Best Soap Couple Ever

Birthday Drawing Number 2!

Let them have scenes with farm animals!

Just to keep things in perspective. Keep demanding improvements to the show overall by those in charge. That’s how we get more SSW16 and less whatever 2026 has been. Not by reading too much into off-the-cuff comments actors tend to make when they’re not thinking.

I wish we as viewers got lucky and Ryan finally got his own juicy storyline worthy of his talents… With the current state of things and the producers involved it‘s unlikely to happen any time soon. 2030 maybe???

But Laura seems determined to pretend that's not the case. And in fact seemingly attributed all that ratings windfall to the introduction of Kev. It was never about Kev. Nevertheless they brought him back and are giving him nonstop focus and attention and the ratings are cratering. Not a single aspect has improved numbers wise. In fact they are down and continuing to fall across the board. Kev is absolutely not solely responsible or even mostly responsible for that but he's the perfect symptom of the problem. The audience at large was never clamoring for a Kev or Graham return. Sure they each had their fans but it was never the general audience en masse. Kev and Graham are just more gimmicks along with the stunts and special episodes. They're all just distractions. People don't want that. They want actual storytelling with characters we know and are already invested in. But Laura has more than proven storytelling is what she's not capable of doing. So she throws stunts and new characters who are completely void of any kind of depth or actual purpose to fill air time instead of actual storytelling. There's zero connectivity in the show. There's zero actual story focus. Everything is random bits of a bunch of different plots being thrown into the plot that was pitched as the actual storyline but ends up not being that at all and they're using the same character grouping over and over as well. It's not working on any level and won't improve as long as she's allowed to stay in her position. She's actively killing the very thing she's supposed to be protecting the creative structure of. She has no intrest in doing the one thing she was allegedly hired to do. It's truly heartbreaking.

“Everyone keeps asking me about the Robron wedding!” She laughed, “I mean it’s Robron so of course we are gonna want a wedding at some point when the time feels right but I think at the moment they’ve just got Emmerdale farm so they are wanting to build that. What we are gonna see over the next few weeks and months is that Robert is kind of starting to empire build and it’s a bit more Sugdens back in the fold and putting their name back on the map so that is what they are concentrating on for a while but you know 2027 watch out!”

When I hear the Corrie fans also complaining about the state of the show, I think, fine, give us Kate Brooks back, you can have the amazing Laura and all her PowerPoint ideas, then, perhaps, you‘ll realise how good you have it.