Have soaps run their course?
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Are Soaps the Right Vehicle for These Issues?
TV is a second choice activity people flock to watch when they've got nothing else to do. Soaps have had this obsession with gangsters, and i just think that's totally the wrong way to go. We want to see our own lives reflected in a heightened way. There is no other programme where you can live with a character for 20 years and really feel like there's somebody that has visited your home. It's interesting thinking about new soap and streamers, cause the problem wous tet fliks and all the streamers is that they've got no patients.
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