A look at how Soaps are struggling to create propper conversation in a wider and varied TV landscape from Alex Osborne from Walford Weekly Podcast Everyone has an opinion about soaps. What’s right? What’s wrong? If their ratings start to suffer then Streaming is...
New EastEnders producer Kate Oates has teased her plans for the soap in 2019. Trouble is on its way back to Walford next year when Lola Pearce returns to Albert Square. Feisty and street-wise, Lola certainly has the Mitchell spirit and was caught up in numerous dramas...
So last night there was an announcement worthy of an EastEnders duff duff, the man credited with saving the show tweeted that he was leaving the show after Peggy Mitchell's final scenes in the summer. Dominic Treadwell Collins and his team have turned the show around...
Welcome back to more coverage of our time at this week's Edinburgh TV Festival. This time we provide highlights of Friday's Soaps Masterclass as the producers, writers and stars from the nation's most-watched shows talked about the hits and misses they'd experienced...
EastEnders have announced that Jake Wood will be taking a year-long break from the soap later this year. Over the summer viewers will see his character Max Branning pushed to his limits when he finds himself in a situation that even he can’t squirm out of. In typical...
The BBC have released the trailer teasing what EastEnders has in store for us over the summer. The trailer features the departure of Kat & Alfie who will be seen next year in their own spin-off drama series. It also shows the arrival of Paul Coker, Masood...
BBC One have revealed that legendary stage and screen actress Bonnie Langford is to join Eastenders in the guest role of Carmle Kazemi; the mother of market-stall holder Kush. Of the casting Langford says, "I'm so thrilled and delighted to be part of EastEnders. I'm a...
I love EastEnders. Everyone who knows me or reads my Mirror Online or Beamly columns knows that I love EastEnders. I sometimes even think that I might love the EastEnders characters more than my own actual real family and friends, (apart from Rapey, Pyro Dean, obvs....
Last night's Eastenders saw Peter Beale (Ben Hardy) and Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa) walk off into the sunset as their characters departed Albert Square for the last time. In a rare happy ending the childhood sweethearts made up their differences and decided to...
EastEnders boss Dominic Treadwell-Collins has spoken about how the team decided Bobby Beale would be the one to kill Lucy Beale. The team may have known for a while but Treadwell-Collins revealed on a Facebook live stream following the shocking revelations of the...
So now that my blood pressure and heart rate have returned to healthy levels, I feel better equipped to fully asses the big 'Who killed Lucy' reveal. The hour long 30th anniversary episode was exhilarating. A true landmark piece of television the likes of which we're...
Well, we thought we knew everything but the geniuses at EastEnders had yet another twist up their sneaky sleeves. The flashback episode finally got to truth behind Lucy's final moments. Despite audiences being led to believe that Jane had killed her during tonight's...
30 years to the day EastEnders was first broadcast, one of EastEnders true icons, Kathy Beale returned to the show in a LIVE scene in tonight’s (19/02/2015) episode. Last seen in 2000 before returning to South Africa, viewers believed that Kathy was killed in a car...
After ten months of speculation and betting, Eastenders revealed the identity of the person who killed Lucy Beale on Good Friday last year. The end of the hour long episode saw Ian realise who killed Lucy and he pointed the finger at Jane. However, during the later...
With BBC One celebrating the 30th anniversary of Eastenders; we at The Custard TV thought we'd take time to discuss our memories of the show. As this article focuses on our recollections of the soap, there are no mention of the early days as we started watching the...
As the BBC's flagship soap celebrates 30 years with live episodes, character returns and the Lucy Beale killer revealed we're joined by Katy Brent of the Mirror to look back at 30 years on Albert Square. Download this Episode EastEnders live week starts tonight at...
As EastEnders prepares to turn 30, eBay has produced a sales ranking which shows that despite being down on his luck; Alfie Moon is the most popular character on the square with ‘Moon’ merchandise including shirts, masks and t-shirts outselling the cast average by a...
It’s been ten months, TEN MONTHS, since little Lucy Beale’s body was found on Walford common. In that time there has been four births, three marriages and two more deaths on the Square – and now we’re only a week away from finding out who dunnit. And I’m telling you...
BBC One will proudly celebrate the 30th Anniversary of EastEnders from Monday 16th until Friday 20th February. The channel is marking the occasion by going live all week, and is making way in the schedule for an explosive week of drama, special shows plus a flashback...
Eastenders have announced that actor and presenter Richard Blackwood would be joining the cast of the show as its latest villain. Blackwood's arrival on the show will coincide with the soap's thirtieth anniversary celebrations and will see him star in one of the first...
EastEnders is completely unmissable at the moment. Every storyline is engrossing and developing well. It just has a lovely feeling of safety about it as exec producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins obviously knows exactly what he's doing for the BBC flagship soap. The Lucy...
Eastenders at New Year always deliver big episodes that stay long in the memory (Pat's death, Ronnie murdering Carl, the baby swap storyline) and this year was no different as a wedding, a car crash, a birth and a death helped get the anniversary year off to an...
To commemorate its 30th anniversary EastEnders have announced plans for a web series that sees cast members watching their memorable scenes and discussing them with each other. The series which will be available online next year is to be titled EastEnders: Back...
EastEnders star Danny Dyer has promised an explosive Christmas for his Albert Square family the Carters. Part of the Christmas storyline sees his character Mick discover Dean has raped his beloved partner Linda. Dyer said 'Mick will go nuclear' apon discovering...