Brookside is back!

[Marmalade Atkins]

After Laura died from switching on a light I was scared to touch a light switch for months

I still think about this every time I touch a light switch with damp fingers

 

[Maid22]

I had a look on ch4's ALL4 app & they only have 3 episodes, from various years available to watch.
Strange
Almost as though it doesn't fit with the channel's output these days.

I know, they put up a few episodes, then nothing, didn't they show the first episode when channel launched?

 

[Lullabella22]

What channel ?

 

[minnieminx88]

Karen is annoying isnt she. I vaguely remembered her being like that. I feel the teenager thing is overacted. The eye rolls etc.

 

[GeeUniit]

I couldn’t get the latest 5 on sky either, I’ve found it rubbish. Some weeks they are there sometimes they take days. I got them today through the STV app on the tv but you can’t FF the ads

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

Did anyone else spot Yasmeen from Corrie?

 

[Beverley macca]

Ahhh bless Jimmy. Rip Dean. One of Brookie's best. Tara love

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

MICK!

 

[GeeUniit]

There are more ads than actual brookie time.

I watch on sky rather than the STV App and there’s little or no ads. And you can fast forward

 

[minnieminx88]

I caught episode 1, looks almost like it was filmed in a home movie style
Loved seeing the old cars, the yellow Citroen 2CV, Bobby Grant's Austin Princess & Barry's gas guzzler Jaguar.
I remember when these new-build estates were springing up & hanging around the sites with pals, being a nuisance to the night watchman.
Soaps like Neighbours definitely took inspiration from Brookside a few years later.
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Roger's underpants oh my

Yes i love seeing the old cars etc. The decor in the houses too. It’s quite nostalgic.
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So am sat absolutely racking my brains over this Gavin character. His voice i recognised most and i was wondering where it was from. Wiki’d him and went through his list of appearances in various things. Got nowhere. Then saw it. He was Ches in My Family

 

[RocksOff]

Happy New Year's Brookie fans!
I'd forgotten how annoying Sheila was, she seems to want everything on her terms and all of her NEEDS,
Happily moved in with Billy but not happy for Bobby to move on is just one example over the years and her Catholic faith is very important to her when it suits?
Yes, Poor Tracey is going through it at the moment, I'd like to have seen her and Barry stay together to be honest,as I like both characters.
The Chois have finally moved on, they spoke about their departure almost from the moment they arrived
I'm with you @Maid22, Jimmy and Sinbad could be annoying at times, but I did laugh at them dressed up at the bbq
I like the different storylines with The Rodgers and will be sorry to see The Collins family go, and course Harry has moved on too, though Mick is a great character to replace him
We have all the Sue and Danny drama to come!
Will be all change soon with the new families arriving, exciting times!

 

[MumtoKE]

I have just remembered how irritating the Rodger’s were

Yes it reminded me why I stopped watching it back then

 

[amysiobhan84]

Thank you for answering! The reruns are on STV player, the one of you tripping over is in the last 5 shown (they show 5 episodes a week!) oh you must show your kids, Brookside was one of the best soaps, ever!!

Ah thanks! I'll try later haha

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

The end of this week’s last episode was a bit shocking.

That guy Sinnott, Mike’s nemesis, was played by Neil Fitzmaurice (who was credited as Neil Anthony in these episodes)

He’s probably best known nowadays for being in Phoenix Nights

 

[AdsB]

“Liked” is probably the wrong word to use but yes that was so harrowing and very brave for a soap to kill off both of a character’s children

You’ve only got about a year until she’s killed off herself.

 

[Maid22]

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That’s definitely Gizmo in the navy fleece but anyone know the others are? Could that me Ducksie next to him?

Blimey Gizmo is still so recognisable!! No idea about the others!

 

[Maid22]

Abso;utely agree. I've never had a problem.

Caught up on this weeks episodes and have to say, WTF was I watching in the last 5 minutes??

That whole last episode was odd, why were Barry and Heather at Alans? It felt like we missed an episode!
That Liz was awful and as for Alan being drunk, never quite seen acting like that for a while

 

[AdsB]

Anyone still watching??

I’m only on episode 2 . Maybe I’ll come back to watching in a few years when it gets to the mid 90s. My era of watching.

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

Is it just me or is anyone finding it abit flat at the mo?
I didn't go much on Xmas episode and felt like an episode was missing after they found Barry in the freezer!!
I was never a fan of gangster Barry.
Am only really liking Max and snobby Pat!
And the new theme music

The new theme music is reminding me of when the Eastenders theme had that jazzy update in 1993 that not many people liked so it went back to the old version after less than a year

 

[RocksOff]

Yes, Poor Katie!
It definitely seems to be going through a rough patch at the moment, as said, Annabelle's story line has had to be written with poor Doreen Sloane's illness to be taken into account.
Paul and Gordon storyline is ok
Billy and Sheila keeping things ticking over, Chrissie still moaning, apart from one kind moment with Katie, she just shouts all the time. Jon and Cheryl going around in circles, for a new relationship, they don't seem at all happy, Sue and Terry just warming up for a great storyline, I seem to remember
But the Choi family is so boring, I just zap through it, I've no interest at all.
Don't half miss Barry, he livens things up!!