News first came out in April 2000 that Crossroads was to return to our screens after a break of 12 years. There was much opinion, speculation and criticism about the idea at the time. As time went by and we found out just what Carlton were planning for the new Crossroads, there was plenty of other news in regards to who was starring in it and which ex motel characters would be coming back.
Planet Crossroads has trawled most of the UK news services on the internet and has now compiled a more or less comprehensive list of pretty much all the Crossroads related news from the last two and a half years, and you can get them all below.
Click on the title of an article to read it in full.
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9th October 2004 | Crossroads fan wants show DVD | Despite last year's demise of Brummie soap Crossroads, one ardent fan is petitioning producers to release a DVD marking the show's 40th... |
26th February 2004 | End Of A Television Era | Itv plc today announced it is to axe Carlton Studios, Nottingham, with the likely loss of 200 jobs. JOHN BRUNTON looks behind the decis... |
28th May 2003 | Crossroads Was All A Terrible Dream | This is the moment the nightmare ends for TV viewers and doomed soap Crossroads turns out to be just a dream. In the final episode, ac... |
28th May 2003 | Crossroads Dream Comes To An End
| ITV bosses probably hoped they had been dreaming for the past two years as the relaunched Crossroads slumped abysmally in the ratings.... |
10th March 2003 | Lenton Lane Checking Out After Crossroads? | Staff at Carlton Television in Nottingham were today called to a mass meeting to hear officially about ITV's decision to axe Crossroads... |
10th March 2003 | Crossroads: Beaten By Blue Peter In The Ratings | New ITV director of programmes Nigel Pickard has made his first big decision, axing struggling daytime soap Crossroads less than three... |
10th March 2003 | ITV Drops Crossroads | Daytime TV soap Crossroads has been dropped less than three months after it was relaunched because of poor ratings. ITV bosses have dec... |
28th January 2003 | Crossroads actress brands new-look set 'a brothel' | Former Crossroads actress Jane Rossington has criticised the revamped version of the ITV soap. The actress, who played hotel boss Jill... |
14th January 2003 | Revamped Crossroads hopes to attract gay viewers | Crossroads producers are hoping the new-look show will be a success with gay viewers. Former Neighbours actress Anne Charleston, wh... |
13th January 2003 | Crossroads Out For Graham | Crossroads producers have their sights set on gay comic Graham Norton. They hope he may be willing to do some cameos for them to liven... |
12th January 2003 | Crossroads Feature | Glamourous as a Corby trouser press, its sets wobbled more than a Rolf Harris instrumental and its actors choked on their lines - and w... |
10th January 2003 | Les Dennis joins Crossroads | Les Dennis has reached a Crossroads in his life after splitting from wife Amanda Holden. No, I don’t mean he has big decisions to make... |
10th January 2003 | Crossing Over To Camp | Crossroads is back and this time it's as camp as a bottle of coffee. Yvon Grace, the executive producer given the task of overhauling t... |
9th January 2003 | Third Time Lucky For Crossroads? | It is being billed as a teatime version of Dallas. Get ready for glitz, glamour, passion and intrigue when the Crossroads Hotel re-open... |
13th December 2002 | Preview Of New Crossroads | Here’s Emma Noble in her raunchy new role as a ruthless gold-digger in the upcoming series of telly soap Crossroads. Emma, 31, the daug... |
18th November 2002 | Benny Back At Crossroads | Bobble-hatted odd-job man Benny is heading back to the newly-revamped Crossroads according to reports. Actor Paul Henry is being lined... |
10th November 2002 | Big names book into Crossroads | Former Birds Of A Feather star Linda Robson is checking in to Crossroads hotel as one of its new star line-up. Kate O'Mara, known to m... |
18th October 2002 | Emma Noble Joins Crossroads | Emma Noble is to join the cast of Crossroads as a "gold-digging blonde bombshell." She will play the role of Suzie Samson - the daught... |
11th October 2002 | Danniella Pulls Out Of Crossroads | DANNIELLA Westbrook has pulled out of her big TV comeback role in Crossroads as she has been told doctors can rebuild her nose next wee... |
8th October 2002 | Jane Asher and Stuart Milligan Move To King's Oak | In a most unlikely career transformation, 'little Miss Perfect' Jane Asher is casting aside her twinset-and-pearls image to play a sex... |
8th October 2002 | Jane Asher Joins Crossroads | Jane Asher is joining the cast of Crossroads. She will join the soap when it relaunches in the new year, playing a "sexy superbitch" c... |
6th September 2002 | Danniella is at the Crossroads | Actress Danniella Westbrook is to make her TV comeback in Crossroads. The recovering cocaine addict, who played Sam Mitchell in EastEn... |
31st August 2002 | Crossroads Goes Glam For Final Relaunch | Crossroads is to get a glitzy Dallas-style facelift in a make-or-break relaunch. When the veteran soap returns next year, dowdy unifor... |
14th August 2002 | Crossroads To 'Close' For Facelift | Crossroads is shutting its doors at the end of the month until December. Producers are promising a huge revamp of the ITV soap to give... |
30th June 2002 | Randy Actors Sneak Off For Sex | Crossroads cast members have been using rooms at the famous King's Oak motel for quickie sex sessions, one of its leading actresses has... |
17th June 2002 | Crossroads Takes New Bookings | ITV has ordered 240 new episodes of Crossroads even though its audience is only 3 million, writes Jason Deans.
