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Soaps: keep or cull?

by Ruth Deller on March 11, 2010

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The recent producer changes at EastEnders and Hollyoaks have got people on our forums talking about which characters in the soaps are essential and which are due the chop. Most people are agreed that new Hollyoaks producer Paul Marquess has made the correct decision in axing some of our least wanted characters, such as [...]

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The family silver

by Ruth Deller on February 19, 2010

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In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months and haven’t noticed, tonight is the silver anniversary of EastEnders. The Beeb have been showing off a lot about how brilliant it all is, and whilst I have totally loved all the coverage, it does need pointing out that there have [...]

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Who’s that boy?

by Ruth Deller on February 17, 2010

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The slightly perplexing new tradition of ‘Schoolies week’ (why, in many generations of Ramsay St teens has this never been mentioned before?) continues in Neighbours this week, and Donna, fed up of Ringo being a bit of a dick who doesn’t have any purpose whatsoever on the show right now, gets friendly with this new [...]

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Soapstar Superstars: The 2000s

by Ruth Deller on December 31, 2009

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For the past few weeks, our forum users have been suggesting the best and worst soap characters of the decade and after some clever non-maths, here are the ten most loved and the ten most loathed…

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Soapstar Superstars: November

by Ruth Deller on November 30, 2009

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November has been slim pickings in soap world, with the dreary murder storylines in several soaps dominating to the detriment of more interesting things. So there may be a few returns for the people our forum users just love to love and love to hate in today’s update. I’d love to hear who [...]

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Apologies for missing out last month, but I’ve had the kind of poor health that would make me a shoo-in for next year’s X Factor. In a couple of months that have had us blubbing at many soap deaths and despairing at many unwanted returning characters, who have our forum users been loving and [...]

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A sense of foreboding

by Ruth Deller on September 16, 2009

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If you have been watching Five lately, you will have noticed some trailers telling us that ’someone we love will die’ in Neighbours very soon. If you have also been following recent episodes where there has been much mention of Lucas working on a certain vehicle, you will have no doubt picked up on [...]

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Soapstar Superstars: August

by Ruth Deller on August 31, 2009

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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions this month. With Home and Away being off air and the rest of the soaps continuing with storylines that let our usual favourites shine and our usual pet hates stink, it’s not been easy to select this month’s soap winners and losers, but going on your feedback and [...]

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As well as previewing the most exciting TV final of the year tomorrow, the August ‘Soapstar Superstars’ feature is due.
However, having looked through the soap forums, I am struggling to come up with enough people that have stood out in the past month without exalting the usual favourites (the Masoods from EastEnders, Becky from Coronation [...]

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July hasn’t been the most exciting month in the world of soap, but we’ve tried to find the wheat amongst the chaff, as well as highlighting the, er, chaffiest of the chaff (ahem) from what our forum users have been discussing lately…

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