[James2001]

There was a stupid story going round a few years back that around 500 Brookside episodes were "missing", I even saw someone claiming it after STV announced they'd be streaming it, even though it's fair to say trying to stream a consecutive run would be a mess if 1/6th of the episodes truly were missing (and would be a bit of a scandal if one of the most influential shows of the 80s and 90s had list so many episodes).

Typical internet chinese whispers, a bit like how someone saying the Big Breakfast archive was yet to be properly catalogued (i.e. they had the tapes, just couldn't licence clips for most episodes because they needed to find out what was where) morphed over the space of a couple of years to "most Big Breakfast episodes got wiped".

[Happy2001]

Isn't it with The Big Breakfast is that due to human error is that some episodes from it's original run were wiped as well as others not being catalogued properly.

[gottago]

New Brookside for Eurovision (well a tiny bit)?!

www.bbc.co.uk 

Eurovision 2023 - Royle Family star Ricky Tomlinson relives Brookside Bobby Gran…
‘Bobby’ is putting up his Ukranian-themed bunting outside the Grant home on Broo…
  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

[James2001]

Looks like number 9's had an extension built since the Brookie days.

[chrisdafur]

Looks like number 9's had an extension built since the Brookie days.

It must have been built during the show as it appears in the last episode.

[James2001]

Must have been added very late in the show's run, it wasn't there in the late 90s.

Edit: A quick look and it was there on the 1999 title sequence, must have been added earlier than I thought... it wasn't there in the days when the Simpsons were living there though.

Looks like the garage got attatched to the house some point earlier during the 90s though, before the upstairs extension was added around 1998/99-ish, though unlike Billy Corkhill's garage on number 10 there wasn't a garden and tree directly in front of it!

Edit: A bit more digging and it looks like the garage
on number 9 had been there since 1985! Very early on, while Heather was still there and before the Corkhills arrived and added one to number 10. The upstairs extension over it appeared in 1998.

[James2001]

Was amusing to see the scenes with Damon in the arcade last week, he was playing Missile Command, which was on this thing I bought last year:

www.game.co.uk 

Buy Arcade1Up Atari Legacy Arcade Game Centipede | GAME
Arcade1Up Atari Legacy Arcade Game Centipede
  Source: www.game.co.uk

There was a Centipede machine in the background too!

[Brekkie]

Another good set of episodes - still very thin on the cast with the last one in the batch basically being just Bobby, Sheila and Barry other than a couple of scenes with Petra.

The Collins are becoming much more likeable now too.

[James2001]

The STV Player app on Virgin Media's been updated, there's a new player interface and the much needed "watch credits" button has appeared.

All it needs now is 50fps and it will be perfect.

[James2001]

Has anyone else started getting a lot more adverts during Brookside the last couple of weeks? Not that it's a bad thing, as it's presumably a sign it's getting streamed enough for them to be able to sell more adverts, and to bigger advertisers. Until a couple of weeks ago there was usually only one or two adverts in a break, and often ones that were of little relevance outside of Scotland like BOS and Scotrail, now there's often 8 or 9 and from UK wide major advertisers.