EastEnders - General Discussion Thread

Let's hope it isn't true, because before you know it ITV will be ordering another Corrie episode on Tuesdays to shore up it's dire Tuesday nights.

A move which would be difficult to criticise, if this story is true.
I also wouldn't be surprised if they try and turn Holby Blue into a year round soap, much like they did with Holby City.

Just seen this on the BBC website:
The BBC has refused to rule out a fifth episode each week for long-running soap EastEnders, but says it will not change the scheduling in the near future.

"near future" :

This is just ridiculous.

I'm not the kind of person who likes Big storylines every night with a massive cliff hanger at the end of the episode.So i enjoyed that Episode because i never knew what was happening in it.

I thought it it was a nicely paced Episode involving normal day to day stuff.


Now moving onto the 5 nights a week conversion...Although i really do like my EastEnders i do not think it should go 5 days, the reason i like EastEnders is because of the amount of Episodes it has during the week.

Although it may help EastEnders to recover from its bad state it was/Still is in i hope it doesn't go ahead so i can keep up,I used to enjoy Emmerdale and Corrie until more and more Episodes started Airing.

How would an extra episode help the show to recover?

Whats that? A review for Jackanory?

I agree with TV Fetish's earlier post. That is the only possible option this disintergrating soap can take. The same person who produced the Emmerdale plane crash might be an idea.(?)

I read over at DS that EastEnders don't put out spoilers now for weeks in advance? Is that true? For me currently EastEnders is ok, it's not bad but its not brillent.

I know that some, well a lot on here have a distaste for Australian soaps, but i feel that Home and Away is one of the best soaps on air at the moment. Everything is always moving and each week there is always something big, and something that you didn't expect.

EastEnders needs more drama, suspence - try something different. I personally have always wanted a proper weirdo with sinister motives, the B'n'B to be blown up and a series finale. Doubt i'll get any of that

EastEnders. That badly acted, badly written, badly produced, poorly directed trash. Living off past glories. Characters no-one could give a crap about. Rubbish, pointless plots.

Characters like Ian/Peggy/Phil aren't what they used to be. Especially Phil, who used to be the local hardman, now fancies a backboneless thing like Stella. Dot and Jim are used FAR too much. About two thirds of the cast need to be killed off in a plane crash, including May, Rob, Dawn, Chelsea, Squiggle, Denise, Kevin, Carly, Deano, Preeti, Stella, Ben, Charlie and Mo.

It also needs new writers. Not MORE writers, BETTER writers. And I don't just mean a bunch of writers who have written something else that was good. I mean writers who have maybe just left university, those who were brought up in East London, those who know what the place is REALLY like.

Otherwise, this time next year it will be called EastEnded

Have to say, one of the best posts in this thread, you summed it up quite nicely.
I don't agree with the plane crash idea. Let's say the following:

They decide to have a grunge-themed party under the bridge on ''Trupin Road'' and suddenly (and for this they can really go crazy with the sound effects) a train careers off the viaduct, spinning out of control, mowing down the mentioned characters, squashing Squiggle and Stella and finally coming to a halt outside the Post Office, where Denise tries to salvage the wreckage, only to cut her throat ''accidentally'' on a charred piece of metal.
Now THAT would save the show.

But we all say that EE is bad now, so are we wanting to go back to what it was instead of trying something new. I think we have to remember that not everyone likes everything.

Beautiful idea there Jonathan, just such a shame that the numpties who run it would probably say something like 'We musn't upset younger viewers who watch this show, because it might give them bad dreams'.

Also, someone else I forgot to mention on my list, is Sean, but at the moment he's in that black EastEnders hole, where characters go to for a few months, and then appear again. The black EastEnders hole's biggest contributor is Gus Smith

An explosion at the B'n'B would be just what it needs. The Trumans decide to revamp the B'n'B and give it a new launch. The first guest stay (some of the younger ones), and then at night there is an explosion.

Now that may sound over the top, but it written and directed well it could be a corker.