It had been widely e... |
17th June 2002 | Crossroads To Stay Another Year On ITV1 | Faith is being kept in embattled day-time soap Crossroads - ITV have commissioned a further 240 episodes of the show from Carlton Tele... |
2nd May 2002 | ITV At A Crossroads Over Crossroads | ITV could be left without a cast for its afternoon soap Crossroads if it doesn't hurry up and recommission it. ITV is due to make a dec... |
27th January 2002 | Now Even The Fans Turn On Crossroads | Under threat Crossroads has been given a big thumbs down - by two of its biggest fans.
TV Insiders claim the Midlands soap could fa... |
27th January 2002 | Jane's Found A Home In Crossroads | Jane Gurnett has occupied a string of houses and is living in a hotel on screen - but she has finally found her home. The Crossroads a... |
22nd January 2002 | Crossroads To Introduce Three New Characters | Crossroads will introduce three new faces in April to mark the anniversary of its relaunch. They are Emmerdale's Raine Davison, ex-This... |
21st January 2002 | Crossroads boss says it has suffered from "bad press" | Crossroads producer Peter Rose has blamed the media for contributing to the soap's uncertain future. He has praised viewers for being l... |
20th January 2002 | TV bosses deny Crossroads is to be taken off the air | Carlton TV denies Crossroads faces the axe again less than a year after being revived. The soap is averaging only 3.5 million viewers a... |
8th January 2002 | Doris Luke Leaves Crossroads Because "It's too sexy" | Kathy Staff says she is quitting Crossroads because the storylines are too sexy. She says many scenes are "sex for the sake of sex... |
16th December 2001 | How Benny Missed Out On Porridge | To most people he will always be Benny, the blundering bobble-hat admirer of Miss Diane. But today the Sunday Mercury can reveal that f... |
25th October 2001 | Crossroads star joins Chicago cast | [Crossroads character] Patrick Russell (aka actor Neil McCaul) will join the cast of the West End musical Chicago on November 26. He wi... |
30th August 2001 | Crossroads to lose one episode per week | ITV is cutting back its much-hyped daytime soap Crossroads from five episodes a week to four, following disappointing ratings, writes S... |
20th August 2001 | Crossroads awarded four-star hotel rating | TV's Crossroads hotel has been given the seal of approval by tourism chiefs with a four-star rating. Producers of the show wanting to e... |
31st May 2001 | Former Minder star to join Crossroads | Former Minder star Gary Webster is to join the cast of Crossroads. Gary will join the daytime soap as a shady businessman during a six-... |
30th May 2001 | Crossroads actress hits back at critics | Jane Gurnett has hit back at Crossroads critics, saying the soap has a core fanbase. She says she hopes Crossroads will be in the runni... |
30th May 2001 | Jane Rossington glad to be leaving Crossroads | Jane Rossington has admitted she's glad to be leaving Crossroads after her four-month stint. The actress has told Ananova that having t... |
29th May 2001 | Crossroads is not checking out | Rumours that Crossroads is to be axed have been strenuously denied. Carlton Television says it has no plans to drop the series. Viewing... |
4th May 2001 | Crossroads' Jill takes another Chance on Adam | Jill Harvey is to marry Adam Chance in Crossroads for a second time. The couple, played by Jane Rossington and Tony Adams, will wed 18... |
13th April 2001 | ITV bosses deny plans to axe Crossroads | Crossroads will not be axed, ITV bosses say. The revived soap has seen a fall in ratings since it reappeared in March.
It had been... |
1st April 2001 | Steps check into Crossroads | A member of the pop group Steps is to check in to the famous Crossroads hotel as themselves. It will be the first celebrity appearance... |
17th March 2001 | Crossroads fans threaten boycott over Jill death | Fans of TV soap Crossroads are threatening to boycott the show if Jane Rossington's character Jill Richardson is killed off. They say t... |
10th March 2001 | Benny disappointed not to be in new show | The actor who played Benny in Crossroads says he is disappointed he is not in the new show. The soap returned to TV screens this week a... |
7th March 2001 | Crossroads wobbles in the ratings | Crossroads has pulled in fewer viewers on its second day.
