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Post by Bungle on May 30, 2007 10:31:10 GMT
To be fair, 'the BBC' said nothing of the kind, it's 'A BBC source' which, err, could be anyone (or just made up).
(The show is shit though, which still makes me sad, as it was so good once)
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Post by orphanandy on May 31, 2007 21:37:14 GMT
Particularly when the BBC1 daytime soap "Doctors" wupped their asses aswell, it comes accross as pathetic as can be.
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Post by The BBC Insider on May 31, 2007 22:18:40 GMT
I agree...it's just a pack o shite.
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Post by gravedigger on Jun 15, 2007 12:26:52 GMT
Oh, God.
There's an email going round BBC staff members that says that rumours concerning the possibility of boosting EastEnders showings to five times a week are not entirely shite. And that this seems likely to happen.
It's the apocalypse for us all.
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Post by latoyajunkie on Jun 15, 2007 12:33:01 GMT
I don't think I could add much more other than to say it's so bad, I reckon even Hollyoaks would be more bearable, not that I want to put that to the test or anything.
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Post by Bungle on Jun 15, 2007 13:28:46 GMT
If they increase to 5 shows a week then they deserve everything they get.
I used to love EastEnders so much. I'm sad to see it die such a painful death.
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jun 17, 2007 22:03:59 GMT
But its been a staple of the BBC for so long and still seen as one of the big two soaps (despite Emmerdale coming close to and beating it in quite a few ratings) what exactly is it going to take for the BBC to kill it off?
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Post by Smudge on Jun 17, 2007 22:35:46 GMT
The BBC will not cancel it purely because they are already struggling to fill the schedule as it is. There is so much bullshit on channel one, it's unbelievable. Eastenders is crap for the same reason it's always been crap: they can't write comedy and they can't get actors invent characters that people actually warm to. If the Dawn/Rob/Dr Crazy storyline was happening on Emmerdale everyone would be rooting for Rob and Dawn to live happily ever after and for evil Doctor to get her comeuppance. Same for Corrie, although no doubt Blanche would already have realised that May is a nutter and would have make some deliciously vicious comment about her being on horse tranquilizers or something. I'd be quite happy for May to snatch the baby and run off into the sunset though. Ethal's eath was the last decent story in Eastenders, by an absolute mile.
The current main list of characters is atrocious! Ginger Mingbag and Panface are totally hideous. Redfaced Ginger is horrid, as is the rest of the Ginger Mingbag family. Peggy is a stupid old cow. Phil is a twat. I like Stella, purely because is Lydia from Four Weddings. Ben is a little shit. The entire Beale contingent need shooting.
Him off the Parklife video and his kids are shit. The girlfriend and Moody Bitch Daughter and Sparkly or whatever she is called are pathetic. Basically, everything about Eastenders is shit.
Brookside still had a lot going for it when it was cancelled (apart from viewers that is). Eastenders has got bugger all.
Also: in the episode where the Beale/Mitchell carcrash took place, did anyone else feel like they were cringing towards an early death with the banshees in the beauty salon singing Grace Kelly? That was the biggest carcrash of the night in my opinion.
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 19, 2007 18:20:51 GMT
I think you've pretty much summed it up. There isn't one character you give a flying fuck about in the entire fucking square.
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Post by Steven on Jun 19, 2007 18:54:51 GMT
I feel compelled to say something positive in that EE just gave us Sophie Thompson playing football, which I consider to be worth my licence fee all by itself.
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Post by Smudge on Jun 19, 2007 18:56:56 GMT
Peggie armed with a water pistol, give me strength.
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Post by orphanandy on Jun 19, 2007 19:34:51 GMT
Also: in the episode where the Beale/Mitchell carcrash took place, did anyone else feel like they were cringing towards an early death with the banshees in the beauty salon singing Grace Kelly? That was the biggest carcrash of the night in my opinion. I am cringing thinking about that- then they even had a psychic twin moment when they boy was gonna die. To top it all off, the boy twin didnt even die!!! It was all a big con.
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Post by schmindie on Jun 19, 2007 23:22:49 GMT
In the whole EE "dramatic" ratings-grabbing storyline (Rob/Dawn/Dr May), I couldn't give a shit what happens, and neither could most of the EE watchers I know. I remember when Eastenders was talked about, cared about even, now it is just crap. At least Neighbours/Home and Away don't pretend to be realistic, they just give their viewers what they want. Eastenders tries so hard to be a gritty umpteen-episodes-a-week drama yet looks completely tired and boring. Cut it back to one episode a week (two at the most), cut out all the deadwood (Slaters/Brannings/Wicks' et al) and concentrate on decent, deep storylines with a good mix of drama and comedy. That's all we want from a soap. Not much to ask, surely?
