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That's so sad! I thought he had a totally defined new project! Maybe he can replace Kim Crowther! (Yeah... I know - total fantasy.)

A little bit more from Kim...

Where's he going?

Pausini is awesome, I like her pop. And I wanted to listen to this album of Celine's because it features some French production and arrangements. Just to see how it sounds like.

EastEnders actress is dying of breast cancer Jenny Booth Wendy Richard, who gained fame in long-running television shows Are You Being Served? and EastEnders, revealed today that she was dying of cancer. The 65-year-old actress said that she planned to marry her long-term partner within the week before starting her latest round of treatment. The star has twice been diagnosed with breast cancer. In a newspaper interview, she said that she was diagnosed in January with a recurrence of an aggressive form of the disease that has attacked her kidney and spread to her bones. Since then she had written her will and planned her funeral, she said. “I went for my usual annual check-up and they found that some cancer cells had returned in my left armpit,” Ms Richard said. “The drugs I was given to help had an adverse effect. If anything, they did more damage than good so my health has really deteriorated. Now I have a cancerous growth on my right kidney and the cancer has spread to my bones. “Twice I’ve had breast cancer but this is different. It’s more aggressive this time, unfortunately, and has spread to the top of my spine and left ribs.” She added: “My oncologist said I’ve got several useful years ahead of me but since then it’s got worse.” Ms Richard said that she will marry her partner, John Burns, before starting chemotherapy treatment on October 13. She rose to fame playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? during the 1970s, and reinforced her stardom with the role of Pauline Fowler in the BBC1 soap opera EastEnders. She was awarded the MBE for services to television in 2000. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article4885945.ece

Here's the early bible.

Sure, I agree. But I've seen all too many times it being called a soap opera, from RTS to the Guild and so on. More correctly, it's a serial, but this new producer that came now has re-introduced self-contained episodes so even that is a shaky classification.

They're all soaps.

Writers’ Guild Awards 2008 Best Soap Mark Cairns, Andrew Holden, Martha Hillier, Sam Wheats, Graham Mitchell, Jake Riddlell, Chris Murray, Tony McHale, Matthew Evans, Martin Jameson, Dana Fainaru, Len Collin, Joe Ainsworth, Peter Lloyd, Ian Kershaw, Veronica Henry, Gert Thomas, Jeff Dodds, Dan Sefton, Sebastian Baczkiewicz, Daisy Coulam, Abi Bown - Holby City, Season 10 Angela Corner Anna Clements Barry Woodward Carol Ann Docherty Chris Gill Daran Little David Mcdermott Helen Blakeman Jane Marlow Jane Pearson Jesse O'Mahoney Jessica Lea Johanne Mcandrew Elliot Hope Kim Millar Lyn Papadopoulos Mariam Vossough Mark Bickerton Matthew Westwood Maurice Bessman Nick Saltrese Nick West Paul Coates Perrie Balthazar Richard Burke Roger Williams Steven Fay Tara Byrne Tony Green Tracy Brabin - Hollyoaks Geoff McQueen (series deviser), Richard Ommanney, Neil Clarke, Steve Griffiths, Emma Goodwin, Julian Perkins, Steve Attridge, Clive Dawson, Peter G. Morgan, Andrew Taft, Chris Murray, Tom Higgins, Julia Wall, Maxwell Young, Jane Marlow, Sally Tatchell, Si Spencer, Matthew Bardsley, Jonathan Rich, Matthew Leys, James Hall, Chris Murray, Stuart Morris, Nicholas McInerny, Chris Ould, Alan Pollock, Simon Moss, Nicholas Martin, Scott Cherry, Doug Milburn, Steve Trafford, Stephanie Lloyd Jones, Steve Baillie, Frank Rickarby, Andrew Alty, Will Shindler, Chris Dunn, Sarah-Louise Hawkins, Len Collin, Gregory Evans, Tom Needham, Patrick Homes - The Bill, Season 23

Where is this woman now? She is in her fifties and nowhere to be found. Not even doing, I don't know, primetime or theatre or something... Y&RWorlTurner told me that her stints on Santa Barbara and OLTL weren't well regarded, but that the fault really isn't hers. It is difficult to assess her, she only had one successful stint (GL), but I think she is miles better than some hacks still around (Passanante, for example).

Actually... How can it be a comeback when she had an album last year?

Does anyone know if Bridget and Jerome had any children? And how many? Those two are 70, BTW, if anyone wanted to know.

Oh, soon! Thanks!

When will her album be released?

I think that that's because, among other things, Corrie is a warmer soap. EE is like a really gloomy, depressing soap on steroids full of violence and abnormal behaviour, famous for creating brilliant characters and getting rid of them in a blink of an eye. It just has no continuity of good stuff. That is, pretty much every Britsh soap has ups and downs, but EE's ups and downs are much more visible and noticeable. When it's bad, it's awful, when it's good, it's really good. But only for a short while.

And my comment was, said differently, "Corrie is doing well? I'm surprised." EE had 8.38 million viewers, CS 9.45. Newest data.

It never was. Corrie was always no. 1 in the UK ratings. EE was able to beat it a few times during climaxes etc. But it was pretty much a no. 2.

Really?

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