now on bbc news, let s watch the media show. hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed good neighbours and the sun went down on ramsay street after 37 years. but cast your minds back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watts divorce papers after she d lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? what s their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? i m joined
for sir salman rushdie, authors have been gathering in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was seriously injured in a knife attack. hundreds of writers gathered at the city s public library to read his works and pay tribute. and now on bbc news, it s the media show. hello. in march this year, the bbc gave one of its biggest soaps, holby city, a do not resuscitate order after 23 years. injuly, channel 5 decided we no longer needed good neighbours and the sun went down on ramsay street after 37 years. but cast your mind back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watt s divorce papers after she d lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million pe
today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? what s their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? i m joined by sir phil redmond, creator of three of the biggest british soaps of all time grange hill, brookside and hollyoa ks. daniel kilkenny is soaps editor for entertainment news website digital spy. tv critic and soap fan emma bullimore is here, and charles collingwood, who s been farming, flirting and digging into his wife s venison pie for a whopping 47 years as brian in the archers. welcome to you all and thanks for coming on the show. phil, if we start with you, all the big soaps eastenders, coronation street, emmerdale have seen huge drops in audience numbers in recent years. you ve criticised soaps for not tackling big social issues like they used to. do you think it s the end of t
About again next week. There was some great colour in the Times Newspaper this morning, explaining what hes been up to dunng explaining what hes been up to during his downtime , so im not during his downtime, so im not going to reveal it just yet. Yeah, we get a little bit of insight into what hes been doing. Very, very interesting. Very, very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. At home. Excuse me , but at home. Excuse me, but please do get in touch with us. We want to hear from you , we want to hear from you, anything you want to get in touch with us about all of our topics today. Send your views and post your comments. Visiting gbnews. Com yoursay thats how you can get in touch. Yes, and ill be on there in a second. Do you like to go on there during your shows . I do, sometimes i comment back so let us know what you think of the show. Yeah. Great stuff. All right, before we do anything else, heres your news with tatiana. Ben, thank you very much. And good morning. The top stories first to some
Than 100 years. He is the sky diver who has broken a world record byjumping out of a plane at the age of 101. And matt has the weather. Good morning. Certainly not whether for skydiving. It is a wet start to the week for many of you but i will see if i can find some sunshine in the forecast to get you through the next few days. All the details coming up inis next few days. All the details coming up in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story there is a warning of fresh disruption from the global cyber attack this morning, when workers switch on their computers for the first time at the start of the working week. Microsoft has described the attack, which began on friday, as a wake up call, and criticised customers who didnt keep their systems up to date. Lets take a look at where things stand this morning. It is thought there are more than 200,000 victims of fridays cyber attack, but that figure may rise as people return to work this morning. Organisations in 150 countries were t