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EE - Steve Mcfadden lands another Panto role
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Steve Mcfadden has landed another role in Panto.
He will play Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at The Hawth Theatre in Crawley, West Sussex
It will run from the 11th of December to the 3rd of January
He played the same Character in St Albans last Christmas
Steve Mcfadden has landed another role in Panto.
He will play Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at The Hawth Theatre in Crawley, West Sussex
It will run from the 11th of December to the 3rd of January
He played the same Character in St Albans last Christmas
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I get fed up of this. I know the actors want to do other work and the argument that they'"l stay longer if they get breaks but i honestly think they detract from the quality of the show.
It's not the writers or the shows fault when these characters are missing, but it's always them that get blamed by certain fans when their faves are off-screen for a couple of months.
Rita Simmons is also doing panto http://twitter.com/marlowetheatre/status/578893520498483201
No doubt Sam will have something better to do as well.
Jake wood also doing panto
Probably 😏 and could we be in for another Carter filled Christmas?
The EE cast is pretty huge these days so there are plenty of others who might get a storyline.
And DTC will get slagged off or using the only cast he's got left....aren't Kat and Alfie off soon as well.
The show desperately need consistency and they're not getting it at all, I know it's a good earner for the actors but the show suffers badly for it.
It's fine as long as everyone realises that that's why they're not there, but I can already predict people will be starting threads on here about 'DTC has forgotten this character!' Or 'why is there a Carter in this scene and not x, y or z - why are they stealing my faves screentime' or more complaints about block story-telling or the slow pace of storylines like we had this year.
Because four major families will be decimated...Beales, Mitchells, Brannings and Moons.
Become a parody with his hardman, threatening bully routine.
Agreed. Too many big characters leaving in one go is a bad move and recent weeks have shown. Sam should be refused this year with all the breaks she's had. I'd say 2 more as a maximum should be allowed.
And for stupid reasons.
Either they need to film stuff in advance or they need to just ban them from doing it.
I'm sorry but whatever job allows their staff 2 or 3 months off each year to go and do another job which damages their product?
If it were characters that weren't missed and they didn't have to specifically write out it might be different but they aren't.
I have nothing against McFadden, i think he is a great actor and don't blame him for wanting to do something 'lighter' for a few weeks and if the Producers allow it, why shouldn't he. But i don't think they should allow it, for him or anybody else. And that includes Linda Henrys 2 months break each Summer/Autumn.
Exactly.
I'm sorry, but either they are working full time at this job or they aren't.
I don't have an objection to a long standing 'staff member' having a lengthy sabbatical. 3 or even 6 months off for womebody that has been working there for 5+ years is fine as a one off. But not 2 months every year!
There is a reason most employers limit continuous holidays to 2 weeks maximum. It is because they can't cover the work without it suffering for longer than that unless they get a temp in to cover. They can't get a temp in to cover an actors leave can they - not in UK soaps anyway. And more than 2 weeks absence does damage the product.
Linda always has her holiday at a time when the rest of the cast are around, after the school holidays and before the panto exodus, so it's nowhere as damaging to the show.
I agree that it is nowhere near as bad as the exodus we get straight after Xmas, New year but i still find it very noticeable. Not because i miss her when she has gone but because they make such a big plot of her going (has Carl killed her, her shooting Pohil as 2 examples) and then her return 2 months later.
Basically, every September you know shirley will implode and run away or be chased out of Waford and then in December she'll come back and after 2 episodes the circumstances of her leaving won't be mentioned again.
ETA. Patsy Palmer kept having her 3 month breaks at the same sort of time as Linda which annoyed me as well. But she's gone for good now so we can leave that one be.
Yes, there's no need for that. They've only made a big deal of it the last 3 years even though she's always gone to see her family in Greece every year at about the same time. Actors with young children always get a few weeks off in the school holidays, but they don't get these big exits and returns.
Why can't see just go to see Carly or George or be 'upstairs' for a while.
Seriously bored of Phil at the moment.