RAREFILMFINDER

Eastenders is in the papers as winning awards.Who votes for that CRAP.
It has to be fixed,surely?

lenny

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I just avoid watching, thats my award I often fell !

"Seya next time!"

Dame Starry

Was this at "The Inside Soap Awards"? The clue's in the title I think.

The readers of the magazine, "Inside Soap", all dedicated soap fans, vote for their favourites.
It's only important to them - so why get wound up about it?

DS x.

pitchfork

Why is it called "Eastenders"?
I don't doubt that Raerfilmfinder knows the area much better than a yokel like me but in my travels from Stepney to Bow, Custom House "Old" Isle of Dogs Stratford etc I have never come across any thing thats like it.
Still guess it provides employment and steady work. Is it still shot in Borehamwood?

Lord Brett

I once heard the American porn industry being described as something along the lines of Hollywood for stupid people, as the performers are all on a set, hitting marks and saying lines, so they fool themselves into thinking they are acting.

For me, this sums up soap 'acting' perfectly.

Another apposite description was that Eastenders features second rate actors pretending to be tough, while Coronation Street has second rate actors pretending to be funny.

Though I never watch them, TV being awash with soaps bugs me on the level that this represents a huge amount of prime time TV scheduling which isn't available for something more worthwhile.

ollie

"Soaps" where some once respected actors go to die!!

cheers Ollie.

"Bullseye !!"

Marky B

I have never watched Eastenders for years,since it lost its sense of humour for miserable characters,whom I know do not represent the real people of the east end of London. Not that I know any,but I think I can safely judge that they are not full of the Samaritans' cases as shown in the soap.

I must admit,I do like Emmerdale which is not a true representation of village life in the dales,but at least it has humour,good characters and some witty one liners,usually curtesy of Val Pollard (Charlie Hardwick) and her sister,Diana Sugden (the ever wonderful Stockton lass Elizabeth Estensen).
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

jaycad

it's beyond me why anyone would want to watch a programme about pretend peoples pretend problems in a mundane pretend world? surely everyone has their own problems in life to deal with without wasting their energies on soap operas-it's ok saying ''just turn over'' but with the sheer amount of them and their omnibus repeats it's hard not to get annoyed with them,especially when you know that the drama budget is being wasted on them and decent new drama can't get a look in.

''no diggin'!!!!!!''

RAREFILMFINDER

Your right ,I was born in the Mothers Hospital Clapton Pond and grown up in Hackney.
The nearest I can base eastenders on, is how a lot of londoner's lived in the 50's and 60's.
With lead pipework coming down the kitchen wall that had a wall mounted tap over a butler sink.If you were well off you also had an ascot heater for hot water.
No inside toilet as I can clearly remember sitting on the loo looking at an Owl in the tree(most doors had a gap at top and Bottom).
Money slot Gas meter.And of course the pub was the local meeting place for locals.
A Queen Vic is few and far between now as the pub trade for families has long gone.Same as the cafe,try and find one.As for sitting in the park at night,you would have to have a death wish with the gangs around.I used to drive certain people around and having met a few of the writers,it was easy to see they had no idea of real eastenders.They write what they think its like.
For me it insults real Londoners as it is no reflection just what some crap writer imagines it to be.And there are a lot of CRAP writers working on it.
But prime time and the BBC are paying.It must be the best comeback show for no hope actors.Ricky and Bianca dddeeeerrrrrrrrr

lenny

"you can't polish a turd"

pitchfork

Well the real Eastenders that I have met and worked with felt insulted by their portrayal in "Deadenders". I hardly watch it now but it has been praised for bringing various issues into the scenes but does the BBC not believe that people are aware anyway?
Re: Emmerdale, my Dad has to watch it everyday it is on .Still too much shouting for me though but at least "Dummydale" has its humerous moments and is easy to watch when I visit him.

troubleasusual

Ever since Dennis carked it I have given up. Yes he was a plonker, but a fucked-up, cracked-up plonker. Bring him back, and Andy, and a bit of houghmagandie magic. I don't care how.

Vaginaltrous

troubleasusual

Are sweary bad words allowed? Hush my mouth.

Vaginaltrous

Straff

Some folks seem to love to wallow in vicarious misery. Bring back Dallas. Now that was real life, full of real people

Semper ubi sub ubi

Bernardo

By crap I assume everyone is referring to poo. If Eastenders is poo I would imagine so is The Sun 'newspaper' plus Screws sorry News of the World, and add a certain fast food outlet. That means that the majority of the UK look at, read and eat shit and us cosy few in Britmovie are the enlightened ones. Or are we?

Allen Dace

I enjoy a wide variety of quality films and television. I regularly go to the theatre and attend plays by Shakespeare, Pinter, Stoppard and Beckett amongst others. I abhor the tacky tabloid press and consider myself a pretty well rounded and intelligent person. I also love EastEnders and haven't missed an episode in over 22 years (I do go out though - easy to record it). Hate it if you will but please don't hang labels on its viewers. I don't watch any other soaps (no time!) and I know it isn't the height of dramatic excellence and can be very lazy but I enjoy it anyway. I could call it a guilty pleasure but I'm not guilty!