Natalie Cassidy Sonia as Sonia …. Lacey Turner Stacey as Stacey …. Sid Owen Ricky as Ricky …. Tony Holland Julia Smith series created by. More like this. Storyline Edit. Set in the East End of London, the show focuses on the tensions between love and family with stories ranging from hard-hitting social issues, to personal, human tragedies.
And there's plenty of funny moments too. Classic characters old and new across thousands of episodes have shared a drink in The Queen Vic, shed tears of despair or joy, sat on Arthur's bench in the Square - and at some point or other they probably crossed paths with Ian Beale.
Everyone's talking about it. Did you know Edit. Trivia During the affair storyline between Stacey Slater and Max Branning, Jo Joyner who plays Max's wife Tanya did not read any parts of the EastEnders scripts other than her own, as she felt her acting was improved by not knowing what Max did behind Tanya's back, and because she felt that she could better justify to herself why Tanya would not suspect Max of cheating if she in reality did not know what he was getting up to.
Goofs The birth dates and death dates of events often vary from the date of their broadcast. This is due to the episodes being set on different days. Quotes Dot : Luke, Chapter 4, Verse Zoe : Zoe, Chapter 1, shut your cakehole Dot : How rude Crazy credits From , the series titles was a black and white city with a bright blue river.
User reviews Review. Top review. She quotes endlessly from the Bible and it ridicules religion to some extent. Several cast members have criticised the show. In , Shaun Williamson , who was in the final months of his role of Barry Evans , said that the programme had become much grittier over the past ten to fifteen years, and found it "frightening" that parents let their young children watch.
The birth of Billy and Honey Mitchell's baby, Janet, diagnosed with Down's syndrome , was criticised by the Royal College of Midwives for being inaccurate and unrealistic. They claim that Honey should not have been refused an epidural and should not have been told about her daughter's condition without her husband being present.
They also claim that the baby appeared rigid when in fact she should have been floppy, and that nobody opened the baby's blanket to check. The BBC say Honey was not refused an epidural but had actually locked herself away in the bathroom. They were also unable to cast a baby with Down's syndrome for the first few episodes, which is why the baby appeared rigid.
In May , it was decided that the ending of a current storyline featuring characters of Dawn Swann , Dr. The storyline would have seen May ran off with Dawn and Rob's baby shortly after it had been born. In , the show was criticised for stereotyping their Asian and Black characters, by having a black single mum, Denise Wicks , and an Asian shopkeeper, Zainab Masood.
In , EastEnders came under criticism from the police for the way that they were portrayed during the " Who Killed Archie?
The police claimed that such scenes were "damaging" to their reputation and added that the character DC Deanne Cunningham was "irritatingly inaccurate". In response to the criticism, EastEnders apologised for offending real-life detectives and confirmed that they use a police consultant for such storylines. Some storylines have provoked high levels of viewer complaints. In August , a scene involving Carly Wicks Kellie Shirley and Jake Moon Joel Beckett having sex on the floor of Scarlet nightclub, and another scene involving Owen Turner violently attacking Denise Fox, prompted and complaints, respectively.
In December , Ronnie swapped her newborn baby, who died in cot , with Kat Moon 's living baby. We hope that this story will help raise the public's awareness of cot death, which claims babies' lives each year.
Since its premiere in , EastEnders has had a large impact on British popular culture. It has frequently been referred to in many different media, including songs and television programmes. Many books have been written about EastEnders. Notably, from to , author and television writer Hugh Miller wrote seventeen novels, detailing the lives of many of the show's original characters before , when events on screen took place.
Lock also wrote a character guide entitled Who's Who in EastEnders ISBN in , examining main characters from the first fifteen years of the show. Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. EastEnders px The current opening title sequence of EastEnders. Julia Smith Tony Holland. Present cast Former cast. Simon May Leslie Osborne. See also: List of EastEnders crew members.
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This strategy continued with Barbara Windsor joining the cast. EastEnders was broadcast at 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with an omnibus on Sunday. More episodes were added over the years to satisfy demand, a third in and a fourth in The programme also spawned an online spin-off, E EastEnders first episode 19 February February anniversaries. Blue Peter th edition 1 February Face to Face 4 February First TV Sports commentary 4 February Episodes airing on Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 which featured an hour long episode and a second episode all featured at least one live insert.
The show revealed that the killer of Lucy Beale Hetti Bywater was her younger brother, Bobby Eliot Carrington , during the second episode on Thursday, after a ten month mystery regarding who killed her. Bobby killed his sister in a flashback episode which revisited the night of the murder. The aftermath episode, which aired on Friday 20, was completely live and explained in detail Lucy's death.
