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Listed below are comments made by Bingethink between Tuesday, 10th February 2009 and Tuesday, 28th April 2009.

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Writers Academy 11 8:12pm on 28 Apr 2009 A stoopid question - Closing date for applications is 5th May. That means I can finally press SEND at five minutes to midnight on 5th May itself, yes???

(Not that I would do that, of course....)
Writers Academy 10 2:23pm on 31 Mar 2009 Or even a living.
Writers Academy 10 2:23pm on 31 Mar 2009 That's quite beautifully written. You should do this for a iving!:)
Writers Academy 5 8:24pm on 10 Feb 2009 Can black actors really comprise 40% of the cast and simultaneously be a token presence? Wouldn't a token presence mean a solitary black actor?

And why should a silly fantasy adventure series not have two black leads? Nothing else in the programme leads us to believe it is designed to be an accurate portrayal of the archeological profession, after all (Excalibur, the Holy Grail, magic across the ages and everything else...) Seriously, how many black actors would have been acceptable to you in Bonekickers? None, presumably.

Good call on being patronising though, whilst calling me "my friend" and telling me I don't what I'm talking about.
Writers Academy 5 5:02pm on 10 Feb 2009 Moan, moan, moan, moan, moan.

Writers Academy, where you are taught to write EastEnders, is a course based at Elstree, where EastEnders is produced. Complaining about that seems as ridiculous as complaining about a course for oil-riggers taking place on the North Sea or a course in the Welsh language taking place at a Welsh university.

But not quite as ridiculous as complaining that Bonekickers had two black characters in it. How many black characters would be appropriate? Should there really be a precise correlation between the percentage of black people in Britain and the percentage of black characters in any particular series? How many more Bengali characters are needed to make EastEnders representative of East London? How may Poles? How many Jews? Do story considerations not come into this? Does the fact that two of the Bonekickers characters were related have any relevance? Can anybody, faced with the disaster that was Bonekickers, focus on the ethnicity of the characters as a criticism?

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