Economic Reasons (soaps)

Reasons for film directors and producers to cut back would be the recent recession causes them to have a lower budget. This dramatically effects the quality and production value of the soap.


Having a low budget causes the shows to not broadcast live because there is too much production work involved to do there and then. Films budgets are normally a lot higher than soaps due to the income that films make. For example 'Spiderman 3' cost around 258 million to make in 2007, when an average soap opera would of spent around 30 million. This shows for a fact how much films have to spend money on stunts and various action scenes, whilst soaps often need to give the impression of something happening rather than actually show it. Eastenders is only aloud to have 16 speaking characters per episode to remain within their budget. All together  the BBC spent around 102 million on six T.V. soaps. Eastenders got an bonus of 500,000 pounds for the live episodes they did.


The actors/actresses of Coronation Street are said to be getting pay cuts. This is all to do with the show not making enough money and the recession combined to make the shows struggle a lot. Some Coronation street characters have had to been cut from the show recently due to                                        budget cuts.