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jun 21, 2007 23:58:58 GMT
Tonight's Eastenders surely reached a new low when in half an hour we get attempts at humour including Dawn breaking wind in public and Carly singing and dancing to "Consider Yourself" (and not being slapped hard enough) as well as Rob being covered in gravy for some reason which I still can't figure out but I'm assuming was meant to be funny because it surely couldn't have been serious.
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Post by lockjawsghost on Jun 22, 2007 8:11:31 GMT
i wondered about the gravy too, it didn't seem very menacing. "so you won't talk mr bond, well lets see how you like having gravy licked off your face by a dog"
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Post by Rooneyboy on Jun 22, 2007 8:20:25 GMT
Haven't watched EE for a while, thought I would have a look and see if it had got any better and the answer was a resounding; No!
Its dysmal. Bens still looking like a stuffed dummy with a permanently sad face, Dawn is still very slappable, Carly still can't act and Rob was smothered in cheap gravy mix.
Well done scriptwriters, another vintage episode.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jun 22, 2007 8:28:44 GMT
It's been absolutely fascinating watching the EE writers' attempts to fill the gap left by the "May kidnaps the baby" storyline that was actually supposed to be playing out this week. If you think about it, absolutely nothing at all has happened, hence the Peggy supersoaker thing and all the bollocks with Carly and Shirley. They had an opportunity to do some really good stuff without the pressure of making it advance the ongoing plots and, as usual, they've pissed it away. They should watch a few Sunday Corrie episodes to see how it should be done.
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Post by SweatShop on Jun 23, 2007 10:53:49 GMT
Carly singing and dancing to Consider Yourself. Maybe it was an in-joke about her godawful cockerney accent? She always sounds like she's just stepped out of her drama school's production of "Oliver!"
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Post by Anna on Jun 23, 2007 15:19:31 GMT
I used to love EE, up until about 2001 or 2002, sometime after the Zoe/Kat/Trevor/Mo stuff which was the last memorable great storyline. It was a sad day the day I realised it had turned to shite, but I've not looked back since. I catch the odd 5 mins and it just seems full of annoying brats. And the only storyline that can happen to a teenage girl it seems is become pregnant or become a rubbish lesbian.
I think the moment of realisation was when they introduced the Millers - I can never stand watching characters who are INTENTIONALLY written as ANNOYING. And when Garry started just gurning all the time.
Even my mum's stopped watching, and she's watched it all her life!!
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Post by Rad on Jun 25, 2007 19:07:41 GMT
Even my mum's stopped watching, and she's watched it all her life!! Your mum is only 22? Or younger?!
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 27, 2007 21:06:35 GMT
I watched EastEnders for the first time in over four month yesterday, and everything is the same. Bradley and Stacey are still on/off, Dawn is still moping about the baby; the only difference being that now it's not inside her, Mickey's rubbish Chinese girlfriend who can't act for shit is still rubbish, Ian's woman, I forget her name, is still going on about having a fucking baby, Pat Butcher Junior is still not going on that well with her kids, and Stella is still shit.
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 27, 2007 21:07:08 GMT
Even my mum's stopped watching, and she's watched it all her life!! Your mum is only 22? Or younger?! She's from Bristol.
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Post by orphanandy on Jul 1, 2007 0:15:22 GMT
Oh come on!! Cancel it already!! As if Den wasnt "jumping the shark" they are now jumping on the shark, slapping the shark in the face, shaking its dorsal fin and shouting "We have finally lost all direction and we want you to put us out of our misery"
Wait for it, upcoming storyline alert!!
EastEnders' Cindy Beale is to return to Albert Square – as a ghost.
Cindy – who was played by Michelle Collins for nine years before her character was killed off during child birth in prison – makes her presence felt in Walford when Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and daughter Lucy (Melissa Suffield) begin receiving spooky texts and e-mails from beyond the grave.
A BBC insider told The Sun: "It starts when Lucy gets emails from her mum but then things get sinister. Ian finds a message reading ‘I’m back’ scrawled on the mirror and the room smells of Cindy’s perfume.
"Then he is sent a picture of her – looking older than when she supposedly died. Eventually he receives a message asking him to meet her – at her grave."
However, an EastEnders spokeswoman told DS today: "We never comment on future storylines."
As yet, it is unclear as to whether Michelle will reprise her role but was quoted last year as saying: "There's talk of Cindy’s death being staged and her being in a witness protection programme. I wouldn’t say no to returning."
Give me a fucking break!! What next Ethel comes back after having faked her own deaths so that her Willy would get her insurance???
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Post by MoondialSlater on Jul 1, 2007 0:22:56 GMT
I want her ghost to come out of the fridge.
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Post by Muinimula on Jul 1, 2007 15:38:41 GMT
Then he is sent a picture of her – looking older than when she supposedly died. ...which then turns out to be a picture of Shirley. Give me a break.
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