What are they doing? (Coronation Street)

Member Name: Medusa

Product:	Coronation Street
Date:	15/08/00 (22 review reads)
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Advantages: A few old characters, worth following

Disadvantages: Too much young blood and modern problems

I'm in my thirties, so hardly a die-hard Corrie fan, but even I find that the events of the last few months has completed changed the series.

They've sacked many of the older actors/actresses and replaced them with new, very young characters.

I can appreciate their need for modern story lines, but in Corrie.. it's not necessary. I don't want to view a soap which surrounds itself with modern day horrors such as drugs, but would happily tune in, seven nights per week, to a soap addressing typical (but "nice") family life. I think modern life is difficult enough and would like to simply "escape" in my evening viewing rather than see a repeat of the news in soap form.

I'm fed up with the ins and outs of adultery, teenage pregnancy (and birth) etc. and would welcome a return to the older Coronation Street where there were many more moralistically oriented characters.

Perhaps I'm boring, perhaps not.. their ratings have dropped.

I also watch Brookside.. which is the forerunner to the new Corrie, but bearable, as Brookside has always been this way.

I think that Coronation Street, if it were restored to it's former glory, would cut most other soaps from the market.

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