As Minty discovers the truth in Eastenders, so does Ste in Hollyoaks, and viewers will find themselves sitting on the edges of their comfy sofas when these juicy episodes rear their dramatic heads next week.

Over the last few months, we have all seen slimy couple Abi and Daniel planning to prove struggling single Dad Ste is an unfit father so they can steal baby Lucas for adoption to another couple. Over the last month, the couple have successfully befriended Ste and he is now living under their roof, and been unknowingly drugged daily so he becomes less and less able as a father.

In the beginning of the week, a softening Abi kissed Ste and after boyfriend Daniel found out, the atmosphere and evilness has been stepped up a notch. Next week, viewers will see Ste finding out the truth about his housemates. After leaving baby Lucas with the pair, he bumps into Natty who tells him the truth about them, and when he rushes home, Lucas, Abi and Daniel are gone. Ste rushes around the streets and finds them leaving Hollyoaks.

After a confrontation, Abi’s heart shines through and she hands over Lucas to his Dad and leaves Daniel fuming… but things get worse for evil Daniel as he is arrested minutes later for child abduction! Will Abi and Ste now make a go of it as a family, or was she just after Lucas after all?

Over on Albert Square in Eastenders, Minty has a confrontation with Phil after they are handcuffed together by Garry who is adamant for them to sort their differences. After much taunting, Phil snaps and tells Minty that Dawn actually chose him and only stayed with Garry because he turned her down. Will angry and torn Minty tell his best friend this news before he walks down the aisle?

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Casualty is a popular medical drama that has been airing on BBC 1 since 1986 and has recently been acclaimed as the longest running medical drama series in the world and also came second as the longest running medical soap next to American soap phenomenon General Hospital.

Casualty is a drama that revolves around the lives and stories of the patients, doctors and nurses who work and visit the emergency room of the fictional Holby City Hospital in the fictional city of Holby.

Although fictional, Casualty has always been filmed in the UK city of Bristol, and viewers will often see visible Bristol landmarks in the background of certain shots. It was announced in 2008, however, that a new set was being built in Cardiff, Wales.

As well as boasting a history of long standing and beloved characters, in 1999, a ‘spin off’ show named ‘Holby City’ was launched onto BBC 1.
A show surrounding the other sections of the hospital, new spin off show Holby City (often referred to as just Holby) covers stories on different wards, leaving Casualty to air the stories of the A & E department.

Most of the time, characters of each show are kept separate, but occasionally characters do appear in different shows, and characters are, naturally, mentioned when referring to certain parts of the hospital.

Casualty has been nominated for many awards in its long existence and has won three BAFTA awards, two Royal Television Society awards and was voted the best loved TV drama by TV Quick Magazine and readers.

Casualty will be back on screens from 12th September, 2009 when it returns from a 6 week hiatus.

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Holby City is a popular UK hospital drama that has been running on BBC 1 for over ten years.

A dramatic medical fuelled soap opera, Holby City is a spin off show from the critically acclaimed emergency room drama Casualty and is set in the same fictional hospital – Holby City Hospital.

It was said in 1998 that viewers and fans were anxious to see the goings on and drama of other wards (beside the A&E ward in Casualty) in Holby City Hospital, and that was when creators Mal Young and Tony McHale put their creative heads together and created Holby City, a now BAFTA winning television success.

Holby City follows the lives of the staff at Holby City hospital and the patients that find themselves in need of their help. Although the doctors, nurses and surgeons alike are all played by regular actors, the patients are played by guest actors – some of which are already household names, such as radio and television personality Eric Sykes, comedian Phill Jupitus and Blue pop star, Lee Ryan.

Holby is set in the fictional county of Wyvern, which if real, would actually replace Bristol – which is where sister show Casualty was filmed up until recently – on the UK map. Although strong references to next door neighbour, Wales, are mentioned in the show, Holby City is actually filmed in Hertfordshire, in Elstree Studios – the same studio in which UK soap opera Eastenders is filmed.

Although the shows are closely linked, Casualty and Holby City rarely interlink their characters, although, on occasion this has been shown.

Mal Young, creator of Holby City explained that he wanted to show fans of Casualty where the patients end up after being examined in A&E and he has certainly achieved it with the award winning Holby City.

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All in soap land have been awaiting the wedding day of Steve and Becky in Coronation Street, and so far, it seems the two love birds have managed to arrange their wedding and attend hen and stag parties without so much as a prick of drama, but fans are still waiting with baited breath for the wedding day that will air on ITV 1 this Friday at 7.30pm.

