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It also makes people realise how important it is that our beautiful rivers should be kept pollution free so the fish can thrive.

At least the fish are released again and, more often than not, they don't catch anything and it doesn't matter.

I read an article once that said the whole idea of soaps was to be crisis laden with argumentative people so that when an episode finished we could be happy - that “our lives aren’t THAT bad”!

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Try watching 'Gone Fishing'. Gentle, funny and beautiful scenery and music. It's not all doom and gloom on TV.

Not very gentle for the poor fish though

Same as Maybe I loved Brookside in its heyday. Also watched Neighbours at the outset, I'd been to Australia and was attracted to Aussie programmes, even though it was a load of nonsense, a bit of escapism in the middle of the day when I was a new mum. Coronation Street, they had some great characters like Deidre's mum once. S'tenders always inhabited by a dreary load of shouty people imo. Haven't watched any of them for years and years, from what I hear and read, definitely not missing much.

I used to watch Brookside and found their storylines were quite good. Having gone through a divorce myself I was surprised how realistic a divorce storyline was; conversations that I would have thought implausible prior to my own marriage breakdown. However, I stopped watching soaps when they became full of murders and explosions etc. I rather long for the early days of Coronation Street and Neighbours. I avoid the news these days as it depresses me and I do the same with soaps.

I watched Emmerdale and had to switch over, all this grooming and violence and teenage prostitution all before the watershed is horrible. Too much for me. Same with Eastenders and Corrie,

Try watching 'Gone Fishing'. Gentle, funny and beautiful scenery and music. It's not all doom and gloom on TV.

Me too which is why I haven't watched soaps for years...