Talk:Brookside (TV series)

It's All Over

Brookside Closed *sniff*

Just goes to show how bad Channel 4 is now.

THIS PAGE IS NOT A FAN FOUROM. i sugest you leave this at the profeisonals from now o. Ðem Lusty, Lusty Roars!!!! † ^{Speak your beautiful, atrocious mind!!!!} 01:57, 25 October 2010 (UTC) my bad ot

"professional" wikipedia contributors can spell. please leave it to them, lusty, or learn to spell-check. duncanrmi (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Timings

Could someone answer my question? At what times did Brookside regularly air its episodes?

In the good old days, wasn't it 8:30? I think it started Mon/Tues, then Mon/Wed/Fri. It changed days a few times, tho, even before they started really playing musical schedules with it. The JPS 01:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

The show used to be on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8:30pm in the good old days. They started to schedule lots of one hour episodes on Fridays however dropping the Wednesday episode to accomodate these. Eventually the show moved to Saturdays taking up it's usual omnibus edition slot, before being moved to late night on Tuesdays. (WalfordQueen 07:58, 10 January 2006 (UTC))

Is it now easy to view the set?

Not really no, there's still a security barrier there, the houses are currently being renovated so that people can live in them. They had holes in the walls etc to allow for the cameras and lighting so they were pretty much inhabitable. I know someone who has sneaked there though and managed to get onto the close and even inside one of the houses which was left open. (WalfordQueen 08:00, 10 January 2006 (UTC))

Carl Fenton

I have removed the following quote: "In children's soap Grange Hill, Number 5's interior was used as the home to the character Carl Fenton, although curiously the exterior was a carefully chosen house that matched the inside situated elsewhere." The character of Carl did not feature in Grange Hill after the show moved to Liverpool and as such this is not a true statement. It is possible the character you could mean is Taylor Mitchell, whose home appeared in the 2004 series of Grange Hill. bidefax 16:46, 27 March 2008

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Cleanup needed

This article is in dire need of cleanup. Some suggestions:

• use inline citations for references. Rather than a list of references at the end, use <ref>put URL/etc here</ref>
• avoid hyperbole and point of view.
• the article has been treat like a scrap book: bits thrown in with little cohesion.
• Take a look at EastEnders -- it's a pretty good article, and you should use it as a model.

The JPS^{talk to me} 19:00, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

I've been through and removed as much of the fannish hyperbole as I could. I've also tagged the more glaring facts requiring citations. El Staplador (talk) 15:20, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

I've tidied up some of the text, corrected a few errors, and removed the "Brookside Stabbing" section that appeared to be copied directly from somewhere and served no purpose. And the categories are now showing! Still some more work to be done, particularly as there doesn't seem to be much anywhere online about Brookside that's comprehensive or easy to read. I was a dedicated viewer between 1985-1990 so if anyone else can help out with other years events, characters etc - we need your help :) Niki2006 (talk) 19:14, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't know if it happened during the clean-up, but there used to be (either on the main page, or linked from it) a list of everyone who ever worked on the show. whilst this wasn't an essential part of the article by any means, it was the only place on the entire internet where this information could be seen (imDB is woefully incomplete). any idea what happened to it or who originally entered it? can't find the details in the edit history...

duncanrmi (talk) 16:03, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Return?

Dean Sullivan{Jimmy Corkhill}said on his radio show City Talk that he has heard from the horses mouth that Brookside is coming back.

What exactly does this involve? A revival or just reruns of the old eps? Did he give any details? --Dominar_Rygel_XVI (talk) 18:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

If anything one final DVD should be made and all the old episodes show even if on More4 or something digital would be better than the chunks off youtube Mohammed patel (talk) 21:05, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

"Unprecedented" storyline leak to the tabloids

I have edited this reference, as in the sentence after the practice is described as unprecedented, two previous examples (or indeed precedents!) are given. Smurfmeister (talk) 14:25, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Not sure I would agree with this

Brookside's most famous storyline happened in 1993, with the story of wife beater and child abuser Trevor Jordache (Bryan Murray).

