Brookside (TV series)

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Brookside is a British television soap opera, set in Liverpool, England, which began on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003. It was produced by Mersey Television and conceived by Grange Hill and Hollyoaks creator Phil Redmond. Brookside was Channel 4's highest rated programme from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, with audiences regularly in excess of seven million. Initially notable for its realistic and socially challenging storylines, Brookside is remembered for broadcasting the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television, and a domestic abuse storyline resulting in murder. From the mid-1990s the show began raising more controversial subjects under producers Mal Young and Paul Marquess, and experienced an extreme backlash from viewers in 1996 following a hugely controversial storyline focusing on an incestuous sexual relationship between two siblings; from thereon the show became synonymous with outrageous and improbable storylines that affected its popularity...

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