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Best of 2003 results »
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5: A Thing Called Love
(4.48%)
"I tried to watch this several times, but just found it tedious."
Clare Banks, Exeter
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4: Merseybeat
(9.12%)
"After Haydn Gwynne left, it went downhill! I for one stopped watching. It was originally about coping with family and a hectic job, but it went to pot!"
Hannah, North Yorkshire
"It has the worst plots and acting. I watched one episode and fell asleep not long after it began. I never watched an episode again."
Mel, Bournemouth
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3: EastEnders
(10.24%)
"I used to really enjoy EastEnders, but recently with the over-dramatic and unrealistic plots, I’m afraid it's gone drastically downhill. I still hold out hope that 2005 will be the year EastEnders returns to its former glory."
Steph, Bournemouth
"What was once a very good soap opera was now become pretty poor. I feel it is the number of episodes per week which has reduced the quality."
Leigh, London
"It's almost unviewable now. I cannot understand how far it has fallen since last year - it has characters and settings that are a gold-mine in terms of storyline and drama. It feels like nobody's heart is in this drama anymore, both behind and in front of the camera. Where is the character development? The touch of Victorian Dickensiana about some of the storyline denouements? It needs Phil Mitchell to come back and Kate to stay on, and that's just the start...."
Claire Hill, London
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2: Monarch Of The Glen
(12.80%)
"Once my favourite programme on television, this has been reduced to a soap opera. The initial cast have now all but left, and all that remains is inane daft characters with no discernable storyline. Where once there was charm and romance there is now just dross and repeated storylines just not done so well. A terrible disappointment."
Jill Cornell, Dublin
"For insulting the audience and treating us like we have the attention span of worms. For ruining a drama that was once great. Worst of all, for ruining what was fun to watch and turing it into cringe inducing torture. I never thought it would happen but I stopped caring and I stopped watching. Utter drivel."
Cliodhna, Sheffield
"Simply awful - why does the BBC persevere with this programme??"
Tiff, London
"Please please please put this car crash of a show out of its misery: even watching the last five minutes while waiting for the next programme to come on is unbearable. Exactly how many more long lost and totally unconvincing relatives are we expected to tolerate at Glen-the-mind-bogles?"
Clare, London
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1: Blackpool
(19.20%)
"Was good until the singing started, that made me stop watching."
Emma, Norfolk
"It certainly put my lights OUT...in the first episode."
R Davies, Wales
"Watched it until I realised I wasn't obliged to at all, just because I generally like what the lead actors do. Couldn't stand the singing stuff and wasn't impressed by the first episode either. Maybe it got better after that; I wouldn't know."
Anja, Belgium
"Concept went straight over my head, so wasn't compelled to watch."
CB, Wigton, Cumbria
"The kind of programme for people who are interested in tabloids, fast food and think Harry Potter is a literary classic. In other words it's second rate trash."
Jeanie
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