With a decline in soap opera viewers over the years, we’re asking people around Wales why they think they’ve gone out of fashion.
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00:00My grand. My grand. I couldn't tell you anyone else.
00:04I've never watched it myself.
00:07When you have the option to either watch a soap opera
00:10and then only find out what happens next week,
00:13or pay £7 a month or just do a free trial and watch the entire show,
00:17people nowadays are going to watch the entire show
00:19because they don't have the attention span to wait a week
00:21and find out what happens.
00:22Cliffhangers are so underappreciated nowadays.
00:24Nowadays people much rather watch the telly series on Netflix
00:27and I think crime shows have gone up massively in viewing as well.
00:31So I'd say soap operas, I'd say that kind of comedy
00:34has sort of gone out the window a bit or just died with time.
00:37I don't know.
00:39But if it's something like...
00:41I couldn't watch Coronation Street
00:44because I wasn't born when it started, so I couldn't follow along.
00:47I don't have the time to rewatch from the beginning to find the plot.
00:51But I like how for EastEnders and that,
00:54you kind of don't need to know the entire plot to follow along.
00:57You just start somewhere and you get there.