New EastEnders boss to axe 14 from cast

Sounds good - glad the Holby lady is on board now!! Maybe they could do a special episode, with the cast of Casualty and/or Holby coming to save the people - that would be quite cool actually.

They did something similar for one of the Children In Needs (I think last years?), where an 'enemy' mixed up all the characters from 2 or 3 of the 'top' BBC dramas.

It was the 'Dot Cotton /Wizard Of Oz' sketch ISTR, & the 'Wizard of Oz' was 'Ozzy', or rather Jon Culshaw's version!

The 'villian' turned out to be Ian Beale, & he was trapped in a test card!

Save them - no! I'd rather they linked up with Six Feet Under!

Anyhow, following my comment on Hollyoaks writing a couple of characters out in one line (Someone said Robbie had gone to be a holiday rep, while I think Kristian just said he was leaving tomorrow, and that was it!) how you would write an EE character out in just one line.

For example:
Kate to Sharron: "How's your dad?"
Sharron: "He's been dead for 15 years!"

I hate to see the actors be the scapegoats when what the soap needs is better scriptwriters. The Ian/Jane story is beginning to shine, real melodramatic angst that soaps are supposed to be full of. Even the Ferraira's could be good if given a decent story to grab onto now that the ridiculous dad is gone.

What are the chances of the rest of the cast walking out in protest over the cull? If they feel strongly enough they might...

There isn't a cull, just rumors. The tabloids keep contradicting each other. One has a list of people who are to be axed...another has a list of people who's contracts are being renewed...half of whom are on the axed list in the other paper

As for the daily Eastenders thread issue, can't you wait until an existing thread is at least a couple of pages long before starting another (if you must )

New issue - new thread. As simple as that. It could have gone in the thread abot Louise Berridge "resigning", but as I'm always complaining about general threads, I try not to start them (some work well, some don't).

EastEnders = BBC .'. it needs 5 million threads.

Since when did you rule the roost ? It's overkill and not necessary, half these Eastenders threads only have a handful of contributions and rarely trip over to a second page.

I think for ongoing discussion of a TV soap, generic threads work fine.

Will the thread police please give it a rest! It never fails, a somewhat decent discussion gets started and along come the 'this belongs in another forum' or 'this should be in another thread'. I hate the threads that go on for 30 pages, who has time to read them. What's wrong with specific threads to discuss specific themes? Good tv gets us thinking about something and forums are our place to discuss them- yes even the soaps and news. But getting good intelligent discussions going on here about something other than computer graphics is like pulling teeth. Ask for real opinions and you either get silence or 'company policy' spouted back. There, got that off my chest, I feel better now, rant ended, carry on about Eastenders....

Surely seeing as the other EE thread had dropped off the first page it was perfectly reasonable to start a new one?

Since when did you rule the roost? It's one thread out of a handful of new threads that day.

Now, picking up on something mentioned in the original post, the new EE boss has axed this year's Christmas Storyline, which was to centre around Zoe getting pregnant by Dennis.