EastEnders

His P45 is in the post.

last night's cast

Abi Branning Lorna Fitzgerald
Adam Best David Proud
Amira Masood Preeya Kalidas
Becca Swanson Simone James
Ben Mitchell Charlie Jones
Bianca Butcher Patsy Palmer
Billie Jackson Devon Anderson
Billy Mitchell Perry Fenwick
Bobby Beale Alex Francis
Bradley Branning Charlie Clements
Carol Jackson Lindsey Coulson
Charlie Slater Derek Martin
Chelsea Fox Tiana Benjamin
Christian Clarke John Partridge
Darren Miller Charlie G Hawkins
DC Hughes Jamie Treacher
DCI Marsden Sophie Stanton
Denise Johnson Diane Parish
Dot Branning June Brown
Dotty Cotton Molly Conlin
Fat Boy Ricky Norwood
Heather Trott Cheryl Fergison
Ian Beale Adam Woodyatt
Jack Branning Scott Maslen
Jane Beale Laurie Brett
Janine Butcher Charlie Brooks
Jay Brown Jamie Borthwick
Jean Slater Gillian Wright
Jim Branning John Bardon
Jordan Johnson Michael-Joel David Stuart
Lauren Branning Madeline Duggan
Leon Small Sam Attwater
Liam Butcher James Forde
Libby Fox Belinda Owusu
Lucas Johnson Don Gilet
Lucy Beale Melissa Suffield
Masood Ahmed Nitin Ganatra
Max Branning Jake Wood
Minty Peterson Cliff Parisi
Morgan Jackson-King Devon Higgs
Pat Evans Pam St Clement
Patrick Trueman Rudolph Walker
Peggy Mitchell Barbara Windsor
Peter Beale Thomas Law
Phil Mitchell Steve McFadden
Registrar Joyce Henderson
Ricky Butcher Sid Owen
Robbie Jackson Dean Gaffney
Ronnie Mitchell Samantha Womack
Roxy Mitchell Rita Simons
Ryan Malloy Neil McDermott
Shirley Carter Linda Henry
Sonia Fowler Natalie Cassidy
Stacey Branning Lacey Turner
Syed Masood Marc Elliott
Tamwar Masood Himesh Patel
Tiffany Dean Maisie Smith
Vicar Martin Winbush
Whitney Dean Shona McGarty
Zainab Masood Nina Wadia
Zsa Zsa Carter Emer Kenny

did I miss anybody?

wonder if the guy playing DC Hughes (Jamie Treacher) is related to Bill Treacher who played Arthur Fowler )

interesting casting in that both Carol and Bianca have mix race sons both played by actors called Devon

I hear it's his Son, not sure how true that is though.

So apparently this is the real life square that they modelled for the show.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fassett+Square+Hackney&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.966832,37.22168&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Fassett+Square,+Hackney,+Greater+London+E8+1,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.547006,-0.065912&spn=0.000352,0.001136&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=51.547006,-0.065912&panoid=FBddt8s_uP-FHRfmWjEQRw&cbp=12,42.46,,0,0.3

Couldn't believe what I just heard now in the Argy Bharji - Tracy (Barmaid Tracy) uttered twelve sentences all to herself and featuring around one hundred words!!!!! This must be a first, surely. (we are weeks behind you guys here on BBC Prime).

Steve - thanks for the cast list.

2 reasons to watch Easties tonite then, apart from the obvious.

Any technical problems?

Will Lacey Turner's voice hold out?

be funny to see the queen vic clock actually saying the same time as our clocks, if it works that is.

have you ever noticed the subtle lack of clocks on soaps, and when you see them they never have a second hand or work, they say the same time for the entire duration of a three minute scene

apparently they've timed the movement between the studios and the square so that character have time to actually get from A to B so we won't see anybody leave the vic then promptly appear outside and walk across the square

remember the corry live episode where everybody left the rovers except for ken and Peter who stayed behind and did a scene together to give everybody else time to run from the studio onto the street set (which is a lot smaller than the eastenders lot)

they'd not be able to do an emmerdale live unless it was all indoors or outdoors

they could have done a live brookside as it was all done on the one set


anyway two and a half hours to go

Wasn't the parade in brookside about 2/3 miles away from the close?

The Bill did it in 2005 and a timecheck

"What time is it"
*shot on clock*
"Twenty two, just calm down"

It's interesting when The Bill went live, I remember Graham Cole forgot to finish a line when talking to Mickey Webb in the corridor.. something like "So how's it going..*pause* Sorry, what I meant was.. How's it going up in MIT?".

Of course, that won't happen tonight.... it'll be worse, probably!

The Bill also, if I remember correctly, had a time of death declared by a doctor during the live episode. He might have been told to pad it out a bit, because he paused so long after saying "Time of death" that it looked like he'd forgotten how to read a clock!

David

It would be nice to see a few mistakes tonight, one of the few reason's I'll be watching, and the fact that I might as well anyway, also, seeing as it'll be most likely light in the square, the clock thing won't work, as it would be dark at the time, when it'll be light on the square.