Should Alzheimer's Be Used As Cheap Entertainment & for Ratings by TV Soap?
Date: Saturday 21 May 2005Coronation Street is the world's longest running TV Show and it is also the UK's most watched programme. However while it remains still very popular in the UK, over the last... continue reading »
"This is just a ratings ploy Date 24/05/2005 Where Are You From? Manchester, UK Would you want to watch this story? No"
"If Mike Baldwin has to leave then I wish they would give him a better exit. After 30 years he deserves a happier ending and it will be an awful story to watch. I know in real life people don't always get happy endings and you have to have death in soaps. "
"Corrie do stories very well as a rule and I love it to bits but I don't think they should do alzimers. Date 21st May 05 Where Are You From? Essex Would you want to watch this story? No"
"Alzheimer's needs promoting but not at the cost of integrity. Date May 26th, 2005 Where Are You From? Plymouth, Devon UK"
"I don,t think that the Corrie writers have the time or patience to do a story of this magnitude and do it well. Date 21/5/2005 Where Are You From? Barrie, Ontario, CANADA Would you want to watch this story? No"
"Coronation Street is still condemned for the Alma cancer story so what makes them think they can do any better with Alzheimer's? Date 27th May 2005 Where Are You From? Bedfordshire Would you want to watch this story? No"
"I don't really know what I think of this idea? I am not sure how it can be done? Date Feb 19 Where Are You From? Hope Cove"
"I think it is in bad taste. Date 24/05/2005 Where Are You From? Galmpton, Devon, UK"
"When I first heard about this story I thought okay let's see what they do? Give Coronation Street a chance to prove they can do this story well. However if the last week is anything to go by they are already mucking it up. So I now can't help but agree wi"
"I don't want to see Mike get Alzeimers and I agree with this petition. Date May 22 2005 Where Are You From? London, England Would you want to watch this story? No"
"I am silly moo I put the wrong date in. It should of been 21st May 2005 in my original message. To make matters worse it looks like someone copied me. Date Saturday, 21st May 2005 Where Are You From? London, UK Would you want to watch this story? No"
"If they want to axe Mike Baldwin there are hundreds of ways to do it. They can even kill him off if they like and I wouldn't mind but I will find it very sickening if they use this story to just line the wallets of the Granada fat cats. Date May 24th, 200"
"I have lived through 16 years of my Mums alzheimers.You can't do a storyline like that in a year Date 25/5/05 Where Are You From? New Zealand Would you want to watch this story? No"
"I'm about the same age as Mike and find this storyline offensive. Already it's been as subtle as a slegehammer. They're ratings mad. But isn't it the writers who have trouble with their memory by changing history like Mike being an only child? Mike's a lo"
"just caught up with Corrie on ITV2. I really am not impressed Date 31/12/05 Where Are You From? Worcester Would you want to watch this story? No"
"I don't see how this story can be dealt with in an adequate manner if the actor is leaving in October. Date 8th January, 2006 Where Are You From? Powys, Wales"
"If a story is worth doing then it should be done well and for the right motives. Date 26 May 2005 Where Are You From? Wales Would you want to watch this story? No"
"Alzheimer's needs all the publicity it can get and it also needs accurate and sensitive portrayal. I just can't see how Coronation Street will do this given the nature of the their audience and its general approach. I will probably watch it but won't like"
