I’m completely addicted to this show, and don’t really know why. The acting is awful for the most part, and there are so way to many characters, I feel like I finally figure out who someone is, but then they disappear. The storylines aren’t so great for the most part. I like the longer arcs, for example with Dan’s imprisonment, and how it affects the Hunters, but the shorter storylines, which only last for a week, are harder to invest in. As I’ve only been watching few moths, and its hard to care when a college student steals another’s poo sculptor, when I don’t even know the character’s names and I don’t hear from them again after the three day story line is over. Still this might be because I’ve been watching for such a short time.
Hollyoaks
Started by
joy1983
, Jun 13 2004 07:40 PM
1223 replies to this topic
#1
Posted Jun 13, 2004 @ 7:40 PM
#2
Posted Jun 13, 2004 @ 8:36 PM
I've heard of this show; usually it's when I'm looking for Corrie articles in the Hello! and OK! magazines at Barnes and Noble. It sounds like the British answer to Dawson's Creek, but serialized in many-episodes-a-week installments.
#3
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 6:19 AM
Finally a Hollyoaks thread! I've always been too scared to start one! I've been addicted to the show for years.
I think Hollyoaks is starting to become more mainstream, with Brookside now gone it's becoming the the fourth big soap along with Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale.
I'm worried though about the axing of 14 character, many of the ones going are my favourites. It looks like all we're being left with are the students and the annoying new families
I think Hollyoaks is starting to become more mainstream, with Brookside now gone it's becoming the the fourth big soap along with Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale.
I'm worried though about the axing of 14 character, many of the ones going are my favourites. It looks like all we're being left with are the students and the annoying new families
#4
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 7:14 AM
Well, squiggles, if you're lucky, it will turn out that they're all alive on a tropical island. I mean, it happened on Days of our Lives.
I'm kind of talking out of my ass here, but what about Coronation Street? (I gather we're talking about England here?)it's becoming the the fourth big soap along with Eastenders, Corrie and Emmerdale.
#5
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 9:45 AM
Corrie is Coronation Street. That's its nickname.
#6
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 9:53 AM
I’m also upset about some of the characters they are killing off, but I do think that there are too many characters on the show, so a mass killing is an interesting way of getting rid of the excess. But I also heard they will start to rebuild the cast after the killing, so I don’t quite see the point.
#7
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 11:20 AM
Thanks, TheCustomOfLife! I feel dumb now.
joy1983, if they really do rebuild the cast, then the likeliest reason for a mass killing would be to eliminate some of the more expensive, veteran actors from the cast. Newbies are much cheaper to have on the payroll.
joy1983, if they really do rebuild the cast, then the likeliest reason for a mass killing would be to eliminate some of the more expensive, veteran actors from the cast. Newbies are much cheaper to have on the payroll.
#8
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 1:29 PM
Hollyoaks hasn't been on the air that long (what, nine years?), so I don't think there is a big problem regarding veteran castmembers.
#9
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 2:40 PM
News on the departure of TWO more HOLLYOAKS cast members.
Helen Noble and Barney Cleverly are to bow out playing Abby and Will Davies respectively in July. Abby leaves Chester to go to Bournemouth UNI and it is yet un-known as to how Will leaves the show. It is thought that Ben will re-locate elsewhere in Hollyoaks meaning his character WILL remain in the soap.
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Two more Hollyoaks cast members are to be written out of the show in September, after crisis meetings were held by show bosses on Friday. It was decided that, in a bid to revive ratings, Christine Bailey who plays newcomer Danni Carbone, and Jimmy McKenna who plays pub landlord Jack Osbourne are to leave the hit Channel 4 soap.
Christine's character is set to be involved in a relationship with Will Davies (whose also leaving the soap, as reported in May). The two will be humiliatingly disgraced by residents as their affair is exposed by son Ben.
Jimmys character Jack will die of lung cancer in whats penned to be one of Hollyoaks most emotional storylines, leaving the Dog In The Pond to son Darren and daughter Ruth. Thus promting her return to the show in July.
Bosses are also keen to bring back three previous characters, Gary Lucy who played Luke Morgan, Alex Bell who was played by Martino Lazzeri and feisty character Geri Hudson played by Joanna Taylor
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Helen Noble and Barney Cleverly are to bow out playing Abby and Will Davies respectively in July. Abby leaves Chester to go to Bournemouth UNI and it is yet un-known as to how Will leaves the show. It is thought that Ben will re-locate elsewhere in Hollyoaks meaning his character WILL remain in the soap.
