EastEnders ratings reaches all time low

Oh so true. Another example is when a character is desperate to speak to somebody - the person in question will say, "Oh, can't it wait?" Why the heck should it??! It's just a way of stretching out storylines to fill the 4-day a week period I suppose.

A major disaster is probably a day idea anyway as the BBC would be showing trailers for about 2 months before hand, then the crash would happen at the end of a special hour long special.
The one hour special would have all the characters in about 4 long drawn out sceens.
When the crash happens cud use Angies Den as a morgue it already looks like one.
Dr Legg could be used to pronounce Dot and Pauline and hopefully pat dead.
Then we would have episodes on every night with all one or two scenes or the characters dying, no doubt some one would have to be someone left in a coma for about a year or 2.
Then all back to the VIc for a well done we where all so brave night to remember the dead.
Think ill stop here before i go ott

How unrealistic - an undergrond tube crashing into the overground market - so just right for EastEnders then. A tube disaster would be no good though as no one uses it.

Hopefully this will encourage ITV1 especially to schedule against EastEnders as it can be beaten. Rearrange Emmerdale a bit to have hour-long specials on Tuesday and Thursday, while put hour-long Corrie on Monday and Friday.

Only problem though is EastEnders gives ITV1 the opportunity to put regional / factual programmes in prime time!

Well the good news for you is that Emmerdale has another hour long special next Tuesday for some reason, so go on ITV. I personally can't abide Eastenders, though there is usually something more of a high quality over on ITV on a Tuesday or Thursday, even repeats of Airline are worth watching!

Good to see Eastenders have such low ratings like it, it's a joke IMO, waste of the licence fee! Though what baffles me is that on Monday it would have got about 11-13 Million, but they suffered a 5m drop in the space of 24 hours? Either that or the public have finally realised it's sh*t.

To be fair, ratings were down across all channels because of the hot weather, as is always the case.

Why? What is it with people like you, thinking ITV is the godsend of broadcasters? Why is it important to you for EastEnders to be beaten?

Most programmes I watch are on the BBC, but that doesn't mean I don't watch programmes on ITV out of principle, which it seems you do. An example is Bad Girls, I watch it on ITV with no problems, but people like you would moan if it was on the BBC, that it should be on ITV.

I find it very strange that people have a fixation with ITV, given it is a commercial broadcaster, that does not give one edge what the public thinks about them, as long as they get high ratings, and get away with spending as little funds as possible on programmes like news and current affairs, and a *publically* owned broadcaster that has a duty to take into account the views of the public.

Indeed.

I've only just caught Monday and Tuesday's editions off tape.

I have things like watering to do early evenings this weather.

In the very few snippets of Eastenders that I've seen, the part of the Underground going through Walford is actually OVERGROUND on a bridge over a road leading in to Albert Square, so an Underground Train crashing into Walford could be a very nasty affair indeed......

Im not havig a dig at you, but isnt the underground line in walford actually overground like other areas of the eastend and can be see in special occasions like lou beales funeral? I dont know i dont live there.

Must be a fair way out then; the Underground station at Bethnal Green (birthplace of yours truly) is still underground.... Walford might be some place up the District or Hammersmith & City lines as they're more surface level than the Central Line....

The tube station featured as "Walford East" is actually Bromley-by-Bow station on the District Line.

See this for further details.

No surprise then that it's an overground section of line..... the deepest bits of the District/Hammersmith & City are in shallow tunnels.....