Carrington was told he was Lucy's killer on Monday 16, while Laurie Brett who plays Bobby's adoptive mother, Jane was informed in November, due to the character playing a huge role in the cover-up of Lucy's murder. Bywater only discovered Bobby was responsible for Lucy's death on the morning of Thursday 19, several hours before they filmed the scenes revealing Bobby as Lucy's killer. Executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins has said that he wants Albert Square to look like a real-life east London neighbourhood in so that soon the soap will "better reflect the more fashionable areas of east London beloved of young professionals" giving a flavour of the "creeping gentrification" of east London.
He added, "It should feel more like London. It's been frozen in aspic for too long. The set will provide a modern, upgraded exterior filming resource for EastEnders , and will copy the appearance of the existing buildings. A temporary set will be created on site to enable filming to continue while the permanent structure is rebuilt.
EastEnders programme makers took the decision that the show was to be about "everyday life" in the inner city "today" and regarded it as a "slice of life". She also said, "We decided to go for a realistic, fairly outspoken type of drama which could encompass stories about homosexuality, rape, unemployment, racial prejudice, etc. Above all, we wanted realism". In the s, EastEnders featured "gritty" storylines involving drugs and crime, representing the issues faced by working-class Britain.
Storylines included the cot death of month-old Hassan Osman, Nick Cotton's homophobia, racism and murder of Reg Cox, Arthur Fowler's unemployment reflecting the recession of the s, the rape of Kathy Beale in by James Willmott-Brown and Michelle Fowler's teenage pregnancy. The show also dealt with prostitution, mixed-race relationships, shoplifting, sexism, divorce, domestic violence and mugging.
As the show progressed into the s, EastEnders still featured hard-hitting issues such as Mark Fowler discovering he was HIV positive in , the death of his wife Gill from an AIDS-related illness in , murder, adoption, abortion, Peggy Mitchell's battle with breast cancer, and Phil Mitchell's alcoholism and violence towards wife Kathy.
Mental health issues were confronted in when year-old Joe Wicks developed schizophrenia following the off-screen death of his sister in a car crash. In the early s, EastEnders covered the issue of euthanasia Ethel Skinner's death in a pact with her friend Dot Cotton , the unveiling of Kat Slater's abuse by her uncle Harry as a child which led to the birth of her daughter Zoe, who had been brought up to believe that Kat was her sister , the domestic abuse of Little Mo Morgan by husband Trevor which involved rape and culminated in Trevor's death after he tried to kill Little Mo in a fire , Sonia Jackson giving birth at the age of 15 and then putting her baby up for adoption, and Janine Butcher's prostitution, agoraphobia and drug addiction.
The soap also tackled the issue of mental illness and carers of people who have mental conditions, illustrated with mother and daughter Jean and Stacey Slater; Jean suffers from bipolar disorder, and teenage daughter Stacey was her carer this storyline won a Mental Health Media Award in September Stacey went on to struggle with the disorder herself. The issue of illiteracy was highlighted by the characters of middle-aged Keith and his young son Darren.
EastEnders has also covered the issue of Down's syndrome, as Billy and Honey Mitchell's baby, Janet, was born with the condition in EastEnders covered child abuse with its storyline involving Phil Mitchell's year-old son Ben and lawyer girlfriend Stella Crawford, and child grooming involving the characters Tony King and Whitney Dean. David Proud, who plays the character of Adam Best, is the first wheelchair-using actor in the soap's history.
Aside from this, soap opera staples of youthful romance, jealousy, domestic rivalry, gossip and extramarital affairs are regularly featured, with high-profile storylines occurring several times a year. Whodunits also feature regularly, including the "Who Shot Phil?
Another whodunit is the murder of Archie Mitchell Larry Lamb who was killed on Christmas Day after making several enemies. The killer was revealed to be Stacey Branning in a special live episode of the show to mark its 25th anniversary; an episode which drew a peak of 17 million viewers.
They gave the job of creating this new soap to script writer Tony Holland and producer Julia Smith, famous for their work together on Z-Cars. They created twenty-four original characters for the show, based upon Holland's own family, and people they remembered from their own experiences in the East End.
Granada Television gave Smith unrestricted access to the Coronation Street production for a month so that she could get a sense how a continuing drama was produced. Alan Jeapes and Simon May created the title sequence and theme tune, and the show with a working title of East 8 was renamed EastEnders , when Smith and Holland realised they had been phoning casting agencies for months asking whether they had "any real East Enders" on their books.
Julia Smith thought " Eastenders " "looked ugly written down", and capitalised the second 'e', and thus the name EastEnders was born.