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Two more Hollyoaks cast members are to be written out of the show in September, after crisis meetings were held by show bosses on Friday. It was decided that, in a bid to revive ratings, Christine Bailey who plays newcomer Danni Carbone, and Jimmy McKenna who plays pub landlord Jack Osbourne are to leave the hit Channel 4 soap.
Christine's character is set to be involved in a relationship with Will Davies (whose also leaving the soap, as reported in May). The two will be humiliatingly disgraced by residents as their affair is exposed by son Ben.
Jimmys character Jack will die of lung cancer in whats penned to be one of Hollyoaks most emotional storylines, leaving the Dog In The Pond to son Darren and daughter Ruth. Thus promting her return to the show in July.
Bosses are also keen to bring back three previous characters, Gary Lucy who played Luke Morgan, Alex Bell who was played by Martino Lazzeri and feisty character Geri Hudson played by Joanna Taylor
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#10
Posted Jun 14, 2004 @ 4:02 PM
Well the girl that plays Dannii can't act so she's no great loss.
They really are loosing nearly all the cast that's been there for more than a year- Lisa, Lee, their mum and dad, Abby, Zara, Cameron, Norman, Mandy, Robbie, Izzy, Scott, Nick, Kristian, Will, Jack and the girl that plays Debbie has now quit to spend more time with her Westlife boyfriend. There's literally going to be no one of any worth left!
They really are loosing nearly all the cast that's been there for more than a year- Lisa, Lee, their mum and dad, Abby, Zara, Cameron, Norman, Mandy, Robbie, Izzy, Scott, Nick, Kristian, Will, Jack and the girl that plays Debbie has now quit to spend more time with her Westlife boyfriend. There's literally going to be no one of any worth left!
#11
Posted Dec 20, 2005 @ 7:33 AM
Christmas in Hollyoaks should be exciting!! Acording to rumours/spoilers
- Justin and Becca get it on
- Mandy is tempted to cheat with regular
- Dannii comits suicide
- Zara and Lee leave to go to Thiland
- Mel gets drunk and passes out getting Pnumonia
- Nicole and Nancy fight over Justin
Can't wait!!! Especially for the Justin and Becca scenes
- Justin and Becca get it on
- Mandy is tempted to cheat with regular
- Dannii comits suicide
- Zara and Lee leave to go to Thiland
- Mel gets drunk and passes out getting Pnumonia
- Nicole and Nancy fight over Justin
Can't wait!!! Especially for the Justin and Becca scenes
#12
Posted Jan 29, 2006 @ 12:36 PM
Whoa, I was not expecting to find a Hollyoaks thread on here. It seems pretty empty, is anyone else watching it?
I just have to say that Dannii's exit couldn't come soon enough. The character was appealing, but Christina Baily really needs to tune up her acting skills. The first scene of Friday's episode was painful to watch, mainly because CB wasn't making that much of an effort to escape from Russ's grip on her.
I just have to say that Dannii's exit couldn't come soon enough. The character was appealing, but Christina Baily really needs to tune up her acting skills. The first scene of Friday's episode was painful to watch, mainly because CB wasn't making that much of an effort to escape from Russ's grip on her.
#13
Posted Apr 22, 2006 @ 10:55 AM
Hi I think we are the only two. LOL!!!!
Couple of new spoilers
* Nicole finds out about Justin and Becca
* Jake gets arrested after beating Justin up
Couple of new spoilers
* Nicole finds out about Justin and Becca
* Jake gets arrested after beating Justin up
#14
Posted Jun 8, 2006 @ 1:55 PM
I can't believe there isn't a more active forum for Hollyoaks! I love it. Weirdly, since I hate pretty much every character on it...maybe its because they all suffer so terribly. Like Tony, for example. Becca, on the other hand, cannot suffer too much. Mandy's smackdown today (on C4) had me literally cheering. I hate Becca more than I think is healthy for a fictional character.
Otherwise, OB, please come home, baby. You are needed. By me, if no one else. Claire has to go, we all know you're Tom's real Mummy.
Otherwise, OB, please come home, baby. You are needed. By me, if no one else. Claire has to go, we all know you're Tom's real Mummy.
#15
Posted Jun 8, 2006 @ 2:45 PM
Nooo! They can't get rid of Claire. I haven't enjoyed seeing a character be so over the top evil since the halcyon days of Izzy's Mum and PsychoLesbian Laura(/Lara?). How Max can't realise she's Satan when she walks around giving everyone the evil eye is just one the many comedy Hollyoaks Highlights that keeps me watching.
Was Tony and Mandy's baby called Grace or Antonia? Was that a plot point or did they just decide to change for no reason one day like they did with Sam/Liam?
