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EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, which was first broadcast on February 19, 1985.1 Setting
It is set in and around the fictional Albert Square, ostensibly located in the equally fictional London borough of Walford in London's East End. Much of the action revolves around the market, and the nearby public house, the Queen Victoria.
The Queen Vic, as it is known to its customers, is the primary meeting place for the show's characters and is the site of many of the show's major storylines. The first known landlord, Dirty Den Watts (played by Leslie Grantham), endured an acrimonious divorce from his wife Angie , only to be shot and presumed killed until his return in 2003. A subsequent landlady Peggy Mitchell ( Barbara WindsorBarbara Windsor (born August 6, 1937) is a British actress, born Barbara-Ann Deeks in London. Her first film appearance was in The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), and then later came to prominence in the British film Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) garnering a) emerged as a leading character in the 1990s, enduring breast cancerBreast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. Worldwide, it is the most common form of cancer in females, affecting approximately 10% of all women at some stage of their life in the Western world. Although significant efforts are made to achieve early detecti and coping with the on-going problems of her adult sons Phil Mitchell ( Steve McFadden ) and Grant Mitchell ( Ross KempRoss Kemp (born July 21, 1964 in Barking, Essex, England) is a British actor. His mother, Jean, was a hairdresser and his father, John, was a policeman with the Metropolitan Police force. He has a brother named Darren who is a documentary producer for the).
Walford has a fictional London postal districtThe system of London postal districts predated the introduction of postcodes throughout the United Kingdom in the 1960s. The first system, of ten sectors identified by letters, was introduced in 1858; the numbered subdivisions date from 1917. The 1917 sub, London E20, and a fictional tube station, Walford East, which is located on the Eastenders tube mapThe Tube map is the commonly-used name for the schematic diagram used to represent the lines and stations of the London Underground. A diagram rather than a map, it does not represent geography but relations; it distorts the positions of the stations cons in the position normally occupied by the real Bromley-by-Bow tube stationBromley by Bow Station is a London Underground station on the District and Hammersmith and City lines, located in Bromley by Bow. It is in both Zone 2 and Zone 3. The station was opened by the London Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1858. District Line servi.
It is actually filmed at Borehamwood to the north-west of London.
2 Popularity
EastEnders is one of the more popular programmes on British television and used to regularly attract between 15 and 20 million viewers. Its main rival for ratings is usually Coronation Street on rival station ITV. In order to maximise ratings the BBC and ITV are usually careful to avoid scheduling clashes between their flagship soaps.
On 20 September, 2004 Louise Berridge, the then executive producer of the show quit following massive criticism of the show. The following day the show received its lowest ever ratings (6.2 million) when it went head-to-head against Emmerdale, ITV's usually less-popular soap, which was watched by 8.1 million. A few weeks later the producers announced a major shake-up of the cast with the highly-criticised Ferreira family, first seen in June 2003, set to leave at the beginning of 2005.
