The demise of Brookside.

[Jock Og]

It is not like what it used to be. Brookside was a hell of a lot better in the hay days of Barry Grant et al.

In those days it stood for something, now it doesn't. The setting was Liverpool and what better way than to upstage Manchester, the East End of London and Yorkshire than to set a soap in the Mersey country.

In the soap's later years it failed to capitalize on the Liverpool element. Okay you had 'tin head' trying to revive the show, ably accompanied by Jimmy and the much missed Mrs. Tim O'Leary but it wasn't enough.

IMHO Phil Redmond needs to rethink again!



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[James from London]

Brookside was EXTRAORDINARY in the eighties. It had brilliant actors like Ricky Tomlinson (Bobby Grant), Sue Johnston (Sheila Grant), Amanda Burton (Heather Haversham), John McArdle (Billy Corkhill) and Katrin Cartlidge (Lucy Collins), and writers such as Jimmy McGovern who went on to devise Cracker and The Lakes. The Grants were simply the best TV family EVER!

To say Phil Redmond betrayed the show's origins in the nineties in the pursuit of ratings is putting it mildly. It now bears absolutely no resemblance to the show it once was.

James