"[325] The Dutch version began broadcasting on VARA 13 March 1993 but was cancelled after 20 episodes. Conversely there are female characters who handle tragedy less well, depicted as eternal victims and endless sufferers, who include Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack), Little Mo Mitchell (Kacey Ainsworth), Laura Beale (Hannah Waterman), Sue Osman (Sandy Ratcliff), Lisa Fowler (Lucy Benjamin), Mel Owen (Tamzin Outhwaite) and Rainie Cross (Tanya Franks). Disney sequel Mary Poppins Returns, which starred Emily Blunt in the title role, took the sixth slot as viewers joined in on the family fun on BBC One. [247], If scenes during a normal week are to be filmed on location, this is done during the normal recording week. Big storylines. [281] Caterers no longer use polystyrene cups and recycling on location must be provided. [57] This episode later went on to win British Soap Award for "Best Single Episode". [236] The result of the 2010 general election was referenced on 7 May 2010 episode. This was also the lowest ever audience share, with just 19.6 per cent. [278] When repeats and omnibus editions are shown, the BBC pays additional fees to cast and scriptwriters and incurs additional editing costs, which in the period 20092010, amounted to 5.5million. Subscribe now for more! Many books have been written about EastEnders. The following day the show received its lowest ever ratings at that time (6.2 million) when ITV scheduled an hour-long episode of Emmerdale against it. EastEnders Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. [78] Dominic Treadwell-Collins was appointed as the new executive producer on 19 August 2013[79][80] and was credited on 9 December. Viewing figures peaked at 16.6 million, which was the highest viewed episode in seven years. [15][129] Other parts of the Square and set interiors are based on other locations. In 2002, Louise Berridge succeeded Yorke as the Executive Producer. Executive producer Sen explained that the bi-annual scheduling conflicts that the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup cause to the soap, premiering four episodes on the streaming service would be beneficial for fans of the show who want to watch at their own chosen pace. This was followed in January 1989, less than a year after legislation came into effect in the UK prohibiting the "promotion of homosexuality" by local authorities, by the first on-the-mouth gay kiss in a British soap when Colin kissed a new character, Guido Smith (Nicholas Donovan), an episode that was watched by 17 million people. 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This remains the highest rated episode of a soap in British television history. [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. [210] The drains around the set are real so rainwater can naturally flow from the streets. Something went wrong, please try again later. [34] Brake suggested that humour was an important element in EastEnders' storylines during 1989, with a greater amount of slapstick and light comedy than before. They then published their data as millions of viewers. Sometimes an entire quartet is filmed on location, which has a practical function and are the result of EastEnders making a "double bank", when an extra week's worth of episodes are recorded at the same time as the regular schedule, enabling the production of the programme to stop for a two-week break at Christmas. EastEnders has received both praise and criticism for most of its storylines, which have dealt with difficult themes, such as violence, rape, murder and child abuse. This latter measurement method changed on 1st August 1977 and the generally accepted conversion ratio is 2.2 viewers to one home (BFI). [273], According to the book How to Study Television, in 1995 EastEnders cost the BBC 40,000 per episode on average. [363] Later that year, EastEnders suffered its lowest rating ever, with 1.7 million viewers watching live. The videotape editor used the director's notes so they knew which scenes the director wanted to appear in a particular episode. [274] A 2012 agreement between the BBC, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Personal Managers' Association set out the pay rate for EastEnders scripts as 137.70 per minute of transmission time (4,131 for 30 minutes), which is 85 per cent of the rate for scripts for other BBC television series. Mental health issues were confronted in 1996 when 16-year-old Joe Wicks developed schizophrenia following the off-screen death of his sister in a car crash. The police claimed that such scenes were "damaging" to their reputation and added that the character DC Deanne Cunningham (Zo Henry) was "irritatingly inaccurate". Danny Dyer has been a mainstay on EastEnder