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Old 18-01-2010, 18:42
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During the 07 revamp they changed the way in which characters appear per episode.

So before you had like 3 episodes on and 2 episodes off (or something similar to that effect)

Now any character can appear in any ep. This is great for when a wedding or funeral needs attending, but its also responsible for the 2008 parker overload and the 2009 teen overload.

Did you prefer it when you got a break for an episode or 2 from a story or character you didn't enjoy?

In EE they seem to have a good system of having the right people at the right times, but EE / Emmerdale / Corrie are bad for making a character vanish for weeks on end.
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Old 18-01-2010, 19:21
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During the 07 revamp they changed the way in which characters appear per episode.

So before you had like 3 episodes on and 2 episodes off (or something similar to that effect)

Now any character can appear in any ep. This is great for when a wedding or funeral needs attending, but its also responsible for the 2008 parker overload and the 2009 teen overload.

Did you prefer it when you got a break for an episode or 2 from a story or character you didn't enjoy?

In EE they seem to have a good system of having the right people at the right times, but EE / Emmerdale / Corrie are bad for making a character vanish for weeks on end.
They have a huge cast and they can get away with it
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Old 18-01-2010, 19:30
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There was an interview a while ago with Susan Bower (exec producer) who denied that the contracts had changed. It does seem that the characters mainly stick to the 2/3eps per week, unless something really big is going on. Often there are characters missing, who you would expect to be around but they aren't contracted for that episode.
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Old 18-01-2010, 19:52
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There was an interview a while ago with Susan Bower (exec producer)

Often there are characters missing.
I wish Susan Bower would go missing...
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Old 18-01-2010, 21:57
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^ Me too!! She needs to be fired asap!!!! She is ruining my favourite tv show so much.
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Old 18-01-2010, 22:21
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Yes I wish she would go and take a few of the teens with her!
I don't mind characters appearing more often to complete storyline or appear at a wedding or something like that. It would be good if contracts included giving everyone a major storyline regularly, instead of having so called regulars as supporting cast, for example I suppose Toadie had an appearance today, but it was just a few lines as part of the Ramseyteens story.
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Old 22-01-2010, 14:04
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During the 07 revamp they changed the way in which characters appear per episode.

So before you had like 3 episodes on and 2 episodes off (or something similar to that effect)

Now any character can appear in any ep. This is great for when a wedding or funeral needs attending, but its also responsible for the 2008 parker overload and the 2009 teen overload.

Did you prefer it when you got a break for an episode or 2 from a story or character you didn't enjoy?

In EE they seem to have a good system of having the right people at the right times, but EE / Emmerdale / Corrie are bad for making a character vanish for weeks on end.
I believe EE have a policy of having a fixed number of characters per episode. Look to last nights ep, we had Glenda, Ronnie, Jane, Ian, Pat, Daniel (right at the end) anyone else?
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Old 22-01-2010, 14:43
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Why's the OP inactive?

I agree with the Susan Bower comments.
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