lolly
Rowena? From Kuwait?
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I find it interesting looking at EastEnders particularly, just because it has had something of a small resurgence and a huge storyline recently, whereas the other two still seem to be in relatively gentle decline.
But even EastEnders resurgence sees it only narrowly above where it was this time last year, and back to where it was a few months before the Christmas peak. And that's off the back of what was its biggest, most hyped storyline in years, which was pretty much universally applauded, from what I saw. I assumed that EastEnders would run with that and be seeing off Emmerdale now - but it hasn't. I still think it may yet do it, but it'll be due to people stopping watching Emmerdale rather than EastEnders picking up a new audience.
Like Slave says, I don't think the soaps are competitive in any real sense. I think we've just worked down to a relatively low fanbase who watch out of habit rather than anything else on the whole. Seeing how the audience slumps when an episode of any of them is shunted around the schedule for football or whatever only underlines that for me. Regardless of how easy it is to catch up with that episode, a significant chunk of people just can't be bothered.
But even EastEnders resurgence sees it only narrowly above where it was this time last year, and back to where it was a few months before the Christmas peak. And that's off the back of what was its biggest, most hyped storyline in years, which was pretty much universally applauded, from what I saw. I assumed that EastEnders would run with that and be seeing off Emmerdale now - but it hasn't. I still think it may yet do it, but it'll be due to people stopping watching Emmerdale rather than EastEnders picking up a new audience.
Like Slave says, I don't think the soaps are competitive in any real sense. I think we've just worked down to a relatively low fanbase who watch out of habit rather than anything else on the whole. Seeing how the audience slumps when an episode of any of them is shunted around the schedule for football or whatever only underlines that for me. Regardless of how easy it is to catch up with that episode, a significant chunk of people just can't be bothered.