in recent years, Emmerdale spoilers for next week: April's terror over bully and child kidnap horror, A lack of iconic characters is said to be harming EastEnders' viewing figures, Corrie spoilers: Daisy's tragic past unveiled after medical crisis for Daniel's baby Bertie. Erin Pizzey, who became internationally famous for having started one of the first women's refuges, said that EastEnders had done more to raise the issue of violence against women in one story than she had done in 25 years. [250] In 2003, filming took place at Loch Fyne Hotel and Leisure Club in Inveraray, The Arkinglass Estate in Cairndow and Grims Dyke Hotel, Harrow Weald, north London, for a week of episodes set in Scotland. The effect of the football has become clear in EastEnders' latest viewing figures as last week an episode of the show pulled in just 1.9million viewers. Mick went missing after jumping in the river to save Linda from. [293][294], From 20 February to 26 May 1995, as part of the programme's 10th Anniversary celebrations, episodes from 1985 were repeated each weekday morning at 10am, starting from episode one. [166] Another recurring male character seen in EastEnders is the "loser" or "soft touch", males often comically under the thumb of their female counterparts, which have included Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher),[148] Ricky Butcher (Sid Owen),[168] Garry Hobbs (Ricky Groves),[169] Lofty Holloway (Tom Watt)[170] and Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick).[171]. [276] According to the NAO, BBC executives approved 500,000 of additional funding for the 25th anniversary live episode (19 February 2010). [319] In Canada, EastEnders was shown on BBC Canada until 2010,[320] at which point it was picked up by VisionTV. The first episode was watched by 2.2 million but by early 1973 other regions . [11], A previous UK soap set in an East End market was ATV's Market in Honey Lane; however, between 1967 and 1969 this show, which graduated from one showing a week to two in three separate series (the latter series being shown in different time slots across the ITV network) was very different in style and approach from EastEnders. He told entertainment website Digital Spy, "It's really important that the feel of the week is active and exciting and not too reflective. An episode of EastEnders Revealed that was commissioned for BBC Three attracted 611,000 viewers. ode to the vampire mother results; national asset mortgage lawsuit; green tuna paper; mary davis sos band net worth In what was a record-breaking year for the streaming service, the FIFA World Cup - which aired at the. The 'tart with a heart' is another recurring character. Total linear TV set viewing (including BBC) was 2 hours, 39 minutes a day. This rating is combined with the omnibus; the highest rating for an episode without a combined rating was 19.69million. Get Xtra", "BBC Three 1 December 2006 BBC Genome", "Web drama comes of age with EastEnders spin-off", "Walford returns to web with second series of EastEnders: E20", "EastEnders joins forces with Michael Wood and Wallace & Gromit to inspire a life full of learning for BBC audiences", "Soaps 'Enders, Corrie "CIN" crossover confirmed Digital Spy", "First look at Eastenders Irish spin-off Redwater but have producers learned from previous "Oirish" mistakes? The year before, EastEnders had 3.54 million viewers on their Christmas Day special. Neighbours first aired in Australia in March 1985 and in the UK in October 1986. The BBC received complaints from viewers who were unhappy with the content in the episode. In January 1993, it topped 15 million with 15.1 million for Monday 11th January 1993. Many people watched this together with friends and family, so the viewing figures were probably even higher than the 24.5 million suggests! [178] Middle-class characters do occasionally become regulars, but have been less successful and rarely become long-term characters. Filters Table info Posted under Audiences & Viewing Measurement [224] The BBC said the new set would be more suitable for HD filming and better reflect the modern East End of London. They suggested the blame lies with the show's trendy-but-dull storylines, such as cosmetic surgery addiction, cannabis oil treatments and online trolling. This remains the highest rated episode of a soap in British television history. The UK communications regulator Ofcom later found that the episodes depicting the storyline were in breach of the 2005 Broadcasting Code. [349] The highest rated episode of EastEnders is the Christmas Day 1986 episode, which attracted a combined 30.15million viewers who tuned into either the original transmission or the omnibus to see Den Watts hand over divorce papers to his wife Angie. The BBC responded by stating: "EastEnders has been a pre-watershed BBC One staple for over 37 years and has a rich history of dealing with challenging and difficult issues and Ben's story is one of these. 