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EastEnders
The First 10 Years
1994
First Published
3.88
Average Rating
168
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"EastEnders", the hugely popular soap that regularly draws in 17,000,000 viewers and now runs thrice-weekly, is a community drama where people argue, gossip, laugh, fight and feud, have romances, secrets, parties and weddings and babies, but never lose sight of the fact that they are a community and that they'll always stick by one another. The stories are numerous and include tales of murder, runaway lovers, teenage pregnancies, gambling debts and kidnapped children, as well as special Christmas, and other seasonal stories. " The First Ten Years" is the official celebrationary book of the series with photos and interviews with the actors, and speculations on future tensions and dramas. It contains a collection of background information, character and plot development and trivia, packed into a fully illustrated excursion of Albert Square. Do you Who was Reg Cox and who killed him? Who fathered Cindy's boy, Stephen? Why did Arthur Fowler go to prison in 1987? What was the real reason Den Watts went to prison? Discover the answers to these and other questions in this behind-the-scenes re-telling of the programme's history and also how Julia Smith and Tony Holland created the programme. The book offers a year-by-year guide of the main story events, with a closer look at the "special" episodes, and includes a detailed feature which traces the making of one week's episodes, from the first story conference and script-commissioning meeting, right up to transmission. To round off the book, a fun piece has been included - a short story set in the year 2015 (the 25th anniversary) with computerized, grown-up versions of Vicki Fowler, Martin Fowler and Stephen Beale. A detailed appendix lists episodes, transmission dates, writers and directors.
Avg Rating
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Author

Colin Brake
Colin Brake
Author · 16 books

Colin Brake is an English television writer and script editor best known for his work for the BBC on programs such as Bugs and EastEnders. He has also written spin-offs from the BBC series Doctor Who. He currently lives and works in Leicester. Brake began working on EastEnders in 1985 as a writer and script editor, being partly responsible for the introduction of the soap's first Asian characters Saeed and Naima Jeffery. From there, he went on to work as "script executive" on the popular Saturday night action adventure program Bugs, before moving to Channel 5 in 1997 to be "script associate" on their evening soap Family Affairs. In the early 2000s, Brake wrote episodes of the daytime soaps Doctors and the revival of Crossroads. Away from television, Brake had his first Doctor Who related writing published as part of Virgin Publishing's Decalog short story collection in 1996. He then had his first novel Escape Velocity published by BBC Books in February 2001 as part of their Eighth Doctor Adventures range based on the television series Doctor Who. At the time, Brake was quoted as saying how appropriate it was that he was now writing for Doctor Who, as he was briefly considered as Eric Saward's replacement as script editor on the show - a job that eventually went to Andrew Cartmel instead. Brake followed Escape Velocity with the Past Doctor Adventure The Colony of Lies in July 2003, and then with the audio adventure Three's a Crowd from Big Finish Productions in 2005. His Tenth Doctor Adventure The Price of Paradise was released in September 2006. He has also written an audio for their Bernice Summerfield range, and a short story for their Short Trips range.

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