Jackie Corkhill (Sue Jenkins) to quit Brookside!
Lee Jackson
Corkhill will not be renewing her contract when it runs out! I agree with
the People that it will be a big blow for the producers and possibly the
ratings because as recently discussed in this newsgroup the older characters
are the best!!!
Marion Watts
"Lee Jackson" <jjys...@cableinet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Well, TPTB should have realised this last year when she was handed that dire
lesbian storyline. They haven't exactly treated many of the older characters
with any sort of respect - Mickey Starke was turned into a bitter couch
potato, carrying on a pointless feud with Ron Dixon, Karen Drury's Susannah
was turned into a suburban slut, Louis Emerick's Mick into a stereotypical
cross between a black stud and stepinfetchit and Sue Jenkins into a
screaming shrew.
I wonder if Vince Earl is planning on renewing his contract.
Lisa Hart
Susannah did turn ridiculous, I'm sure I read somewhere they were planning
for her to have an affair with Marty Murray before her demise. Thankfully
they didn't go through with it.
"Marion Watts" <Marion...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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Mark
ANOTHER affair in Brookside. It's been done to death. Let's have a family
that doesn't fall apart for a change.
Hopefully that family will be the Murrays.
Mark
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Marion Watts
Susannah's 'killer' was revealed, Karen Drury gave an extensive interview in
the Sunday Express.
At the time that her leaving was publically announced by MeTV, it was said
that it was by 'mutual consent', that the actress and the producers had
decided that Susannah's character had been taken as far as it could go
believeably. This was the line used when Mickey Starke's departure was
announced and also Louis Emerick's. The actors, like Drury, made the
requisite remarks about 'wanting to do other things, like theatre work etc'.
Then Drury, like Starke did (and presumably like Emerick and Jenkins will
BEGIN to do in the next few months) started talking about the REAL reasons
for her departure. In this interview, Drury said that she had always thought
that Max and Susannah were one of the ideal soap couples that worked well
together - on the same sort of level as Jack and Vera or Ken and Deirdre.
When it was announced to the cast that Stephen Pinder was returning as Max
Farnham in 1999, it was implied to Drury that Max and Susannah were set to
get together again as a couple.
Drury said she was really looking forward to this, although she enjoyed her
year as a femme fatale, having an affair with Greg Shadwick, she felt
Susannah worked best on all levels with Max. However, Drury said, that by
the end of 1999, the producer then told her he had decided that there was
nothing left in a Max and Susannah situation and that Susannah would be
having an affair, falling in love with and marrying Mick Johnson and they
would be established as a couple. When she heard that Max and Susannah were
no more, Drury said that she didn't much care about Brookside after that and
started thinking about perhaps leaving.
By the time they had started filming her first scenes with Mick, she was
then told that they wanted to pursue the brief scenes she had had earlier in
the year with Dr Darren and that - in the midst of her engagement to Mick -
she would have a brief and passionate fling with Darren. The marriage to
Mick would go ahead and, around August of 2000, there was planned a
plotline, along the lines of that re Shadwick, where Susannah would seek a
bit of rough with Marty Murray, who would be much put upon by the
sex-upon-demand-for-procreative-purposes of his wife.
Drury said at that point, she drew the line and confronted the producer,
asking if this were the only way of furthering the development of her
character, but having her literally sleep her way around the Close. When the
producer said that was the only way he saw Susannah developing further, she
asked to leave. She actually said she talked the situation over at the time
with Mickey Starke before confronting PM and Starke encouraged her to leave.
She also said that TPTB decided to kill her character off because they
hadn't had a mysterious death on Brookside for some years and also, they
were anxious to up the ratings, as Channel 4 had told MeTV that - after the
good showing in improving viewing figures that year - they expected the
ratings to reach Jordache level in 2001, which they aren't at the moment.
Mickey Starke's leaving interview was in The Times, where he intimated that
the rigorous schedule of filming, re-filming and re-filming again in 1999
was his reason for leaving. He also said that after the Jordache saga, which
really 'made' Sinbad as a character, there was enormous potential for
developing the character of Sinbad even further, but he felt that the show
literally had hung his character out to dry. In hindsight, he said that he
should have left the show when Sandra Maitland left.
It will be interesting to hear what Sue Jenkins and Louis Emerick say in the
coming months. Mick's character has been made almost as ridiculous as
Susannah's.
"Lisa Hart" <lol...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Marion Watts
Robert Hampton
> "Lisa Hart" <lol...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Out of curiousty was Karen Drury's contract terminated or did she quit?
> [snip long explanation]
So your answer would be "yes, she quit" ? :-)
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