What changes would you like to see?

Problem is Jude babe, is that the BBC are so far up their own **** they cant bear to thing that the viewer might be right, have you tried to get a foot in the door and even an email address to speak to someone. If they had listened to what the viewer wanted the soap would not be in the problems it is now.

Den should not have been killed off again ! Written out yes !

Andy had just developed enough to stay then killed him off

They bring back the mitchells, why ! Frankly a banana has more a peal

New charachers a gay lad, who is not scared to say I am hear I queer and I take it up the "you know what" in the middle of the square.

The millars are good, but they need developing, debt is a huge problem in this country, so why cant they expose this.

A gay man sleeps with a straight man from the square. It happens in real life, most straight men are only 8 pints away from it.

Gangsters. Both Krays where shirt lifters, some gangster have even been dare I say kiddy fiddlers. I am not saying one moment that that is the way storys should go, but for godsake, bring this bloody soap into the 21st century, this is really bloody life.

Gay bashings, illgeal imgrents (awful spelling I know), kiddy fiddling, debt, illness.

If we are to be treated to more and more gangster huffing and puffing then I wont watch. We had all that years ago in prisoner cell block H for godsake when Queen Bea was top dog. Is being top dog in our street that important now ? No. it is not. it is about bloody surving the dangers we are now exposed to and one thing that these soaps could do is show the dangers.

1. the main thing that is noticeable, is that anyone would think watching eastenders the first time, that everyone is a gangster or criminal. I think they need to cut down on that amount of stuff, and focus on more everyday and realistic issues.

2. they should have more gay and bi characters. there is more than 1 gaay in every villaaage you know, especially among younger society today, you'll find they are a lot more accepting (or at least they are in my town's colleges lol). and it could help break down the stereotypes.

3. more people from different subcultures. I'd like to see more gothic/punk/alternative/grunge characters, away from the 'mainstream' and it'd be nice to see it portrayed not as a humorous phase for comedy value.

4. they have quite a few teens. and surely some of them would attend college. why not do some storylines between these teens, some that can be filmed in a college environment? Perhaps thats where they meet a boyf/girf, maybe they sleep with someone and its awkward in lessons, or they struggle with studies, or get into bad habits like drink/drugs, maybe they join a band, maybe they plan nights out, go to gigs, go on holidays etc. they could do a lot more!

5. ease up on the pacing, and help get a good balance of humor and doom and gloom. it seems at the moment like the entire population of walford should be hammering down Dr. Legg's front door to get to the prozac!

6. on that note, it would be nice to see issues of depression dealt with. and mental illness - the scizophrenia story line done years ago was brilliant! maybe if they helped with issues such as self harm as well, which seems to be on the increase especially among teens these days as a way to cope with stress etc.

7. deal with an abuse or rape issue, where the MALE is the victim. too often the women are portrayed as the weak/vulnerable ones likely to be attacked, but men are just as much at risk! And how men deal with these things is different to how women would react and cope, because men have the masculinity thing to deal with among other things. think of the Luke storyline in Hollyowaks - fantastic, it was handled brilliantly.

Well Bloody Done sweetheart that is what we need. We need a soap that is not scared to do something. To touch on such a issue that we all much watch. DO THE UN THINKABLE

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7. deal with an abuse or rape issue, where the MALE is the victim. too often the women are portrayed as the weak/vulnerable ones likely to be attacked, but men are just as much at risk! And how men deal with these things is different to how women would react and cope, because men have the masculinity thing to deal with among other things. think of the Luke storyline in Hollyowaks - fantastic, it was handled brilliantly.

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You have made a really intresting point there.

At one of my university lectures recentely we were discussing sexual abuse among different genders and discussed how a great deal of males that get subjected to such molestation, sexual abuse and rape as much as women, if not more. However, mostly the media focuses on women as the prime victims. I do think ee should cover this is in alot more depth. The storyline would make intense vewing but they have to handle it sensitively. I thought little mo getting raped twice was pretty pointless.

EE were onto the right tracks there when Den mentally destroyed his son Dennis in the vic and bought up his abusive childhood. As evil and twisting that was, it was brilliant television. Even though Dennis didn't say much he communicated much of his pain through his eyes and body language. However -it was just left like that. Since that episode we haven't had any development from that and I do feel ee should persue it futher as it has lots of promise. Loads of people were speculateing about it after but it was obvious that Dennis had been emotionally, physically and mentaly abused in his early years and was hinted that he was assulted by his carers in one of his childrens homes. This is partly to do with Dennis acusing Dalton (just before he shot him) of fancying him. Much of his beliefs were drawn from his own personal experience.

I really do hope that ee dont leave that one hangeing in the air. We have only had dribs and drabs but nothing concrete. They should develope this more as its a true to life issue and although its a sensitive area, I feel the story has potential and very character driven.

Yeah exactly! They can really explore the issue with Dennis's character, and maybe even Jake and Danny's past as there was hints to an abusive past there as well. It seems odd to just mention these things then leave it, when obviously these things can have lasting effects.

I am a very strong campaigner for recognising and helping male victims, and I think that more media coverage etc. is one of the biggest ways! It's even the little things like at the doctor's surgeries - posters for helplines and groups are mostly aimed at females, as its often a female model in the poster. More information should be available. Even in schools when they cover these kind of issues in PD very lightly, its focused on females and they address the female students more about the issue.

In 110% agreement. Lets take issue with this stories. I for one have had this happen and feel that it brings the real issues of what children face day in day out.

What we need in EE is every bloody day stuff, not the mitchells, its dead issue, dirty den was great and no one would like to seem him back more than me, but tackling theses issues is the future.

Problem is babies ! How do we get our voices heard ?

Bring back Den,the Den we know not the dirty old man,give all the actors better scripts,and then it's back to the old days,EE back on top where it belongs.

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