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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 238353" data-attributes="member: 673">It was never a case of one being kept over the other. Hollyoaks was doing quite well in it's own regard in the period when Brookside was on the way out. HO aired 4 episodes a week at that point and all episodes rated in the Top 20 or 30 shows on Channel 4 each week whereas Brookside had sank without a trace by then because Channel 4 had shoved it off to a graveyard omnibus slot on Saturday afternoons (followed by a move to a late night slot for it's final months). I think the main causes of Brookside's demise was panic caused by dwindling ratings in the latter part of the 90's, Channel 4 refocusing it's primetime schedule in the 00's on lifestyle and reality shows (which led to them moving Brookside out of primetime to free up slots) and to an extent, creator Phil Redmond's open criticism of Channel 4 bosses, which I imagine didn't do him any favours when he was trying to keep the show on air.</blockquote>