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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 58452" data-attributes="member: 673">Here's an overview of some of the ratings during the 80's. Even in it's final 12 months, it was always in and around the Top Ten, only slipping out of it in it's final months but still managing to stay within the Top 20.<a href="http://www.crossroadsnetwork.co.uk/oldsite/ratings_eighties.htm" target="_blank">http://www.crossroadsnetwork.co.uk/oldsite/ratings_eighties.htm</a>In saying that, after 24 years, it would've been quite easy for ITV to use the "it's run it's course" excuse.Jumping back to a question posed in the original post "could Crossroads have survived into the 90's and beyond?". Had it decided what it wanted to be, it probably could have gone on if it was given over to the right producer. After the departure of Meg, followed by a number of other regulars, it appeared to go through a few identity crises due to the turnover of producers. What it had going for it was the uniqueness of it's setting. It was the only UK evening soap at the time that was set mostly in a workplace rather than a local community. Trying to turn it into Kings Oak meant it would've likely ended up being a carbon copy of all the other soaps. Which would erode another part of it's already confused identity. The producer Phillip Bowman, who brought in Nicola Freeman, seemed to know what he was doing but he unfortunately wasn't kept around for long.</blockquote>