Anyone else here a fan of kitchen sink dramas???
'Billy Liar', 'A Taste of Honey', 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning'....etc...etc..
I think my favourite though is, 'Woman in a Dressing Gown'.
Kitchen-sink drama
Yes.
What's the one where the teenage daughter refuses to eat a bit of fish and it results in fall-out for the whole family?
Imagine trying to pitch that one.
Do they do still do kitchen sink dramas nowadays? It seems a very sixties thing.
I looked up what a Kitchen sink drama was and it said Coronation Street was an example. If so...than no I am not a fan of soap operas.
Coronation Street today is not an example of a kitchen sink drama. It is closer to one than an American sitcom, but it's still a soap opera.
The definition that you saw would be referring to the Street's beginnings, back in the sixties. It was like a kitchen sink drama in that it dealt with the - often gritty side of - real life amongst (usually Northern) working class people; just day to day stuff that could be dramatic.
It's a hand soap opera
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 16 2008, 1:36 PM BSTThe definition that you saw would be referring to the Street's beginnings, back in the sixties. It was like a kitchen sink drama in that it dealt with the - often gritty side of - real life amongst (usually Northern) working class people; just day to day stuff that could be dramatic.
Isn't that why there's no kitchen sink drama now because there's no clearly defined working class. You go from sprawling underclass to middle-class.
Yes, I like them too. They used to be on TV regularly at one point, not so often now but luckily you can pick them up on DVD.
It's grim up north where people are too depressed to commit suicide.
Good point, Chip.
Ken Loach and Mike Leigh are still banging out kitchen-sink dramas as if their lives depended on it. Although I suppose Vera Drake was more of a sink-plunger drama.
What is a kitchen-sink drama? :/
Quote: Griff @ October 16 2008, 1:59 PM BSTAlthough I suppose Vera Drake was more of a sink-plunger drama.
Drama that are mundane, reality based rather than aspirational Aaron.
Don't look back in Anger I think was the first that had the epithet, if that is the right word, attached to it. Early sixties, ironing boards and cigarettes, black and white - that kind of malarkey.
So ... What's the difference between a kitchen-sink drama and a soap opera? A soap is just a bit more fantastical?
Well firstly a soap opera is a series not a single drama.
But I think "kitchen-sink dramas" are meant to be more serious than soap operas, which tend to be on the lighter, more entertainment-y side, except EastEnders obviously.
Would I be right in thinking Kitchen Sink Dramas are a peculiarly British genre? Or are their equivalents across the pond?
Quote: Griff @ October 16 2008, 2:16 PM BSTWell firstly a soap opera is a series not a single drama.
But I think "kitchen-sink dramas" are meant to be more serious than soap operas, which tend to be on the lighter, more entertainment-y side, except EastEnders obviously.
Brookside had quite a lot of credibility in it's (very) early days.