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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 248066" data-attributes="member: 5138">Oh I'm not against legacy characters, but the show is certainly building up a glut of them at the minute for the future. I guess the thought behind the thread was more a slightly macabre fascination with - *fingers crossed touching wood* that if the show lasted until the 100th anniversary, which actors would still be trotting away around the cobbles into their old age the same way that Ken and Rita are, whilst almost impossible to predict there does seem to be a level of service that grants untouchability to the cast members, leaving it up to them to decide whether to stay.As an example David and Sarah could theoretically end up being on the show the same amount of time that William Roache has at the minute, and only be in their early 70s. Traditionally someone on the show that length of time at the moment,  would have  to be in their 80s at least. I.e the long-running characters could slowly get much younger. There's a good dozen actors you could never imagine leaving the show who'll still be extremely young relative to the last 10-20 years where the oldest characters on the show have been in their late 80s.I started doing the calculations by age of each current member of cast by the time the 100th anniversary but realised that was perhaps a brash and insensitive thing to do especially to the current old cast, suffice to say though even amongst those who've been on the show a few decades, there's a good number who'll only be in their late 60s earlier 70s if as expected they stay on the show. You could be looking at a few dozen cast members who've been on it 60 years as opposed to 1 at that point.</blockquote>

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