Welcome to the second Coaxial podcast, with Gareth Kavanagh and Christian Cawley. This week, we chat about the changing faces and fortunes of ITV’s pair of premium soap operas, Coronation Street and Emmerdale (Farm). Are the glory days of both soaps now long-since past? Has Emmerdale found itself accidentally socially relevant simply by being set in the countryside?
And do the toilets in the Rovers Return really lead into Ken Barlow’s sitting room?
Shownotes
- Coronation Street closing titles from 1960
- Corriepedia
- Blanche Hunt Gets Drunk
- Emmerdale Farm episode 30 (includes opening titles)
- Joe Sugden gets bad news
- Last of the Summer Wine: Compo in a bathtub
- Summer Winos
- We have been watching:
- Fear the Walking Dead, The Sopranos, NCIS