"Network TV shows might be better off if they started with the second episode, or the third. The best TV shows (most of them on cable) launch themselves into what seems like the middle of a story. People have been watching TV nonstop for 60 years; surely we’ve learned how to figure our way around a basic premise and a set of characters by now. Why drag us through the unnecessary clumsiness of a beginning, an origin story?"
EASTENDERS actress Shona McGarty "really learned my lesson" after suspension
The actress, who plays Whitney Dean in the BBC soap, was suspended without pay in July for repeated lateness. McGarty said that her co-star Patsy Palmer helped her get through her time away from the soap.