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    Quote Originally Posted by parkerman View Post
    Further thoughts.....Given that DTC has always said he's in EE for the long haul and has now packed it in after not really very long at all, it occurred to me that perhaps he can't see any way out of the Bobby story without landing half the cast in jail so he's decided to hand the problem over to someone else......

    Just a thought!

    Well quite. It's a very destructive storyline that has no good ending if you play it all real. Short of Lucy waking up in the shower I suspect there's not a realistic sensible way out.

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    My wife has been a keen fan of the Archers for more years than she would care to remember, so I asked her about Sean O'Connor. She said he might be good for Eastenders because, in her opinion, he's ruined the Archers by trying to turn it into Eastenders!

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    Quote Originally Posted by maidmarian View Post
    I dont much abt S O'C - but a relative who
    reads a lot of Archers blogs says hes known
    for turning that prog into "Eastenders in a field"
    Not sure what to think?!
    Some older fans may have harked for the old days, but for me ( we have always had the Archers on in our household) and it is better than ever. SOC has been dubbed as turning the Archers into 'EastEnders in a field' which is an absurd, cheap, silly statement by who ever thought it up. The Archers manages to do what Emmerdale failed to do when it went from a Farm to Dynasty in Wellies, by keeping true to its roots, the traditional, farming, Lynda Snell's Christmas shows, Church services, the Grundy's and then the new younger generation of Archers, characters like the Fairbrothers and mix hard hitting storylines like Helens mental abuse by her husband Rob and David and Ruth getting rid of the cows at Brookfield.

    The problem with the internet is, it is full of know it all's like myself who have an opinion.
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    Well guys must confess to having a tear in the eyes from reading your posts , not about DTC departure ( went past his sell by date months ago imo.) but about the Archers. Brought back so many memories ,all the family sat around the radio waiting for the next episode to start . Remember vividly the famed Grace Archer death in the fire at Grey Gables in 1955 . Just looked on wiki , 20 million listeners, the BBC switchboard jammed for 48 hrs with shocked listeners. Strangely also recall Doris Archer explaining to Dan how to cook sausages . What would the producers now give to have half of that number of viewers. Anyway sorry for going off topic .

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    My grandparents used to listen to it on their huge radio when I was very little. I don't know why but I remember singing 'the big fat hen' to the tune.
    I also used to listen sometimes but haven't for a long time.

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    My grandparents used to listen to it on their huge radio when I was very little. I don't know why but I remember singing 'the big fat hen' to the tune.
    I also used to listen sometimes but haven't for a long time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rear window View Post
    My grandparents used to listen to it on their huge radio when I was very little. I don't know why but I remember singing 'the big fat hen' to the tune.
    I also used to listen sometimes but haven't for a long time.
    The radio would take about 10 mins for the valves to warm up before any sound. I too haven't listened to it for years . The signature tune must be one of the most recognised. Billy Connoly thought it should replace the National Anthem.

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    EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins has that revealed people still complain about the show's gay storylines.

    Speaking as part of Huffington Post UK's Loud & Proud series, the producer explained that nothing has really changed compared to 10 years ago when he was first at the BBC soap.

    "Each day we get the Duty Log where people write in to say what they think about the programme," he outlined. "The Duty Log responses have not changed now to how they were 10 years ago when people said, 'I threw up my dinner, I had to sit my 7-year-old down and explain to them that this was wrong'.

    "I think a lot of the kids growing up, they don't have any of these preconceptions, it's the parents. They're the people going, 'This is wrong'."

    Treadwell-Collins noted that as a gay producer, he doesn't have a "gay agenda" but rather a "kindness agenda", and that it's his job to be inclusive and try to make the world a kinder place.

    "For me, when I took over EastEnders, I said, 'Right I want a girl in a hijab who ends up having a stillborn baby' and we did that story," he recalled. "No-one mentioned the fact she was wearing a hijab - it was a mother with a baby, and that was important."

    He also cited the storyline that saw Johnny Carter (then played by Sam Strike) come out to his dad Mick, played by Danny Dyer.

    "He put his arm around his son and said, 'I love you, you're my boy, I don't care'. And that was as much for little boys watching at home - the Colin and Barry effect - but also for men like Danny Dyer, who hold Danny Dyer up on a pedestal, thinking, 'If he did it, so can I'."


    Johnny breaks down in Mick's arms
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    Colin and Barry were EastEnders' first gay pairing back in the 1980s.

    Treadwell-Collins was keen to point out that it isn't just complaints when it comes to the soap's gay storylines.

    He noted that during the romance between Syed Masood and Christian, even his grandma asked him if they were going to be "happy".

    "That's the job of these shows, is they're people like us, they're not gay, no-one thinks about their colour, they're just people, and that is the strength of a show like EastEnders," the producer said.

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    ​EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins has revealed that this week will be his last on the soap.

    The showrunner announced he was leaving the BBC series in February, although he's still at the helm for Barbara Windsor's final ever scenes and the return of Ross Kemp.

    Writing on Twitter, Treadwell-Collins said: "My last week in Walford and my last #SoapAwards. Please vote for everything #EastEnders and we will love you forever."

    Treadwell-Collins will be fondly remembered by fans after masterminding the debut of Danny Dyer and Kellie Bright as the Carter family, as well as last year's 30th anniversary live week.

    He'll be replaced by Sean O'Connor, who has been a producer and editor on long-running radio drama The Archers on and off since the late '90s.

    Meanwhile, ​EastEnders and Hollyoaks have topped the shortlist for the British Soap Awards 2016.

    Both shows picked up 14 nominations and led the field thanks to multiple nominees in the viewer-voted categories of Best Actor and Best Actress.


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    Dominic Treadwell-Collins left EastEnders last week and has now revealed that he missed out on one of his goals as the head of the show.

    The executive producer told the Radio Times that he would have loved to have brought back Michelle Fowler, who was played by Susan Tully between 1985 and 1995.

    "And I did try. Sue Tully and I emailed back and forth, but she's a director now.

    "I briefly considered a recast, but it just didn't sit right. And you never know, maybe someone else can woo Sue Tully to come back."

    Michelle left Walford to go to America... and she had just told her brother Mark that she was carrying Grant Mitchell's child.


    "Michelle carries the one unexploded secret - the child," Treadwell-Collins added. "But there are ways around that!

    "So, yes, it was one of my original ideas - bringing Michelle in and the secrets she brings. I love secrets.

    "I've laid a lot of bombs, but [new exec producer] Sean might choose not to explode them or take things in a different direction. But there will be lots of twists and turns to come."

    Before starring in EastEnders, Tully played Suzanne Ross in school drama Grange Hill.

    She went on to direct episodes of EastEnders, as well as other shows including Getting On, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, The Bill and Lark Rise to Candleford, among others.


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