Friday’s episode will kick off with best man Lloyd helping happy but hung over groom Steve prepare for the day by straightening his bow tie, brushing out the creases and offering words of encouragement, and a smiley Steve looks forward to the big day ahead where he will tie the knot with the gorgeous Becky. Meanwhile, an excited Becky gets fussed over by Hayley and Natasha who help her into her dress as they all chat excitedly about the wedding.

The wedding day itself gets off to a fantastic start as Steve’s mother and brother turn up followed shortly by Jim, and the pair are ecstatic with how the day is panning out. Like a fairytale, the pair say their vows, kiss and leave as man and wife as guests look on beaming with smiles and tears – However, the wedding reception isn’t quite so perfect. When the happy couple and hoards of guests turn up to the pub for drinking and dancing, everyone is shocked to see the pub on lock down as police search it for drugs. Horrified, realisation sets in and Becky realises this is revenge – courtesy of ex boyfriend and drug dealer Slug and his friend, dodgy policeman, Hooch.

In true soap form, the wedding reception isn’t taken elsewhere for a fantastic night of celebration… things get increasingly worse and Becky’s in the middle of it all. Fans won’t want to miss a second of Coronation Street this month!

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The Gossip on the Eastenders grapevine is that Ronnie and ex Joel re-kindle their romance but Joel’s hiding a big secret, Charlie gets knocked down and Ricky wangles himself a date with a very unlikely lady.

Later in the week, viewers of Eastenders will see the inevitable happen – Ronnie and Joel kiss and make their way back to Ronnie’s bedroom, but as Joel nips to the loo, Ronnie does a bit of digging and looks through his wallet where she finds a photograph – of Joel, his wife and children. Unfortunately, this doesn’t put Ronnie off and when he returns from the toilet, the pair continue kissing on the bed. Having seen the pair depart into Ronnie’s room, Roxy is fuming and cannot believe her sister is thinking about dating Joel again.

After the successful speed dating night, Ricky is keen to know how many women selected him for a date but when Dawn tells him his card and a number of others were accidently thrown away, Ricky is desperate and rifles through the bins searching for it and eventually finds it. As Ricky studies the card, he realises the name is smudged, but after close examination, he presumes it’s Ronnie, but after Ronnie makes it very clear she isn’t the culprit, Ricky discovers it’s her sister – Roxy. Later on, Ricky announces to a very jealous looking Bianca that he has a date with Roxy Mitchell.

Towards the end of the week, fans will see a distraught Charlie bidding farewell to his girlfriend Brenda, who is emigrating. As she hops onto a bus, Charlie leaps in front of it to stop her going but is run down and Mo is there to help him as he clutches his chest.

Next week is certainly an eventful week in Albert Square and fans can catch the soap action on most week day evenings on BBC 1.

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Waterloo Road has been at the centre of some interesting gossip this August, with beloved characters rumoured to be leaving and new actors arriving as the 5th season is close to being finished.

Season 4 of Waterloo Road ended just months ago in May, and fans were sad to bid farewell to Adam Thomas who played Donte and Neil Morrissey who portrayed Eddie Lawson.
Rumour has it that the 5th season is almost finished and producers are going to leap straight into filming the 6th series as soon as the 5th is wrapped. The 5th series is currently extremely anticipated and will include a number of famous faces such as soap star Jenna-Louise Coleman (Emmerdale) and Holby City star Tom Chambers, which fans are really excited about.

Viewers were worried that Waterloo Road wouldn’t see another season months ago, but now producers are saying they will begin filming for series 6 almost days after finishing the previous series in the New Year. Fans are being told to look out for the brand new Waterloo Road season in September, although this hasn’t been confirmed. Something that was confirmed, however, is that Denise Welch who plays Waterloo Road’s French teacher Steph Haydock had quit the show.

It will come as a blow to fans as Steph Haydock is certainly a celebrated character. Denise was vague with her reasons, but insists it was nothing negative. Denise says she is quitting the show in order to spend more time with her friends and family, as well as the lunch time chat show she stars in, Loose Women.

Waterloo Road fans can certainly look forward to new faces, new seasons and new storylines and the best UK Soap action in 2009.

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UK Soap land is brimming with gossip, scandal, secrets and pay offs this month and it is set to be one of the hottest soap summers yet!

