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Tonight’s episode of Eastenders started with Shirley dumping Garry’s things out of her window, in a none too subtle way of explaining that she wanted him to leave. Shirley was excited that Dean would be leaving prison that day and coming to stay with her. She cooked Heather a fry-up breakfast and then ... asked her to leave. However, Shirley took Heather around to Minty’s flat where she explained that Hazel still loved Minty and had told Garry to “let Minty down”. At this, Minty raced around to The Arches and made up with Garry offering him his room back.
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EastEnders received its second lowest ratings on 17 May 2007, when 4.0 million viewers tuned in to see Ian Beale and Phil Mitchell's car crash, part of the show's most expensive stunt. This was ... the lowest ever audience share, with just 19.6%. This was attributed to a conflicting one hour special episode of Emmerdale on ITV1 which revealed the perpetrator in the long running Tom King murder mystery storyline. Emmerdale'[S] audience peaked at 9.1 million. Ratings for the 10 p.m. EastEnders repeat on BBC Three reached an all time high of 1.4 million.[81][82] However, on Christmas Day 2007, EastEnders gained one of its highest ratings for years and the highest ratings for any TV programme in 2007, when 13.9 million viewers saw Bradley Branning find out his wife Stacey had been cheating with his father, Max.[83][84] The earlier first half had achieved 11.8 million viewers. The second half of the double bill was the most watched programme on Christmas Day 2007 in the UK, while the first half was third most watched, surpassed only by the Doctor Who Christmas special.
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EastEnders is filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. An aerial photo of the set can be seen here. There are four episodes filmed per week, and are usually filmed about 6–7 weeks in advance of broadcast. During the winter period, filming often takes place up to 8 or 9 weeks in advance, due to less daylight for outdoor filming sessions. The famous two-handers (when only two actors appear in an episode) was originally done for speed; while they film that, the rest of the cast can be making another episode.
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EastEnders is filmed at the BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. An aerial photo of the set can be seen here. There are four episodes filmed per week,[34] and are usually filmed about six to seven weeks in advance of broadcast. When EastEnders went to four episodes a week, more studio space was needed. As a result of that, Top of the Pops had to move from its studio at Elstree to BBC Television Centre in April 2001.
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EastEnders is one of Britain's most successful television soap operas. First shown on BBC1 in 1985, it enjoys regular half hour primetime viewing slots, originally twice and more recently three times a week, repeated in an omnibus edition at the weekend. Within eight months of its launch it reached the number one spot in the ratings and has almost consistently remained amongst the top five programmes ever since (average viewing figures per episode are around 16 million). A brief dip in audience numbers in the Summer of 1983 prompted a rescheduling masterstroke by the then BBC1 controller, Michael Grade, in order to avoid the clash with ITV's more established soap, Emmerdale Farm. The brainchild of producer, Julia Smith, and script editor, Tony Holland, EastEnders is significant in terms of both the survival of the BBC and the history of British popular television drama.
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No matter how you look at it, EastEnders hasn't had a vintage year. Its planned baby abduction storyline went awry when the whole Madeleine McCann thing happened, only for EastEnders to replace it at the last minute with a terrifying belly-slashing torture scene. The Vic is now run by hard-faced Terrahawk who looks like Alan Sugar. One episode genuinely revolved around sibling telepathy. Bobby Davro. But don't worry, because back to save the day is Patsy Palmer, the woman who won the nation's heart by being ginger and screaming the word "Rickaaaay!" four billion times an episode for six years solid like some sort of awful pikey rape alarm.
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