Katie Price and Peter Andre have been offered a £2 million chat show deal with ITV, according to a report.
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Crossroads Motel
Crossroads
Crossroads - Kings Oak (this is when the motel became a hotel)
Kings Oak - was to be adopted as the soaps name but never got round to it as it was given the axe
Crossroads (upon its return as a 4* hotel)
I never knew that it was
originally
called "Crossroads
Motel
"!
Was that only in the really early black-and-white days or what?
When did it first become just "Crossroads"?
I also never knew that it changed from a motel to a hotel before the 21st century revived version!
It started as "The Midland Road" but that name was dropped before the show hit the air.
Reg "Mr Neighbours" Watson picked the name Crossroads (possibly because outside the old ATV Aston studios there was a cross roads) and it was called Crossroads from November 1964 to March 1985.
Thats MK1.
Producer Jack Barton was pushed out, Phillip Bowman (Young Doctors, Sons and Daughters) was brought in. And announced it was becoming a "new show" - Crossroads Motel. New writers, a load of actors axed and revamped theme and titles.
I don't think the TV Times ever called it Crossroads Motel, but at this point they stopped counting the episodes, starting again at 1. (meaning the 4510 at the end of the series seems to have been a wild guess)
And then there is the September 1987 "Kings Oak" or "Crossroads Kings Oak" as it launched due to being axed three months before the new episodes hit the air. It did have again new opening titles and a whole new theme tune.
MK1, 2 and 3. It was Carlton TV in their lack of being bothered about continuity that messed up that. The did actually have a continuity department for "new Crossroads" which was working with the Crossroads Appreciation Society on the details. Carlton disbanded it. - And thats why "new Crossroads" isn't really popular with "Crossroads" fans - as it just isn't seen as being proper Crossroads.
But I agree ITV bosses meddling with it certainly ended the show. The "glam" one should never have been called Crossroads though. Nolly Gordon would be spinning in her grave.
Maybe Granada could revive Kings Oak which has never come back. Although that would mean a studio in Birmingham being opened - never will happen.
Crossroads Mk1 was up to Nicola Freeman taking over the Hotel
Crossroads Mk2 didn't last long and lasted up to Bomber Lancaster taking over the hotel.
Crossroads Mk3 was the shortest period and lasted until it finshed for the first time.
Crossroads Mk4 was when it returned after its 13 year hiatus
Crossroads Mk5 the "gay" version and totally disliked by ALL sections of the community.
I'm
so
glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that there's been 5 incarnations of Crossroads, not 3! Albeit that the first three were one continuous run, whilst the others were seperated by a 13-year gap, then a 4/5-month (? IIRC) gap, respectively.
I'm too young to know the plot references for your Mks 1-3 above. But I assume that your Mk2 is basically when they adopted the "car advert" title sequence with piano version of the traditional theme tune, and that your Mk3 is when it was entitled "Crossroads Kings Oak"??? (did that version have a completely different piano theme tune, rather than the "proper" Crossroads theme?)
By the way, the "car advert" title sequence's endcap read "Crossroads Motel" - Was "Motel" ever
officially
regarded as part of the
programme's
name? (i.e.Did listings magazines, continuity announcements, etc, ever mention it? Or did they carry on saying just "Crossroads"?)
I quite liked the opening titles with the car - probabaly because its my earliest memory of the show. As I said my memories of the original version arent that clear.
There are clips on you tube with a Central idents as well -
Katie Price and Peter Andre have been offered a £2 million chat show deal with ITV, according to a report.
The celebrity couple will host Jordan and Peter Meet in the new year, with executives hoping that the show will finally boost ITV1's teatime slot and challenge Paul O'Grady's crown.
I didnt mind the 1987/1988 Crossroads Kings Oak titles but they werent really suitable for Crossroads!
Well some fans would say it wasn't really Crossroads then, it was trying to be Emmerdale - which was odd, as Emmerdale Farm went out at 7pm and had less ratings then Crossroads.
Kings Oak was very much a drama series like Corrie used to be. I mean Crossroads was based on the US format - which Emmerdale seems to be using more and more.
I didnt mind the 1987/1988 Crossroads Kings Oak titles but they werent really suitable for Crossroads!
Well some fans would say it wasn't really Crossroads then, it was trying to be Emmerdale - which was odd, as Emmerdale Farm went out at 7pm and had less ratings then Crossroads.
.
Make me wonder why they didnt axe Emmerdale Farm back then instead of Crossroads- at then we wouldnt have to put up with 6 episodes a week now!
Well of course it wasn't "ITV" who axed Kings Oak / Crossroads - Central TV withdrew it from production.
The man who did that - Andy Allen - said it was his biggest mistake, throwing away 12 million viewers was madness. Hence the revival, but I think once that loyalty and view habit is lost its very hard to get back - as the 2001 series showed.
Plus Carlton offended the original fans by making clear as often as possible "this isn't Crossroads" which was baffling seen as thats what it was called.
I still don't get really why they just stick catch-up repeats of Emmerdale and Corrie on during the day - almost certain to outrate any new soap they'd create!
I still don't get really why they just stick catch-up repeats of Emmerdale and Corrie on during the day - almost certain to outrate any new soap they'd create!
That's what ITV2 is for. Plus they would get slagged off for relying on repeats
Well of course it wasn't "ITV" who axed Kings Oak / Crossroads - Central TV withdrew it from production.
The man who did that - Andy Allen - said it was his biggest mistake, throwing away 12 million viewers was madness. Hence the revival, but I think once that loyalty and view habit is lost its very hard to get back - as the 2001 series showed.
Plus Carlton offended the original fans by making clear as often as possible "this isn't Crossroads" which was baffling seen as thats what it was called.
I thought the reason that Carlton brought back Jill, Adam and Doris was becuase it was the same Crossroads?
I still don't get really why they just stick catch-up repeats of Emmerdale and Corrie on during the day - almost certain to outrate any new soap they'd create!
They used to show repeats of the evening soaps on ITV in the early/mid 1990s, then it was dropped but some regions kept the repeats of Corrie. However as daytime tv is so competitive these days there is no room for repeats.
I thought the reason that Carlton brought back Jil, Adam and Doris was becuase it was the same Crossroads?
Someone sat through the first 20 episodes and counted numerous mistakes.
Jill Harvey - a surname she hadn't used and she hated that husband anyway.
Crossroads Motel "A failing Motel" the new owner said it was in 1998 - it was the Kings Oak Country Hotel when the show ended.
Doris Luke was basically Kathy Staff in a uniform and was nothing like "Doris" plus she had family that wasn't in the original - her family was well documented.
I mean Carlton and the producers said it was a new show, they killed off all links to the original as quick as possible, and basically were trading in on the name to get, so they thought the status that the original had.
Killing off Jill I think they expected the huge public outcry that there had been in 1981 for Noele's sacking - but it didn't happen.
Most fans certainly were not fooled by the name Crossroads being on screen, and switched off. So if you offend these people who grew up with the original then you have no fanbase to tap into. So it was a very odd way to do things by Carlton.
The DVDs have sold really well, had Carlton not cocked it up, I expect Granada might have pondered on reviving it, and at least Granada know how to make soaps.
Albeit that the first three were one continuous run, whilst the others were seperated by a 13-year gap, then a 4/5-month (? IIRC) gap, respectively.
