What would you do to improve Eastenders?

[Brandyanddietcoke]

A question I shall be asked at an interview soon... Any ideas anybody? Thanking you in advance.

I honestly think that a lot of the newer characters have been developed too fast so the audience have very little empathy with them and not much interest in tuning in to see how their lives are going.

And you still have the problem of there being no ethnic minorities in the East end of London???Hello, this is a ridiculous situation. Where are the Asians and Eastern Europeans?

I would love to be a script-writer for a soap and my dsis who is a director( I help her with her scripts occasionally) said I would be very good at it.

So Good Luck coupled with from me

get young Dennis back on!!! i miss him with that dirty sexy look

the last time i watched Eastenders was went Dennis got killed off and it wasnt the same again!

when not went!

By far the best actor in EE was the bloke that plyed Reg Cox.

It's gonr downhill since then

Maybe add some science fiction, set in in a hospital in the future - on a planet ruled by giant insects.

And I do think it needs a bit of glamour. They should introduce a few new pretty faces as the current cast are a bit dowdy. Or even if they just smartened them up a bit.

Also I think it looks too grey, I know we don't live in bright sunshine but the lighting in EE is always so depressing.

But then I loved Eldorado...........

well i think a gay couple should buy the queen vic and fill it up with stuff from a paris flea market against a minimalist backdrop etcetc

the market should be bought out by an organisation promoting slow food

the cafe should be a mind drop in centre

the chip shop should sell thai food

the doctors should be closed down and become an nhs phone box

Inject some humour. Corrie is bloody funny as well as having serious storyliones.
I also think that Eastenders rushes through some storylines. Or else they drag on. They basically seem to struggle withtherir pacing whereas Corrie works really well. Eastenders seem scared that people will get bored whereas Corrie feels more relaxed about riding things out. Liekt eh Tracy and Charlie murder storyline, that was well paced. They have big strong stories that really follow the story closely and then they flit to funny little bits inbetween, unlike Eastenders which is all over the place rushing around.

Yeah maybe Dennis could come back to haunt Dot! He was yummy!

I only watch it for Dot & Jim, they make me lol!

Max/Stacey affair would never happen in real life. eeeew!

Phil's only ever entertaining when Grant's around, put together they make one decent(ish) character.

Still at least we've still got reliable, boring, same ol' same ol' Ian!!! He certainly makes it worth watching....

We need another man in it to smooch over!

I've been thinking(rather than doing my actual job) Enders could really, really do with one or two attractive, powerful older men.
It would be plausible and add eyecandy.

Scrap it, it has run its course.

What job are you going for?

yes gene hunt arrives from 1973 to spice it up a bit

Bring back Angie, Sue and Ali Osman, Nick Cotton and Pete Beale.

Back from the grave! They could do a Eastenders-the haunted version!

God the first thing I would do is get rid of that bloody awful Stella woman she annoys the hell out of me. It was such a shame that she had to turn out like this, surely the relationship could have just worked, not everything has to have a huge twisted storyline attached to it.

Also get rid of Mai.

The characters are rubbish (I don't like any of them), the story lines are crap, it's too dark, it's too miserable, there's no skill involved in the scriptwriting, acting or directing.

Comedy characters would be good. A bit of humour, some decent story lines and some people who can act......

I would turn the community centre/indian restaurant/an imaginary corner of A.Sq into loft apartments and have an interesting juxtaposition of city types/market types.

yes the wealthy trendy characters always decline to being the average oiks with no washing machines and affairs after a couple of episodes

some seriously rich people need to come and disrupt everything....

and some lentilly types

the beeny woman needs to do a programme with someone trying to conver the club into a single space...they could have one designer baby and lots of glass which didn't fit properly and we could see them having sex in their hot tub on the roof

take it off the air. cos it's pants

Make more of Max's daughter Abby !! She is the best thing in it by miles! Hilarious, cracking actress

Thanks guys! All well noted... Its a writing job alhtough I'm more of a corrie girl myself!

Yes i think cutting the extras/deadwood is a good one.

Inject a bit more Comedy and happy banter.

New eye candy for the ladies.. and men.. or just a bit more glamour all round. A new gangster and his moll? Perhaps?

Don't rush into new characters/stories etc... Give it a bit more time/pace...

Great! This has given me a bit to go on.... I shall give it a bit more time before i post my next thread...

What would you do to improve Casualty?

[Can't believe you didn't want to use my science fiction slaves to insects idea, well if you don't get the job, dont' say i didn't try to help]