Films and programs like Brookside

Hollyoaks

Series Age rating: 8 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 4.6

The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...

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Coronation Street

Series Age rating: 9 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 5.6

The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the R...

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Ackley Bridge

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A new academy school in a Yorkshire mill town merges the lives and cultures of the largely divided white and Asian community

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Casualty

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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Boys from the Blackstuff

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Alan Bleasdale's five-part series relates the further experiences of unemployed Liverpudlian tarmac layers Dixie, Chrissie, Loggo and Yosser, and their revered older friend, retired longshoreman and u...

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EastEnders

Series Age rating: 11 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 4.7

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

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Shameless

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2004 IMDB Rating: 8

The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help an...

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Doctors

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 4.6

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.

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Banana

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Through eight stand-alone stories, this series follows different aspects of LGBT life. Each episode focuses on the unique storyline of a diverse character dealing with life, loves and losses. Scotty i...

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