What is Eastenders?
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Contrary to popular belief, Eastenders is not a story that unfolds. The storylines are available a week in advance and the cult TV soap known as eastenders is now a well known and widely used excuse for those moments when one cannot be bothered to get up off ones posterior and do something vaguely constructive.
"I can't. Eastenders is on"
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A BBC 'soap opera' that has been running since February 1985.
Eastenders is set around the fictional east end of London town of 'Walford'and follows the every day events of its inhabitants lives.
The 'soap' has now passed into cult viewing, with legandary characters like 'Dot Cotton', 'Pauline Fowler' and 'Pat Buther' with her ever increasingly size earrings!
Some may see the show as beyond the realms of being believable, but that is why it is a 'soap' not a 'drama'. Whatever people may say about it, it is a British institution and compulsive viewing.
Sorry, I can't come out until 9, Eastenders is on!
Oh my GOD! Did you see Eastenders last night?
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A dangerous and highly articulate disease that affects the central nervous system for about half an hour each day. It enters the body through the ears and eyes and attaches itself to the boringopiate receptors in the brain causing symptoms similar to a large injection of heroin in some people. However the disease affects people differently. It can cause anxiety, a distortion of reality, sweating, homosexuality, skin irritation, and mild death in others. Recommended treatment consists of several large doobies, and a box set of
Fox JK is scared of catching Eastenders.
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EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. It has been running ever since, generating strong viewing figures for much of that time, and has been the UK's highest rating programme on numerous occasions.
Despite the strong criticism of the show by critics in 2004 and 2005, EastEnders won the prestigious National Television Award for "most popular Serial Drama" (an award it has won several times in the past ten years) in October 2005, was inducted into the Rose d'Or Hall of Fame in April 2006, and in May 2006 won the BAFTA for "Best Continuing Drama". It also won seven British Soap Awards in May 2006, including the award for "Best British Soap".
EastEnders
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BBC One, UK
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Eastenders is a British Soap Opera for people that have a very low IQ. Viewers of this programme may have a variety of other conditions including grotiness, being overweight or being utterly devoid of culture. The entire premise of the programme is based on the day-to-day lives of smelly make-believe people who cannot talk properly. Typical settings include a chip shop, a launderette, a garage and a pub. This programme is the
"Hello Dot - How are your varicose veins today?"
"Oo - not so bad - I'll see you down the launderette later"
"OK - unless I see you at the pub first"
"Yes" Eastenders - Please ditch it BBC
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A soap opera which used to be unmissable entertainment, but since about 2001 it has completely lost the plot. All the interesting characters have gone, replaced by people who are either irritating, obnoxious or both. I've lived where there are a lot of real eastenders and they're nothing like the ones in this soap opera. Albert Square is now populated by patronising working-class stereotypes (who are usually criminals, wife-beaters, serial killers etc). Nobody can keep their trousers/skirt on for more than five minutes, and Dirty Den suddenly rising from the grave shows how desperate the series has become, having exhausted all possible storylines years ago. Only continues because soap operas are so cheap to make. Once you've built the sets, you can use them forever, and you only need to go on location for a week twice a year and have a special effect once in a blue moon. And you can use the same storylines over and over. Eastenders always has an extra-depressing storyline at Christmas. Ho-ho-ho to you as well. By the way, Eastenders is now on four times a week, so that's even more padding to enjoy.
To hell with decent plots and characters. What we want in eastenders are headline-grabbing gimmick storylines, no matter how ridiculous they are. Lol! Eastenders was always larger-than-life, but surely there must be some limits.
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A British soap opera that can only be described complete and utter lump of shite. Has the most ridiculous storylines ever, Smallville looks realistic next to this.
Soap operas suck, who gives a shit about some made up TV characters lives? Not me. I hope a nuclear bomb goes off in the Queen Vic and wipes out the entire population of Albert Square. I'd watch that anyday.