Hollyoaks

[Steely]

Enjoy it boys and girls.

Next week normal service will resume and it will all be abit shit again

[clarebear]

I hope Sam escapes!

[Version2.0]

It's a shame Jake made it through but was pretty entertaining overall.

I also loved how pretty much everyone suddenly made a point to meet at The Dog, subtle

[Eats hoops and leaves]

That was wicked Olivia can't be dead though She was (is?) so lovely. Oh yeah, and Nicola, all sweaty in her school uniform, tied to that chair... mmmm.

[Hemzoozlefluff*]

NO MORE TROLLS! Hurrah!

Actually I feel kinda sad that the twins are no more.....who shall I rip the piss out of now?

Hmmm...at least Nicole is still in...

[Mk.]

Sam wasn't as fun as Andy but he got the job done.

Pfft, they all pale in comparision to Daddy Bad Guy Rob Hawthorn. What a legend.

[Guest]

The new family is AWFUL, just bad actors in a bad storyline.

Isn't that Hollyoaks to a tea?

[Sarlaccfood]

Shame about Joe and Olivia, it seemed the actors actually put some effort into their characters. But you can tell something was going to happen to them when they suddenly had these life affirming moments out of nowhere the episode before (Olivia having a go at the posh lass and Joe starting a romance). Ugh... they where so forced, LEARN TO WRITE HOLLYOAKS PLEASE.

Then again saying that, Darren's line the other day "Where's your brother? Not out driving his van into people again is he?" was the best thing I'd seen on TV in ages. ha! As if anyone would be THAT insensitive.

Oh, good riddance to the chipmunk twins too.

[Hemzoozlefluff*]

God I was really, really cringing throughout the whole episode yesterday. All the crying and drama....it was just so...Hollyoaksy. Dearie me.

[Lorfarius]

Ugh... they where so forced, LEARN TO WRITE HOLLYOAKS PLEASE.

Its already written by students. They are only learning so give them some credit

[Broker]

Then again saying that, Darren's line the other day "Where's your brother? Not out driving his van into people again is he?" was the best thing I'd seen on TV in ages. ha! As if anyone would be THAT insensitive.

darren is the only good thing about hollyoaks

[El Pibe]

Darren is great in a bad way!

Hope OB doesn't die...

[Lorfarius]

Anyone know why the twins have left the show? Real life reasons I mean? Seems a bit weird to kill them both off, unless one had a strop and the other just had to tag along?

[Sexton Hardcastle]

They were too ugly to continue any longer? Nobody cared for their characters? They made you vomit when they were on screen?

The real question should be why were they not fired years ago !

[Tommo]

Seems a bit weird to kill them both off

I'm sure they would have been contractually obliged to be in the show together (they're twins, surely the reason they got the gig in the first place). Also, it'd be stupid for one twin to leave, and not the other; they'd find it pretty hard to get a new job I'd imagine.

I just THANK GOD that their mum isn't coming back (as Justin is off to see her instead), I hate that woman.

[Lorfarius]

So whats happened? Have they been fired or left of their own accord? Why am I interested? Im starting to ask myself that question.

[Monkeyboy]

I watched this on Sunday morning. I had no idea the pub was going to explode like that! The sense of confusion and panic was quite well directed, I thought.

As for that mobile phone in the body bag thing, I'm sure I read a news story where people were doing that after the huge tsunami disaster, in order to find loved ones.

Jake had to be rescued so he can beat himself up some more about what he's done. And oh, getting rescued by the son of the woman he killed? Looks like the writers have been reading The Big Book of Irony.

I didn't watch it last night. Shame to hear Olivia bought the farm. She was a cutie.

[Eats hoops and leaves]

Getting recued by that bloke - yeah, yeah it was pretty corny, but it made me grin. I can forgive that.

[Suizid]

I'm sure they would have been contractually obliged to be in the show together

Not true.

[sweetdaddyg]

The mythbusters would have had a field day with that explosion at the pub.

Theres NO WAY that would have ever happened in real life.

Incidentally, I notice the twins are STILL in the fucking opening credits reel that NEVER gets updated even though the vast majority of characters in the show are long gone.

Could this kind of penny pinching mean that the show is done on the cheap and coul dbe cut from the schedules on a whim?

I hope so.

[Suizid]

The titles (excluding the credits) only change once every couple of years, as they're a pain in the arse to keep up to date - they're constantly busy with filming/editing five days a week as it is.

[sweetdaddyg]

bollocks.

Every other show on earth manages to keep its credits fairly up to date. Home and away etc.

so why is hollyoaks so bad at it?

[Guest retrend]

Yay, those twins are gone, I hated them, they both look like they were beaten with the ugly stick, repeatedly, at funny hollyoaks esque camera angles. I hope they never get on TV again, TV is not the place for ugly ppl ffs.

[Suizid]

bollocks.

Every other show on earth manages to keep its credits fairly up to date. Home and away etc.

so why is hollyoaks so bad at it?

They're doing so many pick-ups during the week that getting any extra filming/editing in is nigh-on impossible. We had to book interviews weeks in advance, or grab the actors at lunch/after work/in the dressing rooms (rrowl).

Edit: pick-ups = re-filming a scene because of continuity errors/bad lighting/wrong shots/missing lines/poor acting etc. No comment on why most are re-shot.

[El Pibe]

bollocks.

Every other show on earth manages to keep its credits fairly up to date. Home and away etc.

so why is hollyoaks so bad at it?

That's not really true. I remember, when I used to watch it, that Neighbours often had out of date credits for characters that had left. Thing is, most shows don't have a reel like that at the start, eg Eastenders, Corrie, Emmerdale.

[sweetdaddyg]

do you work on the show alan?

surely there must be some footage that coul dbe spliced in to save time and effort then

[Suizid]

I did for about three years. Still have friends who work there.

It's more the edit suites that are in constant use than the actors.

I seem to recall them outsourcing credits one time, but I think it might have been for Brookside (or Grange Hill, which moved up to Childwall).

Sadfax: A friend and I did the storyboard for the computer game-style titles to Grange Hill (including bringing back the sausage from the original titles). The main character leaping the dog was a nod to Pitfall (i'm not sure a scorpion would have been approved by the producers).

[FozZ]

I'm not happy about this Foz character who has come along. For a start he's tall and a skinhead, and i'm short with long hair.

Also, phrases such as "There's Foz wierd and there's wierd wierd" get spouted. Goddamn name stealers!

[clarebear]

Anyone know why the twins have left the show? Real life reasons I mean? Seems a bit weird to kill them both off, unless one had a strop and the other just had to tag along?

Their chins got too big for their own boots.

[BlinkyBear]

I did for about three years. Still have friends who work there.

It's more the edit suites that are in constant use than the actors.

I seem to recall them outsourcing credits one time, but I think it might have been for Brookside (or Grange Hill, which moved up to Childwall).

Sadfax: A friend and I did the storyboard for the computer game-style titles to Grange Hill (including bringing back the sausage from the original titles). The main character leaping the dog was a nod to Pitfall (i'm not sure a scorpion would have been approved by the producers).

Bollocks. Wish I'd have known this when I applied for a job there in July.