Sorry folks - but I think he might turn up after all - remember this from the mirror last week .......
Saturday 4 December 2004 04:35pm
CHRISTMAS IN SOAPLAND
Nov 26 2004
If a week is a long time in soapland, then a year is an eternity. Last Christmas and New Year, EastEnders finished a triumphant 2003 with the magical wedding of Kat and Alfie and wicked Janine murdering Barry.
Now, in an astonishing change of fortunes, Coronation Street is the undisputed top dog, with Emmerdale coming a close second.
But there is still everything to play for. At Enders, there’s a transformation promised for Christmas, followed by a massive cull of characters.
Meanwhile, that remarkably consistent brand of Northern realism and humour will guarantee outstanding episodes in both Corrie and Emmerdale. Book your seats now...
CORONATION STREET
If you think this week’s incendiary episodes of Mad Maya’s mayhem have been explosive, then you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Following a raft of brilliant stories during the year, which have won them an Aladdin’s Cave of awards, Christmas is a time of death and destruction, as well as a fairytale wedding on the snow-covered cobbles.
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And, of course, there’s probably nothing funnier than dopey duo Ashley and Claire getting married on Christmas Day.
“Ashley, it’s perfect,” Claire recently declared to her wary fiancé and his son Josh. “Don’t you remember I told you about my fantasy weddin’?
The winter wonderland. Me wearin’ white, an’ snow on the ground… We can give ’im ’is presents int’ mornin’ – and int’ afternoon, Daddy and Claire can…” Perhaps that’s enough of her “fantasy” in a family newspaper.
But this is the 21st century and little could she know what Josh would turn up at the church in his Spider-Man costume and there will be squabbles between the three best men.
And not a wise one between them… Then Ashley and Claire will walk under a guard of honour holding meat-cleavers. So careful with your chopper, Fred.
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