Alison Graham - a memorial

[Steven]

She's not dead or anything, but she's handing over the reins of Soap and Flannel to someone else (Gareth McLean, I believe).

I think it's only fitting we pay a small tribute to the woman who has, over the past seven years, made me chuckle on a weekly basis and delivered a mocking yet affectionate report on the goings on in soapland. I think what I will miss most will be her nicknames for the characters, like Torrid Tricia the Village Idiot and Lindsey "Get Your Gun" Corkhill.

It won't be the same without her.

[si]

Often imitated, never duplicated.

Alison Graham, rip.

[Steven]

Having said that, she does appear to have left it in capable hands. This little nugget made me laugh in the middle of my office:

"Tucked away in the corner shop, behind the marrowfat peas and the two-for-one malt loafs (sic), there is surely a shelf-ful of depleted uranium. How else to explain the cancer hotspot throbbing menacingly in Coronation Street? First Dev had a brush with bowel cancer, and now Sunita finds out she has a putuitary tumour. This is a big shock, as Sunita has always thought "pituitary" is in the Outer Hebrides."

Hee!

(Although as a former Hebridean myself, perhaps I find that joke funnier than most.)

[poppy]

I was told she had become TV editor of the RT or something.

[Nick]

She's already TV Editor of RT, and she has been for years.

She's very good at it. She gets a little photo, and everything. Pretty blouse.

Also! The expression on Maya's face in this week's Soap & Flannel Dev / Sunita / Maya illustration makes me so, so happy.

[shutupjudy]

Jaci Stephens stole her crown as the "Waspish and Witty" Soap Opera analyst. The bitch.