![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/coronation-street-legend-slams-soap-for-becoming-unbelievable/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/crop-23770105.jpg&description=same old Published : 18:49, 2 Sep 2023 Updated : 18:50, 2 Sep 2023 SALLY Wainwright has slammed the ITV hit soap Coronation Street. The award-winning screenwriter has said TV soap storylines have become more "crazy and unbelievable". 2 Sally Wainwright has weighed in on the modern TV world Credit: Getty 2 Sally is an award-winning screenwriter Credit: Rex Features Wainwright became one of the UK's leading screenwriters with acclaimed dramas like Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack, and wrote for Corrie back in the 1990s. She opened up and admitted that the soap has become more "crazy and unbelievable" because they have so many episodes to fill and an "obsession with youth". She said she got bored with watching soaps when "the stories got a bit samey and a bit similar, all about romance". Speaking to the BBC, she said: "Certainly that happened in Coronation Street . Or [they were] just a lot more obsessed with getting younger viewers and so making stories about younger people, and ignoring the fact that the key audience was older than that." During the 1980s and early 90s, the soap was "proper kitchen sink drama" and "such a classy show", she said. "It was about the real things that happened to real people." When Wainwright joined the Corrie team in 1994, there were only two episodes a week. But when she left the soap five years later, it was about to go out four times a week, and there are now six episodes. She added: "I think the problem with that is you just have so much turnover of plot that it inevitably becomes melodramatic. "When it goes out at that volume (of episodes), inevitably with the ravages of story it just becomes more and more heightened and crazy and unbelievable. "I don't know if that's been a problem that is become less grounded." Earlier this year, Sally announced the news about her new drama titled Hot Flush while speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The six-part series will follow a group of menopausal women from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire,){kind=link}
SALLY Wainwright has slammed the ITV hit soap Coronation Street for becoming “crazy and unbelievable”.
Wainwright, who became one of the UK’s leading screenwriters with acclaimed dramas like Happy Valley and Gentleman Jack, wrote for Corrie back in the 1990s.
She opened up and admitted that the soap has become more “crazy and unbelievable” because they have so many episodes to fill and an “obsession with youth”.
She said she got bored with watching soaps when “the stories got a bit samey and a bit similar, all about romance”.
Speaking to the BBC, she said: “Certainly that happened in Coronation Street. Or [they were] just a lot more obsessed with getting younger viewers and so making stories about younger people, and ignoring the fact that the key audience was older than that.”