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EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on BBC1 on 19 February 1985 and continuing today. It holds regular half-hour primetime viewing slots, originally twice and currently four times a week, with an omnibus edition on Sunday afternoons. It is one of the United Kingdom's highest-rated programmes, often appearing near or at the top of the week's BARB ratings. Within eight months of its launch, it reached the number one spot in the ratings and has almost consistently remained amongst the top programmes in Britain ever since. Average audience share for an episode today is between 40 and 45%.
The invention of producer Julia Smith and script editor Tony Holland, EastEnders has remained significant in terms of the BBC's success and audience share and also the history of British television drama; tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on mainstream television in the UK.
EastEnders has won five BAFTA Awards, and consistently won the Inside Soap Award for Best Soap ten years running. It has also won seven National Television Awards.
EastEnders is set in the fictional London Borough of Walford. However, the central focus of the show is that of the equally fictional Victorian square named Albert Square.
The fictional Albert Square was built around the early 20th century, named after Prince Albert (1819–1861), the husband of Queen Victoria (1819–1901, reigned 1837–1901). Thus, central to Albert Square is The Queen Victoria Public House. More...
Pauline Fowler (née Beale) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. She is played by Wendy Richard and is one of the series' remaining original characters, appearing in the show since its first episode on 19 February 1985.
Pauline is the matriarchal stalwart of Albert Square. Fiercely loyal to her family, she is never afraid to speak her mind. However, the family that she has always held so dear has dwindled in recent years, perhaps partly due to Pauline's overbearing ways.
Pauline Fowler was one of the original twenty-three characters invented by the creators of EastEnders, Tony Holland and Julia Smith. Holland took the inspiration for some of the series' earliest characters from his own London family and background. Pauline was based on one of his cousins, the twin sister to Pete and daughter of Lou; a family set-up that would eventually be recreated on-screen and would go on to be forever hailed as the first family of EastEnders, the Beales and Fowlers. More...
Barbara Ann Deeks MBE (born 6 August 1937 in Shoreditch, London) is an English actress known as Barbara Windsor. She is sometimes known as Babs Windsor, and is best known for her part in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in BBC soap opera EastEnders, and is now known as something of a 'national institution'.
The only child of a costermonger and dressmaker, John and Rose Deeks, Barbara Windsor passed the 11 plus exam with a high mark, and her mother paid for her to have elocution lessons. Her first film appearance was in The Belles of St Trinian's in 1954, and she then later came to prominence in Sparrows Can't Sing in 1963, achieving a BAFTA nomination for Best British Film Actress. She also appeared in the sitcoms The Rag Trade and Wild, Wild Women. More...
...that three of the show's original cast, David Scarboro, Gretchen Franklin and Ross Davidson, have died since the show's premiere?
...that the EastEnders theme tune won an award for the 'Best TV Theme Tune' in 1986?
...that Robbie Williams made a cameo appearance in The Queen Vic in September 1995?
...that the show was first broadcast on 19 February 1985?
...that there have been seventeen two-hander episodes produced since the show's commencement?
- 2006-12-12 John Bardon (Jim Branning in EastEnders) and Hannah Waterman (Laura Beale) will be competing in the upcoming series of the celebrity singing contest Just the Two of Us. [1]
- 2006-11-25 Elaine Lordan, who played Lynne Hobbs, is to appear in the upcoming series of Soapstar Superstar. [2]
- 2006-11-20 Wendy Richard, who plays Pauline Fowler, has been named as the Daily Express Readers' Most Popular TV Personality. Ross Kemp, who played Grant Mitchell was also named Multichannel TV Personality. [3]
- 2006-11-18 Martha Ross, who has worked as an extra on EastEnders since it's inception, has had her contract terminated for telling her son Paul a Christmas storyline, which he leaked on his LBC radio show. [4]
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