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The Coronation Street actress, who plays Maria Connor in the ITV soap, couldnt contain her smile as she showcased her incredible figure in a striped swimsuit on Sunday.

The demise of soaps? are people worried about their jobs and getting their agents on the phone and saying, "i might need something else"? well, yeah. i mean, actors are always worried about theirjobs. ive yet to meet a secure actor. in fact, when i firstjoined it in 1974 as a sort of quite young man, the man alan devereux, who played sid perks, who ran the pub, had been in it for ages. i thought he was wonderful. and i remember going up to him saying, "you are so lucky! it must be wonderful to b...

Were two years in the making. you know, wed have a two—year plan, then an 18—month, then i2—month long—term planning, and then a storyline conference every month ahead of the scripts, and i think theres been a lot of kind of, like, disrespect, really, for both the production and also for the audience in soaps over the years. but how do you decide on storylines? you know, do you sit down, or did you sit down, with writers and think, you know, i dont know, drug addiction, and then decide, ...

Highly personalised social media feeds like tiktok. you know, how can the dingles and the barlows compete with that? its really tricky. and interesting... thinking about the case of neighbours, there i are so many people that hadntl watched it for decades and were still devastated it was going. you know, the relationship| we have with these soaps — we want them to be there even if were not actuallyl engaging with them any more. theres so much nostalgia that feeds into it. - in terms of whos ta...

Visited your home. if you think about the way that hayley died in_ coronation street, i one of their biggest storylines of the last couple of decades, l the reason it was so powerful is because we felt _ like she was a friend. wed lived with her, _ wed lived her ups and downs, and then it just absolutely was a sucker punch. - so i think thats where . they can be so powerful. recently, soaps have had - this obsession with gangsters, ive noticed, all these things, and ijust think, _ "thats totally...

And angie got again. but that doesnt mean - that they cant have success. yeah. and with autumn coming, which i think is a big time for soaps as they start, you know, sowing the seeds for those christmas storylines, daniel, what can we look forward to this year? what do you know about any big stories coming up or what we should be watching? well, the big one is emmerdale turns 50 in october, and they have announced that they will have a big storm storyline. so, a deadly storm will hit the village...

Box set, whatever it might be. so theres so many demands. on your attention, and i think, you know, when soaps do things well, theres nothing better — i when you get really hooked i into one of those storylines, with characters that - youve known for years, decades in some cases. but those storylines have to be strong enough. - they cant just rely on their. brand to get people to watch. yeah, and well come onto those storylines later. charles, i wonder, from the perspective of you in the green...

Is it as mechanical as that? do you then sort of thread it through in those two years where youre thinking about it? you need people who really enjoy the form and really enjoy that creative challenge of revisiting the same storyline with a different perspective, with different characters. because we didnt have a list on the wall that says "now we do drugs" or whatever, it was whatever was growing within society. what were people actually concerned about? you know, i mean, right now, you know, th...

And digging into his wifes venison pie for a whopping 47 years as brian in the archers. welcome to you all and thanks for coming on the show. phil, if we start with you, all the big soaps — eastenders, coronation street, emmerdale — have seen huge drops in audience numbers in recent years. youve criticised soaps for not tackling big social issues like they used to. do you think its the end of the road for them? i think in the current climate, it looks quite pessimistic, but i believe that th...

The unite union has announced eight days of strike action by staff at the uks largest container port, felixstowe, in a dispute over pay. darya dugina, the daughter of one of president putins close allies, dies after her car exploded as she was driving home. now on bbc news, the media show looks at whether soaps have had their day. hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed ...