Category: Soapworld

ITV has axed 60’s Police drama series Heartbeat and its medical spin-off series The Royal due to falling ratings, according to a tabloid report. The Daily Mail reports that ITV has decided to axe struggling drama’s Heartbeat and The Royal. Both drama’s, set in the 1960s, were firm Sunday night favorites with viewers but over the past year ratings for […]

Five crew members from the 1960s-based Heartbeat drama have been taken to hospital after an accident while on a location shoot. The incident happened in the village of Grosmont – near Whitby – in North Yorkshire and involved a tractor. It’s reported that the tractor rolled down an embankment injuring some of the crew, including a cameraman who some reports […]

A round up of smaller stories about the residents of Albert Square. Geoffrey Hutchings is soon to appear in a number of episodes of EastEnders to play Jane and Christian’s father, Roger. He is probably best known for his roles in ITV sitcom Benidorm in which he played Madge’s boyfriend Mel and prison drama Bad Girls where he played Sylvia […]

Just when you thought it was safe to watch Coronation Street again its been reported today that Maria Connor and arch rival Tony ‘Evil’ Gordon are to become lovers. The Sun reports that ‘love blooms’ between the odd couple after the departure of Carla. Later she begins to think her campaign against Tony to prove he ordered Liam’s hit-and-run murder […]

The Windass family have certainly made their presence felt on the street but is that a good thing? Are you fans of the latest arrivals to the cobbles of Weatherfield? Do you think the Windass’ are a great addition to Coronation Street? Or maybe you can’t stand them? Maybe you think they are the latest in a long-line of poor […]

Australian television sources report that Neighbours producers could be about to introduce a new generation of the Ramsay family. In what appears to be an attempt to take the show back to its high rating days of the 1980s current bosses at the Five aired soap are bringing back one of the original families – in surname only. Back in […]

ITV’s long running cop drama The Bill is to be relaunched later this year. The relaunch includes a change to the number of weekly episodes and a new post watershed time slot. Read on for more… The long running police procedural saga currently airs twice weekly at 8.00pm every Wednesday and Thursday with the Wednesday episode occasionally being dropped in […]

ITV today announced it had appointed Gavin Blyth as the new Series Producer on Emmerdale. The appointment was made by new Executive Producer Steve Frost following the announcement last week that the former bosses were departing the show. Gavin is no stranger to the Yorkshire based series having first worked as a senior TV publicist with Emmerdale, moving onto the […]