Inside Soap
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| Inside Soap | |
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Inside Soap |
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| Editor | Steven Murphy |
| Categories | soap operas |
| Frequency | weekly |
| Circulation | England, Ireland, Spain, Canary Islands |
| First issue | |
| Company | formerly Attic Futura, now Hachette Filipacchi (UK) Ltd. |
| Country |  UK |
| Language | English |
| Website | http://www.insidesoap.co.uk/ |
| ISSN | 0966-8497 |
Contents |
[edit] The Magazine
Inside Soap is a weekly UK magazine, released every Tuesday, which covers current and future storylines in soap operas shown in the United Kingdom.
It traditionally provides interviews from actors who play characters in the soaps and outlines current storylines. Soaps included in its content are EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Neighbours and Home and Away.
Each year the Inside Soap Awards ceremony is held, where awards are given to the 'Best Actor', 'Best Actress' and 'Best Soap', among others, voted for by readers.
[edit] Page 3
Page three of the magazine is a list of contents of the magazine with the page numbers of all the different articles and features. It outlines the different sections of the magazines that are dedicated to Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale etc.
Page three also contains a welcome note from the editor Steven Murphy.
[edit] Inside Scoop
The Inside scoop contains news, and fun facts about the stars of soap it also has soapy snippets and reveals soap teasers. It has mini interviews with the soap stars and quotes.
[edit] Out and About
Out and About was common feature in Inside Soap, but not featured in current magazines. It showed 'paparazzi' type pictures of soap stars 'out and about' outside soapland.
[edit] What Happens when?
This is a list of soaps, days, and teasers. They tell when the storyline explodes so you don't have to miss it.
[edit] Regions and Radio
Inside Soap contains three small teaser articles on other soaps that might not be widely known, they include River City, Fair City and The Archers.
[edit] Featurettes
A double page spread on a look back at the years in soap with a different theme every week which relates to a storyline in the present day soap. Themes included Soap Villains, Soap Murderers, Soap star Cars, Soap star parents etc.
[edit] You Ask...
Every week, readers get a chance to email their questions to their favourite soap stars and entries are posted in Inside Soap. All the questions make up an interview. Previous interviews include Antony Cotton, Joe Swash, Suranne Jones, Eliza Taylor-Cotter and Kim Tiddy.
[edit] Kiss & Telly
Kiss and Telly gives readers a chance to catch up on their knowledge of soap star's real love lifes.
[edit] Soap Style
Is a look at some very fashionable soap stars. Get the look tells readers where they can buy affordable dresses that the soap stars wear. Previous soap stars that were picked include Samia Smith, Charley Webb and Gemma Atkinson.
[edit] Soap Box
Readers send their questions and letters into Helen or Andy. Best letters are posted. Recently Sarah has taken the post but gained notoriety for cheesy comments
[edit] Inside TV
Is a 7 day TV guide included in the magazine.
