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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 59926" data-attributes="member: 95">What we have to remember is that Yorkshire TV has always been commited to Emmerdale.ATV was like this with Crossroads until Central took over in early 1982 (just weeks after Meg Richardson bowed out on the QE2 en route to New York, forever, coincidence?....) Central resented the fact that it had inherited, in their eyes, "an aging, out of date soap" they revamped the series several times in the 1980s by axing long running, popular characters, that's not a bad thing but it was these changes that brought about its demise, Crossroads had changed beyond recognition by 1988 compared to what it was just six or seven years earlier, Central were keen to produce lavish, 2 hour long dramas like Inspector Morse, and saw soap operas in general as outdated modes of television for the1990s and 2000s, which was why they eventually did away with it.Very premature considering Brookside and EastEnders were new soaps launched just a few years earlier and went from strength to strength in the 1990s and beyond, and Corrie and Emmerdale were also revitalised too, so I think there was room for Crossroads or Kings Oak in the 90s myself.</blockquote>