Characters:
Stuart – dating Flick
Flick – She and Steph are sisters
Steph – jealous of Stuart and Flick
Michael – dating Conna
Conna – dating Michael
Toddie – lives with Stuart
Lyn – Flick, Steph, And Michael’s mother
Darcy – thinks he loves Chloe
Chloe – hotel manager
Loo – owns pub
Libby – just lost Drew who left with baby
Sunna – Libby’s mother who recently lost her memory
Coronation Street
Setting = Typical English street based in Manchester, Granada Studios. It’s a traditional British Soap and is the longest serving Soap in Britain.
Target Audience = Coronation Street as a general audience. It ranges from young teenagers up to the older men and women. This is unusual for soap but it is because the storylines and characters apply for all ages.
TV = Coronation Street is on a Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on ITV1 at 7:30 until 8.00 and is on at mainstream time when all families are settling down after Tea and are watching telly. On Saturday and Sunday there is an omnibus of Coronation Street on ITV2. Coronation Street is quiet popular because it is on mainstream telly and this helps Coronations Street get good ratings.
Storylines:
- Dev and Steve become partners through Karen. The only reason Dev is involved is because Vic his brother and Steve’s ex girlfriend left them £10,000 tax debt and business is going down.
- Steve blasts Karen then realises she is right. Patches up things between them.
- Richard tells Steve that desperate times call for desperate measures.
- Richard sees Sarah-Louise come out of a derelict house where her ex boyfriend, Aiden, who put her in intensive care, is squatting. She brings him food and water.
- Doreen and Fred break engagement. Doreen wants to tell people that she was the one who broke it up but Fred goes behind her back and tells the complete opposite.
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Maxine and Ashley are throwing a party for Maxine’s mother, Doreen, 50th birthday party. Emily is looking after Maxine’s baby. Richard finds out.
- Richard goes to the house were Aiden is squatting wearing black gloves so he doesn’t leave fingerprints, he finds a crowbar and a pair of workman’s gloves. He picks them up and looks with a devious face. It finishes on a cliff-hanger.
Comparing Neighbours And Coronation
Street
I think that Neighbours and Coronation Street are both totally different soaps. I think that Neighbours is based on a younger audience and appeals to a different kind of audience then the people who watch Coronation Street. Coronation Street is for all audience but is mainly watched by the older generation because it has more complicated storyline which have more detailed scripts. Neighbours is very easy to understand and is why it is attracted from the younger audience.
I think the soaps, however, do have some similarities. They both have the same kind of setting, and have a meeting place like a pub and a work place like a café or hotel etc. They also have similar storylines but no in the same detail. But they do have great differences. They have different accents, they are based in different countries, and they both have different spreads of age groups in the cast. One of the main differences is the area. Neighbours is set in a very sunny, happy and joyful place were people are generally cheerful and pleasant. However, in Coronation Street it is different. It is set in a street which is very traditional and the people are happy but usually moody, unhappy or sad and there is always argument between the characters.