Perhaps this was the most famous. It was certainly one of the most famous. Not sure it was particularly more famous than the rape of Sheila Grant, the murder of Damon Grant, the Sue Sullivan incident on the scaffolding, the Beth Jordache lesbian affair, the Terry Sullivan religious cult bomb plot were all about as famous. No objections if I reword it a little? Mtaylor848 (talk) 08:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

No objetions, I suppose 'most famous' would need some sort of verification to back it up, but I do agree with the statement. When the general public at large think Brookside I'll bet most would say 'body under the patio'. Along those same lines I think you're also right that the rest would think 'lesbian kiss' - it's probably the most overplayed clip of the show's history. The other storylines, although massive would only be remembered by fans of the show in my opinion. Ooh, Fruity Ooh, Chatty 11:44, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

often affectionately referred to as brookie?

i never heard this before and i think it would be WRONG to include such a bold statement in the fist sentence brackets especially if i turns out which it will that is it an outwrite LIE. can it be asertaned? otherwise i delete it, no. Ðem Lusty, Lusty Roars!!!! † ^{Speak your beautiful, atrocious mind!!!!} 01:27, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Two more references added now for your pleasure, the BBC one alone is sufficient enough. As a side note, just because you've not heard of it doesn't mean it's wrong, and if something isn't referenced it's not your job to prompt others to do it when you could easily do it yourself. Ooh, Fruity Ooh, Chatty 16:46, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I don't know where lusty roars was when Brookside airs because everyone I know said "Brookie is on" or "did you watch brookie last night"... and User fruity certainly proved it.RAIN..the..ONE ^HOTLINE 17:09, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I never watch USAmerican shows OR USAmerican-influenced shows and i believe i was still in my mother's womb while bookside ran so why would that brookie? anyway it hardly seems befitting a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE to have such a GROSS COLLOQUAILISM in the opening paraphrase, never mind first sentence! None the less I deffer to your superoir knowledge of ridiculous old tv shows and bid you a fond faredoo. Ðem Lusty, Lusty Roars!!!! † ^{Speak your beautiful, atrocious mind!!!!} 20:11, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Don't know about citations. My mam and I never watched Brookside, always Brookie. Maybe it was an abreviation only used in Yorkshire. Similarly nobody watches Coronation Street, always Corrar. Mtaylor848 (talk) 00:01, 31 October 2010 (UTC) By the way, you must be young if you were still in your mothers womb when Brookie was axed, it is only seven years next month (I was though for some of it, I was born the month Damon was killed). Mtaylor848 (talk) 00:02, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Corrar? Damon? what on EARTH are you talking about? and DONT talk about my MOTHER you HYPOCRITE!!!!!!! who said anything about me being young?? All i SED was I was IN MY MOTHER'S WOMB. its a famous pub? Ðem Lusty, Lusty Roars!!!! † ^{Speak your beautiful, atrocious mind!!!!} 04:58, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

There's no response to that! Mtaylor848 (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

I live in the south and always called it Brookie. AnemoneProjectors 01:41, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Petition

Can we remove the part about the petition to bring back the show or something that "may have an effect"? I removed it but somebody put it back in. Petitions like these rarely do anything and just amounts to the fact that many fans want it back. This is far from notable. Kansan (talk) 18:14, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

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Brookside WAS a British soap, like other shows that were previously on TV but aren't anymore.

There's some idiot admin called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arjayay who doesn't know the difference between is and was. 3 different people recently (including me) have correctly changed: "Brookside is a British soap opera" to "Brookside was a British soap opera" As it's no longer on TV and hasn't been since 2003. Yet Arjayay insists he's right and is going around threatening people with block threats when they change it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:81.130.150.51 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danstarr69 (talk • contribs) 03:46, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

@Danstarr69: See MOS:TVNOW. Television shows are referred to in the present tense here whether or not they are still being produced or broadcast. And I strongly suggest you refrain from referring to other editors as "idiots"; see WP:CIVIL. General Ization ^Talk 03:48, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

some idiot admin who doesn't know the difference between is and was... Um, you're doing "is" and "was" wrong. Statement: "Brookside was a soap." Response: "So what is it now if it is no longer a soap..?" Er, it's still a soap, albeit one that is currently off air. Neil S. Walker (talk) 10:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)