to give up Eastenders?

[MsFox]

Anyone else watch tonight?

I mean come on.

Too far...surely?

Half of the storylines on EE are distatseful. That's the whole point

But the child abuse
the murders
the attempted murders
the affairs
the fires
the domestic abuse

are OK?

It's never been a cheery soap!

They have had a SIDS story line before. I watched the last few minutes channel hopping and was so upset for anyone that had been through this it made me cry. I lost a pregnancy at christmas 4 years ago so am always sensitive at this time of year. It would always upset someone whenever broadcast but to do this on NYE was especially insensitive.

I agree giveme absolutely. Will be avoiding it in the future. Don't know why this particular storyline has struck such a chord.

butternut - am so very sorry.

Eastenders has always been shite.

Realistically there is never a good time to show a sids storyline, tbh it is unreasonable to expect them not to show it just because people have beenthrough it.

People have the option not to watch it,

But it's entertainment though is it?!

Sorry should be it's not entertainment!

soap operas are always full of doom and gloom and angst and grief. Evidently, many many people do find it entertainment of sorts.

Find it pretty bad taste that anyone would find this storyline entertaining. Why would anyone want to watch a soap about SIDS especially one so far fetched, think the BBC is pretty disgusting to be showing this, feel almost as mad when they put on the end of EE if anyone has been affected by this the issues raised tonight....... how bloody insultng, making out they are provinding awareness!!!

Why does anyone find a murder storyline entertaining?

They're not pretending they are providing awareness. They are acknowledging some people might feel upset and not have anyone they feel they can talk to.

I watched it after saying i wouldnt and i didnt think it was as bad as they said it was going to be ...how will she get away with the swap every mother knows her own child

EE has been shite for many years. It's depressing and people are vile to each other. I live in the borough represented and it says nothing to me about my life. Lack of realism would be fine if it was in any way entertaining

And I agree with those of you who say this is not a fit storyline for early-eve entertainment.

"every mother knows her own child" but it has happened that babies have been switched in hospitals and mothers haven't found out until such times as a blood test has perhaps proven that the child was not biologically theirs.

Whether we like it or not, people find tradgedy entertaining - murder, programmes about child abuse, the corrie tram crash and all that involved, death and divorce ... and the list goes on.

And given that soap operas are supposed to portray peoples' lives, a sids storyline is not beyond the relms of that portrayal.

And yes the baby swap is completely stupid, but it's not supposed to be real, it's supposed to be entertainment, and whether we like it or not, about eleven million people find it entertaining, they're not going to lose millions of viewers over this; maybe a couple of hundred, but not enough to warrant them caring.