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Old 19-09-2015, 16:55
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...... roughly what year or decade? As it used to be a surprise what happened in soaps
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Old 19-09-2015, 17:09
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...... roughly what year or decade? As it used to be a surprise what happened in soaps
After Ken-Deirdre-Mike - once the internet came along they intensified.

There seems to be a row back now thankfully. Ridiculous to reveal the stories before they happen
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Old 19-09-2015, 23:07
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I guess it was with the rise in popularity of social media.

I try desperately to avoid spoilers. I like to be surprise (or disappointed, in some cases) when the "action" takes place and I am not just waiting for what I've read about to happen
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Old 19-09-2015, 23:30
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I guess it was with the rise in popularity of social media.

I try desperately to avoid spoilers. I like to be surprise (or disappointed, in some cases) when the "action" takes place and I am not just waiting for what I've read about to happen
Do forums count as social media?

I remember spoilers existing on forums in the early 00s.
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Old 20-09-2015, 02:48
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Since newspapers and soap magazines existed.
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Old 20-09-2015, 10:46
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Since newspapers and soap magazines existed.
I would think the Ken/Deirdre/Mike press coverage would have been the start of the tabloid interest in soaps, I can't really remember much coverage in the papers before then, and I think that heralded the launch of the soap magazines, all of a sudden people were keen to find out what was going to happen until waiting to watch it on screen, and were willing to buy a magazine to find out.

I was a regular buyer and reader of Inside Soap for a few years, then I stumbled across a web site that I cannot remember the name of, which gave detailed descriptions of eastenders episodes quite far in advance, and from that found my way to various forums and sites and all of a sudden a weekly magazine was well out of date by the time it hit the shops

I wish I could avoid spoilers, one of the reason why I have enjoyed EastEnders this year is because of the unexpected returns such as Jane's first re arrival, then Anthony Trueman was a total surprise, and Kathy on the live episode, I think they have done well this year to keep as much as they have a secret
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Old 20-09-2015, 11:26
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Under Colllinson Corrie just seemed to start giving away every aspect of a storyline in advance.
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Old 20-09-2015, 12:04
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They started to exist by the mid 90s in newspapers and by the early 00s they were mainstream in newspapers, tv magazines / guides etc. Then in the mid 00s spoilers were common on websites like DS.

Early 00s (possibly late 90s) was also the beginning of the celeb culture in soaps from what I remember this is when the media started to take an interest in the personal life of actors.
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Old 20-09-2015, 14:48
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...... roughly what year or decade? As it used to be a surprise what happened in soaps
They have been as long as I've been watching Soaps which is the late 70s. They were harder to find and would be printed in the tabloids rather than on the Internet of course, but they were still out there - some put out on purpose byt the shows to create interest, some found out when they'd rather not.

As an example, every single Sunday when EE started, the News of the world would have articles about EE, including upcoming plots. Allegedly they did things like going through actors bins for scripts. Allegedly, Julia Smith would put out dalse info in scripts in a bid to discover where the 'leak' was and whether it was innocent or a member of the cast or crew was actually selling spoilers.
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Old 20-09-2015, 14:55
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Since newspapers and soap magazines existed.
Yes, Whilst i do remember it in the late 70s (who shot JR as one prime example) I think it did intensify after Mike/Ken/deardre and especially after EE started and ;whose the daddy' for Michelle's baby.

UIt then became more 'centralised' and 'organised' in the early 90s when the soap mags started - i think inside Soap started in 1992.
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Old 20-09-2015, 18:45
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Yes, Whilst i do remember it in the late 70s (who shot JR as one prime example) I think it did intensify after Mike/Ken/Deirdre
Spoilers were definitely much less "blatant" in the '70s. When Corrie did the thing when a lorry crashed into the Rovers and Deirdre thought Tracy had been flattened in her pushchair, I can distinctly remember that the TVTimes billing was simply "Disaster hits the Street", nothing more than that, which gave it far more impact; granted there may have been loads of things in the tabloids, but I was only about ten and didn't read them.

As for Ken/Deirdre/Mike, I don't remember it being common knowledge that Deirdre was going to go back to Ken (although common sense would have said she would because "good" always "wins"), so that at least was a surprise to me when it happened.
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Old 20-09-2015, 19:59
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Growing up in the 90s one of my favourite things was when the new TVTimes came out.

Skip straight to the Soap page to see all the spoilers for the week. Spoilers aren't an internet thing.
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Old 20-09-2015, 20:22
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Way before Social Media or the Internet. It all started with the soap magazines, then Newspapers picking up stories from the Magazines.
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Old 20-09-2015, 21:48
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I can remember them from the late 90s/early 00s, especially when Brookie started the 'sensationalist storyline' trend.
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Old 20-09-2015, 21:53
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June 2nd 2001, if I recall correctly. Mid-afternoon, there was a light South-westerly breeze, and the humidity was about 37%. Might have been 38, I can't be expected to remember the facts exactly, you'd be asking too much of me. I was probably drunk at the time.
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Old 20-09-2015, 21:54
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Growing up in the 90s one of my favourite things was when the new TVTimes came out.

Skip straight to the Soap page to see all the spoilers for the week.
Isn't that just the billings for the week though? I take "spoilers" to refer more to information released far longer in advance than that.
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Old 20-09-2015, 22:04
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Isn't that just the billings for the week though? I take "spoilers" to refer more to information released far longer in advance than that.
Just because it was weekly doesn't mean it wasn't spoilers.
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