Soap opera

‘It’s the closest thing my family has to religion’: Guardian readers on Coronation Street

Is it unwatchably dark? Too stuffed with uninspiring characters? Or a humorous joy that conjures up cosy nostalgia? Your thoughts on the world’s longest-running TV soap

Guardian readers

12, Apr, 2024 @1:18 PM

Ridiculous plots are killing off our soaps | Brief letters

02, Apr, 2024 @5:13 PM

‘People are getting murdered in knicker factories!’: how Coronation Street lost the plot

Fans are outraged, ex-cast members think it’s drivel – even its current actors are fed up. How did the world’s longest running soap go from shaping the national conversation to thinking it’s a ropey crime drama?

Tom Ambrose

02, Apr, 2024 @4:00 AM

The Guardian view on the end of long-running TV characters: in death there is life | Editorial

Editorial: After 38 years, Charlie Fairhead has retired from the medical wards of the TV drama Casualty. Welcome back to the real world, actor Derek Thompson

Editorial

17, Mar, 2024 @5:59 PM

BBC move to axe Doctors is ‘disastrous’, says screenwriter

Soap has given opportunities to actors, writers and production staff, says Philip Ralph on last day of filming

Allan Glen

02, Mar, 2024 @5:07 PM

Alan Ayckbourn was ahead of the curve in predictions of AI-created TV soaps | Letters

Letters: Yvonne Whalley on the rise of AI actors. Plus Mike Peacock on Donald Sinden’s Othello

25, Feb, 2024 @6:47 PM

John Savident obituary

Stage and screen actor best known for playing the bombastic butcher Fred Elliott in Coronation Street

Toby Hadoke

25, Feb, 2024 @3:06 PM

TV soaps could be made by AI within three years, director warns

Director of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses tells inquiry that ‘changes are coming dramatically and very, very soon’

Alexi Duggins

22, Feb, 2024 @4:28 PM

Himesh Patel: ‘I was still working as a paperboy when I was in EastEnders’

The actor, 33, tells Rich Pelley struggling with self-belief, realising he was famous, his Bond ambitions and pinky-linking in India

Rich Pelley

17, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM

EastEnders actor, 27, laughs off criticism that he is too old to play school bully

Liam Hatch’s appearance in Albert Square as Logan met with comments such as ‘Dad’s gone back to class’

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

04, Feb, 2024 @1:27 PM

‘Possibly the loudest noise I have ever made’: how I became Neighbours’ worst extra

‘Go on camera,’ they said. ‘It will be fun,’ they said. ‘Don’t make any sound or do anything strange,’ they said

Sian Cain

15, Dec, 2023 @2:00 PM

Dean Sullivan obituary

Actor who played Jimmy Corkhill in the long-running Channel 4 soap Brookside

Anthony Hayward

01, Dec, 2023 @5:51 PM

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