TV series
Eldorado
1992–2002 · 1 season
Sunny, gossipy and gently melodramatic, an easy holiday backdrop of tangled relationships and small scandals.
- Created by
- Julia Smith, Tony Holland
- Genres
- Soap, Drama
- Starring
- Jesse Birdsall, Sandra Sandri, Roger Walker
- Overview
- Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.
- How it feels
- Measured and easy to follow.
- About
- Love, friendship, betrayal, class
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Julia Smith, Tony Holland
- Genres
- Soap, Drama
- Starring
- Jesse Birdsall, Sandra Sandri, Roger Walker
