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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 405640" data-attributes="member: 673">In the episodes of Albion Market that I watched (I think I may have managed ten) I didn’t see anything that I’d tie in with The Mall  but there could have been from later episodes. There’s a short interview with producer David Liddiment <a href="http://www.granadaland.org/david-liddiments-memories-of-the-soap-albion-market/" target="_blank">here</a> where he mentions that the series was basically created for LWT as a big Granada soap for the weekend, but it never rated well in London and that was the death of it. TVS apparently weren’t fond of it either. I think it may have been a case of one Northern soap too many for the viewers in the south, considering they already had Corrie, Emmerdale and Brookside.This gets a mention in the interview too. It apparently would’ve been too costly to Granada (something to do with points) to keep it going as a daytime soap.I was quite surprised by this too. I’d read (although it may have been written tongue in cheek) that the set was just Granada’s old prop store, tarted up as a covered market. I’m not sure if any of the set was eventually absorbed in Coronation Street but there’s apparently a hotel built on the site now.</blockquote>