Family Affairs

I have been watching this program for a few years now (almost since it started), but even I could not have envisaged how stupid the plotlines could become. I always enjoyed watching this program because it seemed to take itself a lot less seriously than the likes of Eastenders, however this has gone to far to the other extreme. For those of you who don't watch Family Affairs, it is set in Stanley Street in Charnham and the plot revolves around the inhabitants of the aforementioned street. Family Affairs is shown at 6.30pm each evening on Channel 5 and each episdoe is repeated at 1.00pm the followinf day. Now Family Affairs has some very ...

I don't know why or when I started watching Family Affais but I have been watching it since the early days of the Hart Family. This soap is the only thing worth watching on Channel 5 (apart from the occasional football match). It's never been quite as good since they decided to get rid of the whole of the Hart Family by blowing them up on Roy and Mel's wedding day on a boat! (Yeah...this is how ridiculous the story lines can get). At the same time the whole of the set seemed to move location completely. The soap used to be based around the Lock and the Hart Family's House. Now everybody lives on Stanley Street and for some ...

Family Affairs has been running for some time now on Channel 5, and, although it has its following, I didn't find it that easy to get into when I started watching it the other week. The storylines appear to be not going anywhere, and seem to be dragging on already, and I have only tuned in for a few episodes. There are two characters called Nikki and Adrian, and they have children together, but are separated. Events like an armed robbery keep on happening, but it seems as if there isn;t going to be a climax to the plot. That goes for this other character called Cat, she is portrayed as a boozy woman, who sleeps around a lot, but doesn't have much purpose other ...