{"id":217144,"date":"2025-10-22T05:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:34:07","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-brookside-as-cast-reunite-in-special-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217144\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of Brookside as cast reunite in special episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year, the pair had got the call about potentially reviving the soap opera, which aired its final episode on 4 November 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Johnston says: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t persuade him to do it. He wouldn&#8217;t do it, would he?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Not at first, no,&#8221; agrees Tomlinson, who played Bobby between 1982 and 1988. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And then I thought, because we&#8217;ve both [been granted] freedom of the city of Liverpool, I thought we&#8217;ve got a duty really to promote Liverpool, get more young actors and people into the business working.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted I decided to do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the storyline for the special episode was a close-kept secret, they knew it would be a crossover with Hollyoaks to mark the soap&#8217;s 30th anniversary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both were conceived by Grange Hill creator Sir Philip Redmond, with Brookside later paving the way for the creation of Hollyoaks &#8211; also filmed in Liverpool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this year, the pair had got the call about potentially reviving the soap opera, which aired its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-217144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}