EastEnders celebrates 25th birthday From York Press
Sometime after 8pm tonight, after we have enjoyed Ricky and Bianca’s bound to be raucous wedding reception and seen Peggy confront Janine (again), the killer of Walford’s latest [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] arch villain will
be dramatically revealed. And then those famous drum beats will kick in as the EastEnders theme tune rolls.
You can bet there will be a few sighs of relief on the set of the London soap. Because tonight’s episode is going out live for the first time in the soap’s history to celebrate its 25thIt all seemed a good idea at the time nine months ago, jokes EastEnders executive producer Diederick Santer in this week’s Radio Times. And it will certainly give this 25th anniversary special
episode an edge.
But it has been a logistical nightmare. One of the reasons for shooting tonight’s episode live was so that not even cast members and producers would know the identity of Archie’s murderer
beforehand. The killer him or herself apparently only found out a few days ago. But, soap schedules being what they are, eight weeks worth of EastEnders that follows tonight’s show has already
been shot all in a way that "doesn’t reveal to the actors and producers who killed Archie".
Personally, my money’s on Dirty Den. I know, I know, he’s dead, bludgeoned to death (for the second time) in a cellar in
2024. But he’s already risen from the grave once remember that odd shooting from behind a bunch of flowers in 1989? Then he turns up out of the blue years later without a scratch on him. Until not so long ago Donna made a living writing about soaps for national magazines such as Chat, TV Times and What’s On TV.
It meant watching all the soaps every day even Hollyoaks.
And it got to the stage where soaps were taking over her [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] life, she says. "I could no longer separate fantasy from reality."
Now, after a few months going cold turkey to recover her [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] monday tiffany sanity, she dips in and out of the soaps because she likes them. [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] She’ll be watching tonight if only to see if any of the actors fluff
their lines.
So who does she think did Archie in? There are plenty of candidates, she points out.
There is Stacey, who was raped by Archie. There is Stacey’s boyfriend, Bradley.
There’s Peggy Mitchell, Archie’s brother’s former wife who, in typical dastardly style, Archie married himself, then manoeuvred out of the Queen Vic, leaving her homeless. And there’s Phil, because
Phil’s always a suspect, whatever happens.
And what about Grant? Well he’s in South America, Donna explains. But there is talk he might come back.
And Den? "Well, he has died twice," Donna says. "But he is a bit like Lazarus, so who knows?"
Donna could spill the beans if she was so inclined. "They sent me an advanced storyline," she says, riffling through it as we speak. But she wouldn’t do that, of course. So we’ll just have to wait,
like everyone else.
Kate Lock has a unique insight into the characters of Walford. She also once wrote a who’s who guide to characters in the show.
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