I have actually been Watching Emmerdale since the days when it was known as Emmerdale Farm! that was when Annie and Joe Sugden were in it and Amos Brearley etc. Admittedly in those days it wasn't very good at all; but you did see quite a few animals in it! I watched it more frequently when the name was changed to just 'Emmerdale' I really started to like this soap and over the years i have liked many of the storylines; but now, they are getting more and more far fetched and unrealistic (just like the majority of the soaps i feel these days). It is also getting very boring and uninteresting. One of the latest stories regarding Jimmy losing his ...  Read the complete review

I live in Yorkshire and I love it and when this programme came onto the television on the 16th of October 1972 I was still at school and my mother said come and watch this programme as you will like it because it is about a farm and as you love animals you will enjoy it and I have ever since. It was originally called Emmerdale Farm up until 1989 and then it changed to just Emmerdale, it is about a farm village and it was set in a place called Beckindale until 1994, it is set in West Yorkshire and the programme was created by Kevin Laffan. It was an afternoon soap until 1978 then it was aired in the evening. It used to be on 3 times a week ...  Read the complete review

Emmerdale was previously known as Emmerdale Farm when it first aired in 1972. The soap is set in a village in west Yorkshire. Emmerdale comes third on my list of favourite soaps following Eastenders and Coronation Street. The soap is on ITV weekdays at 7.00pm, I would like to say that I watch every single episode but I don't. Unfortunately it starts the same time I am putting my son into bed, depending on his mood this can take quite some time so its usually half way through by the time I get down stairs, but I always catch what I can. It is also repeated on ITV2 so its easy to catch up on what you have missed. As a teenager the soap never ...  Read the complete review

Over the last few years i have been an intermitent fan of emmerdale. It is the type of soap opera that can be left for a couple of months and then like an old friend you can easily pick up where you left off and soon you are engrossed in the plots again. Years ago when I was young this soap was called Emmerdale farm. It was certainly worlds away from the villiage that it is today. The most exciting the plots got in the olden days were when the lambing season was in progress. However following a pane crash on the villiage a few years ago which wiped out in one episode most of the cast. It left a clean slate to develop the dales into a pit of seduction. ...  Read the complete review

Emmerdale gets my vote for most entertain British soap opera. I know every year it is always a show down between the north and the south (Coronation Street and Eastenders) but let me give a round of applause to the folks in the Yorkshire Dales. I am a fan of the others but I do think Emmerdale is a tad more realistic than the endless murders in the East End or the only street in Manchester where a whole community manages to work on the same street where they live. At the moment the storyline of the late Mark Wylde and his two wives had me intrigued especially as unbeknown to his Son Ryan and Wylde child daughter Maisie that they are actually half brother and ...  Read the complete review