An ill wind blows east (enders)
22/09/04 12:22 Coffee machine moments
Not a journalism story I know, but is anyone
surprised that the executive producer of EastEnders
has gone? Personally I'm surprised she didn't go when
the big scandal hit - no, not Dirty Den and the
Internet, for all I know that's a full-blown
breakdown and worthy of sympathy rather than
criticism. I mean the casting of Dalip Tahil as Dan
Ferreira.
You think that wasn't a bad move? Well, let's put it this way: he didn't have a work permit, nor any right to continue working more than a few months in this country (he was signed for a stint in Bombay Dreams), but they cast him in a long-running soap anyway. So they started building him into something and then whammo, he couldn't work with them any more - so he sort of disappeared, then they wrote him out and the family inevitably became less believable as they twisted the characters to fit around Dan's absconding and landing them in debt.
How on earth did anyone in the team think it could have turned out otherwise? And why was someone who cast an actor without checking their right to work allowed to continue in the job?
You think that wasn't a bad move? Well, let's put it this way: he didn't have a work permit, nor any right to continue working more than a few months in this country (he was signed for a stint in Bombay Dreams), but they cast him in a long-running soap anyway. So they started building him into something and then whammo, he couldn't work with them any more - so he sort of disappeared, then they wrote him out and the family inevitably became less believable as they twisted the characters to fit around Dan's absconding and landing them in debt.
How on earth did anyone in the team think it could have turned out otherwise? And why was someone who cast an actor without checking their right to work allowed to continue in the job?
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