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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 57407" data-attributes="member: 673"><p>Launching a new soap is too much of a risk for networks nowadays because of the expense in comparison to churning out a cheaper game show or reality programme. Also, we've reached saturation with the soaps that are on air. It's hard enough for an avid soap fan to keep up with them and their ever increasing screen time without trying to add a new soap into the mix.</p><p></p><p>Here's another random blast from the past. <strong>Albion Market </strong>was supposed to be the sister soap to Coronation Street on ITV's primetime schedule (in 1985, Emmerdale was still bouncing around timeslots in different regions and hadn't gone year round yet). However, Albion got landed with "graveyard slots" on Friday and Sunday and also suffered from it's limited setting. Also, from the episodes I've watched, the writing was pretty poor. It didn't help that it launched in the same year as the BBC's fledgling super hit EastEnders, to which it was compared due to sharing a market setting. It did however, have one of the most realistically diverse casts for a soap at that time in comparison to the almost exclusively white worlds portrayed in Corrie and Crossroads. The entire series is online in all it's dreary glory if you dare to indulge.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]FRkcS-8NFzQ[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 57407, member: 673"] Launching a new soap is too much of a risk for networks nowadays because of the expense in comparison to churning out a cheaper game show or reality programme. Also, we've reached saturation with the soaps that are on air. It's hard enough for an avid soap fan to keep up with them and their ever increasing screen time without trying to add a new soap into the mix. Here's another random blast from the past. [B]Albion Market [/B]was supposed to be the sister soap to Coronation Street on ITV's primetime schedule (in 1985, Emmerdale was still bouncing around timeslots in different regions and hadn't gone year round yet). However, Albion got landed with "graveyard slots" on Friday and Sunday and also suffered from it's limited setting. Also, from the episodes I've watched, the writing was pretty poor. It didn't help that it launched in the same year as the BBC's fledgling super hit EastEnders, to which it was compared due to sharing a market setting. It did however, have one of the most realistically diverse casts for a soap at that time in comparison to the almost exclusively white worlds portrayed in Corrie and Crossroads. The entire series is online in all it's dreary glory if you dare to indulge. [MEDIA=youtube]FRkcS-8NFzQ[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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