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• Sammies 2013

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 26/01/2013 14:28:37 by Rodge
  No return for the Sammies this year?

• thanks vicky

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 05/02/2012 13:51:27 by phoebe
  Thanks for doing this Vicky great fun - nice to look over the last year
  

• Here are the results of The Sammy Awards

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 02/02/2012 16:46:18 by Vicky
  Thank you everyone who took part in our Sammy Awards this year, hope you enjoyed casting your votes and having the opportunity to comment on last year’s storylines. Judging by the number of views, our votes and the diverse and amusing observations, are a popular read so I hope the results will be interesting too - it’s certainly the first time that the slurry pit has made it into The Sammys! Here are the results and a round-up of some our comments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  
  Best Storyline: The E-coli Outbreak
  
  Worst Storyline: Nigel’s Death
  
  Who Tugged On Your Heartstrings: A three-way tie - Pat, Elizabeth and Clarrie
  
  Who Made You Laugh Out Loud: Susan
  
  Who Made You Hiss: Helen
  
  Who Made You Purr: Jim
  
  Who Irritated You: Leonie and James
  
  Who Had A Character Make-over: Pat
  
  Most Promising Newcomer: Tracy
  
  Best Couple: Susan and Neil
  
  SAMMY SNIPPETS
  
  NIGEL:Too much publicity beforehand…Absolutely the wrong way to go…Too melodramatic…I felt exploited by the writers…Loved the scream! PAT: Went to pieces over Rich…Unable to cope with crises when she’s always been so good in the past…Understood why she just needed to know…Turned into a neurotic. RICH: A beacon of light that John lives on in his son…Has such potential…An awful feeling it will go on and on…Why would anybody call someone called John, Rich!
  
  DEBBIE: Has developed Machiavellian tendencies. SUSAN Always good for a laugh. BERT: Tracy will cause him trouble. LILIAN: One of the most likeable characters in Ambridge…Always makes me smile. ELIZABETH: Her grief was heartbreaking. WILL: Seems to have been restored to his former affable self. HELEN: I’m such a marvellous mother…Why couldn’t she fall off the roof! HENRY: What dreadful and peculiar noises he makes.
  
  TRACY: Plenty of potential…There is trouble ahead..Rather conniving and scheming…Watch your back Bert! MATT: Has all the traits I least like…Love his voice. CLARRIE: A sausage has ruined my life!…Still don’t believe Clarrie was guilty. ELONA: Not convinced she is not up to something sinister. JAZZER: Singing ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’…Fabulous.
  
  SUSAN AND NEIL: Seem real and are also funny…Sound just like a married couple. LEONIE AND JAMES: They’ll irritate the whole of Ambridge…Not characters I can warm to…They get on my nerves! CHRIS AND ALICE: They’ve supported each other…Putting snooty Jennifer’s nose out of joint. NIC AND WILL: Always so happy and contented…They wind-up ever-jealous Emma.
  CHRISTINE AND JIM: Their budding friendship has made pleasant listening…A women not his intellectual equal, but he hasn’t noticed…there’s no bit of love like geriatric love.
  
  BRIDGE FARM: Gets e-coli, then handles it in the most appallingly terrible way. THE SLURRY: They hadn’t realised the tank might need attention one day! THE MEGA DAIRY HERD: Those poor cows starved of fresh air, grass and the great outdoors.
  
  SAMMY SUNDRIES
  
  MOST MISSED: Fallon - has no plotlines.
  What’s happened to Harry?
  WHO NEEDS TO LEAVE AMBRIDGE AND FIND A LIFE?: Also Fallon!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Glad to see it back

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/01/2012 19:29:40 by Rodge
  I know there was some doubt if the Sammys would return this year, so I for one am glad to see they are back. I think I have most of my votes sorted, but another 'memory jogger' would be helpful for tightening it up. Also, are we allowed to include Ambridge Extra?

• The Sammy Awards - Votes Please

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/01/2012 17:29:02 by Vicky
  Hi everyone and Happy New Year. As another year of storylines passes into the Ambridge archives, I’d like to invite you to take an indulgent look back and vote in our Sammy Awards. Named in honour of Peggy’s cat - and not to be taken too seriously - the Sammys are a unique opportunity to have your say on the year’s events and characters.
  
  If you fancy joining in, please post in the ‘The Sammy Awards - Votes Please’ thread in The Sammys section on the Forum (you’ll see new votes by checking the number of messages alongside this heading on the Forum’s first page). If you can’t decide on an outright winner you can have several votes, or miss a category entirely. If you’d like to give a Sammy to particular actors or writers please do, and feel free to make comments - they are always so entertaining!
  
