No, she has not worked there long enough for maternity privilegesQuote:
Originally Posted by sarah c
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No, she has not worked there long enough for maternity privilegesQuote:
Originally Posted by sarah c
No, she has not worked there long enough for maternity privilegesQuote:
Originally Posted by sarah c
Kate Ford could not act her way out of a wet paper bag. She is patheticQuote:
Originally Posted by N.Fan
Mary better be staying
Don't think she would be missed all that much,if she did leave.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizann
I thought that, but then again it also looks like she's left the area and isn't coming back. So has she actually left her job or is she on maternity leave and is planning on coming back afterwards? That's probably what Rob is thinking. I wonder where that stands with the law?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
I thought that, but then again it also looks like she's left the area and isn't coming back. So has she actually left her job or is she on maternity leave and is planning on coming back afterwards? That's probably what Rob is thinking. I wonder where that stands with the law?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
Mary is a great characterQuote:
Originally Posted by N.Fan
I believe because of the short time she has been at the factory, Rob doesnt have to pay her during her maternity time, nor does he have to keep her job open for her to return afterwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by LostVoodoo
he could hold the post for her, but the time off would be unpaid
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She definitely is. The show needs her IMO. She makes a change from some of the more boring characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
i agree corrie needs the likes of mary. shes like marmite. i hate marmite but love mary. :)
thought the scenes with izzy and gary were very good.
Well it looks like Mary is not leaving,hoorah.:)
had to smile at the scenes with kirk and hayley and whether to wear a hat or not. :)
a moving performance by cherylee houston. the scenes with izzy and owen were very good.
i managed to watch the big 3 this week and without a doubt eastenders was head and shoulders above the others. all i will say is itv you are lucky you have the most loyal of viewers in corrie, you can churn out so so episodes week in week out and get decent viewing figures and audience share. corrie viewers are the most loyal and the most easily pleased. ( i include myself in this. )
Speak for yourself! I stopped watching EE recently because it was so dire - storylines and acting- so I wouldn't call myself, as a Corrie fan, easily pleased. EE has the odd very good episode, but I can't sit through hours of dross for the occasional high point. Corrie is far more even in tone and quality, even if it does have the occasional low point.Quote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
Speak for yourself! I stopped watching EE recently because it was so dire - storylines and acting- so I wouldn't call myself, as a Corrie fan, easily pleased. EE has the odd very good episode, but I can't sit through hours of dross for the occasional high point. Corrie is far more even in tone and quality, even if it does have the occasional low point.Quote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
The best thing last night for me was Hayley, Roy and Mary. I loved the way Hayley stopped Mary leaving. It was so mature of her accepting Mary as a friend of Roy's.
Don't like the idea of the surrogacy story at all! And why does there always have to be arguments at church services? It was a day for Joseph.
before i respond to you, i stress i am a corrie fan, so i like to think iam not biased. i think you are being far too kind to corrie, it has not been high in quality and tone for quite a while. what has happened to the nations favourite continuing drama. the peter/leanne/carla saga was excellent, but since then the show has gone on a downward spiral.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
there are some very good actors in the show and some dire ones. the gulf between the two is very wide and unfortunately it shows. iam not going to be unkind and name and shame, we all know who falls into which catergory.
the comedy in corrie 9/10 is forced over the top and borders on end of the pier/panto. infact eastenders is better at comedy than corrie. before corrie fans get outraged, (well tutt), i am saying this as a corrie fan more than an eastenders fan. i say this for the good of the show.
eastenders has had a good week, will this continue, i doubt it. corrie need to stop looking at what their southern rivals are doing and concentrate on being corrie and not a wanabee eastenders! it needs to go back to basics.
EE resorts to wheeling back old characters every time the show starts to falter. What show apart from Dallas would bring someone back from the dead in a tottally improbable storyline. Kat and Alfie back yet again and Sharon Whatsernamenow bcd in order to pump some life into an ailing show. I stopped watching it on a regular basis a long time ago. I have stopped believing the hype and all the false promises. I dip in occasionally and its still appalling.
dont you mean appealing :)
i do agree we dont need sharon back, a mistake. youd have thought eastenders would have learnt from corries mistakes like bringing julie goodyear back. that must rank as one of the biggest mistakes in soap history, apart from dirty den.
as i watch both eastenders and corrie constantly i feel i can comment and as im a corrie fan, i can say what i say without being biased!