The newly revived soap drew an audience of 2.6 million for its early evening... |
6th March 2001 | Three million watch new Crossroads, say ITV | Unofficial viewing figures for the new-look Crossroads reveal 2.1 million viewers tuned into the first lunchtime episode.
And 3 million... |
6th March 2001 | 'Slick' Crossroads a hit with critics | Two million people tuned in to catch the first episode. TV critics have been pleasantly surprised by the revamped soap Crossroads after... |
6th March 2001 | Critics hail return of Crossroads | The new-look Crossroads has been hailed a great success by TV critics. It returned to television on Monday after a 12-year absence. The... |
6th March 2001 | The set didn't wobble! | Crossroads returned to TV screens yesterday for the first time in 13 years following a £10 million revamp. The soap was known for wobbl... |
6th March 2001 | Comments from Brian Park | I'd definitely watch it again. On first impressons it is ambitious, energetic and it has good production values, reflected in the light... |
6th March 2001 | Comments from Sue Lloyd | The new series started off too fast. It was much too racy and seemed to go at 70mph, jumping from scene to scene. The actors had a very... |
5th March 2001 | Rocky launches new Crossroads | Crossroads fans have been given their first view of the new-look hotel. The revamped soap began with its old theme tune and intercrossi... |
5th March 2001 | Up-market Crossroads returns | Low-budget soap classic Crossroads returns to television today with a new up-market look. The famously creaky sets of Crossroads Motel... |
3rd March 2001 | TV shows threatened by strike ballot | Some of Britain's best known television shows could be hit by production staff threatening strike action over pay. Filming of the reviv... |
26th February 2001 | Soap sponsored by Surf | Crossroads is to be sponsored by detergent brand Surf. Producers have signed a multi-million pound deal with manufacturer Lever Faberge... |
21st February 2001 | Crossroads goes head-to-head with Neighbours | Revamped soap Crossroads is to go head-to-head with Neighbours as ITV unveiled the show's lunchtime slot, and the show is to be shown t... |
20th February 2001 | Crossroads star says the show typecast her | Crossroads veteran Jane Rossington says the soap spoiled her chances of having a proper career. The actress claims her long-running app... |
16th February 2001 | Crossroads porter to speak first | The porter at Crossroads motel is preparing to make TV history by delivering the first line of the revamped soap.
Actor Roger Sloma... |
15th February 2001 | New Crossroads has gay 'Benny' | The new Crossroads is to have a gay Benny. The dimwitted handyman played in the original series by Paul Henry will be replaced by hunky... |
14th February 2001 | Actress's heartache as Nora Batty bows out | Last of the Summer Wine star Kathy Staff has told of her heartache at leaving the UK's longest-running comedy programme. Ms Staff, who... |
14th January 2001 | RTE to screen Crossroads | RTE looks set to start screening the updated version of Crossroads in an effort to win back audiences in the "soap battle" wi... |
21st December 2000 | Crossroads fans say bring back Benny | Crossroads fans have launched a campaign urging television bosses to bring back old favourite Benny Hawkins when the soap is resurrecte... |
28th November 2000 | Filming starts for new Crossroads | Filming has started on a new version of Crossroads. A number of actors from the original soap have been signed up for the revived show.... |
27th October 2000 | Barbara Dickson snubs Crossroads | Barbara Dickson has turned down a role in Crossroads. Jonathon Powell, director of drama for Carlton Television, told the Media Guardia... |
11th September 2000 | Soap fanatic watches loads of Crossroads | A Crossroads fanatic has watched a video taped episode every day for the last 12 years since his favourite soap was axed. Mike Poynton,... |
30th August 2000 | ITV to return to Crossroads Motel | ITV has announced it will be bringing back soap opera Crossroads next year. The programme will be an integral part of the channel's day... |
30th August 2000 | Crossroads Confirmed | For fans of Benny and Miss Diane, the 12-year wait is over. Crossroads, the epitome of cheesy 1970s television, is returning to ITV as... |
11th April 2000 | Do we really want 'Drossroads' back? | Through the rosy hue of hindsight, the cardboard walls of a certain Midlands motel still don't seem like the interiors of the Hong Kong... |
11th April 2000 | Crossroads set for TV comeback | Crossroads, the motel-based soap famed for shaky sets and even shakier acting, is poised to make a comeback, Carlton Television has con... |
10th April 2000 | Soaps stand at the crossroads | Crossroads, the 70s TV soap opera famed for its weak scripts, weaker acting and even weaker sets, could be about to make an unlikely co... |
10th April 2000 | Peer prepares to revive Crossroads | A soap opera famed for its shaky sets and even shakier acting is poised to make a comeback. Carlton Television executive Lord Waheed Al... |
