Topic: EastEnders tops 2007's TV ratings

[Lona]

I have to agree with Simon on this one.  I have watched corrie from the very first episode and it's the only soap I have ever followed. 

I agree some of the storylines have been bad over the years but the standard of acting has been exceptionally high.


For Sandra to criticise this soap, I would suggest she does her research first, as how can you criticise something you have never watched at length.

Factual programmes are fine and I also enjoy watching them but you have to have a mix and it's nice to be entertained by Corrie to escape the realities of life sometimes.

So lighten up Sandra and leave Simon and I to our inadequencies.

[Sandra]

I have been unfortunate to have been subjected to parts of the afore mentioned TV programmes, when visiting friends houses, who seem to be addicted to such things Lona.
This has reinforced all my previously reported observations of such TV shows

If they were confined to one channel, not on as frequently or repeated so often then they wouldnt be as irritating for me and others like me, who would like some more varied forms of quality entertainment.
We have to pay the TV licence fee as well as most other people who are younger than you Lona but we get very little benefit from it   

[Simon]

For someone with more satellite dishes than NASA, I can't believe you can't find something else to watch, Sandra. 

[Sandra]

Thats why I had to get the sat systems set up Simon.
If terrestrial TV was more diversified then I could have saved myself a few hundred pounds 

[Lona]

For someone with more satellite dishes than NASA, I can't believe you can't find something else to watch, Sandra. 

And guess what Simon, she calls Lost and Prison Break quality programmes. I rest my case. 

[Sandra]

Great actors giving quality performances with good complex and varied storylines.

Jericho on ITV 4 is quite good and although I have only seen one episode so far, Damages on BBC 1 is looking promising.

What a contrast to the wooden acting, lots of shouting and predictable storylines in soaps 

[Rik]

Which, as I like none of the listed programmes, just goes to demonstrate what are wide range of tastes we have.

[Sandra]

Well some of us have more and wider ranges of tastes than others Rik 

[Rik]

I'm definitely in the broad category - sadly though, that's more to do with my weight than my watching habits.

[Simon]

Well some of us have more and wider ranges of tastes than others Rik 

Oh what, so now you're insinuating people who watch soaps are narrow minded?  Just how many episodes / series of the likes of Lost, Prison Break, and now Heroes, is it going to take to tell one story?  Heroes could have been good had it been done in 6 or maybe 12 episodes, but to drag out what turned out to be a total anti-climax for 6 months was simply ludicrous.  At least the terrestrial channels have the sense to dump this rubbish after the first series, and leave it to the Sky channels to broadcast with the rest of their crap.  The only reason some people watch Sky channels is because they've been daft enough to pay for the services and hardware, and won't admit that it's all repeats and drivel.

[Rik]

Even with the hundreds of channels available to me on Sky, Simon, it's not uncommon to find nothing I want to watch. My prime motivation for having Sky is that they have the rugby...

[Lona]

Great actors giving quality performances with good complex and varied storylines.

You call lost great acting and complex storylines!!!!!!!

Awa yi go, Sandra. I've never watched such rubbish in years.  These programmes even make Corrie look believable.

[Rik]

Seconds out - Round Two.

[Sandra]

I wouldnt pay for any services Simon, only the hardware which allows me to watch more than terrestrial limits me to 

My new satellite box is another type of pc so its probably extending my hobby, especially as its Linux based, more than enabling me to watch TV as I dont really have much spare time to watch TV.

@Lona, I think you are missing the point, soap stars arent real life people, they are poor actors who act out poorly written scripts.
I know that people send babyclothes to the TV studios when the plot has someone in who is pregnant and when I lived in Washinton my MP was the idiot who stood up in the house of commons and demanded that Deirde should be freed 
Such people realy do think they are watching real life as its happening 

Programs such as Lost, Jericho and Prison Break are not trying to reflect real life but are well written fantasy and fictional stories that because of the standards of acting and the quality of the writers can make you believe that what you are watching is indeed plausible even if it is not real 

[mistybear]

This is the problem television stations have, trying to buy programmes that the majority will watch. Which ones will give them the greatest returns in ratings and advertising revenue, plus having to balance that with programmes that are cost effective. I'm not sure what the laws are in the UK, but having to satisfy local content regulations as well.

Peoples personal tastes isn't a reflection on anything other than their personal tastes.