topic Re: SKY SOAP in What's On

SKY SOAP

zombyzooie — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:48:27 GMT

Please can we have a SKY SOAP channel. It will be watched by millions everyday. All the original soaps from the USA and UK from the beginning please.

Re: SKY SOAP

GD1 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:58:52 GMT

@zombyzooie Your a few years too late, there was a Sky soap channel years ago, it closed as there simply was not the viewership, it's unlikely Sky will recreate that again.

What your asking for would be virtually impossible in this day and age.

Re: SKY SOAP

Daniel0210 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:11:36 GMT

@zombyzooie wrote:
It will be watched by millions everyday.

@zombyzooie

I think those potential viewing figures are grossly exaggerated.

Re: SKY SOAP

lettice — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:19:07 GMT

As mentioned above.

Not seeing any chance there will be a Sky Soap channel reappearing.

If you have Sky Stream/Glass.

Create a playlist called 'Soap'

In there you can playlist + all your favourite UK, Australian and USA soaps from the many channels and apps that show them and have them all available to watch in one place.

Re: SKY SOAP

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:03:11 GMT

@zombyzooie wrote:
Please can we have a SKY SOAP channel. It will be watched by millions everyday. All the original soaps from the USA and UK from the beginning please.

Even if Sky Soap was to return, I don't think they have any rights to any soaps.

The only thing I can think of that might make Sky Soap work today is for them to broadcast:

Irish soaps like Fair City and Ros na Rún
Welsh soaps like Pobol y Cwm and Rownd a Rownd
Scots Gaelic soaps like Machair and An t-Eilean

At least these would get a wider audience than just the island of Ireland (Irish soaps) or the UK (Welsh and Scots Gaelic soaps).

They could also broadcast international soaps like
General Hospital, The Young and the Restless and Days of Our Lives from the USA, telenovelas from Latin America, and other international soaps and dramas.

But I don't know how much of a market there is for these though.

They could even combine it with Challenge and have Challenge broadcast from 06:00 to 18:00 and Sky Soap from 18:00-06:00. Challenge is pretty much dead anyway.

Or they could combine Challenge and Pick and have Challenge from 06:00 to 18:00 and Pick from 18:00 to 06:00 and have Sky Soap on Pick's space.

Sky need to do something. At least with Sky Soap, they have something no other broadcaster has, a dedicated soap and drama channel.

Re: SKY SOAP

nolte — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:09:32 GMT

I think outside of the big soaps, coronation street and eastenders (which are owned by itv and bbc), the market is not good for it.

Neighbours ceased production for 14 months due to channel 5 finding it too expensive, to produce, channel 4 stopped hollyhocks on main channel, only showing it on e4 now.

Re: SKY SOAP

NickNewark — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:30:16 GMT

I did make a suggestion for a channel like Sky retro/Sky Classics, something like that.

Looking through the on demand selection, there's some great stuff from years back. They could easily fill schedule.

Re: SKY SOAP

Annie+UK — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:50:25 GMT

@NickNewark wrote:

I did make a suggestion for a channel like Sky retro/Sky Classics, something like that.

Looking through the on demand selection, there's some great stuff from years back. They could easily fill schedule.

There are already channles that cover that content provided by BBC, channels are going the way of the dodo, people use On Demand/streaming more and more so schedules become less important

Re: SKY SOAP

NickNewark — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:21:11 GMT

@Annie+UK 😊 true, I'm perhaps just hanging on to the old days 😂 but times are changing.

Soaps

PhilipPooley — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:17:08 GMT

hi everyone I was just wondering if sky had any soap programs like the main ones bbc itv 4 and 5 or suggest any of the main channel soaps please let me know and please don't say I've already sent this method

Re: Soaps

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:45:39 GMT

@PhilipPooley I wish they would bring sky soap back

Re: SKY SOAP

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:46:23 GMT

@zombyzooie It would be fab

Re: SKY SOAP

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:49:42 GMT

We need sky soap as I've never seen eastenders coronation street or emmerdale from the very beginning @zombyzooie

Re: SKY SOAP

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:52:18 GMT

@GD1 Get rid of sport I'd rather have sky soap I'd love to see eastenders from 1985 onwards coronation street from 1960 onwards and enmerdale from the 70's onwards

Re: SKY SOAP

Daniel0210 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:56:02 GMT

@Yoghurt

I think you'll find that customers watching all the various sports on Sky far outweigh the potential viewers of a channel showing soap repeats.

Re: SKY SOAP

MarkGoldsmith — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 10:27:45 GMT

@Yoghurt wrote:
We need sky soap as I've never seen eastenders coronation street or emmerdale from the very beginning @zombyzooie

Not sure why another channel would be needed for this.

Old Episodes are freely available on iplayer and ITVX, and also make up most of the daytime schedule for U&Drama

Re: SKY SOAP

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:02:11 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith That's not the point the customer should get to watch what they want

Re: SKY SOAP

Annie+UK — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:04:52 GMT

@Yoghurt wrote:

@MarkGoldsmith That's not the point the customer should get to watch what they want

If you want your own niche channel then fund it yourself 🙂 Matbe then you'll see why what you're asking for is not practical 🙂

Re: SKY SOAP

MarkGoldsmith — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:18:53 GMT

@Yoghurt wrote:
@MarkGoldsmith That's not the point the customer should get to watch what they want

I'm confused by this. Customers can watch what they want more on the streaming apps than they can on linear TV channels. As mentioned loads of old soaps are shown on a channel throughout the day as well as being available on free streaming platforms. How is that not providing customers the opportunity to watch what they want?

Re: SKY SOAP

Yoghurt — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:52:15 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith Well I missed emmerdale from the beginning when they showed old ones on itv3 and itv x so yes I know they show old ones now but I've missed heaps so starting from the beginning would be of great benefit for me