Brookside is returning to TV screens after 20 years next week - how to watch
Original episodes of Brookside will start airing on STV Player next week, the free streaming platform has announced.
The first episode aired on Channel 4 on November 2 1982 and, at its peak, the show drew in audiences of nine million viewers before it came to a close on November 4 2003. Sunetra Sarker said she “owes a lot” to the beloved soap after she was given the role of Nisha Batra following being spotted at a bus stop at 15.The Ackley Bridge and Casualty actress added: “Had I known then that Brookside Close would be the road that led me to my surprising and eventful career, I would never have believed it.
Across its run, the show took on issues such as LGBT+ and hard hitting storylines like rape, bullying and incest. In 1985, teenage character Gordon Collins came out to his family as gay on the soap. Friel’s career has taken her to America where she has appeared in the comedy series Pushing Daisies, opposite Susan Sarandon in country music drama Monarch and alongside Bradley Cooper in the film Limitless. Silent Witness actress Amanda Burton, Hollyoaks actress Alex Fletcher, and West End musical star Claire Sweeney also began their careers on the soap.
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