kayla05
22-08-2005, 14:49
22/08/2005
Flagging BBC soap, EastEnders, is set for a major overhaul by the show's bosses in an attempt to reverse its fortunes.
The show has continued to lose viewers in the past 12 months at an alarming rate, allowing both of rival ITV's soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street to steal away the limelight.
But an Albert Square insider told the Star that the show's chiefs are not prepared to let this trend continue, without at least putting up a fight for the ratings.
And the mole revealed that the tactics most likely to be employed will be wholesale, and in some cases, shocking, personnel changes.
"There is no crisis," they insisted. "But even we have to admit that the programme is in the dumps and some vital members of the cast will soon be departing never to return."
The tabloid continues to quote a whole series of possible introductions the insider suggested could appear on our screens.
They include the introduction of another family from hell, with the insider convinced that the slightly exhausted and ineffective tactic would prove a hit.
"This family will explode on to the scene, racking up tensions whenever they appear," they said.
Other suggestions include the arrival of a shady escort agency, masked as a model agency and fronted by an alluring new female star.
A rival pub to the Queen Vic has also been mooted, as has the introduction of a fierce, ex-army officer clergyman.
"There is a picture of a vicar who comes to the church in later life, having seen action in the Army," the mole added.
"In other words, he'd be a man of God with a real iron fist and wouldn't shrink from physical action."
However, EastEnders' decline has been so severe that scriptwriters are expected to go all out for a major storyline to clear the decks, so expect serious catastrophes to befall the residents of Walford in due course.
Flagging BBC soap, EastEnders, is set for a major overhaul by the show's bosses in an attempt to reverse its fortunes.
The show has continued to lose viewers in the past 12 months at an alarming rate, allowing both of rival ITV's soaps Emmerdale and Coronation Street to steal away the limelight.
But an Albert Square insider told the Star that the show's chiefs are not prepared to let this trend continue, without at least putting up a fight for the ratings.
And the mole revealed that the tactics most likely to be employed will be wholesale, and in some cases, shocking, personnel changes.
"There is no crisis," they insisted. "But even we have to admit that the programme is in the dumps and some vital members of the cast will soon be departing never to return."
The tabloid continues to quote a whole series of possible introductions the insider suggested could appear on our screens.
They include the introduction of another family from hell, with the insider convinced that the slightly exhausted and ineffective tactic would prove a hit.
"This family will explode on to the scene, racking up tensions whenever they appear," they said.
Other suggestions include the arrival of a shady escort agency, masked as a model agency and fronted by an alluring new female star.
A rival pub to the Queen Vic has also been mooted, as has the introduction of a fierce, ex-army officer clergyman.
"There is a picture of a vicar who comes to the church in later life, having seen action in the Army," the mole added.
"In other words, he'd be a man of God with a real iron fist and wouldn't shrink from physical action."
However, EastEnders' decline has been so severe that scriptwriters are expected to go all out for a major storyline to clear the decks, so expect serious catastrophes to befall the residents of Walford in due course.