EastEnders

EastEnders is a British soap opera about the ups and downs of the residents of the fictional district of Walford in the East End of London . The series has been running since 1985 and is produced and broadcast by the BBC .

The story lines were especially in the early years very realistic and folk. Nowadays it seems rather sensational EastEnders than realistic. Since 2001 EastEnders is broadcast four times a week.

The Queen Victoria Pub or the Queen Vic is the center of all the perils of the main characters; more than once they come have a drink at Walfords only pub, whether or not accompanied by gossip, quarrels, parties and shocking revelations.

EastEnders is taken up north of London to the Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. There are relatively many outside shots, some characters are namely market vendors.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == EastEnders was originally developed with with idea to make soap but a continuous rather than a realistic drama series that would be broadcast twice a week and would take place in a working class neighbourhood in the East End of London. The first episode was broadcast on 19 February 1985. In the first scene become a door forced and a corpse found. Very Walford (and England) buzzes soon of the rumors ...
 * 2 Broadcasts
 * 3 well-known characters
 * 4 controversial topics
 * 5 external links

By the realistic style and controversial storylines EastEnders quickly became the most popular soap of England. On Christmas Eve 1986 saw 30 million viewers how pub boss Den Watts handed Angie divorce papers to his wife. This is still the most watched episode and since then every year goes very wrong. It usually takes no long for a cozy Christmas meal brutally disrupted by shocking revelations, quarrels, murder or unexpected visitors. However, every year the residents believe that this year is really the best Christmas word that Walford will ever see.

Thanks to the success was in the 90 's, the series was expanded to include a third installment a week and later also with a fourth. In the 21st century however, EastEnders began the harder to get. The real East End was changed tremendously and now seems no more on the East End in the series. There disappeared more and more long-running and popular characters and changed the taste of the spotlight which was ever more sensational and less realistic EastEnders .

Although the series has changed considerably over the years begins each episode still with the same opening music over a rotating map of London. Both the card and the music are modernized several times but always in principle remained the same. The end of almost every episode is also still the same. After a shocking revelation or plot twist sounds the now legendary "Duff Duff" drum roll... ==Broadcasts[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">EastEnders typically aired four times a week on BBC 1. Later the same evening, the episodes repeated on BBC 3. In Netherlands is that transmitter at some cable providers in a digital package. Repeated throughout the week as weekends concatenated entirely on BBC 2.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">EastEnders is also broadcast on the digital channel BBC Entertainment with Dutch subtitles. These episodes run about a month behind on BBC 1 and be repeated on multiple times.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For example, in contrast to EastEnders kent good times, bad times has no summer break. Well there are around Christmas and new year there are additional episodes. By sports competitions and other events can be expired or episodes sometimes shifted. ==Familiar characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">EastEnders has over the years produced a lot of striking characters. Below are some of the best known:

==Controversial topics<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">EastEnders shuns not of controversies. EastEnders has dealt with subjects that include teen pregnancies, drug addiction, sudden infant death, rape, hiv, homosexuality, euthanasia, paedophilia within the Islamic community and domestic violence.
 * Ian Beale: Ian is the only character that continuously since the very first episode is part of the cast. Ian grew up in the time of Thatcher and his extreme desire for status and financial success is often in the way of a healthy relationship with women and his children. He's been married four times. Ian is a coward and become intimidated and blackmailed arranged, not rarely by Phil Mitchell, the father of his half-brother Ben.
 * Phil Mitchell: gangster Phil for many years together with his brother Grant made Walford unsafe. The Brothers shared almost everything, including their women some more than once to moved to Portugal, led until Grant feud slamming. Son Ben is in everything else then Phil had desired and Phil by the pressure on his son to him seem to change more on a mild-mannered boy in a confused young man. with disastrous consequences. Phil has had alcohol problem and if the word there is a risk that too much stress him he grabs the bottle again.
 * Phil's mother Peggy Mitchell:. Peggy was for many years the owner of the Queen Vic and ordered many unwanted guest out of her pub to disappear. She married Frank Butcher, but who cheated on her with his old flame Pat Evans. The rivalry between the two women only comes to an end when Frank dies. After son Phil in 2010 under the influence of drink and drugs has put in the Vic fire, Peggy gives her own meddlesome's fault and she decides to leave Walford.
 * Pat Harris/Beale/Wicks/Butcher/Evans: Pat was known for its huge collection of earrings and gave desired and unwanted advice to anyone who would listen. She married four times, but her true love was Frank Butcher. Pat and Peggy were rivals for years but were eventually good girl friends after his death. Pat died itself on new year's day 2012 in the presence of her family from cancer.
 * The chain-smoking gossip Dot Cotton/Branning: Aunt Dot is deeply faithful and regularly quotes from the Bible. Son Nick is bad to the bone and trying to kill her several times. Dots mother love causes them to give him a last chance. They married at a later age with Jim Branning who later was afflicted by a stroke and now lives in a nursing home.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Teen pregnancies today are not exactly shocking anymore but that was different when the 16-year-old Michelle Fowler in 1985 announced that she was pregnant. It led to much debate and, above all, to much speculation about the identity of the father. It turned out that Michelle had it done with Vandana Den Watts, the father of her best friend Sharon. Viewers feasted by the story and the popularity of EastEnders took all rapidly.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the Government had asked for more and better information around hiv and aids here on EastEnders in decided to crochet. Mark Fowler was the first fixed soap character in the world that hiv-positive. The brutal and selfish adolescent returned in 1990 as an extremely closed and serious young man. The series follows Mark while he learns to deal with the reality and the restrictions of his situation, his parents told the truth, his ex and a friend loses to aids in 2003, publicly word blackened and eventually emotionally say goodbye to his family and friends after his aids inhibitors stop working. A year later he died. Thanks to EastEnders names the prejudices and misunderstandings around hiv and aids in Britain off.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Ethel Skinner was the best friend of Dot Cotton. In the early years of the series, she was often seen with her dog Willy and they gossiped away. Slowly but surely she appeared less and less. Ethel returned In 2000 for the last back with an unusual request to Dot. Ethel wanted to be helped with die. Despite Dots deep belief is they end up in the desire of her girlfriend. After struggling with her conscience, Ethels death Dot long her faith and feel they should be punished for her sins. This story was very controversial and was later incorporated in the teaching material in number of studies on faith and law. Euthanasia is still banned in the United Kingdom.