nope it was the other day, OK Magazine were there and tweeting about it

Oh dear http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...on-attack.html

is it just me, but i think thats a rubbish name for a bar!

Blimey the bars of Essex are flammable. Sugar Hut burnt down not so long ago.

At least that's another stroyline they don't have to write.

Just caught Wednesday's episode. Lauren looks so much better without the spray tan.

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I'm hooked on Essex....I find it totally fascinating. There's enough material in fifteen minutes of this programme to pad out a three year degree course on Chavism

i watched the hour long repeat last night.
I want to see more! the two half hour shows are not long enough.

Ooh, lauren i did kind of like her but she was horrible to marks new girlfriend.

and arg, you can do better than lydia!! was it the lighting or the make up that made her face look an extra funny shape and colour??

Janet- do you think he looks like Jack Tweed?

Just another tranny look a like. Borewood's full of 'em.
I'm off to a party tonight just off the high st only a few hundred yards from Slut hut but will be keeping well away from chav central.

I never thought I'd see a show that made Hollyoaks look professional and polished, then my eyes were burned by the light of "Essex". Jaw-droppingly sh*te only begins to explain the show.

Well it is ITV2, Brian, what do you expect? They're hardly likely to show thought provoking programmes as their hen nighter viewers wouldn't get it.

Nana Pat is so obviously a grown up version of Amy! More so than her grand daughter, Jess who, in comparison to the other 'essex girls', appears quite normal.

Jess is now my favourite out of the girls - it was Lauren up until she was so nasty to Lucy - and my favourite out of the blokes is......Ben (who Kirk trains with, even though he's not one of the regulars) - I love him to bits but then I would, I'm his Mum

don't worry no-one could love Mark more than he loves himself!

Arg is my favourite of the blokes followed by Harry. Amy, despite being irritating does make good tv though. Not too sure about Mark's new girlfriend though, 60 layers of tango and a bit bland, but I'm sure she's lovely off camera.

However I expect the show to evolve around Mark, Lauren and Amy as per usual.

What's worrying is that there's probably a three year degree course on that subject!

.....at the University of Canvey Island

Lydia looks slightly better now that she has scraped off the eight layers of Ronseal from her face.

I like it , dunno why

she'll always look like a puffer fish with no chin to me. To be frank I don't know what Mark sees in any of them

It's best show on tv bar none if you like people watching and find chav interaction fascinating - oh to have a brain like Amy or Harry's , must be blissful, i'm so jealous.

Lydia bears a VERY close resemblance to Miss Piggy, god knows what Arg sees in her

So a crime becomes a plot point. Or was the plot point the crime? Either way as the police were involved so surely this should be looked into?

Headlines and ratings vs wasting police time?

Hardly, far more likely some oik from Brentwood watches the show and thought would be funny thing to chuck a petrol bomb through the window at 5am

Charred in Chigwell was the headline