  2011 was quite a year for couples: Alice and Chris adapting to married life, Kenton moving in with Jolene, the surprise liaison of Leonie and James, Pip and Spencer’s budding romance and the growing friendship of Christine and Jim - not to mention the ups and downs of other Ambridge twosomes - so this year I’ve made the extra category Best Couple.
  
  You have all of January to vote and I’ll post the results in February. Have fun!
  
  Here are the categories
  
  Best Storyline
  Worst Storyline
  Who Tugged on Your Heartstrings
  Who Made You Laugh Out Loud
  Who Made You Hiss
  Who Made You Purr
  Who Irritated You
  Who Had A Character Make-Over
  Most Promising Newcomer
  Best Couple
  
  

• The Sammy Awards Results

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 02/02/2011 14:02:27 by Vicky
  Thanks everyone who voted in the Sammy Awards. It's been a turbulent time for the programme and it would seem that the events of the sixtieth anniversary have overshadowed our voting, resulting in not as many participants this year. Some regular posters from the old AA board have disappeared too, which has also hit the Sammys. It could also be that after ten years, the Sammys may have become stale. If this is the case, I won’t mind if people wish this year’s to be the last. When I first had the idea of the Sammys, I never thought they would last this long. It’s been great fun doing them, so thank you to everyone who has joined in over the years.
  
  Fifteen people have voted this year and their votes can be seen on the Sammys category on this board and the Sammys section on Saddicts website. Here are the results with a few of the interesting and entertaining comments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  
  Best Storyline: Alice and Christopher’s surprise wedding
  
  Worst Storyline: Helen’s donor pregnancy
  
  Who Tugged On Your Heartstrings: Jill losing Phil
  
  Who Made You Laugh Out Loud: Jennifer and Susan’s exchanges
  
  Who Made You Hiss: Kate
  
  Who Made You Purr: A tie between Nic and Peggy
  
  Who Irritated You: Helen
  
  Most Promising Newcomer: Harry
  
  Who Had A Character Make-over: Kathy
  
  Your Favourite Characters(s) From The Last Sixty Years: Dan and Doris (There were lots of favourites, from the past through to the present, but the combined votes for these two made them apt winners)
  
  SAMMY SNIPPETS
  
  Alice and Christopher: How else would we have had the comic relief of Jennifer being related to a Horrobin; Aldridge snobbery at its absolute best. Jennifer and Susan: Some classic lines delivered in their own inimitable style
  
  Phil’s death: Very well written; a fitting tribute to the Archers longest-serving actor; most moving storyline of the year; a sensitive portrayal in the light of a real-life sadness; I cried with Jill.
  
  Sid’s death: The excellent ripple effect it created; the fall-out will continue for a while yet; Character makeover - Sid, after he died! Jolene: Convincing and touching; Kathy: She over-reacted; she’s become irrational and whiny; she deserves to be alone. Kathy and Jamie: Too prolonged - began to dread this storyline.
  
  Helen’s pregnancy: Too easy and too quick; total implausibility combined with unpleasant listening; her sudden maternal yearning was unbelievable; she was awful to Tony.
  
  Kate: What a prize cow she is; hope she doesn’t return; maliciously plotting. Pip and Jude: Their relationship was dragged out far too long. Fallon: She is such a drip, she used to be feisty with ambition; Nic: A real asset to the Grundy family; she stood up to Will. Joe: Sacked from the village shop, then made a judge of the flower show - inconsistent writing!
  
  Jazzer: His turn of phrase is fabulous; I love his observations in relation to Harry. Vicky: Why wouldn’t Mike stand up to her? Brian: His one-liners floor me every time. Harry: Seems thoroughly pleasant; the angelic milkman who can do no wrong, I’m waiting for the day he turns psycho; is he good or evil? Patrick:Bland and boring. Kenton: A good father figure for the twins. Peggy: For telling Jennifer off for her snobbery; putting Kate straight! Ruairi: his ridiculous Irish robot voice.
  
  Village Shop: Very relevant to village life; the pain of doing things by committee. Livestock Market: A real rooted business story.
  
  Last Sixty Years: Doris, the one and only; Nelson: loved his sardonic observations; the lynch pins - Dan and Doris and Jill and Phil; The Archers will always be Walter Gabriel; Love them all!
  
