Poll: Should The BBC Bring Back Eldorado?
The BBC is being urged to bring back its 1990s Spanish soap Eldorado but should the corporation revive the short-lived series?
As we reported yesterday the BBC is coming under some (mild) pressure to bring back Eldorado, possibly as a daytime soap, as a much needed tonic for viewers in these dark times of austerity and coalition government. The successful revival of Dallas and other shows such as Doctor Who has seemingly given some confidence that Eldorado can pull the same trick.
Is the BBC likely to bring back a soap that still haunts it to this day? Eldorado is almost as infamous for its “dodgy acting” and set issues as the midlands soap Crossroads but both reputations are undeserved but both have stuck and refuse to go away. The press would most likely be out to get Eldorado (again) from day one if the BBC were to bring it back.
What do you think? Should the BBC bring back Eldorado? Or is it best left as a distant memory? The poll is on the right side of our website between the Recent Stories & Recent Comments boxes.
Please bring back Eldorado – it was the best soap on TV and didnt deserve to be cancelled. The first few episodes were rubbish but the script got better and better and by the end it was superb. Yentof was a complete idiot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2juBdsC9S88
Our entire family used to watch this and never missed an episode.We visited the set in Coin several years ago and felt it was such a waste not to revive the show.In fact we enjoyed the concept of living in Spain so much that we moved here in 2006 !PLEASE bring it back …and this time use actors that can act and some decent scriptwriters and the Beeb will have a winner on their hands!!!
Mr Yentob, come on… Sort this out please … You will be loved if you do!!
Nice bike btw!!
Please bring back Eldorado i never missed an episode it was great.
It was a bit like Dallas – Nobody admitted watching it, but I was glued! Ended up buying an apartment in Fuengirola on the Costa Del Sol. Was well gutted when it finished. I don’t watch the dramas on BBC these days, ITV rocks though.
Thousands want Eldorado apparently…
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/08/16/revisiting-spains-sunshine-soaps/
Promising article…
http://www.filmnav.co.uk/2012/08/18/bbcs-eldorado-to-return/
Don’t bother, it was a dreadful programme and deserved to be cancelled
Frank, it was not a dreadful programme. May I ask what you call quality drama?
It was ultimately watched by 10 million people and was one fo the top 5 most watched programmes on television.
No one argues that “Eldorado” got off to shaky start, but that was largely down to the BBC rushing it into production 6 months early. The subsequent improvements were plain to see.
ELDORADO, , to me and my daughter in law, the series a great relaxing, programme.
You got taken away to the blue skies and the sun,
Getting involved with people and their lives in this beautiful portrayal of living in a Spanish village.
And the stars, we were bessotted with them all, that I wrote to them, and rec photos of them all.
I still have and wrote many time to bring ELDORADA back, so again PLEASE bring ELDORADO
back.
Mucho Gracias