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Daily Mirror
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Ian Hyland

The British Soap Awards has 'little to interest the casual viewer these days'

Things were going so well at The British Soap Awards – until Anita Dobson turned up and proceeded to do the soap version of saying the name of the Scottish play: She mentioned viewing figures.

As Anita introduced Letitia Dean’s long overdue Outstanding Achievement Award, I’m sure she thought it would be fine to boast about Sharongate’s 23.5 million viewers

Unfortunately, even on a good week our current No1, Coronation Street, struggles to attract a quarter of that.

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