5 55, Lola is moved to tears by Jay's kindness, and the Fox-Brannings' dinner is ruined when the chef becomes sidetracked. Well BAH HUMBUG!! EastEnders has been filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre since its inception, with a set that is outdoors and open to weather. Kate Lock also wrote four novels centred on more recent characters; Steve Owen (Martin Kemp), Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp), Bianca Jackson (Patsy Palmer) and Tiffany Mitchell (Martine McCutcheon). [149], A gender balance in the show is maintained via the inclusion of various "macho" male personalities such as Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden),[150] Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp)[151] and Dan Sullivan (Craig Fairbrass),[152] , "bad boys" such as Den Watts (Leslie Grantham),[153] Sean Slater (Robert Kazinsky),[154] Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd),[155] Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman)[156] and Vincent Hubbard (Richard Blackwood),[157] and "heartthrobs" such as Simon Wicks (Nick Berry),[158] Joe Wicks (Paul Nicholls),[159] Jamie Mitchell (Jack Ryder),[160] Dennis Rickman (Nigel Harman),[161] Joey Branning (David Witts)[162] and Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami). It has been criticised for various storylines, including the 2010 baby swap storyline which attracted over 6,000 complaints, as well as complaints of showing too much violence and allegations of national and racial stereotypes. [95] On 8 August 2018, it was announced that Kate Oates, who has previously been a producer on the ITV soap operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street, would become Senior Executive Producer of EastEnders, as well of Holby City and Casualty. Lovely episode tonight, so glad Stacey and gorgeous little Lily went off nicely. ", "ITV Manhunt: Ex-EastEnders heartthrob who played Joey Branning is starring alongside Martin Clunes in The Night Stalker", "Davood Ghadami joins "EastEnders" as new heartthrob", "BBC EastEnders' fans switch off from gangster storyline after villain Jonah Tyler returns to Albert square", "Who was Lofty Holloway? A vintage year with the arrival of Mick (Danny Dyer) and his gobby brood, like a Christmas gift to the nation. [398], In October 2012, a storyline involving Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold), forced to hand over her baby Lexi Pearce, was criticised by the charity The Who Cares? I think Lacey has done a phenomanol job at playing Stacey and she will be missed very much. There'll be those moments for some of our longer-serving characters that briefly reflect on themselves and how they've changed. [96] It was also announced that Oates was looking for an Executive Producer to work under her. Thought Ryan and stacey couldnt have been played by better actors. Chelsea and Gray aren't the only ones set to wed this Christmas, as Jack Branning plans to tie the knot with Denise Fox. [277], A 2011 report from the National Audit Office (NAO) showed that EastEnders had an annual budget of 29.9million. Stacey was fantastic throughout. He confirmed that the. [176] Other examples include Paul Priestly (Mark Thrippleton) and Trevor Short (Phil McDermott),[177] In 1989 especially, characters were brought in who were deliberately conceived as comic or light-hearted. Property of the BBC. [8], There was anxiety at first that the viewing public would not accept a new soap set in the south of England, though research commissioned by lead figures in the BBC revealed that southerners would accept a northern soap, northerners would accept a southern soap and those from the Midlands, as Julia Smith herself pointed out, did not mind where it was set as long as it was somewhere else. Everyone would have believed her, Janine is evil and most people hate her! [15] The name Walford is both a street in Dalston where Tony Holland lived and a blend of Walthamstow and Stratfordthe areas of Greater London where the creators were born. Episodes are roughly two weeks behind the UK. !Amazing but didn't want Stacey to goWhen she left I cried!Good luck to her in the future, the square won't be the same without her. I'll never 4get this episode :D, Complain about this comment (Comment number 83). 