05-11-2023, 10:50 PM
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).
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).