Eastenders fans have recently seen the return of Ronnie’s ex-boyfriend Joel. He stumbled on to the ‘square after Janine contacted him for a pretend meeting and has been seeing Ronnie ever since. In the next few weeks, viewers will be horrified to see Archie attempt to pay Joel off. Joel will, at first, be extremely taken aback, but when Archie tells him he knows about his wife and children, Joel grabs the money, gets in his car and drives off which will leave poor Ronnie wondering where her old flame has gone. Meanwhile, Roxy and Ricky go on a date, Charlie returns from hospital and reveals he will be leaving, Denise does everything she can to stop Libby seeing her Nan, and Bianca becomes jealous of ex Ricky’s date.

Over at Coronation Street, Tony and Maria share a kiss and end up sleeping together. Almost in the clear, the pair share a romantic morning together, quickly shattered when Michelle unknowingly walks in and catches them in the act. On a happier note, Becky wins the honeymoon of a lifetime competition and Steve’s stag night gets off to a drunk start, when Ashley downs more beers than he should to drown his sorrows of not going through with the vasectomy.

Unlikely couplings get it together in Hollyoaks in the next few weeks. Whilst Abi and Daniel argue over Ste’s baby Lucas, Abi starts to feel remorse for drugging Ste and throws the pills away. But when Ste comes home to find Abi crying, he takes her out to cheer her up and the pair end up kissing! Could it be real love, or does Abi just want to be in Lucas’ life, whatever it takes?

It’s going to be a hot and dramatic summer for the UK soaps!

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UK soap Holby City is a sea of sad, comical and eye opening story lines in the next fortnight so fans should prepare themselves for tears of laughter and sadness – tissues at the ready!

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Next Tuesday’s episode will see Elliot and Tara preparing for their brave decision to perform a brave and experimental heart operation.
The pair are clearly excited and anxious, but shockingly, Elliot has second thoughts and loses his bottle and backs out.
Tara is horrified as she doesn’t want to go it alone, but Joseph tells her that he will step in. As the pair are preparing, Elliot has a change of heart and realises he will live to regret changing his mind and assures Tara he will be there to perform the surgery with her.

Over the last few weeks, Holby City fans have seen Donna remain truly optimistic regarding her father’s recent cancer diagnosis.
Last week, Ric performed a complicated and controversial operation that could potentially save his life, but next week, Donna’s father is still unconscious.
Attempting to take her mind off the fact that her Dad may never come around, Donna embarks on a non stop shift of work, but after test results make her realise the reality of the situation, it seems her father is not responding at all. Donna then makes the heart wrenching decision to turn off her father’s life support machine which ends in a painful and tearful goodbye.

Holby City character Oliver has had his fair share of drama but fans will be giggling at their screens next week when he accidently sends a rude email to Chrissie.
To apologise, he takes her for a drink and after a few drinks and laughing fits, the pair shockingly kiss and set off to Oliver’s! Could this be romance for the unlikely pair?

With a hoard of touching story lines covered by UK soap Holby City, it’s no wonder this BAFTA award winning soap just keeps getting bigger and better.

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‘Doctors’ is an English soap which is based on the fictional staff of the Mill Health Centre and Leather-bridge Universities Campus Surgery. The ‘Doctors’ soap was first shown on television in the year 2000 and is based on the lives and loves of the doctors involved.

The Doctors soap is currently aired on BBC 1 at 1.45pm and is also shown on a selection of other channels as repeats. Lately, because of the tennis at Wimbledon and the Ascot horserace meeting, Doctors was put on hold, but the soap is now back and shown at the same time every day from Monday to Friday and has approximately 1.7 million viewers who tune in to watch the soap every episode, which is quite an achievement due to the time when the soap itself is shown.

The most recent episodes of the soap ‘Doctors’ has seen infidelity taking place along with a dead body found in a car, fighting and then a dead body disappearing which is quite a lot of happenings in just one area, but also makes for great television viewing.

During the time Doctors has been shown on television there have been many soap star actors and soap star actresses that have joined and left, as well as the writers of the show and even though many characters who viewers have become attached to have either left or been written off there has always been another who has taken their place and done the job greatly.

They have also been many guest appearances from fellow soap actors and actresses, with the most recent being Tom Watt who used to play Curly Watts in the soap East-Enders, alongside Sue Jenkins who was once a regular in another UK soap called Brookside. You can also see these soap star actors and soap star actresses when you play soap bingo!

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