19.5.13 Soap Awards

I think the summary is quite simple - Eastenders has had its day, and is now a spent force.  What a feeble effort this time around.  The sixteen awards were spread out among the contenders as follows:

Coronation Street     8
Hollyoaks                5
Emmerdale              2
Eastenders              1
Doctors                   0

Let's be honest, Doctors is never going to win anything, considering it's shown in the afternoons and can never compete with the evening soaps.  I am not really sure why the cast members even bother to attend the ceremony at all, unless they simply like a night out to clap other people.  Eastenders, though, is the BBC's flagship soap opera, and always goes head-to-head with Corrie. What a failure then for the show to get just one award, and even that was the Lifetime Achievement gong - something given to someone who's stuck around a long time.  In this case, it was Adam Woodyatt who's spent 28 years being Ian Beale.  That's not really an award for Eastenders, but recognition of endurance by him, and the viewers for having to watch him.  So, well done to Corrie and to Hollyoaks.

Sadly Corrie is also a record breaker in that it's currently able to 'boast' four counts of stars past and present on charges of indecency/abuse/rape.

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