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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LOWCULTURE THEATRE REVIEW OF THE YEAR
We’re near the end of 2009 so time to look back on the high and lowlights of the year. The others will be here with more traditional lowculture categories like TV and film, but this year we also started looking at how proper telly talent was appearing on stage in [...]
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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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The first production and subsequent film version of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice starred Jane Horrocks as the title character, a painfully shy girl with a talent for impersonating the great divas – Shirley Bassey, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield. Since then it’s become a bit of a cliche to say that [...]
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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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LOWCULTURE EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW
August in Edinburgh can only mean Festival time, but what to go and see out of the myriad shows on offer? Well I haven’t been for over a decade so I can only suggest two shows I have any knowledge of (although if you’ve got a TARDIS feel free to go [...]
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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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June has seen EastEnders dealing with bipolar disorder and being gay and Muslim, Coronation Street has begun the Molly/Kevin storyline, and Hollyoaks has celebrated what must be a first: several student characters actually graduating. But never mind the headline-grabbing antics, who have our forum users been enthusing over and despairing about this month? [...]
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