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Susan Hall was supposed to be who the Tories were pinning their hopes on, lest we forget. If she wins, the Tories actually will cling on for as long as they can, and Sunak won't be going anywhere.

Well, it's over. See you next year.

Lib Dem (police and crime commissioner election) based mostly on the fact that of the four candidate manifestos, his seemed to be the only one written by an actual person rather than an AI-generated script.

Thanks. I've been running for years, but it's only since starting parkrun in 2022 that I've really thought about the "experience" of running and having the ability to consciously adjust my pace, if that makes sense. I never understood what people meant when they talked about trainers being...

It does feel like there's been a concerted effort to establish a bit more lineage to the Mitchell family dynamic. I don't think they ever recovered from the loss of Peggy, Ronnie, Roxy and - to a certain extent - Sharon. I just wish Kat was still part of it :(

Thanks to this thread (which I've been lurk-following) for some terrific trainer recommendations. I did my first 10K of the year last week, and it's the first time I've ever run in proper running trainers. It made such a difference; at the finishing point, I was half-wishing I'd signed up for a...

Quite possibly. I'm only going off the DS soap ratings thread: The year-on-year comparison isn't the difference to date this year; the poster compares to the same period last year. Therefore, I'm going to assume EastEnders had a particularly bad week in 2023 for it to be 420,000 up this year.

EastEnders and Emmerdale are getting remarkably close. The average for the week was even closer with Emmerdale on 3.84m, and EastEnders on 3.81m.

Some of Bianca's dialogue suggests she'll be around for a while, but it's never been announced as anything other than a "short stint", so I'm not sure what that means. I'd assume she'll be around now to facilitate Whitney's exit (which cannot come soon enough because it does feel like the...

In hindsight, I think that could probably be made a bit clearer by just adding an "inspired by actual events" tagline. The show has obviously done incredibly well due to word-of-mouth promo, but the downside of that is the nuance of what's actually being portrayed will be lost in favour of "it's...

As an unapologetic lover of whimsical early Britney, I LOVE IT. And I don't even care if it's just been created by AI.

Indeed! Some may baulk at the suggestion, but I certainly wouldn't be opposed to trialling Eurovision on ITV precisely because it's one of those circumstances where they have a much more immediate commercial interest in who represents the United Kingdom. Regardless of how the BBC chooses the...

As a viewer, I have two major observations of ITV: I don't particularly like how transparently they manipulate viewer votes to suit their narrative. For example, Love Island frequently flits between "vote to save" and "vote to leave" with no rhyme or reason, depending on which couples are at...

This is so depressing. OK, I get that, given the subject matter, it will have little international appeal. Yet, we're talking about a show with almost 10 million viewers! If ITV can't profit from that, it just reaffirms why they need to pump out three hours of substandard Coronation Street...

I guess it just goes to show how poor uptake had been beforehand. Mr Bates vs. The Post Office definitely felt like a bit of a watershed moment for ITVX, though. I'm inclined to think the timing of it helped immensely; it felt very much like coming in the New Year lull, people perhaps had a...