Too Much Soaps On The B B C ?

[Canary42]

Anyone else think there is ? [TIC]

[bobbie22]

Too much sport. Before anyone says that there are other channels I agree. BUT. I pay my licence fee for this. And it has gone up in price since last year.

[tiggerblue10]

What other soaps are there on the BBC? EE is the only one I know of.

[pastafreak]

I do believe Canary is being funny... ;-)

[gingejbee]

Next thread..."Too many moaning too much about the BBC?"...

[Mozz71]

ITV have more (primetime) soaps than the Beeb.

[barry1010]

Surely Casualty and Holby City are soaps, as are Waterloo Road and River City. Not forgetting The Archers

[Mozz71]

Barry, Waterloo Road ended five years ago.

[ToraToraTora]

yes canary, I have never understood why people watch soaps, mind numbing unrealistic BS but each to their own.

[bednobs]

wpc 56 is a soap isnt it?

[jno]

people might remember that TIC stands for tongue in cheek

[Mozz71]

It seems there is a narrow line between soap operas and dramas.

[ToraToraTora]

years ago there was a great cop show called "The Bill" it was an hour long show about uniformed coppers with a decent story each week. Then gawd knows why, they cut it to half and hour and turned into Eastenders in a cop shop! Ruined it!

[Ken4155]

I believe the emoji for TIC is :-J

[tiggerblue10]

Ah, I didn't realise Casualty and Holby City were soaps.

Is Doctors still on? I've never watched it.

[choux]

and to think, I believed TIC stood for This Is Canary.

Every day is a school day.

Not forgetting Doctors, not so much a soap as a sanitizing hand gel.

[jno]

the Archers must be the oldest soap of the lot? Unless Mrs Dale's Diary is still broadcasting somewhere on BBC27.

[choux]

The Archers have been going since 1950 - I am way older than that...

[Ken4155]

Bobbie 22. "Too much sport". Apart from MOTD and MOTD2, and the odd bit of cricket (apparently) what other sports are covered by the BEEB on a weekly basis?

[jno]

the world's longest-running drama, according to Wiki. I can remember Walter Gabriel me ol pal me ol beauty but I expect his great-grandchildren are now ag labs.

[ToraToraTora]

Casualty is another one that started as a good drama with different story lines each week but got turned into EastEnders in a hospital.