destroy corrie, forever
― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― ONIMO's pet donkey jacket potato (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― ;_; (blueski), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link
he's a right CAD as well.
slightly disappointing that eastenders uses "the bloke off of desmonds", "another bloke off of desmonds" and "bloke off of fresh prince" as seemingly the only three black actors over 50...
...also, surely when patrick arrived he was portrayed as a right devil, but now is meant to have been the rubbish one. see also jim branning's r4cialism being swept under the carpet...
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Not as bad as British TV/film's "Om Puri is the only Indian actor over 50" steez though.
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
The guy who plays scary Warren. Where do I know him from?
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Will Mellor - Jambo in Hollyoaks, failed pop star, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, that thing about posties with Dean Lennox Kelly in it. Some other stuff.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Somewhere there is a job where I get paid for knowing all this shite.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Will Mellor, oh yes.
Ailsa, you're a marvel.
― accentmonkey, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, my mum spends large amounts of her time phoning/texting me to ask me where she'd seen so-and-so before. This is why that kid off Doctor Who is annoying me so much, because I usually just *know* this stuff.
― ailsa, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Eastenders is working up to the 'angry radicalised Muslim' storyline isn't it? Oh god.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I get angry and radicalised if I accidentally see any of Eastenders.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 4 November 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone still watch this? not yesterday's but tonight's:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7907262.stm?lss
EastEnders is to air the first episode featuring an entirely black cast for the first time in its 23-year history.Tonight's programme will focus entirely on characters Patrick Trueman, Denise Wicks, fiance Lucas, and her daughters Chelsea and Libby.
altho i'm sure there was an episode many years ago which was at least 90% Traverniers.
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
so as not to dilute the corrie thread with filthy eastend shenanigans like i did last time...
it's all kicking off this week. bbc trailers point to peggy's last hurrah and something happening to a certain pub.
soaps are clearly the most important thing in my life at the moment.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 30 August 2010 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
the last time I saw it Phil was in the depths of crack addiction but tonight I half-watched and heard people casually talking about him as if everything is normal. Did he recover in five minutes?
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Monday, 30 August 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
no, last we saw of him he was pissed off with peggy and everyone and everything, and said something about having "a plan" whilst looking at the queen vic.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 30 August 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably. I saw about ten minutes of it at the weekend and can't remember anything about it.
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I was clearly on some mindbenders up there in this thread when I claimed Sean was a good character in Corrie and that Stacey was a bad character in EastEnders. Or, more likely, this was quite early on in each character's screen life, and they hadn't developed them at all (Stacey - much much better, Sean - mostly no)
― ailsa, Monday, 30 August 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
becca's persuaded stacey to come off her meds and is trying to turn her against her mum. lacey turner was so good in that live ep.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 30 August 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
said something about having "a plan" whilst looking at the queen vic.
he's going to eat the pub
― F-Unit (Ste), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
totally going to eat the pub.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq8L7ADA7Pk&feature=related
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 10 September 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually have an answer to this question from years ago on this thread:
I read somewhere that this is because there are too few roles for black actors, so people drop out of acting early on and go and do other jobs, which means that there are genuinely far fewer non-white actors over 50 to choose from when you're trying to cast something.
I can't believe they burned out the Vic and didn't kill anyone. As someone on the Guardian comments section pointed out, this is the cleansing fire before the HD cameras move into a revamped set.
― trishyb, Friday, 10 September 2010 09:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't believe they burned out the Vic and didn't kill anyone.
yeah, although I admire the audacity of having Phil be a crack-fuelled superman who seemed pretty much alright after wandering through raging fire, thick smoke, and the odd massive explosion, and getting crushed by half of the ceiling.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Friday, 10 September 2010 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Just watching this now. How come Dot's allowed to smoke in the pub? And no-one has a mobile? Really? (Masood has just told Dot to go home and call the fire brigade)
― ailsa, Sunday, 12 September 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, Barbara Windsor is a fucking terrible actress, good riddance.
― ailsa, Sunday, 12 September 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I assumed Masood was partly doing that to get her out of there so there'd be one less person hanging around to deal with. I didn't notice that Dot was smoking in the pub, interesting. Maybe because it was a private party?
― trishyb, Sunday, 12 September 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at phil on crack
― lao gan ma (r1o natsume), Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Where did Peggy get all her costume changes from after the Vic burned down?
― ailsa, Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I think that gear had been at the dry cleaners. Billy handed it to her wrapped in plastic and on hangers. How she managed to keep her white jacket white while sitting in a sooty pub is beyond me, though.
― trishyb, Sunday, 12 September 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
New Lauren Branning is rubbish.
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
gave up on this ages ago, even the pub burning down was boring
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Cosign on Lauren. EastEnders' ongoing attempts to engage with the Skins audience isn't getting any less cringeworthy, even if there is comic mileage in the Fatboy-Dot Cotton double act.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh ffs, really, another Moon cousin. With a SECRET (secret = he's shagged Kat, obv)
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
The last pair of Moon brothers were totally underused IMO, especially the psycho perv one who got shot in the head.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 October 2010 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Aye, they just started getting good round about the time they were written out. This one is going to be terrible though, I can tell. And also, he's thingy from This Life that used to go out with Kira. Except grown up.
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Really like Fat Boy.
I keep forgetting that New Lauren is Lauren, if that makes sense.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link
She actually looks a lot like the old Lauren, except about a foot taller and with a totally different voice and personality. I can see why they replaced her, it's a bit difficult to do proper teen stories with an actress who still looks like she's about 12.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 October 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I really liked that old Lauren was a bit quiet and sensitive - not every teenage girl has to be a Rosie Webster minx waiting to happen.
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Supposed to be a new Ben and a new Lucy on the way too I think. Can't wait for New Ben.
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I sort of appreciate that they didn't even change the actress when Rosie Webster underwent a complete personality transplant. But I wish sometimes they would just let soap kids grow up and give them storylines appropriate to their development (see Sophie Webster for perfect example of doing this properly).
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I realise sometimes they do this because the kids don't want to be in the soaps any more, but when they axe them to bring in sexier older actors to change the character, just fuck off already. Get better writers.
― ailsa, Sunday, 3 October 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link