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The videotape editor used the director's notes so they knew which scenes the director wanted to appear in a particular episode. She commented, "I don't want to be disloyal, but I think you need a few mature people in a soap because they give it backbone and body if all the main people are young it gets a bit thin and inexperienced. Complain about this comment (Comment number 41), What more can i say about Lacey Turner? Im gonna say it again!! BBC One EastEnders Down Memory Lane with Matt Di Angelo", Doctor Who episodes coming to your mobile phone, "Get your anoraks on trains are coming! Non-character, a gloved hand opens the lock of a drawer in a darkened room. I have a real problem, not sure if the police in the UK are any good? Doof Doofs From laughing at pat singing, to feeling angry about janine and then as soon as Ronnie ordered Stacey to run i burst into tears and cried 'til the end. i loved stacys exit it was better than peggy's she just walked down the street but Stacy's was brill well done Lacey and crew, Complain about this comment (Comment number 73). Stacey's not only left the building, but she's left the damn country too. [211], The walls were intentionally built crooked to give them an aged appearance. [76] Old sets had to be rebuilt, so The Queen Victoria set was burnt down in a storyline (and in reality) to facilitate this. "[93] Yorke initially returned for three months but his contract was later extended. OMG!!!! 2010 was EastEnders' twenty-sixth year of production. [148] Such characters include Angie Watts (Anita Dobson), Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean), Pat Butcher (Pam St Clement), Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor), Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace), Denise Fox (Diane Parish), Tanya Branning (Jo Joyner) and Linda Carter (Kellie Bright). BEST CHRISTMAS EPISDODE, Complain about this comment (Comment number 45). [350] On 21 September 2004, Louise Berridge, the then executive producer, quit following criticism of the show. [344], In 2001, EastEnders clashed with Coronation Street for the first time. Too horrific for the festive season, hence its low ranking. Maybe she'll make a Stacey surprise. While Little Mo was marrying Billy, lovable Mitchell boy Jamie was in hospital after being run over by Martin. [218], In 2014, then executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins said that he wanted Albert Square to look like a real-life east London neighbourhood so that the soap would "better reflect the more fashionable areas of east London beloved of young professionals" giving a flavour of the "creeping gentrification" of east London. [7], When developing EastEnders, both Smith and Holland looked at influential models like Coronation Street, but they found that it offered a rather outdated and nostalgic view of working-class life. [281], Also changes to working online has also saved transportation cost of distribution 2,500 DVDs per year. Kathleen Hutchison was swiftly appointed as the Executive Producer of EastEnders, and was tasked with quickly turning the fortunes of the soap. Complain about this comment (Comment number 46). "[91] O'Connor planned to stay with EastEnders until the end of 2017, but announced his departure on 23 June 2017 with immediate effect,[92] saying he wanted to concentrate on a career in film. Peggy Mitchell In the main, middle-class characters exist as villains, such as James Wilmott-Brown (William Boyde), May Wright (Amanda Drew), Stella Crawford (Sophie Thompson), Yusef Khan (Ace Bhatti) and Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith) or are used to promote positive liberal influences, such as Colin Russell (Michael Cashman), Rachel Kominski (Jacquetta May)[148] and Derek Harkinson (Ian Lavender). In March 1983, under two years before EastEnders' first episode was broadcast, the show was a vague idea in the mind of a handful of BBC executives, who decided that what BBC One needed was a popular bi-weekly drama series that would attract the kind of mass audiences that ITV was getting with Coronation Street. the Christmas Day 1986 episode All you need to know about Leo's dad and Whitney's abuser", "Sets too shabby for latest TVs force EastEnders out of town", "High-definition television forces BBC to fix sets", "EastEnders announces plans to build new exterior set at Elstree", "BBC's new EastEnders set delayed until 2020", "EastEnders' new and improved set won't be ready until 2020", "BBC's new EastEnders set over budget by 27m, watchdog finds", "EastEnders filming will begin again next month but with major changes for cast", "EastEnders starts filming on troubled new 87m Albert Square sets", "Revamped "Top of the Pops" returns to old home after a decade in exile", "Let it snow airports and schools closed", "EXCLUSIVE: "EastEnders" to reference election result", "EastEnders film last-minute scene to mark Michael Jackson's death for Friday's episode", "Exclusive: "EastEnders" to reference spending review", "EastEnders to reference Andy Murray Wimbledon victory", "The BBC's management of the costs of producing continuing drama", EastEnders Vixens: The Rise and Fall of Stella, "Streaker storms EastEnders film set in St Albans", "Pics: Ronnie shops for a wedding dress in 'Enders? ", which peaked during the show's 30th anniversary in 2015 with a week of live episodes. [115] The release of these boxsets