I'm a TV snob. It wasn't always this way. It never is. I think TV snobbery is born out of the insecurity you feel when you realise just how terrible some of the TV used to love. Woz Slobbery is a parent of the shame. You feel that you were so easily entertained and amused and you wouldn't know a sophisticated storyline storyline. It became a longing, screamed succession at you. But there's such comfort there for so many in the world of soaps long to write it and dismissed as the melodramatic punch line to the daily TV schedule. But it's where he used to start. When you used to watch TV with your parents, you'd see them enraptured by these tales of terrible on great relationships falling apart, coming together in the midst of a community filled with all manner of familiar characters. One of the most famous faces from EastEnders, June Brown, played scandalmonger dot cotton for 35 years, and she passed away yesterday, 35 years playing the same character with a slice of comment in the middle of that, to try other things. She was a classically trained in her skills, were rewarded with the never before or ever seen since character monologue that lasted an entire episode. Dear Keith, I drank, I smoked. I acted. I earned. I partied. I played. I mourned. I wept. I danced. I gossiped a garnet. I lost. I won. I played and smiled and laughed and left. Dear Joon, you somehow avoided the cliche, familiarity, breeding contempt, Which is remarkable considering how many decades you played the same character. We can week out with hundreds of different writers and directors and other actors making up the scaffolding of your career around you. You gave comfort, and you gave what you had reminded some of us to cheque our snobbishness at the door.

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