EastEnders currently has a storyline with a new character called Tony. He's a paedophile who's been grooming his girlfriend Bianca's stepdaughter Whitney and it all looks set to be very grim viewing indeed...The head honcho of all things Walford, EastEnders Executive Producer Diederick Santer, has just been on Radio 5 defending the storyline and saying how he believes it's a positive thing that this plotline may provide a forum for real cases of paedophilia to be discussed and information about grooming to be more widely disseminated. He also ended his interview on the note that if one paedophile is arrested because of this story then the plotline will be doing its job.
What a pompous prick. His job is to produce a half-decent soap opera and not provide help to the police force, because the last time I checked they were responsible for arresting wrongdoers and not some tit from TV. The last time some well-meaning dumbell unleashed this particular debate, halfwit News Of The World readers ended up attacking the premises of paediatricians.
Regardless of Santer's pontificating about good drama being rooted in real issues and his so-called good intentions, this storyline is clearly about grabbing headlines and making the producer's name as a 'controversial-which-means-good' TV man rather than a producer of quality drama.
Frankly it's a ridiculous storyline. And Lucy's much better looking than Whitney...
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