Amanda Donohoe rides into Emmerdale
Niall
El Reg TV Gudie #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:45 GMT

Two new people in Emmerdale!? I mean come on, what next are you going to start adding TV listings. Why not get rid of BOFH and replace it with summaries of what's happening in Neighbours or Home and Away.
Anonymous Coward
Watch out #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:53 GMT

Whenever Donohoe appears there's always sex and nudity not far behind.
Mines the White Worm Skin mac.
Efros.
Anonymous Coward
FFS #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:53 GMT

Where's the f8cking IT angle, or even anything vaguely newsworthy? If you're going to drool over celebutards, at least pick someone interesting, like good ol' Paris, not Jade Goody's ugly sister.
lIsRT
"Not like Lady Godiva, we sincerely hope" #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:53 GMT

Speak for yourself El Reg.
Mine's the one with the old VHS of Lair of the White Worm, much paused/frame-advanced at the stewardess fight scene.
Dave Jones
Eee bah gum #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 15:53 GMT

Don't forget the lady's less-than-convincing northern accent in "Deep Secrets", that "not quite ready for Prime Suspect" drama with PS skin job Colin Salmon.
Marc McAllister
I don't recall seeing much IT in t'dales #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 16:00 GMT

As good as Emmerdale Farm was (when there were cows, sheep in t'top field etc) I fail to see what El Reg is doing reporting this? I mean, next thing I know my wife will be reading this site to get her Eastenders fix..
Paris 'cause I'm sure she's an animal lover.
TheThing
IT angle? #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 16:16 GMT

Strange. I don't remember seeing many "Where's the IT angle?" comments re the resurrection of HHGTTG.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/new_hitchhikers_novel/comments/
I wonder why that would be?
Louis
Breaking snooze #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 16:16 GMT

You bastards! That wasn't a redesign you did a few days ago... you just redirected to thesun.co.uk!!
Big_Boomer
@TheThing #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 17:58 GMT

Well, the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is a computer, which if you'd read it you would know. <LOL>
Besides, any geeknerd worth his salt has read all the books, listened to the radio show, seen the TV shows, hated the new movie and mourned the passing of dear departed Douglas.
Most geeknerds I know (and I do include myself in there) couldn't give a f**k if Haemarroid Farm, Constipation Street and Crapenders were all cancelled. Not that it would make any difference to the crap-quotient of our brave new multiple-channels-of-shite world of so called entertainment.
Clarkson for BBC General Director! ;-)
Marvin the Martian
A title cannot express how unrequited this newspost is. #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 17:58 GMT

Who gives a lying uck? Dr. Who, H2G2, fine it's what we all watch, sometimes even on tv. But some fossil goes to a farm, wha?
John
the IT angle #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 17:58 GMT

is the fact that it's posted on here. El Reg is tech, after all.
Anonymous Coward
And Wellcome to .............. #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 17:58 GMT

TV TITbits
Where you can find all the celebrity gossip and other assorted tosh that is really going to make a difference to your life.
Brenda H (Wolverhampton) Says: I can't get through the week without my fix of TV TITbits as it almost makes my boring, unemployed and overweight life worth living.
And what's the next weeks El Reg (aka Cosmo) super exclusive ?
**********Dot does knitting**********
Meanwhile those who are looking for technology information I suggest you look elsewhere as there is nothing to see here.
Simon
Oops! #
Posted Tuesday 23rd September 2008 20:16 GMT

What's going on here El Reg?
Are you trying to test the waters to see if any of us would find soap news appealing?
I see the plan, daily articles on the Reg about all the soap news, so much easier than all that IT nonsense.
As they say on the Intertubes (Does it feature on Emmerdale, maybe we need an article on that as well?) Epic Fail.
(I need to click on that "IT?" button before the Reg runs out of them...)
Chris Matchett
Post an article about the Lohan and Ronson #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 00:19 GMT

or Britney's new single being delayed
or the new series of Heroes or Dexter
or who got voted off Strictly Come Dancing
or Ronan Keating not liking Radiohead
Go on. I double dare you.
jake
Bloody 'ell! #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 08:52 GMT
That travesty of so-called entertainment is still on the air?
Even "Top of the Pops" when they banned the Pistols was more entertaining ...
the "got me Os & As in N.Yorks in the late '80s" jake
Mark Aggleton
@Chris Matchett #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 08:58 GMT

