Underplayed Gems

E Street (1989)

E Street poster
Genre
soap opera
Country
Australia
Length
5 seasons, 404 episodes
Rated
PG
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The show is set in a tough inner-city neighborhood called Westside and follows the lives of people living there. It focuses on the local community and their relationships.

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What happens

E Street is an Australian television soap opera created by Forrest Redlich and produced by his production company, Westside Television Productions, for Network Ten. It was broadcast twice weekly, from Wednesday, 24 January 1989 to Thursday, 20 May 1993. The series won several Logie Awards. E Street is short for Eden Street, which is based in a tough fictional inner-city district called Westside. The action of the soap opera revolves around the local community. The soap opera Richmond Hill, which was produced by the Grundy Organisation, was cancelled by Network Ten to make way for E Street. E Street initially rated poorly in Australia, but early audience research indicated that it had attracted both a significant proportion of the 14–35 audience demographic and a large male viewership. After a radical overhaul of the show, revised storylines and updated characters targeting the niche demographics, the ratings steadily climbed. E Street ran for 404 episodes, each one hour long. Like many Australian soap operas before it, E Street was broadcast as two one-hour episodes each week and until the premiere of HeadLand in November 2005, it had been the last Australian soap opera to screen its episodes in this format. Notably, in the U.K., E Street aired as edited half-hour episodes, stripped 5 days a week. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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