The show will be returning to us via BritBox later this year alongside Crossroads and Take the High Road, with only select episodes appearing.
Brookside is famous for having aired the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British television along with other difficult topics such as drug addiction and rape.
Britbox currently offers episodes from other soaps such as Corrie, Emmerdale and Eastenders. Brookside star Claire Sweeney spoke to Digital Spy about her opinion on the shows cancellation, saying: “It was groundbreaking drama, “You get new controllers who come in who want to make their name and it got dropped, which was such a shame. “Phil Redmond, he was fantastic.
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