When Channel Five was looking for a soap to launch with in the mid 1990s it initially considered reviving Crossroads – the infamous Midlands soap set in a Motel near Birmingham. With speculation continuing to rise that the broadcaster could be about to revive or repeat Brookside we take a glance back at the other soaps to feature on the channel across the years from its home-produced Family Affairs to exports such as Sunset Beach. It just means it was a part of our lives and a really important part of our lives.We take a look at the soaps that have featured on Channel Five since its launch in 1997. It doesn’t make me less of an intellectual or less deep or interesting or whatever. It’s so much more accepted to be like, hey, shit can be fun and stupid. And now we’re suddenly doing a 180 and embracing it because of the time that we’re living in.
Like in the press, people would ask and I’d be like, oh, that was just a thing I did. Because it’s not an accident that Travis and I are revisiting this thing in our lives that we were kind of embarrassed about for a long time and didn’t really talk about and kind of shied away from. Natalie Zea: I think you’re right, and I think it’s indicative of the time. To take it seriously, we must use this really complex language. But I do feel like there is some level of defensiveness here. I watch Passions all day while waiting for the world to end. We have to justify soap operas and our love of soap operas within this language of Freud, within the language of academia, when really, now, from our 2020 lens, we can all just be like, we love Jane the Virgin. Julia Pistell: If I may make a sweeping statement, this feels like the patriarchy. Today we embrace the melodrama, the secret, the amnesia, the surprise relative, the multiple personality disorder, the recasting, the coming back from the dead, the love, the murder, and the marriages (!), as we talk about No End to Herby Martha Nochimson and all things soap opera with special guests Natalie Zea and Travis Schuldt.
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