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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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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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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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Soapstar Superstars: February

by Ruth Deller on February 28, 2009

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It’s time for another vaguely monthly recap of who’s been doing what in the soaps, and who our forum users are loving and loathing this month:

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Soapstar Superstars: January

by Ruth Deller on January 14, 2009

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In the first of what might become a monthly series, I’m going to take a look at which characters we are loving and loathing in the soaps. I’m basing my choices on the discussion on the forums, how interesting their current storylines seem and my personal whim. By the way, I could easily have [...]

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While we’re hotly anticipating what kind of soap-type treats might be offered up to us on December 25th – and we don’t mean that present under the tree that you know contains bath salts before you even open it – let’s take a little lowculture stride back through what transpired in the land of suds [...]

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Homecoming King

by Ruth Deller on August 11, 2008

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RETURN! EastEnders, Channel 4, 8.00pm
Tonight’s episode of EastEnders is rather special. It marks the one-off (for now) return of Jim Branning to the show for his birthday treat. Since the character has been in a home, there have been a lot of changes on the square and a load of extra members of [...]

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UNHINGED! EastEnders, BBC One, 7.30pm
Bringing Steven Beale back to EastEnders was always inevitable, but his return to the soap has been bumpy, to say the least.
He left to live with Simon Wicks as a slightly demonic young, blonde teenager and returned last year as an ultra-demonic, older, brunette teenager. The Steven-tortures-Ian episode that heralded Aaron [...]

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Teenage rampage

by Ruth Deller on March 30, 2008

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CALAMITY! Neighbours, Five, 1.45pm, 5.30pm, 5.10 am; Five Life, 7.00pmWe are pleased to see that the writers and producers of Neighbours take the advice of lowculture seriously. We refer you back to December 10, 2007, when we gave them a list of tips to make the show better.
Our tips included:ยป Axe Ned (we don’t want [...]

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