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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 58342" data-attributes="member: 33">I agree with this. Crossroads and Emmerdale were never direct rivals. ITV weren't keen on Crossroads even though it's viewing figures were strong because it felt its audience didn't comprise enough young people who were the most attractive to advertisers. They brought in producers who didn't really understand the show and ran it down, dropping the familiar theme tune and changing it's name to Crossroads Kings Oak, even though everyone still referred to it as Crossroads. They brought in likeable but useless characters like Beverley Grice, Darby and Mrs Tardibigge and it wasn't the same show that loyal fans loved.Crossroads could have survived had it gone back to it's original formula, focussing on the lives of a core group of characters who were connected with the motel.</blockquote>