was extended for a further five weeks, due to similar impacts caused by the 2020 Summer Olympics. [35], By the end of 1989 EastEnders had acquired a new executive producer, Michael Ferguson, who had previously been a successful producer on ITV's The Bill. [122] Sen's final credited episode as executive producer was broadcast on 10 March 2022 and coincided in a week of episodes that saw the arrest of serial killer Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith). Charming scenes of Ethel, Dot and Lou reminiscing about the days of a nut and a tangerine and Pat in a Christmas hat trying to make a move on Dirty Den who then turned up with a present for his and Michelles lovechild. There was no logical progression in the story arc of the ep - it was just a series of unrelated twists and turns before it all fell flat in the last 15 minutes. [105][106], It was announced on 18 March 2020 that production had been suspended on EastEnders and other BBC Studios continuing dramas in light of new government guidelines following the COVID-19 pandemic, and that broadcast of the show would be reduced to two 30-minute episodes per week, broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays, respectively. On 21 September 2004, Berridge quit as executive producer of EastEnders following continued criticism of the show. Very sloppy all round. such an emotional episode! [230] Episodes are produced in "quartets" of four episodes, each of which starts filming on a Tuesday and takes nine days to record. Airdate: Sunday 25 December 2022 at 9.25pm . [104] The Christmas Day episode in 2019 became EastEnders biggest ever episode on BBC iPlayer, with 2.14million viewer requests. A. Christmas. Stacey battles to persuade Bradley that it's him she loves. Hawkins). The new scenes from the new set will first appear from new episodes airing in spring. The soap won the award for Best Continuing Drama at the 2019 British Academy Television Awards; its first high-profile award since 2016; however, in June 2019, EastEnders suffered its lowest ever ratings of 2.4million due to its airing at 7pm because of the BBC's coverage of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. [203] EastEnders covered child abuse with its storyline involving Phil Mitchell's (Steve McFadden) 11-year-old son Ben (Charlie Jones) and lawyer girlfriend Stella Crawford (Sophie Thompson),[204][205] and child grooming involving the characters Tony King (Chris Coghill) as the perpetrator and Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) as the victim.[206]. Oh, and Max Brannings secret wife turned up just as he was about to marry Tanya. [179][180] Despite this, the programme has been criticised by the Commission for Racial Equality, who argued in 2002 that EastEnders was not giving a realistic representation of the East End's "ethnic make-up". EastEnders viewers are in for a treat this Christmas, if the 2020 Christmas trailer is anything to go by. I thought the Christmas ep was fantastic. [236] The result of the 2010 general election was referenced on 7 May 2010 episode. While Ryan's getting the car Max should of turned up and said something like, "he wishes her all the best" or whatever. The character of Nick Cotton (John Altman) gained a reputation for making constant exits and returns since the programme's first year until the character died in 2015. Hours to Watch [319] In Canada, EastEnders was shown on BBC Canada until 2010,[320] at which point it was picked up by VisionTV. [7] This was the beginning of a close and continuing association between EastEnders and audience research, which, though commonplace today, was something of a revolution in practice. [110], Plans for the show's return to transmission were announced on 12 June 2020. Complain about this comment (Comment number 90), Loved the episode. As everyone seems to get away with almost everything!Some good story lines but some very big mistakes as well.As for Stacey well am sure we will see her in more well thought out programs. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on The Square! -.-, Complain about this comment (Comment number 66). Deaths Grant and Sharons marriage was on the rocks after he discovered shed done the double with his brother Phil, and they headed for a festive divorce. [276] In 2017, it was revealed that Danny Dyer (Mick Carter) and Adam Woodyatt (Ian Beale) were the highest-paid actors in EastEnders, earning between 200,000 and 249,999, followed by Laurie Brett (Jane Beale), Letitia Dean (Sharon Watts), Tameka Empson (Kim Fox), Linda Henry (Shirley Carter), Scott Maslen (Jack Branning), Diane Parish (Denise Fox), Gillian Taylforth (Kathy Beale) and Lacey Turner (Stacey Slater), earning between 150,000 and 199,999. [281], Since 1985, EastEnders has remained at the centre of BBC One's primetime schedule. 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