TV critic says soaps face 'fatal crisis' as viewers switch off over dark and outlandish plots
Sep 18, 2019, 01:20 PM
Many of us love the soaps.
Coronation Street, Eastenders and Emmerdale dominate our TV viewing,
but are fans being driven away by dark,
outlandish plots
with too much violence, suffering and misery?
The BBC presenter and TV critic Mark Lawson thinks so.
He's told The Radio Times that viewers are being put off
by too much melodrama and catastrophe in the storylines.
Is he right? Talking to Vinny about this was the showbiz reporter Kelly Allen and the commentator Andrea McVeigh
Coronation Street, Eastenders and Emmerdale dominate our TV viewing,
but are fans being driven away by dark,
outlandish plots
with too much violence, suffering and misery?
The BBC presenter and TV critic Mark Lawson thinks so.
He's told The Radio Times that viewers are being put off
by too much melodrama and catastrophe in the storylines.
Is he right? Talking to Vinny about this was the showbiz reporter Kelly Allen and the commentator Andrea McVeigh