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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndyB2008" data-source="post: 308791" data-attributes="member: 26097">The BBC did co-produce a soap in 1995 with Granada TV, the makers of Coronation Street, called Castles (some of the Coronation Street writers and producers actually worked on it). It was a 2nd attempt by the BBC to have another soap after Eldorado flopped. Burnt by Eldorado, Castles was only given a 26 episode order by the BBC as opposed to a year, with a option to extend if successful.But not even well known faces like Tony Doyle could make it work. Midway due to poor ratings, it was shunted from the pre Nine O'Clock News slot it occupied on Tuesday and Thursday nights to new slots on Sunday and Monday at 7pm where it had to compete with established shows like Wish You Were Here........?.  And hence it ended. (The omnibus aired Monday afternoons post Neighbours on BBC1, but after the timeslot switch, aired on Wednesday afternoons actually against Neighbours on BBC2,  and because of Wimbledon, sometimes the omnibus edition would not air and repeats would go out at weird slots like 10.30am on BBC1 or BBC2.)(Stephen Moyer, who played Martin Franks in the soap, went on to better things afterwards).</blockquote>