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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Julia&#039;s Gun" data-source="post: 308772" data-attributes="member: 987">I'd love to see Eastenders replaced, with a new soap that's based half in London and half in Manchester, kind of like a UK Sons & Daughters for the 2020s. It would keep with the BBC's remit of moving more of its programming out of the capital, but have rival families somehow linked with half the cast being Mancunian, and the others living in London.The concept of Eastenders has been so out of date now for decades. It's an area and community that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place, and is now a redeveloped Olympic Park. I'd put that show out of its misery, but maybe spin-off a couple of the more popular characters into this new soap. I also think 2-3 times a week is plenty for a soap. More than this just waters down the quality too much, with dubious acting and hasty, contrived writing as a result. Out of the 4 soaps I feel Eastenders comes off the worst for this, to the point of being mostly unwatchable to me now.</blockquote>