06-02-2023, 03:05 PM
One thing I've been thinking of, Brookside went 3 times a week in 1990- quite early, Corrie was the only other soap 3 times a week at that point. I wonder if they'd gone 4 times a week in the late 90s, it might have helped the shows fortunes? Part of the problem by the time we got into the 00s was all the extra episodes of The Bill, Emmerdale, EastEnders and Corrie making it hard for Brookside to get a place in the schedules, maybe if they'd been able to introduce an extra episode before most of those shows expanded, maybe they'd have got a foot in the door and the other soaps would have had to work around Brookside, rather than the other way round.