Agreed on Becca though. Her face hasn't changed for the last week, and she's the worst offender in terms of the Hollyoaks school of "Touch The Wall" acting. Every time someone gets emotional they have to either rub their fingers along a wall or slide down in it pulling a scrunched up sad face. That and the fact she doesn't point out that Jake had an affair with Lisa (aka The Honey Monster) who was all of about 12 at the time, so they're even. But then we wouldn't have the joys of Nancy calling her an "dirty...disgusting...PAEDOPHILE!" before stomping off.
Comedy moment of the year.
Was Tony and Mandy's baby called Grace or Antonia? Was that a plot point or did they just decide to change for no reason one day like they did with Sam/Liam?
Agreed on Becca though. Her face hasn't changed for the last week, and she's the worst offender in terms of the Hollyoaks school of "Touch The Wall" acting. Every time someone gets emotional they have to either rub their fingers along a wall or slide down in it pulling a scrunched up sad face. That and the fact she doesn't point out that Jake had an affair with Lisa (aka The Honey Monster) who was all of about 12 at the time, so they're even. But then we wouldn't have the joys of Nancy calling her an "dirty...disgusting...PAEDOPHILE!" before stomping off.
Comedy moment of the year.
Edited by NotPatrick, Jun 8, 2006 @ 2:46 PM.
#16
Posted Jun 8, 2006 @ 4:59 PM
Was Tony and Mandy's baby called Grace or Antonia? Was that a plot point or did they just decide to change for no reason one day like they did with Sam/Liam
She was called Antonia for what felt like months, but was probably only a few weeks (you know how a day feels like a week in Hollyoaks time) then Mandy decided she couldn't stand that name since, you know, it reminded her of Tony every time she looked at her daughter. So Antonia became Grace. Apparently now Mandy is going to "grow closer" to Dom which has been on the cards since day one. I want something more imaginative, like Mandy having a complete mental breakdown and going after Justin to see what all the fuss is about.
#17
Posted Jun 10, 2006 @ 6:54 PM
Yes, you are right, NotPatrick, Claire is a great character. I'm just bitter because she drove OB away. I just love the way she always pulls a face behind Max's back when they hug -so camp. Just once, it'd be great if there was a mirror there and she was caught out.
"I don't think we were ever meant to be together" - Mandy, a truer word was never spake. Yet whilst I applaud her decision to drop Tony, I can't help but feel she could upgrade a little higher than Dom Nice-but-Dim. Anyone else choke themselves on ironic laughter as Tony and Jake criticised everyone else for selfishness?
As for the Honey Monster, I'm just grateful to her because she took the ball of self-satisfaction that was Ben off my screen.
"I don't think we were ever meant to be together" - Mandy, a truer word was never spake. Yet whilst I applaud her decision to drop Tony, I can't help but feel she could upgrade a little higher than Dom Nice-but-Dim. Anyone else choke themselves on ironic laughter as Tony and Jake criticised everyone else for selfishness?
As for the Honey Monster, I'm just grateful to her because she took the ball of self-satisfaction that was Ben off my screen.
#18
Posted Jun 11, 2006 @ 7:48 AM
Just once, it'd be great if there was a mirror there and she was caught out.
Or we'd find out she's actually a vampire. It'd all suddenly make so much sense...
And don't even mention Ben. Gah. I hated how he was always right just because he was a fireman and supposedly "the fittest man in the history of Hollyoaks". Whatever.
#19
Posted Jun 11, 2006 @ 5:57 PM
As for the Honey Monster, I'm just grateful to her because she took the ball of self-satisfaction that was Ben off my screen.
Don't be too grateful because apparently a new Hollyoaks spin off is on the cards yet again starring Ben and Lisa with her new boobs. Because Hollyoaks Let Loose was so successful...
Otherwise, OB, please come home, baby. You are needed. By me, if no one else. Claire has to go, we all know you're Tom's real Mummy.
Too true. OB is Max's one true love although new!Claire is hilarious, especially with her fascinating array of red belts.
#20
Posted Jun 11, 2006 @ 6:34 PM
Eee, Hollyoaks! There's nothing quite like coming home from a hard day at work and sitting down with my housemate to laugh our way through an episode, ridiculing the writing/acting/directing - well basically everything about it - throughout. Yet despite our mockery, we remain addicted and utterly helpless in the face of any attempts to do something else at 6:30/7 every evening. It clearly has a strange and unhealthy hold over us.
How fantastic is Tom though? The way he effortlessly acts everyone else off the screen is priceless. I loved how he foiled those shoplifters (the hideous Michaela and her less hideous but ten times more boring friend) a couple of days ago. It was just beautiful.
How fantastic is Tom though? The way he effortlessly acts everyone else off the screen is priceless. I loved how he foiled those shoplifters (the hideous Michaela and her less hideous but ten times more boring friend) a couple of days ago. It was just beautiful.