1986 - EastEnders There was a new boy in town looking for the top spot in the home of the soap operas, and Eastenders was showing Coronation Street it could do everything bigger and better, including the . 26 Dec 1986 24/12/1998 EastEnders Grant and. This was also the lowest ever audience share, with just 19.6 per cent. However, viewers flocked to the show and it's still going strong 61 years later. The characters of Andy O'Brien and Debbie Wilkins were created to show a modern couple with outwardly mobile pretensions, and Lofty Holloway to show an outsider; someone who did not fit in with other residents. [336] A third series of 15 episodes started in September 2011. Prior to the board's formation, figures were conducted by different means, such as the BBC financing its own audience research, while the ITV companies sub-contracted theirs. Around 3,400 complaints were received, with viewers branding the storyline "insensitive", "irresponsible" and "desperate". Viewing figures peaked at 16.6 million, which was the highest viewed episode in seven years. The postcode for the area, E8, was one of the working titles for the series. Four EastEnders episodes are listed in the all-time top 10 most-watched programmes in the UK, including the number one spot when over 30 million watched the 1986 Christmas Day episode. [63] The second and third featured Stacey Slater and Dawn Swann, respectively. [195] Creator/producer Julia Smith declared that "We don't make life, we reflect it". (4th Sept. 2009, 8.17 million; 2nd Oct. 2009, 8.18 million; 6th Nov. 2009, 9.23 million) No one got this remotely right. The Beales, Brannings, Mitchells, Slaters and the Watts are some of the families that have been central to the soap's notable and dramatic storylines. The characters don't know that it's the 25th anniversary of anything, so it'd be absurd to contrive too many situations in which they're reflective on the past. [115] The release of these boxsets was extended for a further five weeks, due to similar impacts caused by the 2020 Summer Olympics. On one occasion following a scene in an episode broadcast in October 2002, where Phil brutally beat his godson, Jamie Mitchell (Jack Ryder), 31 complaints came from viewers. [34] Such characters included Julie Cooper (Louise Plowright)a brassy maneater; Marge Greena batty older lady played by veteran comedy actress Pat Coombs; Trevor Short (Phil McDermott)the "village idiot"; his friend, northern heartbreaker Paul Priestly (Mark Thrippleton); wheeler-dealer Vince Johnson (Hepburn Graham) and Laurie Bates (Gary Powell), who became Pete Beale's (Peter Dean) sparring partner. [223] In March 2019 there was criticism from a group of MPs about how the BBC handled the redevelopment of the set. The following episode dropped 600k. [7] After the concept was put to them on 14 March 1983, Smith and Holland then went about putting their ideas down on paper; they decided it would be set in the East End of London. Danny Dyer has opened up about his luxurious 140,000 Heart EastEnders actor Kellie Bright shares game-changing theory on Christmas murder heart.co.uk - Alice Dear Episodes as "Millions of Viewers" (1985 - September 1998), Episodes as "Millions of Viewers" (September 1998 onwards). In April 2018, it was announced that Drama would be showing repeats starting 6 August 2018 during weekdays[306] and they are also available on-demand on the UKTV Play catch-up service for 30 days after the broadcast. [234][235] EastEnders is normally recorded using four cameras. [251] and the Port of Dover, Kent. [208] The EastEnders lot was designed by Keith Harris, who was a senior designer within the production team together with supervising art directors Peter Findley and Gina Parr. [121], In November 2021, it was announced that Sen would step down from his role as executive producer, and would be succeeded by former story producer, Chris Clenshaw. [335] A second 10-part series started in September 2010, with twice-weekly episodes available online and an omnibus on BBC Three. Both Smith and Holland were unhappy about the January 1985 launch date, favouring November or even September 1984 when seasonal audiences would be higher, but the BBC stayed firm, and Smith and Holland had to concede that, with the massive task of getting the Elstree Studios operational, January was the most realistic date; however, this was later to be changed to February. Most of the buildings on Albert Square have no interior filming space, with a few exceptions, and most do not have rears or