Eastenders v Coronation Street

[foo]

Eastenders is a joke. and not a funny one.

most of the time these days, it's just embarrassing to watch.

Corrie is so much classier, funnier and better written.

 

[foo]

Corries is a complex, character-driven drama.

Eastenders is a clunking ham-fisted plot-driven pile of shite.

he says it so much better than i

 

[nino_savatte]

Blanche also gets some of the best lines ever!

 

[Y_I_Otter]

In these modern times, those of us with a full social life can make soaps work for us. Sky + it, spend a relaxing hour and a half watching on Sunday evening rather than the usual shit they put on then.

Exactly. The Sunday morning Corrie omnibus from 7:30-10:00 is a ritual for me. Pot of coffee, a couple of crusty buns with jam and the "Don't Fuck With Me Right Now" sign on the closed home office door. On the rare occasions when I'm committed to something else at that time, I tape the shows for later viewing.

I've been a Corrie addict since the mid-seventies. It's huge here in Canada, and not just among ex-pat Brits.

They began showing EE on the American PBS stations when it first came out and I watched it for about a year, but decided I was getting a little long in the tooth to learn a new language.