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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carrie Fairchild" data-source="post: 405615" data-attributes="member: 673">I like gritty, kitchen sink drama but this doesn’t even fall into that category. It was just a boring setting. At least with EastEnders, the market was part of a number of settings whereas everything in Albion Market (as the title would suggest) was set on the market. This may have changed over time but there’s only so much drama that you can mine from stall holders gossiping and battling for a pitch.The show had a great pedigree behind the scenes. Even that final episode posted above had David Liddiment as a producer and Kay Mellor as storyliner. In front of the cameras too, there were some great actors. I’m only going on what I’ve read, as I was a toddler when it premiered, but I think it was doomed to fail from the outset due to the timeslots and lack of interest from some ITV networks. It might’ve worked as a more cheaply made daytime soap because, as discussed before, ITV had form for unambitious soap settings in their daytime dramas.</blockquote>