Another BIG News Update...*It has been announced that seven of the UK's biggest soap operas and continuing dramas will be uniting to help highlight climate change. Casualty, Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Holby City and Hollyoaks have each filmed...
Opinion: Why are the soaps struggling to be part of the conversation?
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...
NEWS: EastEnders welcome back old favourite and announces new characters
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...
ITV’s doubles up with Coronation Street on Wednesdays!
ITV have confirmed that a sixth episode of the much-loved soap will be added to their schedules. The sixth episode will air on Wednesdays at 8.30pm, meaning that fans will get double helpings on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays!. The first extra episode will air...
Red Rock: Much more than a daytime soap
Contributed by Colin Mc Mahon The world of soap can be a fickle place. While the Big Three may still rule the ratings on their respective channels, it is also a genre littered with the ghosts of the infamous and the unwatched. For every EastEnders there's an Echo...
Coronation Street to air SIX times a week from 2017
ITV's new Director of Television Kevin Lygo has announced plans to expand Coronation Street to SIX times a week. The sixth episode will be added to ITV schedules late next year. Speaking of his decision Lygo said, "I am a life-long fan of Coronation Street...
How Dominic Treadwell-Collins saved EastEnders
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...
The Custard TV at Edinburgh: Soaps Masterclass
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...
Behind the scenes of the Corrie fire
Kal Nazir (Jimi Mistry) sensationally departed Coronation Street on Thursday night after being caught in the explosion at Victoria Court. Kal, Leanne (Jane Danson) and Amy Barlow (Elle Mulvaney) became trapped on the balcony of Carla’s flat and whilst Leanne and Amy...
EastEnders Max to take break.
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...
EastEnders teases summer storylines
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...
Emmerdale waves goodbye to character after 21 years
Long running Emmerdale character Betty Eagleton is to leave the soap after 21 years as actress Paula Tilbrook retires. Known as the village gossip, Betty is always the first to be in the know about something. It is with a very heavy heart that...
Bonnie Langford joins Eastenders
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...
EastEnders couple land BBC drama
EastEnders’ favourites, Kat and Alfie, will be taking a break from Walford later this year but even though they are leaving Albert Square they will not be leaving BBC One as they will star in their very own drama series. Life has been a rollercoaster for the on/off...
Is EastEnders suffering a slump??
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....
EastEnders: Farewell Peter & Lauren
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 explains Lucy choice.
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...
EastEnders: Were you satisfied?
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...
EastEnders reveals Lucy’s killer in flashback
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...
EastEnders: Kathy Returns!
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...
Eastenders Spoiler: Lucy Bealer’s Killer Revealed (Updated)
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...
EastEnders: What we know, suspect and want to know!
So, we've done it, ten long but well plotted months ago stroppy Lucy Beale was found dead on Walford common. The story has plotted with the expert precision of the best whodunnits on TV and today the culprit will finally be revealed! At EastEnders HQ a select...
Our Favourite Eastenders Moments
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...
CUSTARD TV PODCAST SPECIAL: Eastenders Turns Thirty
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...