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I came here to ask the same question about why "Coronation Street • Doctors • Emmerdale • EastEnders • Hollyoaks" are laid out differently from the others. Far from making them more prominent, to me it makes them easier to overlook. Visually, they can be glanced over as title clutter. Even when you
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I notice one of the edit comments says: "EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Corrie, Emmerdale and
Doctors are British soaps - not just English!" I beg to differ. They each of these soaps is set somewhere in England. Eastenders = London; Hollyoaks = Cheshire; Corrie = Manchester; Emmerdale = West Yorkshire. The
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It's a matter of opinion as to what a soap means (and not of quality, which has little to do with anything). They certainly didn't start out as soaps, but these days, with both running (pretty much) all year round, and with long-running melodramatic storylines, most of the viewing public (and, I
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Casualty and Holby City are not soaps. Fullstop. End of. (Although the quality of
Casualty is little above soap level these days). Casualty and Holby City are both medical dramas, which is the generally held viewpoint of the two shows production teams.
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Why are "Coronation Street • Doctors • Emmerdale • EastEnders • Hollyoaks" written across the top? Why aren't they in an appropriate category? What makes them so special? --19:28, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
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Neighbours needs to be distinguished from others in the current section because it is now on a steaming platform rather than television as such. Although maybe I'm being too literal
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The fact that the template feels the need to separate them out and call them "dramas" suggests a lack of confidence that they are. If they're not, then what are they doing here at all?
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do notice them, it's not obvious why they are presented in that way, unless you already know. I suggest they are put in a section called something like "Main current TV soaps".
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Doctors which is set in a fictional place called "Letherbridge" which doesn't seem to have been given a general locale as far as I've seen. --
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