Brookside is back!

[Miss Havisham]

I am watching it and loving it.

 

[HowlOwl]

Is anyone still watching?

I love it! The writing and acting is particularly well done at the moment between Sheila and Bobby, with the vasectomy story. I think Heather‘s new chap Tom is going to try and control her (plus he’s got a funny mouth). The car buying with Harry and Ralph is entertaining.

 

[RocksOff]

Can someone please tell me how to watch this in Ireland. Can't find it anywhere

Are you able to download the STV app?

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

Barry and Sue
I never liked Ron Dixon, but forgotten he's a racialist as well
Good old Harry Cross upsetting folks still, I never realized the actress who plays Josie is Colin Jackson's real life sister!

This is the kind of Classic Brookie gossip I'm here for!

 

[Maid22]

Good God I can't wait for Chrissy to leave.

I'm now catching up, she's really awful isn't she?
Poor Katie

 

[AdsB]

I was 16 when Brookie ended and I taped the last episode & kept it for years! I don’t know how old I was when I first started watching but I remember so many key moments like the gas explosion! Also Tinhead was my first crush!

I haven’t watched Hollyoaks in years but I will def be watching this!

We have the same era of watching! I can remember the body under the patio. The incest storyline, the gas explosion and the Millennium club bomb. So I guess I watched from 1995 to 1999. I dipped back in for the bullying storyline and the 2002 siege but I stopped watching again when they took it off week nights.

 

[AdsB]

I remember the siege seemed to go on for ages!

 

[AdsB]

Thanks @Maid22 for flagging up this thread! I’ve seen so many storylines mentioned so far that I don’t remember, although i only really watched it from about the mid-90s. Saturday teatimes were never the same without the omnibus!

I remember the body under the patio, the lesbian kiss, the brother and sister relationship and Mick Johnno’s mother-in-law (?) asking him to euthanise her. Casa Bevron!

I’m looking forward to seeing what makes Barry Grant turn rogue as he seems alright so far! Not sure how he can cope with Petra tbh

I loved this era. Think I watched Brookside from 1995-2000

 

[GeeUniit]

Oh god where can I watch Brookside?

STV player, from the beginning, we’re up to over 300 episodes now

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

I also recognised his voice first to, not his face with the floppy hair!!

Someone on DS compared his look to Rik Mayall’s character Lord Flasheart in Blackadder, especially the way he was smarming around Sarah. The only thing missing was him thrusting and saying “woof“

 

[kendallroysdownfall]

Good God I can't wait for Chrissy to leave.

 

[pixxyy]

I'm so excited for the cross over, though brief it'll be nice to catch up with the Brookie characters,
Wonder if theres enough time for them to also mention characters who arnt appearing? So mentions of the Murrays, Dixons etc
As I did read they asked Sarah White( Bev) but she was filming elsewhere

 

[RocksOff]

I think there may have been an episode missing @Maid22
There seemed to be a gap in the storyline

 

[Maid22]

The first appearance of Max & Patricia Farnham coming to view the house

This feels like the start of Brookside 2.0

I did wonder if that was them!! So they look at the Chois's?
Who has the Collin's next, is it the Dixon's?

 

[Maid22]

Yes, Rod winding Jimmy up about the meat, so funny! Like this side of Rod!

 

[MitziAdele]

The basement is drenched lol

Oops

 

[Maid22]

@RocksOff hope you're not working to hard and get a chance to catch up, though the last few weeks have been meh, this week's have been better!

Felt sorry for Geoff, his dreams shattered, his mother is awful and annoying (not for much longer I hope!)
Sue, what a cow! Nagged Terry to get himself checked out because she went on and on about having a baby, now she wants to wait!!
That scene with Tracy and Mark, he was nasty, but then it went to the next day, I was hoping to see Rod catch him, very strange!

 

[twinkleunicorn]

I didn’t watch the very early episodes either. Sky dont make it easy to find the new ones. They’re all over the place!
Don’t remember Harry Cross’s wife. She cant have been in it long. Didn’t he end up in a bungalow?
I think the thing that stands out for me is the language they use. More so derogatory terms in particular. Ofcom would have a field day if it was now!!
Also i cant help but think of Marie and the character she was in Shirley Valentine

Yes that’s all I can see, the woman who was in Shirley valentine!

 

[HowlOwl]

Barry Grant beats Billy surely?
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No, I don’t get the Barry Grant love!

What husband is this? That one with the glasses? I can't believe she didn't marry Tom. She must be bloody mad.

He was wealthy but a control freak, with a funny mouth. Feel a bit sorry for Heather, that she didn’t actually meet anyone decent, although at least Nick made her laugh.

 

[Cupid_Stunt]

Oooh I can't find this week's episodes on sky
And I can't log in to to STV app as I've forgotten my password
Has anyone else had this?
I'm desperate to see this fight

The episodes are there on Sky now (it took them a couple of days to sort it out). They are under the Series 18 package