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‘Happy Christmas, Ange’: why we have always loved a dramatic TV divorce

Untying the knot is having a television moment with the launch of the HBO legal thriller War and BBC’s The Split Up

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3

EastEnders is 40 years old – but will the soap opera make it to 50?

IN FOCUS: The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that someone on the square is having a worse day than you have helped it to reach an extraordinary milestone, writes Fiona Sturges

The Independent UK · Feb 19, 2025

EastEnders at 40: how a ‘public service soap’ became a national institution

Thirteen million people across the UK sat down to watch a brand new soap opera that burst onto their screens on February 19 1985. The first character to speak on EastEnders was Dirty Den, as he came to be known, played by Leslie Grantham. Breaking into a dingy flat with…

The Conversation · Feb 18, 2025

Tracy-Ann Oberman: ‘Shakespeare could not avoid the attitude of hatred towards Jews at the time he was writing’

The actor talks to Sarah Crompton about setting ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at the time of Oswald Mosley’s fascists, and her thoughts on trigger warnings

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2023

EastEnders' Queen Vic curse: Gruesome murders, tragedy and families torn apart

EastEnders' famous The Queen Vic pub is at the centre of Walford, but it's also been the location of many deaths and soap twists over the years

Daily Mirror · Feb 21, 2023

EastEnders' original cast now - sex scandals, changed identity and tragic deaths

As EastEnders' Arthur Fowler actor Bill Treacher dies, The Mirror explores the varied fortunes of the rest of the original cast

Daily Mirror · Nov 9, 2022