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Soap plots dropped due to unforeseen circumstances
I looked to see if there had been any threads on this topic before but haven't come across any. I was reading in the "Will Suzie Branning be back this year" thread that alot of storylines involving her had to be dropped or rewritten when the actress playing her was let go from the show. Apparently Janine ended up with alot of her stroylines.
I also read that when the Ferreiras were in EE, writers had planned to have the kids murder their bully father and bury him in a shallow grave but then the actor who played Dan had to leave the show due to visa issues and they had to rewrite the storyline and ended up with that awful kidney transplant plotline. Another one I read about in one of the soap magazines a good few years ago was Peggy sleeping with Dennis Rickman!! Barbara Windsor was involved in a car crash and had to take time off to recuperate so the story thankfully never materialised. Of the US soaps, Dynasty had a number of rumoured plotlines dropped due to various contract wranglings but the most notable one was the storyline that would have seen Alexis become the queen of Moldavia following the infamous wedding massacre. Alas, Joan Collins decided not to go back to work as she was holding out for more money and the story was dropped. And in it's sister show The Colbys, there were a number of bizarrre rumours circulating following Fallons UFO abduction cliffhanger. First off, had the show returned for a third season, the alien abduction would have been explained as a hallucination. Secondly, Diahann Carrolls Dynasty character Dominique was due to move to LA to The Colbys to run her record label with her son played by Michael Jackson!! The casting of her son was only rumoured but it was widely circulated at the time. There have been various other storylines that have had to be dropped due to real life death, illness, sacking or otherwise. Does anyone know of any others? And do you think that some of these would have been better than the way the plots actually turned out? |
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One storyline in EE that started and then stopped abruptly was Shirley being tormented by her noisy neighbour Gavin. The actor playing Gavin was axed with immediate effect for something or other.
The Ferreira murder plot sounds like it would have been interesting. |
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One storyline in EE that started and then stopped abruptly was Shirley being tormented by her noisy neighbour Gavin. The actor playing Gavin was axed with immediate effect for something or other.
The Ferreira murder plot sounds like it would have been interesting.
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Peggy and Dennis? Eww :s
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I'm sure I remember Corrie having to drop a child abduction storyline with Claire when it coincided with Madelaine McCann's disappearance.
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There was the Corrie storyline where that vicar was suppose to have a fling with Sophie Webster and Blanche wasn't he? And he was like 40/50. But they dropped it in favour for the
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One storyline in EE that started and then stopped abruptly was Shirley being tormented by her noisy neighbour Gavin. The actor playing Gavin was axed with immediate effect for something or other.
The Ferreira murder plot sounds like it would have been interesting. http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/...5875-16708351/ Quote:
Peggy and Dennis? Eww :s
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Did Shirley ever find her cat?
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Corrie also had to drop a storyline where Martin bedded an underage schoolgirl because the actor didn't want to do it, which led to his sacking or did he leave because he was so pissed off.. one or the other.
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Corrie also had to drop a storyline where Martin bedded an underage schoolgirl because the actor didn't want to do it, which led to his sacking or did he leave because he was so pissed off.. one or the other.
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I can think of two recent ones at the moment:[LIST][*]Summer's abduction by Rob and May in summer 07... They had to reshoot the ending because of what happened with Madeline McCann. Shame because I would have loved for May to have Summer... I thought Dawn didn't deserve her... But in the end I didn't have much choice and I thought Dawn was good with Summer... I would have liked to see Summer growing in the Square.[*]I've also read that in late 07 Jim relationship with two of his sons (Jack and Max) was to be further explored. It was supposed to be something really interesting but as John had a stroke at the same time, it prevented them from doing it. I just hope that we'll see more of the Brannings as a family unit in the forthcoming months.[/LIST]
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I can think of two recent ones at the moment:[LIST][*]Summer's abduction by Rob and May in summer 07... They had to reshoot the ending because of what happened with Madeline McCann. Shame because I would have loved for May to have Summer... I thought Dawn didn't deserve her... But in the end I didn't have much choice and I thought Dawn was good with Summer... I would have liked to see Summer growing in the Square.
LIST] It was similiar with the Corrie abduction storyline - Where Ashley and Claire's baby was abducted, he was meant to be missing for months, but it conincided with the dissapearance of Maddy McCann and they had to re-shoot at the last minute. |
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If all the Suzy Branning stories being given to Janine rumours are true - then I wonder what Janine would have been doing if Suzy didn't leave?
The Ferreira murder storyline sounds like it would've been amazing though. I bet the actors involved were just as annoyed not to act out those scenes. They probably would've been still in the show now. Also, when I first heard about this storyline the first thing I thought was that the writers didn't put their ideas to waste and used them for Den's murder instead. Also, weren't Zoe Slater and Anthony Trueman supposed to get married back in 2002?Michelle Ryan had to leave due to exhaustion so they dropped the story and instead made out that Zoe had disappeared and left him completely out of the blue? |
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If all the Suzy Branning stories being given to Janine rumours are true - then I wonder what Janine would have been doing if Suzy didn't leave?
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In Home & Away, all reference to Duncan being kidnapped was cut oout in the UK due to a real-life kidnapping, i'm pretty sure it was James Bulger.
I wonder how the Carla / Tony / Maria story would have paved out if Alyson King and Samia Smith didn't get pregnant. |
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Interesting to read the Tony Jordan article about Leslie Grantham. A bit different to what the man himself claims. I went to a Leslie Grantham book signing three years ago and he stated that he was on an 18 month contract from the start and it was always the plan to kill the character off for good at the end of the 18 months. I think I tend to believe Mr Jordan more.
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Yes it is cringetastic. I remember people discussing on here whether it would be abbreviated to Dengy or Peggis in the tradition of other soap couplings.
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![]() axed in quick succession so she3 had no one to interact with and just disappeared. We also had a stronger storyline for Sasha and Adi but had to be toned down the only hint we have is that she worked as an escort and had a snake. It would of been more like the Chyred storyline but we were not allowed. |
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I'm sure I remember Corrie having to drop a child abduction storyline with Claire when it coincided with Madelaine McCann's disappearance.
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There was also a Home and Away storyline involving a shooting in the school which had to be either stopped completely or cut out here because of (I think) Dunblane or possibly it was later and was one of the US high school shootings. Most likely there will never be a kidnapping style storyline in any of the soaps because of Maddie McCann, some things are just too close to home.
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Interesting to read the Tony Jordan article about Leslie Grantham. A bit different to what the man himself claims. I went to a Leslie Grantham book signing three years ago and he stated that he was on an 18 month contract from the start and it was always the plan to kill the character off for good at the end of the 18 months. I think I tend to believe Mr Jordan more.
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What about the Violet in Corrie she was supposed to have Aids? I don't remember that going out.
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I realise that Casualty is not quite a soap, however Charlie Fairhead was supposed to fall in love with a man, however this story was dropped due to hostile public reaction.
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Was the whole Sean Slater killing his father storyline dropped after Rob Kazinsky decided to leave? They seemed to be setting that up for a big reveal after Sean admitted it to Tanya but then it was hardly mentioned again and Stacey and her mum still seem to think that he died of natural causes, or was this storyline always meant to be rather ambiguous?
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In EE, wasn't Zoe due to marry Anthony Trueman, but the storyline was rewritten after Michelle Ryan had a breakdown?
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