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<blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 406367" data-attributes="member: 673"><p>[ATTACH=full]53968[/ATTACH]</p><p>By 2005, the little soap that could had been revamped to death and <em>Family Affairs</em> was axed, after nearly nine years on the air. The show had struggled in the ratings from the outset, with its renewal status being a constant cliffhanger over the years. Numerous revamps and the arrival of <em>Home & Away</em> as its lead in, gave it much needed lifelines but it never sustained them and the show’s cancellation was announced in August 2005. Ironically, new producer Sean O’Connor (<em>EastEnders, Footballers Wives</em>) had just been drafted in to take over the show when the axe fell. He’d apparently planned to rename the show (it’s assumed it would’ve been retitled <em>Stanley Street</em>) and focus on younger, more glamorous characters but only part of his plans could come into play before the show went off the air. He killed off the show’s leading bad boy Pete Callan (David Easter) and axed a number of long running characters including Sadie (Barbara Young) and Dave (Richard Hawley), bringing in a host of new faces to replace them. The final months were an odd affair, as viewers watched storylines play out among characters that they barely knew and would never really get to know, as the show drifted towards its December 30th finale. The bulk of the characters mentioned in the final fortnight synopsis above (Damian, Eve, Jason, George, Hector, Meredith) had only been on the show for a couple of months, in some cases, only weeks.</p><p></p><p>I watched the show quite a lot when it aired and while I look back and realise that those early years were quite ropey, the later years were actually really good soap. Villainous Pete Callan, unlucky in love Yasmin, gossipy Sadie, brassy Cat, the Costellos, the Ellis surrogacy triangle and Eileen Callan (who was thrown into the Thames by hubby Pete, to mark the show’s 2000th episode) were among my favourites. The show was also probably the most diverse out of any of the soaps at the time too. To my knowledge, it’s never been repeated since on UK TV and unfortunately at this stage, I doubt that it ever will be. The very first episode from 1997 and the last seven episodes from 2005 are available on You Know Where for anyone that wants to see how it all began and how it drew to a close.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carrie Fairchild, post: 406367, member: 673"] [ATTACH type="full"]53968[/ATTACH] By 2005, the little soap that could had been revamped to death and [I]Family Affairs[/I] was axed, after nearly nine years on the air. The show had struggled in the ratings from the outset, with its renewal status being a constant cliffhanger over the years. Numerous revamps and the arrival of [I]Home & Away[/I] as its lead in, gave it much needed lifelines but it never sustained them and the show’s cancellation was announced in August 2005. Ironically, new producer Sean O’Connor ([I]EastEnders, Footballers Wives[/I]) had just been drafted in to take over the show when the axe fell. He’d apparently planned to rename the show (it’s assumed it would’ve been retitled [I]Stanley Street[/I]) and focus on younger, more glamorous characters but only part of his plans could come into play before the show went off the air. He killed off the show’s leading bad boy Pete Callan (David Easter) and axed a number of long running characters including Sadie (Barbara Young) and Dave (Richard Hawley), bringing in a host of new faces to replace them. The final months were an odd affair, as viewers watched storylines play out among characters that they barely knew and would never really get to know, as the show drifted towards its December 30th finale. The bulk of the characters mentioned in the final fortnight synopsis above (Damian, Eve, Jason, George, Hector, Meredith) had only been on the show for a couple of months, in some cases, only weeks. I watched the show quite a lot when it aired and while I look back and realise that those early years were quite ropey, the later years were actually really good soap. Villainous Pete Callan, unlucky in love Yasmin, gossipy Sadie, brassy Cat, the Costellos, the Ellis surrogacy triangle and Eileen Callan (who was thrown into the Thames by hubby Pete, to mark the show’s 2000th episode) were among my favourites. The show was also probably the most diverse out of any of the soaps at the time too. To my knowledge, it’s never been repeated since on UK TV and unfortunately at this stage, I doubt that it ever will be. The very first episode from 1997 and the last seven episodes from 2005 are available on You Know Where for anyone that wants to see how it all began and how it drew to a close. [/QUOTE]
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