News Flash: Who Cares About Foreign Floods As Long As Jet Li's Foot Recovers and the Stock Market Soars?
Sunday Herald › January 13, 2005
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IT surely was a disastrous festive season. On Corrie (the street in Lancashire telly-land, not the picturesque hamlet on Arran) there was the prospect of a baby perishing in a burning car. In Holby City, a petrol tanker crashed into a hospital with death and destruction lingering on from Christmas Eve to Hogmanay. There may well have been some sort of natural disaster in Emmerdale. We hope so. At Buffer Towers we welcome all collateral damage inflicted on soaps.
Nature gave us a much better storyline to ponder upon as we busied ourselves with such festive rituals as getting your money back from Marks & Spencer for that cardigan your auntie bought you and then buying it for half-price in the sale. In soap opera terms, the real-life tsunami tragedy on the Indian Ocean rim was a plot to die for.See the full content of this document
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News Flash: Who Cares About Foreign Floods As Long As Jet Li's Foot Recovers and the Stock Market Soars?
Strangely, it was a story our TV channels appeared initially slow, almost reluctant to pick up.
The information was sparse. Major tidal waves in the far east, thousands dead, a handful of British holidaymakers among the victims, and now back to our Christmas programmes. If it had been a small UK earthquake, a minor Krakatoa east of Dover with a...See the full content of this document
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