I expect because people assume the US will be better at those.
Soap opera spy tv#
Police and crime dramas sell well internationally so are a good revenue spinner for UK TV companies although foreigners tend to prefer the more cosy British shows like Midsomer Murders, Death in Paradise than the gritty urban stuff like Line of Duty. Apart from Lind of Duty I tend to give these a wide berth. Maybe the public's interests have changed? Or is it ITV (and other broadcasters) assuming that's the case. In fact, when you think about it, pretty much every new ITV drama in the last few years has been a police procedural.
Watching ITV3/4 recently I was surprised at the number of police /crime dramas advertised for view on the ITV Hub and Britbox. That there are no more new straight-up soaps is simply a change in viewer tastes and how other formats have changed to meet those needs.
Soap opera spy series#
There is also the question of the evolution of continuing dramas, which includes shows like Casualty with 40+ episode series (for Holby City it was 52 episodes per year or more) that are driven by their soap-like elements. Which is probably way the most recently create soap is a daytime one rather than in or around peak time. But now they mainly attract older audiences as younger people are instead drawn to shows like Love Island as their source of personal drama. Soaps used to be a cheap and easy way to pack out a schedule, and allow public service channels a way of exploring matters of public interest. Starting with Big Brother, probably, a combination of those game show style formats as well as unscripted reality like The Only Way is Essex. Reality shows now occupy the place for viewers, especially younger ones, that soaps used to occupy. People keep saying "look at the ratings" but whenever I look at the ratings Coronation Street and Emmerdale Farm episodes are regularly filling out the top ten most watched episodes of the week.īut the difference between now and the 90s is that a new genre has taken the place of soaps. And yes I’m old enough to remember when Coronation Street first started broadcasting! I must be showing my age I suppose! 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 I would say reduce the number of episodes of soap operas to the number of episodes to when they first started broadcasting in the 1960’s of only 2 episodes per week. There are to many soap operas every week now and on every night Monday -Friday. Soap Opera’s over the decades have expanded to 4-5 days per week including on occasions extra episodes. At one time Coronation Street, Eastenders, Emerdale etc where only broadcast twice every week of 2, 30 minute episode’s and also not as many different soap operas as now. There are to many soap opera’s already in my opinion and we don’t need any more as at present soap opera’s are clogging up the early evening Monday-Friday. A new soap wouldn’t get enough viewers to start with, especially from the younger demographic and TV channels wouldn’t have the patience to let the soap pick up viewers and gain a following before axing it.
Most soaps are watched by older viewers and those soaps that exist now are watched by viewers who have stuck with it for years. I don’t think a new soap that is on 3/4/5 times a week in a regular slot on terrestrial tv would work nowadays. Then they resurrected Crossroads in the early 00s (twice) but it didn’t last long Now it seems they are slowly dying off with nothing replacing them.ĭoctors is more recent than Hollyoaks. I remember in the 80s and 90s there used to be lots of soap operas around.
After noticing Neighbours as now ceased, it made me think of all the other soap operas we used to have, especially from down under.īut then I was thinking when was the last time a new soap opera was created? The most recent one I know would be Hollyoaks that started in the mid 90s and is still going.
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