Thursday 29 March 2007

Soap Stars ...

What is it about the TV soaps that makes them such essential viewing for so many? Not me, I hasten to add. I did used to watch Corrie and Eastenders but just got bored with them. Unfortunately there are just so many love triangle combinations and complications with a small cast and it does get very repetitive.

Very often you'll see similar story lines crop up on different shows and you can soon spot echoes of past plots. Every now and then they try and spice it up with a death and disaster but even the Emmerdale who-dunnit has echoes of "Who Shot JR".

Too many shows per week to cram in and the quality is bound to suffer.

Q: How many soap stars does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Six or seven, probably at a party when the lights go out. While someone goes off to find a new bulb the husband from one couple and the wife from another will get better acquainted, someone will get struck down with a blunt instrument, someone will try and use a lighter to see in the dark a bit too close to the leaking gas stove and the house blows up.

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