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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 436495" data-attributes="member: 23">Thanks. I&#039;ll keep expectations low. Clearly I&#039;ve forgotten it all which probably speaks for itself.I had wondered about stopping on for another month or two, perhaps to see Jonathan exit at the end of October, or even until the end of the year (an option made even less attractive now I&#039;ve noticed that Diana Spence arrives in late-1990).&nbsp; I have a feeling whichever route I go is going to be anti-climactic.That&#039;s pretty much as my recollection goes.Speaking of Rod, I&#039;ve just watched five months&#039; worth of episodes (Feb-July 1990) and he didn&#039;t appear once. I&#039;m curious to know what was going on for Jason Hope during this time.Incidentally, I&#039;ve had a bit of a Ghost Of Brookside Future in my other viewing. I&#039;m currently watching A Bit Of A Do which is so much better than I&#039;d anticipated (I was expecting a sitcom, but I&#039;ve got a relatively sophisticated comedy-drama which is quite sudsy in its storyline). For the best part of a week I&#039;ve been trying to place the actress who plays Carol Fordingbridge, the blonde young woman who had a one-night stand with David Thewlis&#039;s character on the night of his baby&#039;s birth, and who I&#039;ve just seen come third&nbsp; in The Crowning Of Miss Frozen Chicken UK.I knew she was familiar and was fairly sure it was from a soap (my best guess was that she had some connection with The Firm in &#039;Enders). Anyway, just minutes ago when I was looking at 1991 character debuts on the Brookside wiki, to convince myself I wasn&#039;t going to be missing anything, there was that familiar name Karen Drury, and I realised it&#039;s the actress who played Susannah Farnham.I have rewatch envy now. 1983 feels like a dim and distant (but very happy) memory to me at this point.&nbsp; Enjoy.Interesting. I&#039;d imagine the episodes would have aired and the initial reaction to the series would have been known to execs by this point, so presumably there was no panic to remove it all straight away, even if it was perhaps toned down. The Soap Study video mentioned that the ratings declined drastically within months, with the language the most off-putting factor for viewers, so I&#039;d guess it will peter out to a more conservative level as 1983 goes on.I suppose the balance is tricky with this kind of book, which is essentially both an autobiography and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of several series.So far I&#039;ve only ever used it as a kind of encyclopaedia, looking up certain Brookside character names or events in the index to see what Phil had to say about them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 436495, member: 23"] Thanks. I'll keep expectations low. Clearly I've forgotten it all which probably speaks for itself. I had wondered about stopping on for another month or two, perhaps to see Jonathan exit at the end of October, or even until the end of the year (an option made even less attractive now I've noticed that Diana Spence arrives in late-1990). I have a feeling whichever route I go is going to be anti-climactic. That's pretty much as my recollection goes. Speaking of Rod, I've just watched five months' worth of episodes (Feb-July 1990) and he didn't appear once. I'm curious to know what was going on for Jason Hope during this time. Incidentally, I've had a bit of a Ghost Of [I]Brookside[/I] Future in my other viewing. I'm currently watching [I]A Bit Of A Do [/I]which is so much better than I'd anticipated (I was expecting a sitcom, but I've got a relatively sophisticated comedy-drama which is quite sudsy in its storyline). For the best part of a week I've been trying to place the actress who plays Carol Fordingbridge, the blonde young woman who had a one-night stand with David Thewlis's character on the night of his baby's birth, and who I've just seen come third in The Crowning Of Miss Frozen Chicken UK. I knew she was familiar and was fairly sure it was from a soap (my best guess was that she had some connection with The Firm in '[I]Enders[/I]). Anyway, just minutes ago when I was looking at 1991 character debuts on the [I]Brookside[/I] wiki, to convince myself I wasn't going to be missing anything, there was that familiar name Karen Drury, and I realised it's the actress who played Susannah Farnham. I have rewatch envy now. 1983 feels like a dim and distant (but very happy) memory to me at this point. Enjoy. Interesting. I'd imagine the episodes would have aired and the initial reaction to the series would have been known to execs by this point, so presumably there was no panic to remove it all straight away, even if it was perhaps toned down. The Soap Study video mentioned that the ratings declined drastically within months, with the language the most off-putting factor for viewers, so I'd guess it will peter out to a more conservative level as 1983 goes on. I suppose the balance is tricky with this kind of book, which is essentially both an autobiography and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of several series. So far I've only ever used it as a kind of encyclopaedia, looking up certain [I]Brookside[/I] character names or events in the index to see what Phil had to say about them. [/QUOTE]

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