Filming commenced in late and the show was first broadcast on 19 February , and became wildly popular, often displacing Coronation Street from the top of the ratings for the rest of the s. It is currently broadcast at 7.
EastEnders was originally broadcast twice weekly at 7 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19 February , with an omnibus at pm on Sundays; however, in August the two episodes were moved to pm as Michael Grade did not want the soap running in direct competition with Emmerdale Farm , and this remained the same until 7 April The BBC had originally planned to take advantage of the 'summer break' that Emmerdale Farm usually took to capitalise on ratings, but ITV added extra episodes and repeats so that Emmerdale Farm was not taken off the air over the summer.
Realising the futility of the situation, Grade decided to move the show to the later pm slot, but to avoid tabloid speculation that it was a 'panic move' on the BBC's behalf, they had to "dress up the presentation of that move in such a way as to protect the show" giving "all kinds of reasons" for the move.
EastEnders output then increased to three times a week on Mondays, Tuesday and Thursdays from 11 April until 2 August From 10 August , EastEnders then added its fourth episode shown on Fridays. This caused some controversy as it clashed with Coronation Street , which at the time was moved to 8pm to make way for an hour-long episode of rural soap Emmerdale at 7pm. The move immediately provoked an angry response from ITV insiders, who argued that the BBC's last-minute move—only revealed at 3.
In this first head-to-head battle, EastEnders claimed victory over its rival. This was to coincide with the relaunch of the channel and helped BBC Three break the one million viewers mark for the first time with 1. EastEnders was repeated each evening at As of according to the EastEnders website there are on average around episodes outputted each year. EastEnders was regularly repeated at 10pm on BBC Choice since the channel's launch in , a practice continued by BBC Three for many years until mid with the repeat moving to In , the BBC Three repeat moved back to 10pm.
The omnibus edition, a compilation of the week's episodes in a continuous sequence, originally aired on BBC One on Sunday afternoons, until 1 April when it was changed to a late Friday night or early Saturday morning slot, commencing 6 April , though the exact time differed. When W takes over the same-day repeat of EastEnders , the will also show a weekend omnibus. From 20 February to 26 May , as part of the programme's 10th Anniversary celebrations, episodes from were repeated each morning at 10am, starting from episode one.
Four specially selected episodes from and were also repeated on BBC1 on Friday evenings at 8. The series ran from the first episode and followed its original broadcast order until August when the channel looped back to the first episode. The last episode shown was from January Watch launched in October , and they briefly revived the EastEnders reruns from 5 January to 22 October finishing with episodes originally broadcast in December EastEnders is broadcast around the world in many English-speaking countries.
It was previously shown on BFBS1. In Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway, it is shown with local subtitles. The series was broadcast in the United States until BBC America ceased broadcasts of the serial in , amidst fan protests. In June , the Dish Network satellite television provider picked up EastEnders , broadcasting episodes starting at the point where BBC America had ceased broadcasting them, offering the serial as a pay-per-view item.
Episodes air two months behind the UK schedule. It is around 2 weeks behind the UK airings. Episodes are about 2 weeks behind the UK. The show takes a look behind the scenes of the EastEnders and investigates particular places, characters or families within EastEnders. The show was presented by Angellica Bell and was available to digital viewers at 8. It was also shown after the Sunday omnibus.
The series went behind the scenes of the show and spoke to some of the cast members. These are all documentaries related to current storylines in EastEnders , in a similar format to EastEnders Revealed , though not using the EastEnders Revealed name. The series was conceived by executive producer Diederick Santer "as a way of nurturing new, young talent, both on- and off-screen, and exploring the stories of the soaps' anonymous bystanders.
It was written by a team of young writers and was shown three times a week on the EastEnders website from 8 January A second ten-part series started in September , with twice-weekly episodes available online and an omnibus on BBC Three. A third series of 15 episodes started in September The six-part drama, Redwater , was created by executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins and his team.
In the spin-off, the Moons will leave Walford and visit Ireland where they "search for answers to some very big questions. An example of EastEnders ' popularity is that after episodes, electricity use in the United Kingdom rises significantly as viewers who have waited for the show to end begin boiling water for tea, a phenomenon known as TV pickup.
Over five minutes, power demand rises by three GW, the equivalent of 1. National Grid personnel watch the show to know when closing credits begin so they can prepare for the surge, asking for additional power from France if necessary. EastEnders proved highly popular and Appreciation Indexes reflected this, rising from 55—60 at the launch to 85—95 later on, a figure which was nearly ten points higher than the average for a British soap opera.
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