Phil Daniels got voted off....
Mine's the pink satin one
FreeTard
Best tottie of any girlie show #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 09:55 GMT

Debbie Dingle is just too sexy to miss. I don't watch the show for the story - the wife calls me when she comes on the screen. sexy...
Chris Matchett
@FreeTard #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 12:23 GMT

I guess you still have a CRT television then. Or a wife with excellent balance.
Tim
I agree... #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 12:23 GMT

With every single sentiment in these comments.
Matthew Ellen
To help drive it home #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 14:28 GMT

WTF? What is this doing on the reg?
NT
Not here, please, Reg #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 14:28 GMT

Agreed. If we want soap news we can go crawling off to those fatuous magazines for people who really think Emmerdale's a real place with real people living in it.
Dear gods, I don't know why people watch that sort of drivel anyway; as if life's not depressing enough as it is.
Chris Parsons
FFS! #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 16:46 GMT
Title of post says it all.
Anonymous Coward
"deliver some intriguing new storylines" #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 16:46 GMT

Or more likely the same old soapy froth of nudge-nudge sex, cod Dynasty nastiness, and unreal money/power games that have taken up residency in this pile of todge ever since the last cow was culled in the last Foot & Mouth outbreak!
Anonymous Coward
WHO MADE Y'ALL READ THIS ONE THEN?? #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 20:37 GMT

I'm not sure which I find more amusing - El Reg with a story about a soap, or the number of "readers" who read the story - or at least most of it - and then complained!
FFS people, if you don't want to read the story, DON'T CLICK ON IT!! It really is that simple.
Or have IQs suddenly dropped and much of the El Reg readership changed from (reasonably) sane and intelligent IT types to the sort of lu-sah brained sheep who read everything put in front since they don't have enough brain to think about what they are doing?
ps FreeTard, Jasmine and Chas(tity) are much nicer than Debbie, sorry mate.
AC in case anyone else in the office reads this... :-)
IT Angle? Who cares - it's TottieTV!!
Anonymous Coward
Well #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 20:37 GMT

I for one, would welcome her to my neck of the woods. We could use something like that around here....
Paris, 'cus we could use her too.
NT
@ WHO MADE Y'ALL READ THIS ONE THEN?? #
Posted Wednesday 24th September 2008 23:37 GMT
<< FFS people, if you don't want to read the story, DON'T CLICK ON IT!! It really is that simple. >>
A predictable enough comment, certainly. But you missed something. What you're seeing here is people *commenting* on the story, not people reading it.
So is there some reason you imagine readers *shouldn't* feed back to the Reg if they think a story shouldn't be on the site?
Maybe you'd be happy to see the site disappear into celeb-land, but obviously a lot of people here wouldn't.
In order to complain to the Reg about a story, it's not necessary to actually read the article. You can go straight to the comments page. However, even so, it's never sensible to complain about something without first reading what you're complaining about, which might explain why Reg readers are doing so.
Anonymous Coward
ha ha #
Posted Thursday 25th September 2008 09:30 GMT

I would flame everyone, but I can't be bothered....why read it at all if you don't want? What a frikkin bunch of sheeple.
Matthew Ellen
re:well don't read it then #
Posted Thursday 25th September 2008 11:32 GMT
Would you expect to find nonsense like this in The Financial Times? I'm all for nonsense in The Register, just not this kind.
I'm not comparing El Reg to The Financial Times, but just commenting that stories should be appropriate to the target audience. The Financial Times knows its target audience. This story puts into doubt if The Register knows its own.
NT
@ ha ha #
Posted Thursday 25th September 2008 14:20 GMT

<< sheeple >>
Do people still say that? How very 1980s.
Sorry, I'd write more, but I can't be bothered either.