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What would you do to improve Eastenders?

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Brandyanddietcoke · 17/04/2007 12:40

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

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UnquietDad · 17/04/2007 15:11

Brandy - apologies for flippancy, I'd missed the bit where you said you were genuinely going to be asked this at an interview! Are you getting into TV scriptwriting?

Brandyanddietcoke · 17/04/2007 15:13

lol boco... and no worries unquiet dad... yes i am trying to make the move from playwrighting to screenwriting... more money!

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UnquietDad · 17/04/2007 15:15

I know someone who has written for "Doctors"; apparently too many people see it as a foot in the door, whereas the "Doctors" team want people who genuinely want to write for it.

zippitippitoes · 17/04/2007 15:18

all soaps suffer from the sublimation of character to plot

I hate the massive character changes that people undergo sonia and the woman who died recently's son..martin? for example

they have complete changes in character

gary is a story clothes hanger with no personality or point

UnquietDad · 17/04/2007 15:19

I hate the way anything which happened more than 6 months ago is ancient history. I mean, how realistic is that?

zippitippitoes · 17/04/2007 15:19

sublimation? sorry was n't paying attention there

UnquietDad · 17/04/2007 15:26

Forget where this is from, but it may give Brandyandcoke some tips on what to suggest!

THINGS YOU LEARN BY WATCHING SOAPS

You never have to go further than your local street/ square to find a job, house or wife/husband.

Just because somebody killed your boyfriend 18 months ago, doesn't mean you won't fall in love with him and marry him.

Dead people are forgotten about within 2 weeks and never mentioned again.

Nobody owns a washing machine - they all go to the launderette.

Nobody makes cups of tea at home - they buy them in the local cafe.

Having no job and no money doesn't stop you eating and drinking at the local pub and cafe five nights a week.

If you leave your mobile phone on a table somewhere, you will either miss the most important call of your life, or your wife/husband will answer the phone to your lover.

In bed, a woman will sit up wrapping a sheet round her breasts, even though the only other person in the room is the man she has just been shagging. Similarly, men always have sex wearing pants.

If you have a secret that will destroy your life, you must always tell it to one other person.

When someone dies in hospital, there will only ever be a half-hearted attempt to resuscitate them.

People with very ordinary jobs have glamorous clothes, nice houses and good cars.

If you need a job, or some money to start up your small business, you will always know a neighbour/friend you can ask for help.

If you have a baby, take it to the pub and you'll know someone there to "keep an eye" on it.

Labour takes place on a bed, lying down, with no blood or other emissions visible.

If you want to arrange to meet someone, you don't need to say when or where - they will just guess.

You don't need to give anyone your telephone number either - they will just say "I'll call you".

If you are to be married to a gorgeous but totally unsuitable man, at the last minute the true love of your life (your "cheeky chappie" soulmate) will come running up the aisle to save you. This is despite several freak incidents occurring on the way to the church and almost preventing the reunion.

If anyone's in trouble with the law, they're always up in court 2 weeks later.

The local pub is the only place available (or needed) for weddings, christenings and other functions. Despite its popularity, it is always available.

If you need the doctor, you can just pop in and he'll see you straight away.

Everyone meets up in their lunch break, usually at the local pub.

Any reformed alcoholic/ drug user will always have a relapse.

Detectives can break a suspect with five minutes of relentless interrogation.

If you are depressed or have just suffered a traumatic event, go for a walk - it will rain. If you are happy, the sun will shine.

Brandyanddietcoke · 17/04/2007 15:34

Oh how hilarious... I wonder if the exec's have ever read anything like that?

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expatinscotland · 17/04/2007 15:38

I know someone who writes for 'River City'.

And he was struck off as a solicitor .

Boco · 17/04/2007 17:20

I always wondered why no one ever tries to get a job outside Albert Square - if they lose a job, no matter what they were qualifed as before or what their work experience history - they always end up working in the vic, collecting glasses or pulling pints.

I once had an interview for the Big Breakfast. I had to come up with ideas for new tv shows on the spot - and it was so like that scene in Alan Partridge where he starts ranting about Monkey tennis. I said things like 'Martine McCutcheon bare back riding around the scilly isles, interviewing agricultural workers?' I can't even let myself remember some of the stupid things i said.

Didn't get the job. Obviously.

ElenyaTuesday · 17/04/2007 17:49

And why do people who have jobs never go to them? That Rob bloke - or Max - when do they actually do any work? Even when Sonia was a nurse she was never in the flippin' hospital!!! How do people earn so much from the crap jobs they do? Which they must do as they can afford to take taxis everywhere (to go "up west" shopping usually). Pauline worked in a launderette but she could afford a mortgage and trips to America. Dawn ran up credit card debts which mysteriously disappeared. EastEnders has become so cliched and distant from real life it's a joke. The only decent actor in it is Dot.

Wotzsaname · 17/04/2007 18:14

Reading this has depressed me as much as watching the programme, I promise I'll never watch it again and do something far more useful like stick pins in my eyes.

bundle · 17/04/2007 18:25

littlelapin, dh says Challenge "makes me proud to be British"

zippitippitoes · 17/04/2007 18:31

I used to love it when anyone with a business used to run around with "the books"..that blonde haired one who was married to phil?grant?a bulder? was always going from the club to the pub and back again with "the books"

and when ian was with that hotel babylon woman they always had "the books" with them

zippitippitoes · 17/04/2007 18:32

and has anybody on eastenders ever had a computer?

DrDaddy · 17/04/2007 19:50

Yes, and it really irritates me that they NEVER take the tube anywhere. And they always talk about going up West, as if it's another country (I don't know, I've never lived in the East End, perhaps they do view it like that?)
And where would we be without someone suggesting that "we make a fresh start of things."
It's lazy, formulaic, depressing tripe, in my opinion.
I think they should bring back Bianca too. It always made me laugh that Americans had to have whole websites devoted to deciphering what the hell she was saying, and getting it wrong...

southeastastra · 17/04/2007 19:51

they love it in america though because it's true to life and gritty

golds · 17/04/2007 20:16

I really don't like the programme anymore, every time Stella comes on I have to turn it off, and what was the point of Gary's mum - rubbish, total rubbish

golds · 17/04/2007 20:18

oh and you asked about casualty, love it, but don't like the new consultant

UnquietDad · 24/04/2007 09:24

Have you had the interview yet brandyanddietcoke? How did it go?

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