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Old 19-08-2014, 13:56
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They have to have a big disaster to increase their ratings.
Eastenders was in a really bad way when they resorted to that ridiculous fairground disaster, and now

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Old 19-08-2014, 14:01
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It's time corrie was axed IMO
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:04
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You call that a big disaster?
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:04
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No, it's just time for a new producer, that's all! Corrie will outlive us all!
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:06
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It's time corrie was axed IMO
Here here. People won't watch it if they don't have to. I know how it feels to keep checking in on a soap to see if its got any better (*cough cough* axe Hollyoaks)
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:07
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Here here. People won't watch it if they don't have to. I know how it feels to keep checking in on a soap to see if its got any better (*cough cough* axe Hollyoaks)
When Easties was bad, they still had strong actors. Corrie has one good actor in the guy who plays Roy. That's it.
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:12
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When Easties was bad, they still had strong actors. Corrie has one good actor in the guy who plays Roy. That's it.
And now they've taken Haley off him, what will the future hold for him?
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:14
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And now they've taken Haley off him, what will the future hold for him?
He shacks up with Norris?
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:14
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No, it's just time for a new producer, that's all! Corrie will outlive us all!
I agree. Axe the producer
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:18
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He shacks up with Norris?
They are both so far deep in the closet, its about time they gave into each other's sexual aura
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:19
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If they'd just give Maddie a hard hitting storyline the show could be saved

*Shakes fist* Damn you The Hat, DAMN YOU!
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:19
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Big disasters, if planned properly can be excellent storylines. Everone says a soaps in trouble when they have one, yet I feel that way about constant affair storylines.

If they have some sort of long standing impact, (not just over in a week) they can be great!
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:21
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When Easties was bad, they still had strong actors. Corrie has one good actor in the guy who plays Roy. That's it.
Unlike you apparently Scrabbles, most of us don't tune in to a soap for an acting Masterclass, (such as can be found nightly in EE of course).

We tune in for good sls, good characterisation, some drama and some comedy.

Admittedly most of these are somewhat lacking in Corrie at the moment, but imo the likes of Chris Gascoyne, Alison King, Sally Dynevor, Patti Clare, Simon Gregson, Malcolm Hebden, Anne Kirkbride, Will I Am Roache, Paula Lane, Jack P Shepherd, Joe Duttine, Debbie Rush, Ian Puleston Davis, Jane Danson and quite a few others, all play their parts to the very best that the often poor scripts allow.

Acting ability is really really not Corrie's problem right now.
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:24
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The problem is mostly fedora shaped...
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Old 19-08-2014, 14:49
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You call that a big disaster?
Agreed - surely a plane/tram crash is a big disaster, not the spoiler in the original post...
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Old 19-08-2014, 15:07
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You know a soap is in trouble when ... the soap in question has to pay a plant to come on here and tell us how good it is.

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Old 19-08-2014, 15:09
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"Big disaster", how to exaggerate. How can someone collapsing in a prison count as that? Or falling through a ceiling?
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Old 19-08-2014, 15:12
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You know a soap is in trouble when ... the soap in question has to pay a plant to come on here and tell us how good it is.

Are you referring to new FM 'Aspidistra' or new FM 'Triffid'?

You better not mean me! They haven't paid me a penny yet!
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Old 19-08-2014, 15:56
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When spunger, starts banging on about Cheese, Ham and Ratings.
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Old 19-08-2014, 16:02
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Well, I wouldn't be too harsh on Corrie but they do need to sack Stuart Blackburn because his ideas for storylines are unrealistic.
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Old 19-08-2014, 16:47
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Admittedly most of these are somewhat lacking in Corrie at the moment, but imo the likes of Chris Gascoyne, Alison King, Sally Dynevor, Patti Clare, Simon Gregson, Malcolm Hebden, Anne Kirkbride, Will I Am Roache, Paula Lane, Jack P Shepherd, Joe Duttine, Debbie Rush, Ian Puleston Davis, Jane Danson and quite a few others, all play their parts to the very best that the often poor scripts allow.

Acting ability is really really not Corrie's problem right now.

I completely agree with this, I think there is some really great Actors on the show but they can only act what is written for them.
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Old 19-08-2014, 17:34
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as a child of a mixed marriage (corrie and easties) these threads irk me. I like them both. Blackburn is rubbish though and corrie is hard to watch at the moment like eastenders was last year. I'll be loyal to corrie as I was with easties.
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Old 19-08-2014, 17:37
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To be honest I'd be like Tyrone; have you seen the wallpaper in the bedroom?

Hideous, hideous, hideous.

Still at least the new studios have more than one interior bedroom set now, LOL!
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Old 19-08-2014, 18:02
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It's time corrie was axed IMO
Slightly dramatic lol!
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Old 19-08-2014, 18:05
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Axe Blackburn but he can keep his hat
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