gardens. [211], The walls were intentionally built crooked to give them an aged appearance. [108], It was announced on 3 June 2020 that EastEnders would go on a transmission break following the broadcast of episode 6124 on 16 June. [362], Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the soap, EastEnders suffered a ratings drop after 2020. [6] The first people to whom David Reid, then head of series and serials, turned were Julia Smith and Tony Holland, a well established producer/script editor team who had first worked together on Z-Cars. When Danny joined, EastEnders was pulling in up to eight million viewers an episode, but in the past year those figures have dropped to 2.5 million. Filming commenced on the new set in January 2022[3] and it was first used on-screen in March 2022. [228] Off-set locations that have been used for filming include Clacton (1989), Devon (September 1990), Hertfordshire (used for scenes set in Gretna Green in July 1991), Portsmouth (November 1991),[33] Milan (1997), Ireland (1997),[248] Amsterdam (December 1999),[249] Brighton (2001) and Portugal (2003). This included a warning before the episode and implying the assault, rather than depicting it. [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". Ratings expert Stephen Price told Broadcast magazine that the issue is also partly to do with streaming services. EastEnders has lost an array of its stars over the past year with the BBC soap's viewing figures dropping below both Emmerdale and Coronation Street. [359] In January 2010, the average audience was higher than that of Coronation Street for the first time in three years. [212] The square was built in two phases with only three sides being built, plus Bridge Street, to begin with in 1984, in time to be used for the show's first episode. [334], In October 2009, a 12-part Internet spin-off series entitled EastEnders: E20 was announced. The BBC1 soap is in crisis after drawing the lowest ever viewing figures in its history, scraping in with just 1.7 million viewers on July 31. [266] On 23 July 2012, a segment of that evening's episode was screened live as Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) carried the Olympic flame around Walford in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics. EastEnders has not had a brilliant year. [340] In the spin-off, the Moons visit Ireland where they "search for answers to some very big questions". [277], A 2011 report from the National Audit Office (NAO) showed that EastEnders had an annual budget of 29.9million. Home. The editors then assemble all the scenes recorded for the director to view and note any changes that are needed. [148], The show often includes strong, brassy, long-suffering women who exhibit diva-like behaviour and stoically battle through an array of tragedy and misfortune. The programme has more recently included a higher number of teenagers and successful young adults in a bid to capture the younger television audience. [33] The first time this happened was in December 1985 when Pauline (Wendy Richard) and Arthur Fowler (Bill Treacher) travelled to the Southend-on-Sea to find their son Mark, who had run away from home. EastEnders has been filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre since its inception, with a set that is outdoors and open to weather. It has proved highly popular, and Appreciation Indexes reflected this, rising from 5560 at the launch to 8595 later on, a figure which was nearly 10 points higher than the average for a British soap opera. 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The Strictly special, which was won by pop star Anne-Marie, was watched by an average of 5.8 million viewers, according to overnight figures from the BBC. [18] These family members were the basis for Lou Beale, Pete Beale and Pauline Fowler. [278][279] With a total cost of 696,000, the difference was covered from the 20092010 series budget for EastEnders. Corrie meanwhile had an average of 7.6 million viewers that year but by last year. "[93] Yorke initially returned for three months but his contract was later extended. Besides the regular episodes of EastEnders, the following programmes also made the weekly charts. The wedding of Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell in Episode 523 got 20 million viewers when it aired in the UK in November 1988. In 1989, the programme came under criticism in the British media for being too depressing, and according to writer Colin Brake, the programme makers were determined to change this. This rating is not combined with the omnibus; the lowest rating for an episode with a combined rating was 12.87million. It was written by a team of young writers and was shown three times a week on the EastEnders website