#21
Posted Oct 20, 2006 @ 12:00 AM
Is it me or is the whole clare storyline going on longer than loopy laura?
Gah!
Though I suppose Justinbecka is finally coming to an end - please please.
Gah!
Though I suppose Justinbecka is finally coming to an end - please please.
#22
Posted Jan 17, 2007 @ 11:26 PM
Who else is disturbed by the McQueen crabs storyline?
Edited by saffiyah, Jan 28, 2007 @ 7:03 AM.
#23
Posted Jan 23, 2007 @ 5:04 PM
Oh, God, please, please, please let the Claire storyline end NOW. I can't take anymore. I'm going to eat my own head if I have to listen to her for another episode. I know Hollyoaks believes in storylines that become endurance tests, but this is ridiculous.
I just try not to think about it. It seems especially mean of the writers, because I can't be the only one trying to watch it while eating my dinner.Who else is disturbed by the McQueen crabs storyline?
#24
Posted Jan 23, 2007 @ 6:27 PM
Maybe it's because I came in on the end of this storyline after ignoring Hollyoaks for many years, but this is nowhere near the levels of mind-numbingness attained by the Luke/rape storyline.
But seriously: kill her off or something.
Fortunately I tend to have my dinner closer to eight. By that point I've scrubbed my brain sufficiently.
I kind of want Kris and Jess to get together, mostly in the hope that it'll make them less annoying.
And Will needs to stop being so effing creepy.
But seriously: kill her off or something.
Fortunately I tend to have my dinner closer to eight. By that point I've scrubbed my brain sufficiently.
I kind of want Kris and Jess to get together, mostly in the hope that it'll make them less annoying.
And Will needs to stop being so effing creepy.
#25
Posted Jan 23, 2007 @ 6:32 PM
Seriously, nothing will get to the "FFS just DIE already" levels present when evil drug dealer Rob(at least I think that was his name) kept on showing up again and again to drown someone, bend someone else to his evil will using his evil drugs of evil, or to blow up a bus or something. Claire is a positively fleeting flash in the pan by comparison.
#26
Posted Jan 23, 2007 @ 6:35 PM
Rob Hunter! That is oldschool.
Didn't he die in what Lucy - Kurt's sister - referred to (in possibly her only good line ever) as 'the first barbeque of the new millenium'?
And yes, how many times can one girl be brainwashed by the same guy? Idiot.
Didn't he die in what Lucy - Kurt's sister - referred to (in possibly her only good line ever) as 'the first barbeque of the new millenium'?
And yes, how many times can one girl be brainwashed by the same guy? Idiot.
Edited by saffiyah, Jan 28, 2007 @ 7:02 AM.
#27
Posted Jan 25, 2007 @ 3:30 PM
I always liked Rob. Mostly because he hated Kirk
#28
Posted Jan 25, 2007 @ 3:52 PM
Yeah, they were all annoying, but ... I forget my point.
Speaking of old-school Hollyoaks, Tony has to leave the show at some point. Do you think he'd ever get another acting gig?
Did anyone see John Paul declaring his love for Craig? While Craig looked on with an unchanging expression.
The actor was playing it a little ott I thought, maybe I thought he was a good actor before because of the comparison with Craig 'I have two emotions' Dean?
Speaking of old-school Hollyoaks, Tony has to leave the show at some point. Do you think he'd ever get another acting gig?
Did anyone see John Paul declaring his love for Craig? While Craig looked on with an unchanging expression.
The actor was playing it a little ott I thought, maybe I thought he was a good actor before because of the comparison with Craig 'I have two emotions' Dean?
Edited by saffiyah, Jan 28, 2007 @ 7:02 AM.
#29
Posted Feb 3, 2007 @ 9:54 PM
After a while, it's not double posting.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=HTaC382YnFI
http://video.google....105225851374878
Looks like the JP/Craig thing is coming to head this week.
BONUS: Friday's E4 episode
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=srRI_tEgYBw
What were they doing upstairs? Frankie's such a jp/craig shipper!
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=HTaC382YnFI
http://video.google....105225851374878
Looks like the JP/Craig thing is coming to head this week.
BONUS: Friday's E4 episode
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=srRI_tEgYBw
What were they doing upstairs? Frankie's such a jp/craig shipper!
Edited by saffiyah, Feb 3, 2007 @ 10:35 PM.
#30
Posted Feb 6, 2007 @ 5:25 PM
Aw, poor John Paul. He was a bit of a git for leading her on, but he really did think he could force himself to love her. >>And it looks like he gets beaten up next week as well.<<
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