Soaps ‘should have more humour and fewer affairs’

Soap fans say they want to see more humour, rather than grim storylines, in their favourite shows.

Four-fifths of viewers believe there should be more funny moments in the plots of the series, according to a survey for Inside Soap magazine.

More than a third (36 per cent) said they wanted to see fewer stories about affairs, and 30 per cent said they would prefer to see less emphasis on “murder and mayhem” – although a quarter said they actually wanted to see more.

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Just over two-fifths (42 per cent) said the shows rarely or never reflected their own lives.

Readers said Coronation Street was the soap which most accurately reflected reality, chosen by 40 per cent of the sample of 1,000 people; EastEnders was second while Emmerdale came third.