from 8 January 2010. The viewing figures for 52 episodes are not combined with the omnibus. Press coverage of EastEnders, which was already intense, went into overdrive once the show was broadcast. Corrie's audience figures have dropped by 19 per cent in the past four years while EastEnders has fallen almost double this by around 37 per cent. From 25 December 2010 - 29 April 2011 and 31 July 2012 - 13 August 2012 to the show was repeated on BBC HD in a Simulcast with BBC Three. [343], EastEnders is the BBC's most consistent programme in terms of ratings,[139] and as of 2021, episodes typically receive between 4 and 6 million viewers. The British Film Institute described Market in Honey Lane thus: "It was not an earth-shaking programme, and certainly not pioneering in any revolutionary ideas in technique and production, but simply proposed itself to the casual viewer as a mildly pleasant affair. The total weekly reach of linear TV for individuals remains high at 82.7%. The ratings increased in 2010, thanks to the "Who Killed Archie?" ", Ethel Skinner's death, Jim Branning and Dot Cotton's marriage, Trevor Morgan's domestic abuse of his wife Little Mo Morgan, and Kat Slater's revelation to her daughter Zoe Slater that she was her mother. [66], From 4 February 2010, CGI was used in the show for the first time, with the addition of computer-generated trains.[67]. Get a daily email direct to your inbox with our newsletter. [371], In 2008, EastEnders, along with Coronation Street, was criticised by Martin McGuinness, then Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, for "the level of concentration around the pub" and the "antics portrayed in The [] Queen Vic". He said that "EastEnders has always had a distinctly different tone from the other soaps but over time we've diluted our unique selling point. [138] Key people involved in the production of EastEnders have stressed how important the idea of strong families is to the programme. [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]. [361] In 2013, the average audience share for an episode was around 30 per cent. After a year of UK airing, Neighbours was rivalling Coronation Street and EastEnders. She was also critical of language such as "bleeding", "bloody hell", "bastard" and "for Christ's sake"; however, Whitehouse also praised the programme, describing Michelle Fowler's decision not to have an abortion as a "very positive storyline". 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 early January 1994, one episode of Home And Away reached over 14 million viewers as did 2 later episodes that month. She also felt that EastEnders had been cleaned up as a result of her protests, though she later commented that EastEnders had returned to its old ways. Other events to mark the anniversary were a spin-off DVD, EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford , and an Internet spin-off, EastEnders: E20 . storyline. Over the years they have been joined by the likes of Mo Butcher (Edna Dor), Jules Tavernier (Tommy Eytle), Marge Green (Pat Coombs), Nellie Ellis (Elizabeth Kelly), Jim Branning (John Bardon), Charlie Slater (Derek Martin), Mo Harris (Laila Morse), Patrick Trueman (Rudolph Walker), Cora Cross (Ann Mitchell), Les Coker (Roger Sloman), Rose Cotton (Polly Perkins), Pam Coker (Lin Blakley), Stan Carter (Timothy West), Babe Smith (Annette Badland), Claudette Hubbard (Ellen Thomas), Sylvie Carter (Linda Marlowe), Ted Murray (Christopher Timothy), Joyce Murray (Maggie Steed), Arshad Ahmed (Madhav Sharma), Mariam Ahmed (Indira Joshi) and Vi Highway (Gwen Taylor). This episode, which showed the funeral of Shakil Kazemi (Shaheen Jafargholi) interspersed with real people talking about their true-life experiences of knife crime. New Zealand became the first to broadcast EastEnders overseas, the first episode being shown on 27 September 1985. Other events to mark the anniversary were a spin-off DVD, EastEnders: Last Tango in Walford , and an Internet spin-off, EastEnders: E20 . EastEnders has not hit 6 million in. Most Read. Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) returned 14 years after he was believed to have died, a feat repeated by Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) in 2015. [333] A new breed of behind-the-scenes programmes have been broadcast on BBC Three since 1 December 2006. [60] In April 2007, EastEnders became available to view on mobile phones, via 3G technology, for 3, Vodafone and Orange customers. [4] Demolition on the old set commenced in November 2022.[5]. The storyline, 10.84 million viewers tuned in for the 30th-anniversary episode itself in an hour-long special on 19 February 2015 (peaking with 11.9 million). 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