EastEnders

It's a shame to see Phil Mitchell as the one last true great. Ian Beale is past it and we are missing true greats such as Pat and Grant

I've watched and loved Eastenders for decades but my God am I hating the storylines more and more every year! It's become a boring unbearable depressive drag!

This stupid neverending Keanu saga will drag on all year no doubt, the alcoholic Linda, the looney Denise, the stuck up Suki and her backwards and forwards lesbian affair...where are the likes of Mitchells and good stories relating to them,...that family made the soap, nothing happens anymore! The slapper Stacy and her numerous kids and affairs...the perv Dean...where's Shirley by the way?! All the Linda's kids?? And did you lose a gem in Danny Dyer...him leaving killed it completely for me!

BBC America runs an omnibus once a week of this popular British soap opera. If you don't get BBC America, call your cable company and ask about digital cable- it's generally only about 10 bucks more a month than regular cable, and you get more channels. That said, I was hooked from the first time I watched "EastEnders" a little over a year ago. It took a few episodes and a book ("EastEnders Who's Who", available from amazon.com)for me to catch on, but it was worth it. These characters, although sometimes predictable (cheating exes, guy gets fatal brain tumor, etc,)are more realistic than any lame-o American soap- maybe because they don't sport red sequinned dresses and 5 pounds of make-up at 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday. There's a chock full of good stuff happening in Albert Square- call you cable operator and get the Beeb if, for nothing else, this fabulous show!

The only reason this isn't less than 2, or 2 & a half stars out of 5 is because this isn't one of those poorly made mockbusters where the acting is non-existent, the same can not be said about the writing.

I have watched Eastenders for years from 2000 as I lived in South Africa, but it is just too boring now. I can't watch it anymore. All doom and gloom.

Everyone is trying to get one up on the other, scripts are shocking, and people not getting there just deserts for murder, how long can a person go about daily life.