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-Talbot- | 18:06 Fri 26th Apr 2019 | TV
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How much do you think a script writer gets for writing this drivel?


Can that much really happen on one night?
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I suspect that your question is meant to be rhetorical but, since you ask, . . .

"About one third of a soap’s budget goes on actors’ and writers’ wages. Writers can be paid anything between £5,000 and £12,000 per episode, depending on experience".

Source (published 8 years ago):
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-05-14/how-much-do-soap-stars-earn/
You have just confessed to watching it! As you an avid soap watcher

I was watching a YouTube video episode earlier of 'Star Trek Continues'. Same characters as the original series but funded by fans. That has to be more believable than a soap.
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£5,000 and £12,000 per episode, depending on experience".


So probably more today...far too much for the absolute crap they are spewing out.
I suspect that the scripts of most TV series wouldn't stand up too well to close examination by anyone concerned with reality.

I was once returning from Paris on a Eurostar train, where the guy sitting next to me was reading through a script and making notes on it. I couldn't help reading over his shoulder and found that I was looking at a crime drama where the plot was full of holes and the dialogue was totally unbelievable. In particular, the writer seemed to have no knowledge of the provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act, resulting in his police characters doing lots of things which they certainly wouldn't be allowed to do in real life.

The script was so appalling that I was finding it hard not to laugh out loud. I assumed that the guy next to me must be a college lecturer who was reading through the work of one of his less able students, since the words 'quality drama' certainly didn't leap off the pages of that script to me.

When he closed it however I saw that the name on the front cover matched the name on the guy's rail ticket and that, in front of it, the word 'Director' appeared. Above that though was the title of the drama, together with an episode number. The title I saw printed there was "The Bill" ;-)
when you see the amount of tv time these main soaps take up you have to accept it may well contain (at times) drivel to pad out between big story lines, you cant expect full blown stories all the time.
It can in fantasyland.
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Did you see the nightclub episode Derek?

All is not yet clear but... Rape, abduction and a knifing on a night out takes some beating.
I haven't watched it for years. Annie and Joe will be turning in their graves...
Again, the scriptwriters get the blame.....they simply provide the words (hence, "script" writer)...it's the storyliners who come up with the "meat" of the action etc
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Is Joe dead?
It was a figure of speech. Knew I should've checked...no he isn't
Talbot, it's a soap,it's fiction ,it's entertaining to 6.5 million viewers.All you had to do is switch channels so stop moaning.
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You've come on this thread moaning about me moaning?

LOL lol
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Prudie, apparently Joe was killed off even though he wasn't in the show at the time.
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Why am I watching this crap?

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