  SAMMY SPECIAL
  
  Patricia Greene and Buffy Davis for their portrayal of Jill and Jolene’s grief
  
  SAMMY SUNDRIES
  
  Line of the Year: "Good grief, Brian, I’m related to a Horrobin!"
  Favourite from Sixty Years - the Sunday morning monologue
  Character to disappear: Helen
  Character to hear more of: Nigel!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• The Sammys

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/02/2011 12:26:13 by Vicky
  Voting is now over in the Sammys, thanks all who took part, I'll post the results soon.

• Voting closes in The Sammys on Monday!

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 28/01/2011 12:14:27 by Vicky
  Just a reminder to say voting closes in the Sammys on Monday 31st January - this is a gentle prod in case you've been too wrapped up in events at Lower Loxley - or just not got round to voting.
  
  New votes have just come in and it would be great to have a few more under the "Vote Here For The Sammys" thread in the Sammys Category.
  
  Vicky

• The Sammys

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 24/01/2011 19:28:12 by Vicky
  Just one week remaining everyone.

• The Sammy Awards...

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 11/01/2011 12:23:14 by Vicky
  Can I just suggest that, if anyone does want to join in the voting, they put their votes under the Vote Here for The Sammy Awards heading? It's just that The Sammys Category will probably only allow twenty topics and if everyone votes separately it will mean we eventually lose The Sammy intro (with all the votes), the Sammy reminders and the Sammy ideas from the old board.
  
  I realise, by replying in the Vote Here thread there's no indication whether new votes have arrived, but at least we get to keep everyone's votes on show.
  
  

• Come on - Vote in The Sammy's 2010

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 10/01/2011 16:37:23 by osprey
  Come on!!
  Less of all the depressing posts.
  Please vote in the Sammy Awards and think about the storylines from last year!
  Not many have voted yet!
  
  Don't let Vicky down!

• My votes for The Sammy Awards

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 10/01/2011 16:29:55 by osprey
  Best storyline - Alice and Chris's surprise wedding. It provided some very funny lines from Jennifer, Susan, etc.
  Worst storyline - Kate coming back to go to university and unsettling Phoebe at the same time.
  Tugged on heartstrings - Jill when Phil died, and Jolene and Kathy when Sid died.
  Laugh out loud - Jennifer's "Good grief Brian, I'm related to a Horrobin!"
  Hiss - Kate.
  Purr - Peggy when she told Jennifer off about her snobbery. Nic helping with the turkeys and Clarrie's Christmas dinner.
  Most Irritating character - Will, Leon.
  Most promising newcomer - Harry Mason.
  Character make-over - Kate being concerned about Phoebe all of a sudden.
  Favourite characters from last 60 yrs - Walter, John and Carol Tregorran.
  Special awards should go to both Jill and Jolene for portraying their grief after the loss of their respective husbands.
  
  Many thanks for doing this again Vicky, and for all your hard work.
  
  osprey

• Sammy's 2011?

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 03/01/2011 17:15:33 by Floradora
  Early days, I know, but I have to nominate Nigel's blood curdling scream (although I'm not quite sure for what!) The Nigel Pargetter Memorial Oscar?

• Vote here for The Sammy Awards

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/01/2011 10:41:04 by Vicky
  
  Happy New Year everyone! It’s Sammy Award time - our annual fun poll on the storylines and characters that have kept us debating and speculating all year. Here is your chance to have your say on what has made you laugh out loud, moved you to tears or had you shouting at your radio.
  
  It would be brilliant if the first poll on our new board was a bumper one, so please join in and vote on ‘The Sammies’ forum. You don’t have to vote in every category and multiple choices are allowed if you can’t decide on an outright winner. If you would like to nominate your own Sammy for actors or writers, please do. And feel free to add any comments too.
  
  Voting is also taking place on Saddicts message board and the closing date is 31st January. I’ll post the results soon afterwards.
  
  Here are the usual categories plus one with a Diamond Jubilee theme:
  
  Best Storyline
  Worst Storyline
  Who Tugged On Your Heartstrings
  Who Made You Laugh Out Loud
  Who Made You Hiss
  Who Made You Purr
  Who Irritated You
  Most Promising Newcomer
  Who Had A Character Make-Over
  Your Favourite Character(s) From The Last Sixty Years
  
  See the thread below for some memory joggers for 2010.
  
  

• Sammy Memory Joggers for 2010

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/01/2011 10:39:08 by Vicky
  Here are some memory joggers for 2010, there are also ideas in the Sammy Nominations thread below.
  