I am a Corrie fan too and know what you mean. There have been some silly storylines recently but I keep watching, hoping it picks up. Mary, Roy and Hayley's story saved it for me this week. That's the kind of story that Corrie does well.Quote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
Eastenders has been brilliant with Ben's story this week. Not so much to do with Sharon's return IMO, but for Shirley. Amazing acting!
I have to agree with you about Julie Goodyear. I would really like to see Liz and Jim McDonald back behind the bar of T'Rovers so I would. At least that would be believable.Quote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
I have to agree with you about Julie Goodyear. I would really like to see Liz and Jim McDonald back behind the bar of T'Rovers so I would. At least that would be believable.Quote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
The surrogacy storyline is a way to involve Dr. Carter in a storylineQuote:
Originally Posted by Ruffed_lemur
who? :)
Eastenders promotes gloom doom and misery - to the exception of almost everything else, except immorality, and couldn't do comedy to save it's life. One of the reasons that Corrie is generally a much better watch than Eastenders is that they employ good character actors, rather than people who are just good at playing themselves, and many of those actors have fine comedic talents (eg those who play Roy, Hayley, Mary, Norris, Steve McDonald etc etc). Very occasionally you get someone in Eastenders who can do comedy (like the girl who plays Kim), but since the writers think slapstick is the only form of comedy, laughs for the viewer occur about once every 2 years - if we're lucky. Eastenders is on a mission to swiftly eliminate the feelgood factor in the UK that the Olympics built up so successfully!
I didn't think Izzy would have been into Katy being a surrogate,not after what she went through with her own baby and she's only 17.
There are plenty of other ways for him to have a story, such as for Izzy to have her own baby. Pity that ended so quickly. Also, he could help Kirsty.Quote:
Originally Posted by lizann
Ches or Gary should have knocked out Owen at the church
You mean sanction Kirsty :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Ruffed_lemur
I agree Corrie has a quite a wide array of comedic characters but some dont get used enough for my liking while other useless dumb characters get used way too much
sanction or section?
I think I meant sectionQuote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
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imo i think you are way off the mark. i watch both ee and cs in equal measure and have watched ee since it began in feb 85. i have never bought into the myth that ee is all doom and gloom. this is usually said by viewers who i describe as 'dippers' who watch from time to time, mainly corrie viewers killing half an hour before the 8:30pm showing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Brucie
ee has a good mix of characters who provide lighter moments, such as denise, kim, zaniab, patrick. alfie, cora and dot, i could go on. the humour in ee is different to the humour in corrie.
if anything the humour in corrie is more slapstick, end of the pier/panto ish. that isnt a critiscism, because it works well for that type of continuing drama and for its audience. i do however think the writing in corrie is a little lazy. mary is a great addition to the street.
with reference to destroying the feel good factor and the olympics, you will find it will have nothing to do with walford and e20, but more to do with the government and those blessed mps.
if you want a continuing drama that provides the perfect balance of dark and light then you have the archers on radio 4 and emmerdale on itv1. :)
When EE does comedy its usually unintentional. We have had the infamous cardboard funfair, dirty den getting shot by a bunch of flowers, the ressuerection of Den, Kidneygate, Walford United, bigger villains than the Krays and of course the daft PC scripts dreamt up in some wine bar at lunchtime by the luvvies over a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc courtesy of the Telly TaxQuote:
Originally Posted by flappinfanny
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Surely Corrie is guilty of this also from time to timeQuote:
Originally Posted by alan45
Remember Tracey Barlow released from prison for murder that was daft
Also what was Kidneygate in EE?
The asian family with the father who was an elvis fanatic?Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
one son needing a transplant and finding out his best friend was his half brother - or something? I cant even remember their name they were so boring??!!
The asian family with the father who was an elvis fanatic?Quote:
Originally Posted by tammyy2j
one son needing a transplant and finding out his best friend was his half brother - or something? I cant even remember their name they were so boring??!!