Changes In Content - Soaps

Since when Coronation Street started in the 1960's, the content which is written into the script has become a lot more modern. In the old episodes, the content used to be focused on very minor happenings such as arguments within families and disagreements between different families. Although you still see these in modern day soaps, modern day soaps have much different styles of stories. 

After watching the whole episode, Coronation Street in the 1960's had single stranded story lines, which only had a maximum of two story lines happening in the same episode. Compared to the latest episodes, this could be seen as very boring as you would spend half an hour watching the same story which can be daunting. On the other hand, modern episodes are very multi-stranded which means that there are up to 4+ stories happening in the same episode. This makes the programme much more interesting as there is a variation of different stories that the viewer can follow.

Coronation Street's content has changed to meet the current views, opinions and events which are becoming more regular in our everyday lives. For example, one of the stories at the moment is domestic violence between two characters. This is a gradually emerging negative act which is gradually becoming more prominent in modern life. However in the 1960's Coronation Street, this would have been seen as a private matter, which would be far too raw for TV broadcasting. 

Other topics such as teenage pregnancy are also stories which are being shown in soaps such as Eastenders. This event in the 1960;s would be seen as a great sin which would never be shown on television to a established generation of Britons. 

This clearly shows how the changes in culture, interests and themes of life has moulded the content of which soaps broadcast to the viewers. Soaps also broadcast problems which viewers can relate to if they are going through similar events like divorce, relationships and other close to the heart and emotional events.