Mmm, so EastEnders think that the results of Saturday night’s British Soap Awards 2007 were fixed, do they? A BBC insider allegedly complained to the Daily Star:
“The panel isn’t fair. It’s made up of executives from ITV as well as critics and representatives from each soap. But there isn’t much impartiality and a lot of the voting is tactical. It’s a bit of a fix.”
According to my sources, the panel is actually made up of a representative from each soap, alongside five journalists and that there is no weighting in favour of ITV on the voting panel. So is this just a bit of saber rattling from Auntie in the face of an embarrassing defeat for the flagship soap, or a genuine case of sour grapes?
Probably both, but it’s worth noting that EastEnders managed no wins in any of the categories voted for by viewers. Traditionally EastEnders has done well here, probably down to the highly dedicated fanbase. But what has happened this year? It seems that even the die-hard fans can’t be relied on to come through for ‘Enders now and are starting to turn their backs on the soap.
But it does seem that there’s some foot stamping going on here because things haven’t gone EastEnders’ way. Oh boo hoo! You weren’t complaining last year were you? No, of course not, because ‘Enders won Best Soap, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Single Episode, Sexiest Female and Villain of the Year. No accusations of bias coming from the Walford camp in 2006.
Instead of griping about not winning a few gongs to stick in the bathroom back at Elstree, it might be best for the ‘Enders team to go and have a good long look at why they might have been passed over for all but one award.
I’d start with the [psychic twins[(http://www.thestage.co.uk/tvtoday/2007/05/thetomorrowpeople.php)…
leave eastenders alone it its the BEST SOAP ever created