How do you write someone out of a soap?

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Emmerdale: How do you write someone out of a soap?

So how do you make sense of someone's sudden disappearance?She doesn't want to be named, because of the sensitive nature of the topic.Any scenes being filmed in the coming weeks are always the priority.

Unfortunately for the story team, there aren't any easy"one-size-fits-all excuses" for the sudden departure of a character. "It has to make sense and be in line with their character, you want to make it as satisfying as possible for the audience to watch."Kim Medcalf as Sam Mitchell won a National TV Award in 2002 for most popular newcomer

 

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Who cares, the writing on soaps is shite anyway

Just replace him ? They have done that on neighbours with Libby. The actor was replaced for a few months then can back lol classic soap

Doubt emmerdale watchers have the intelligence to notice

Imagine threatening some one with a knife.. imagine threatening to kill some one... then acting like it was out of character... and wondering why you got fired.... young people....

How do you write spmeone out of a soap USE RINSE AID

I think at is it pertains to Emmerdale this won’t be as difficult since he was fairly new to the show and is not a legacy character and his character Mum has just left the show. I think it just sad when you get a chance like this and you blow it over nothing.

They simply go off to get a spanner like Benny in crossroads and are never seen again. What a dilemma!!

Fatal accident!

He could go running in connection with his keep fit business and not stop like Forrest Gump.

The family moves with Jessie's ex? He goes off with his dad? Just a suggestion going by the storyline at the moment

He’s run off to join ISIS.

A large sheep ate him?! Or he went into a hospital because of stress caused by Brexit ? (or better still..... both!)

Out of sight.. out of mind.

Just cancel it

He's been offered the title role in 'Muhammad Ali - the Movie' by a Mysterious Hollywood Producer (Hairy Weidenstein). Sets off on the morning flight from Leeds Airport. There is a sudden outbreak of fog. The plane crashes. On Doug's 'potting' -shed...

And he died.

You leave them off the script...

Air rash did it for them last time

Knifed in the middle of the night.... same as he threatened the other fella. Karma

Bus crash Helicopter crash Motorway pileup Aeroplane crash Factory fire Virulent strain of syphilis

Say he went out for a night on the lash threatened to knife somebody and got locked up for it

Send him off with his mother, simples.

Quickly.

Or send them upstairs it works for child actors

Have him come out of the shower and everyone will talk to him as if nothing has changed

Perhaps he could be put in prison for stabbing someone

Sad for Marlon

It's make beleive we don't care.

Well done to the people who produce Emmerdale for getting rid of him. I no longer watch this soap but i do watch the Classic Emmerdale on ITV 3 which is great..

With a MacBook Pro in dark mode.

Tell them the bubble has popped?

Killed being attacked by a thug with a knife. That's how.

Send him to Dubai

Search and replace. Easy.

Write the truth ?

They go in the shower and come out a different person

Life sentence in Iran or similar

You’re sacked easy as that.

In his case, say he's gone down for stabbing someone. It's apparently what the actor likes to threaten.

A brief skirmish that goes horribly wrong?

Stop caring?

He’s shacked up with the Dingles

Take his on screen mother with him

They come clean over this issue

I actually have a good storyline where the character doesn't even have to appear on the show, ever again!

Easily!! Their character is killed off or something? thetimes

Sudden death it happens

Val could walk out of the shower and it has all been a dream.....BRING BACK VAL! 😁

Use reality. Accidents happen every day. We lose friends & loved ones to something like a stroke or heart attack, even when they appear too young ... too healthy.

Quite easily

I think emmerdale writers are clever enough to work that out, if not ask top gear.

Simple, make a short announcement before show that the scumbag thug late actor has been sacked

Maybe, he gets ostracised for threatening behaviour? Failing that , Ebola, a plane crashing on him or Phil Mitchel bankrolls the Queen Vic launching a hostile takeover of the Woolpack and yer man is an unfortunate synergy .

In this case his character will probably go to Dubai with his mother and her ex husband, just a guess 🤔

Easy it aint real.

Replace him give them the same name just different face emmerdale

Death

Kill em

Easily.

Postcard from dubai, he's with Jessie. Simple bye bye emmerdale

Drone strike?

Well with his on screen mother about to leave I would say its easy, gone with mommy unknown to other cast?

They move to Kettering

Just wondering if the person in question had been white would the BBC be even bothering with said article. You know like when Leslie Grantham was sacked from EastEnders for exposing himself

The last time emmerdale did it (last year); they dealt with it in 30 seconds- a text to her mother saying that she had decided to stay in London! Never to be mentioned again.

The scriptwriters on 'The Itchy & Scratchy Show' did it remarkably well with the annoying dog known as 'Poochie'

As it's Emmerdale They will get Cain to murder him. With the Soapland Police clueless as usual.

Quickly in some cases .....

Just don’t mention them again. And subsequently deny they were ever in it. False memories etc... hey, this could be fun to try!

Write him straight on to coach trip or celebs go dating that’s where he will end up😂😂😂

Falling down an elevator shaft?

True, literally never been done before. It’s a thinker 🤔

Easy.... Just re-do the whole damn thing.

Soap Audiences have the attention span of a spaniel at the best of times They wont even know hes gone

“And with that...they were never seen again”

Go for a shower and completely disappear aka Bobby Ewing 😂 But don't bring this actor back 👍

Alien Abduction

The Eastenders way - black cab to Australia with one hold-all even though you haven’t got a pot to piss in.

You put them in Coronation Street or EastEnders , the place actors go to die

Sid said get remainers to wash, and it will soon wear off the soap, just passing on sid's opinion, don't bark me down

I would suggest very easily

Isn’t it time they had another plane crash ?

Stick missing posters up and have a rumour going around the village theres a wild beast roaming it. Queue some howling at night, closing of curtains. In a months time, case closed. Eaten by the beast.

Give it a good scrub until it all evaporates

Just ask the girl who was just suddenly written out in Emmerdale....perhaps he could join her .. oh wait...she used the N word...that wont work

Ridiculous major incident.

Maybe he can be written out as having joint a cult. A cult with a mantra of hate crime and violence. That would be a fitting send off for this idiot. Bye x

By cancelling all the shit shows

BBC, who gives a shit?

You're welcome.

Don't include them. Re-cast the part. Report their departure as a result of an off-screen incident.

pen and paper I'd say

You write them out,usually with a pen but more than likely a keyboard.

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