  It was the end of an era when Ambridge mourned the loss of Phil. Sid’s death not only devastated those close to him, but cast doubt on the future of The Bull. Pip had her heart broken by Jude, Leon left Annette in the lurch - and a decision to make. Alice and Chris had a surprise Las Vegas wedding, Tom had marriage plans, but Brenda was intent on a career. Lilian became close to Paul, Kathy and Kenton split, and Helen resolved to stay single. Emma’s happy news gave rise to brotherly friction; there were mixed reactions to Helen’s unorthodox pregnancy.
  
  The Ambridge Community Shop opened for business. Borchester Land Enterprise planned a new livestock market, Amside Property Holdings was formed and Kenton got his café bar up and running. Bridge Farm held a Local Food Day, Brookfield had a Farm Sunday, a Save The Bull campaign was launched and Lower Loxley had a spectacular Deck The Hall extravaganza.
  
  Matt’s prison term ended and he was de-tagged. Kate completed her first term at Felpersham University. Lilian was made a company director, Brenda found work in Leicester, but soon moved to Amside Holdings. Mike and Ed expanded their dairy herd, Vicky had plans for the bull calves and Eddie became a Livestock Handler. Neil was elected Chairman of the Parish Council. Eddie and Joe opened a campsite, Jamie helped out at the Golf Club, Nic was offered work as a barmaid and Susan and Vicky became dairy maids.
  
  The Ambridge Who’s Got Talent Show ‘discovered’ Joshua, Jamie and Jazzer while the real Colin Dexter opened the Whodunnit Fete. A picnic celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Millennium Wood, Arkwright Lake gained a new bird hide, but a peregrine falcon platform on the church was turned down. The Flower and Produce Show appointed Joe as judge, there was Race Evening at the Village Hall, a Young Farmers’ Ball and a Golf Club Dinner.
  
  Jim moved into Greenacres and held a Roman-themed house-warming, Harry rented Hillside flat and took Jazzer as lodger; Alan camped out for Lent. Peggy had computer lessons and renewed an old friendship, Jill celebrated her birthday in Bath and demonstrated her cooking skills on film. Susan acquired a tagine…
  
  Kenton plotted for Bonfire Night; Lynda talent-spotted for Dick Whittington. Phil was remembered with Waiting for a Wonder on Advent Sunday. Jennifer and Brian enjoyed (endured?) Christmas Eve at Ambridge View and Elizabeth and Nigel planned a gathering of the clan at Lower Loxley…
  
  

• Thinking cap on

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 24/12/2010 08:56:30 by anon
  
  I am so looking forward to the Sammies this year.
  
  I think it has been a very interesting year with so many twists and turns.

• Laughed out loud:

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 29/11/2010 11:23:26 by Floradora
  Jennifer: "I'm related to a Horrobin'!

• Tugged on heart-strings....

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 29/11/2010 11:22:39 by Floradora
  The death of Phil. Very sensitively done.

• Sammy Nominations carried over from the old message board

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 29/11/2010 10:08:22 by Vicky
  Here are some of the comments made throughout this year. (Can't copy the poster details) Remember they are only suggestions. Real voting starts in January.

  Best Storyline So far this year, I think the storyline surrounding Sid's death has made it a front-runner for the 'Best' category.
  Jamie's grief at losing his Dad. Yes I second this, as it has had a "ripple effect" on so many people, relationships and situations.
  Best Line
  Jenny "Would you like a drink Susan?"
  Susan "It's only 5.30pm, bit early for me"
  Jenny "I was going to put the kettle on!" in quelling tones.
  Good grief, Brian. I'm related to a Horrobin!
  Tugged on Heartstrings
  As much as I disliked Pip's behaviour towards her parents I'd pur Pip forward as well, I do feel sorry for her atthe end of the day, a hard leasson to learn, learnt the very hard way.....car crash waithing to happen!!
  Jolene describing her grief. Jolene definitely deserves to be nominated.Such great acting by Buffy!
  Laugh out loud
  Still laughing at what Jazzer said to Tom yesterday about "farming free-range teddy bears" if he listened to Vicky too much!...
  Laughter Lines
  Neil to Susan re Alice and Chris upstairs - "Quality time - is that what they call it!?
  Susan to Neil re Sabrina Thwaite - "She only knows how to count to ten - and that's when she's doing her manicure."
  Alice to Chris - "Mum says the Brookfield kids have pizza in their DNA.

• The Sammies

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 28/11/2010 21:26:53 by osprey
  Thanks. Great to see The Sammies are now back!!

• Welcome to The Sammies forum category

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 28/11/2010 14:59:09 by admin
  Welcome to The Sammies forum category. Enjoy!

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