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
si signs about a looming recession in the united states. we ll crunch the numbers. first, let s say it. nay to the naysayers. the skeptics and cynics that said the january 6th hearings wouldn t matter. turns out they were. reporter: very wrong. the media personalities that said nobody would watch and care have seen otherwise. let s be honest. there was a bit of this prognosis, some people thought the summertime hearings would fizzle out over time but they actually picked up steam as june turned to july. tv ratings stayed strong throughout the series. it s weird to say it s a series but it was a summer series of television and urn turned out t one of the highest rated shows of the summer. despite the maga people that said nobody was watching, it reached tens of millions of people. as an attention exercise, it gained a lot of attention. as a fact 2350finding effort, i brought a lot of new facts. as a political expert, i ll save that. tucker charleston called the shameful ot
[laughter] [drum roll] jesse: for years, the late night stopover has been a presidential staple. republican, democrat, doesn t matter. because comedy is bipartisan where it s supposed to be: you can jimmy fallon play a round with trump on one show and slow jamming the news with barack obama on the other. there will be no third term. i can t stay forever. besides, daddy has got a hawaiian vacation booked in about 232 days. but who is counting? if comedy isn t your thing, don t worry. we have a couple of presidents who know how to drop a wicked baseline. it wasn t just the smooth stylings of slick willie or richard nixon that made these presidential cameos part of tv history. it was the fact that they made themselves the butt of the joke. oh no, i don t think we could get dick nixon to stand still for a sock it to me. sock it to me? jesse: nixon isn t the only one with a sense of humor. george bush had a good laugh when giving us the top ten things he wanted
The Israel Defense forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no Running Water or proper sanitation. Israel says that since monday, about 300 thousand palestinians have already fled rafah. The us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city and today the un says a full scale offensive cannot take place. In the north there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. It says hamas fighters are regrouping there. Meanwhile a top eu official, charles michel, has condemned israels evacuation orders, saying people are being directed towards unsafe areas. From jerusalem, paul adams reports. One by one, the people of rafah are leaving. Outlying parts of the city now all but deserted. I wasnt planning on going, hassan says, but since no one is left here, i decided to leave. I have to find out where my wife and daughter are. The un says 300,000 people
Live from london. This is bbc news live from london. Israel continues to issue Mass Evacuation orders to palestinians as airstrikes on the gaza strip rage on. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office is investigating a hamas claim that british israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell has been killed in gaza it is switzerland cheering after one of the most controversial Eurovision Song Contests, switzerland are crowned this years winners. Emergency teams step up Relief Efforts to those hit hard by devastating flash floods in Northern Afghanistan. The un says more than 300 people have died. This is the scene live in barcelona, where people are voting in regional elections. The un says more than 300 people have died. This is the scene live in barcelona, where people are voting in regional elections. Israel has continued its airstrikes on several parts of the gaza strip even as it continues issuing controversial Evacuation Orders to palestinians. The Israeli Military said its troops had found many tunnels us