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UK Soap Press Clippings Thread
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Edit: one thing that I forgot to mention when I originally posted is that the Tim mentioned in the omnibus clipping, was the character played by Idris Elba. I’m surprised to see that he was still around in March 1998 as I thought his stint on the show was brief, as opposed to being on it for one year.
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This week, tales from the tawdry tabloids.
On Brookside, Mersey TV tended not to use commercial music at first. It wasn't until the dying days they started to have Robbie Williams etc played in the soap.
(There is some soundalike version of Who Do You Think You Are? on the Brookside Lost Weekend video special, as Mersey were probably not wanting to pay for the rights to use the track. Rudy Clark and the publishers of The Shoop Shoop Song probably had to be paid in order for Claire Sweeney to sing it).
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I believe that the music they did use was owned by Phil Redmond. So C4 had to pay him a royalty every time he decided to use it.
The move to four nights a week became permanent 5 years later in 2001.
Top of The Pops unfortunately had to move out of their Elstree studio which they had been in for 10 years (TOTP moved there as part of the big revamp in October 1991) as more studio space was needed for the increased production on EastEnders.
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It's fascinating to see these two very different approaches to creating the setting for a serial. Granada spending big money* on Corrie's new fake frontage and fibreglass walls while Mersey TV are buying a real street.
It's also funny to see Brookside called "posh", with the Mirror pushing the "expensive detached", "private estate" angle. Nobody seemed to be expecting the kind of series that would arrive, or the way in which it would shake up British soap.
* The tabloids are possibly under-exaggerating for once. They say the Corrie set cost £100k, but Corriepedia quotes it as £170k.
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Yes. They had a company called Mersey Music. Phil Redmond talks about it in his book.
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These days, behind the scenes dramas are usually given the PR spin but there was no sugar coating here.
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What you lose in sugar, you gain in tabloid sensationalism.
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This week marks 64 years since Coronation Street premiered on ITV. Here’s a couple of cuttings from the TV Times from the show’s silver anniversary in 1985.