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Old 09-12-2004, 00:23
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4079355.stm

Soap surprise for South Bank Show

Veteran soap Coronation Street is a surprise inclusion on the shortlist for the traditionally high-brow South Bank Show Awards.

The ITV1 series has been shortlisted in the TV drama category, alongside Shameless and Dirty Filthy Love.

The Libertines, Franz Ferdinand and Morrissey will feature in the pop music category at the awards on 25 January.

Nominated in the film category are My Summer of Love, Dead Man's Shoes and Shaun of the Dead.

Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst has been nominated in the literature section alongside Booker-shortlisted authors David Mitchell for Cloud Atlas and Colm Toibin for The Master.

Breakthrough award

The acclaimed National Theatre production of Alan Bennett's The History Boys has been included in the best theatre shortlist.

Also competing is Festen, staged at the Lyric and Almeida theatres, and the Sheffield Crucible's Don Carlos.

The TV comedy award will be fought between Channel 4's Green Wing and BBC Three series Little Britain and Nighty Night.

The awards will be hosted by Melvyn Bragg at the Savoy Hotel in London.

A new breakthrough award has been added, recognising rising British talent.

Among the contenders are the band Razorlight, author Andrea Levy, film director Amma Asante and actor James McAvoy.
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Old 09-12-2004, 00:51
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loL, some soapy connections in the music bit.
The Libertines has been a soap opera more than a band if you think about it, all that sensational drama between Pete Doherty and Carl Barat!! Edge of seat stuff and now they are enstranged.

And Morrissey's favorite television character has always been Elsie Tanner. When he was young, he wrote scripts and sent them to Granada, writing a character as Elsie's son who he hoped to play!!
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Old 09-12-2004, 07:34
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Sounds good

Morrissey also did an interview with Pat Phoenix (Elsie) in 1985, you can read it here...


http://foreverill.com/interviews/1985/phoenix.htm
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Old 09-12-2004, 08:31
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I wonder why this is? Is it because it is an itv show? Eastenders in 2001 was way better than what Corrie has been this year yet it was never nominated why? yes Corrie has been good but still it all seems abit one sided.
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Old 09-12-2004, 08:32
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Originally Posted by Trixie-Firecracker
I wonder why this is? Is it because it is an itv show? Eastenders in 2001 was way better than what Corrie has been this year yet it was never nominated why? yes Corrie has been good but still it all seems abit one sided.
Does EastEnders deserve to be nominated this year? I don't think so, and nor did Bafta earlier this year.
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Old 09-12-2004, 08:34
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Does EastEnders deserve to be nominated this year? I don't think so, and nor did Bafta earlier this year.

Read what I said, I was talking about 2001.
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Old 09-12-2004, 08:37
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Originally Posted by Trixie-Firecracker
Read what I said, I was talking about 2001.
I did read what you said but do you even know if Coronation Street got nominated back then...do you even know if EastEnders got nominated back then?

You said that you thought his seemed one-sided, I simply pointed out that EastEnders probably didn't even deserve to be nominated so it can hardly be one-sided.

Credit where credit is due.
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Old 09-12-2004, 08:58
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Originally Posted by Trixie-Firecracker
I wonder why this is? Is it because it is an itv show? Eastenders in 2001 was way better than what Corrie has been this year yet it was never nominated why? yes Corrie has been good but still it all seems abit one sided.
Maybe they had never considered a soap was good enough to be nominated, but then based on the quality of Corrie this year, they decided it deserved a nomination. You may think that Eastenders in 2001 was better than corrie in 2004, but that is your opinion, and may not be theirs. It's nothing to do with it being an ITV show. I'm tired of different members claiming 'ITV bias' with no proof that this is what's happening.
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