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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - WillPS - 18-10-2023

Sinbad's first appearance in this week's batch (episode 197).

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - Alf Stewart - 18-10-2023

(18-10-2023, 01:30 PM)WillPS Wrote:  Sinbad's first appearance in this week's batch (episode 197).

And an early appearance of Jessie Shadwick moonlighting as some lads mother.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - WillPS - 02-11-2023

Were the court scenes for this week's episodes filmed at the Galleries of Justice (or National Justice Museum as it's now known) in Nottingham? Seems awfully familiar.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - James2001 - 03-11-2023

I would have expected them to film somewhere closer to Liverpool, unless that happened to be cheaper and available.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - Stuart - 04-11-2023

(03-11-2023, 12:40 PM)James2001 Wrote:  I would have expected them to film somewhere closer to Liverpool, unless that happened to be cheaper and available.

Certainly by the time of the Jordache trial many years later, they'd built a courtroom set of their own, but by then they had extra room at the Childwall site.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - James2001 - 05-11-2023

Is it me, or has the title sequence been edited? In the penultimate shot there was a piece of... something flying towards the camera, but that seems to have gone it the most recent episodes.

That song that played over the scenes of Terry and Barry being beaten up, it's one of the probably only 4 or 5 songs the show seems to use (I think it's the same one we heard on Roger and Heather's radio at the start of the first episode). I wonder why they didn't use commercial music (until 1999 anyway) unlike the other soaps, was it too expensive for them?

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - WillPS - 05-11-2023

(05-11-2023, 11:32 AM)James2001 Wrote:  I wonder why they didn't use commercial music (until 1999 anyway) unlike the other soaps, was it too expensive for them?

Yep. Cost saving, pure and simple. Same reason they created their own fake children's programmes to appear on TV; way cheaper for them to create something (however crap) than to license something. I think the music was all from the same guy who did the theme tune.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - Brekkie - 05-11-2023

It's a shame really they weren't able to plug in more to the Liverpudlian music scene.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - Spencer - 05-11-2023

(05-11-2023, 08:36 PM)WillPS Wrote:  Yep. Cost saving, pure and simple. Same reason they created their own fake children's programmes to appear on TV; way cheaper for them to create something (however crap) than to license something. I think the music was all from the same guy who did the theme tune.

Ah, who could forget the Magic Rabbits…

https://youtu.be/-OhNTeGBsZg?si=Fh19vxtuZ241YWT7 

I remember hearing that in the pilot of Keeping Up Appearances, they licenced footage to appear on Onslow’s TV, but found it was too expensive, so after that the cast and crew used to film special scenes for it instead.

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RE: Brookside to Stream on STV Player - James2001 - 05-11-2023

Usually when watching the characters on soaps watching the TV, it's still usually something made by the same company that makes the soap- though when it comes to the BBC and the ITV companies, they have a large back catalogue of content to use for that- Mersey TV had nothing (from what I can tell, all they made during Brookside's run apart from Hollyoaks was a short lived drama series called What Now in the mid-80s) which I guess is why they had to make their own stuff.

Though even on the other soaps you often spotted the same things popping up over and over- for example, 90% of the time someone was watching TV on The Bill it was either Dangermouse or Count Duckula, and Enjy Benjy was being used on Corrie for years in the 00s. There was also the period around 1989-90 when it was music videos that people were always watching on Corrie (Granada were the ones responsible for putting The Chart Show to the network until 1993, so I guess it's possible they were using clips of that, though we never saw any of the graphics).

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