAPS LOST THEIR SPARKLE?
I absolutely love the soap genre - when it's done well it's as if you're watching the daily going's on of a real street or community and...
THE FATAL FLAW OF MODERN SOAP: THE CHARACTERS NEVER CHANGE
Dipping into EastEnders recently and occasionally watching the other soaps, it is clear that a HUGE issue with modern soap production is...
EastEnders: It's All Very Dallas
Dipping into EastEnders recently - I gave up full time viewing when Claudette was killed off then miraculously rose from the dead like...
EastEnders: SO EVERYONE'S A MURDERER!
I've not watched the UK soap for ages, they are all so ridiculously far fetched these days, having been a fan of the genre for years. But...
Neighbours, Everybody Loves Good Neighbours. Even Though Nothing Ever Changes.
I watch every episode of Neighbours - it's about the only nice, friendly show on TV in the UK - but I'm bored with the fact that nothing...
Are The Soaps Doing Enough To Hook In The Next Generation Of Viewers?
I'm in my early forties but remember getting hooked on soap operas from an early age. First it was EastEnders that got me watching,...
The Best Soap Plot In Years
Hats off to EastEnders and its Les Coker cross-dressing storyline, this by far is the big soap storyline of 2015: its characters are very...
How Powerful Would The TV Soaps Be If They Were Solution - Not Problem - Focused?
Watching EastEnders and scenes of Lee Carter’s depression storyline recently proves that when dramatizing real life contemporary issues,...
My 1996 Soap Catastrophe Premonition
Below is a clip of me on Channel 4's 'Right To Reply', screened in December 1996, which predicted the demise in quality of the UK soaps....
BROOKSIDE: A WARNING FOR MODERN BRITISH SOAP OPERA
This month as UK soap fans well know, a helicopter crashed into Emmerdale causing untold death and destruction, much tabloid media...
