Hollyoaks

I am a girl who loves her soaps and regularly watch Coronation Street and Emmerdale as these are my two favourite. I came across Hollyoaks a few years ago after reading about it in a magazine and thought that i would give it a go. If you have never heard of Hollyoaks, it is a television soap opera that is long running and came to our screens in 1995. I never realised it had been on that long, im quite shocked! It was created by Phil Redmond and each episode is 25 minutes long. You can watch Hollyoaks on Channel Four at the moment and is on at 6:30pm every evening. Unfortunately i have never really warmed to it which is ...  Read the complete review

I'm not an avid watcher of soaps and I have tended to flit in and out of watching Hollyoaks over the years and at times after I have been away for a while I do find this a bit confusing as so many of the characters have that androgenous blonde bimbo look about them that the characters start to merge into each other. As a soap opera it is aimed more at the teenager / twenty something age range as it airs on E4 and C4 with an omnibus version on a weekend. Probably my favourite character has been Tony, the rather unlucky in love Hollyoaks entrepreneur has been in since the start and he has certainly had a rough time of it. The soap is basd in affluent ...  Read the complete review

I love Hollyoaks, I try and watch it every night and if I miss it, I catch up on 4OD. Sometimes I worry that I am dangerously close to having an obsession with hollyoaks, but seriously, I do think its an underated soap. Some background: Hollyoaks is a British soap devised by Phil Redmond, who also came up with brookside and Grange Hill, it was first broadcast in 1995 with a small original cast. It is now produced by Lucy Allen and the cast has grown to about 50 characters. Hollyoaks is set in Chester, in the fictional suberb of 'Hollyoaks' and the programme is based around the families that live there and concentrates on the younger characters that attend ...  Read the complete review

Hollyoaks is a soap opera, channel 4's answer to corrie and eastenders, basically. It is less of a giant than those shows, but nonetheless has a solid following and regularly picks up at award ceremonies. It's more respected than home and away, anyway! History... Hollyoaks was created by the man behind Grange Hill and Brookside, Phil Redmond. It was first broadcast in 1995. It is now produced by Lucy Allan, Bryan Kirkwood's replacement, the man who many argue made Hollyoaks great. Plot... The plot is about the people living in a suburb of Chester, and is centred around the young characters, who go to Hollyoaks Community College ...  Read the complete review

Intro ------ Hollyoaks is a soap that has been running on channel 4 for the last 15 years. It has mainly been aimed at the younger market, targetting teens and their problems. It often tackles issues that are relative to those that a student or other young person may encounter such as sexual disease or Anorexia. This makes the storyline more interesting for the younger viewing. Acting ------- However, there are also many downsides to the hollyoaks series. In my opinion, and that of everyone in my flat who i occasionally watch the program with, think that the acting is absolutely abysmal. I heard rumours that people were ...  Read the complete review