Talk:Eldorado (TV series)

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who played Pilar? Remember the horse riding scene well...

According to the IMDb, it was Sandra Sandri. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762260/ Angmering 13:58, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This article is festooned with unsourced statements. No citations given to the multitude of sentences that need at least one, or many, citations. The "problems and criticism" section is particularly woeful. VonBlade 00:01, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to add references. The JPS^{talk to me} 00:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately I am abysmal at editing things (truly), and know nothing about this program other than I appeared at it via another page. But it was so badly written, and without hide nor hair of a citation, I hoped someone better equipped than I might mark it as needing a cleanup or needing sources. VonBlade 00:06, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Problems with Eldorado set 2 WikiProject class rating 3 Cancellation 4 Unsuccessful? 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Eldorado.jpg

[edit] Problems with Eldorado set

Can someone find references to the controversy over the set. I gather that it was specially built, at huge expense, with the added problem that it had not been properly plumbed into the water mains etc, so that when the series finished, it couldn't be sold as a development. --MacRusgail 14:41, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 10:43, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cancellation

I am concerned about this bit: "It is widely thought that the failure of Eldorado is the reason why the BBC has not attempted to launch a brand new soap from scratch since; the corporation opting instead to move established series Casualty and Holby City to year-round production" - because Eldorado was cancelled in 1993, and Holby City didn't launch until 1999 - so, presumably, they DID launch a new soap then?

Holby City was not marketed as a soap. It began life as a drama, and adopted the more soapish elements. The JPS^{talk to me} 15:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsuccessful?

"At the end of its run, the show was typically receiving 9-10 million viewers."

BBC top brass would kill for such high viewing figures today. Not bad for a supposedly "unsuccessful" soap! Meanwhile, "Two pints of lager and... oooh, look at these huge breasts!" gets approximately 900 viewers on BBC Three. 217.155.20.163 (talk) 00:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

It was a different era though. Overall viewing figures for series have generally declined over the decades, due to a growing number of channels, other activities and also changing compilation methods. Chart positions are often considered more important than raw numbers. And comparing a prime time soap on the BBC's flagship analogue channel with the umpteenth repeat of a show on a minority interest digital only channel is hardly like for like. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:53, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Eldorado.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:34, 13 February 2008 (UTC)