Apologies to Rob if this isn’t an appropriate thread, but Corrie always had home on TVF.
Some lovely throwbacks to times gone by in tonight’s first episode from Toyah.
- Referencing stealing Bill Webster’s drill during her first episode (4223 - 4th July 1997)
- Hitchhiking a ride to London on the M6 roadside to find her birth father Ronnie Clegg (4463 - 28th August 1998)
- Namedropping Les Battersby
I always love when Corrie references the in-show history in script. It always makes it feel more authentic.
Multi post_id=826 time=1617057840 user_id=871 Wrote:I always love when Corrie references the in-show history in script. It always makes it feel more authentic.
100% agree. Often it feels like it is only ever the older characters who'd reminisce in such a way, so great to see those of the late 90s generation who still are there (Leanne, Toyah, Peter, Tyrone, Fiz etc.). The latter two are great for keeping the spirit of Jack & Vera alive.
To go on a slight tangent, is anyone else feeling a bit of fatigue with the 6 episodes a week at the moment? The Friday night hour long episode is often a decent watch, but Monday and Wednesday doubles have felt like a long chore to get through for me anyway.
The pandemic could have been the time to re-evaluate how many soap opera episodes are needed every week.
Not much difference in terms of ratings this past year; combined with the investment broadcasters have made, and continue to make, suggests there's little chance of cutting back on episode numbers.
I'm certainly struggling to keep up with the six episodes a week at the moment. It makes it hard that I'm not particularly enjoying any of the current storylines, but as a lifelong viewer, Corrie feels like part of my life, so I feel I should stick with it.
I enjoyed it a lot more last year when they went down to three episodes a week – it felt like something to look forward to. Currently it feels like an extra job!
£TV are not going to be dropping any episodes sadly. Its money first over protecting any show, no matter its history.
Hayley made her first appearance on ITV3 yesterday
And today's scenes with Jack and Vera's confiscated staircase were great, I'm enjoying the classic episodes more than the modern ones at the moment. Deirdre's trial coming up soon too.
The staircase is one of the stories I remember from first time around, can't be long until we have Jack pretending to regress into a past life either.
I think its such a shame what Corrie has become. Just feels like a shadow of what it was and a complete caricature. Cutting episodes and cast size would make a big difference 100%
I think it was Jez who said in TV Forum that when you watch multiple episodes together you realise how the storylines are just going round in circles.
I went to watch an episode on ITV Hub and didn’t even notice I’d skipped a week it’s that repetitive.
I do feel for them though - social distancing means it has lost some of its oomph. Fingers crossed if restrictions ease, we can see some good busy pub scenes by September.
X1 post_id=1809 time=1617278837 user_id=959 Wrote:I think its such a shame what Corrie has become. Just feels like a shadow of what it was and a complete caricature. Cutting episodes and cast size would make a big difference 100%
I agree with the cutting of episodes. To start with both Corrie and Emmerdale can be cut to 5 episodes a week and then they can have a soap hour Mon - Fri between 7 and 8. That then frees up the schedule weekdays from 8pm. It's only one episode for now but it would benefit Corrie.
Just been made aware with the ITV3 repeats, that while there's no afternoon episodes of Corrie or Emmerdale on today or Monday because it's the typical Easter bank holiday marathon of Carry On films, the early morning showings on Monday and Tuesday are still happening (what would usually be the repeats of the Friday and Monday episodes, but in this case are the only screenings), which isn't usually the case over bank holidays, usually there's no episodes shown at all. It's a good job I just found this out, or I'd have missed the 4 episodes of both shows. I imagine a lot of viewers are going to miss those episodes because of this and tune in on Tuesday afternoon confused.
How do these classic episodes rate for ITV3?
Are there that many casual viewers watching them avidly every day? Maybe ITV doesn't think people are going to be that bothered.
I have watched Classic Corrie a few times over the last few months due to being at home more, and it's nice to reminisce, as I was a child when these episodes originally aired.
However, it's not something I'd avidly make an appointment to watch day in, day out. Maybe there are people who do, but ITV don't seem to think it'll be a travesty if they drop a few episodes from the usual afternoon slot and just show them in the early mornings instead. They're available on the Hub anyway, if people really want to see them.
I remember reading somewhere a couple of years ago it was getting about 150,000 viewers per episode, which for daytime ITV3 is quite impressive. The fact it has never moved slot (except for Sport) shows that it must still be doing ok for the channel.
Unless I'm mistaken, tonight saw the first sign of Fiz and Tyrone's children after a period of them being conveniently 'at Chesney's', 'playing outside' etc. (I was getting 'Tracy's upstairs playing her tapes' vibes...)