Eastenders - live week

Tomorrow's is the fully live one, today's episodes just have live segments, they should have the #EELive hashtag on screen.

I overheard a party of Octogenarians today talking about tonight's EE. What was interesting was they referred to BBC 3, as ' Channel 7 ' !!!

^Its Freeview channel number - I bet they call ITV "Channel 3" as well.

There was a couple in my local co-op who were talking about repeats of The Bill and referring to the channel it was on as "twenty". Believe me, it's more common than you might think!

Yeah - Digital Spy is still up and running after all that. Phew.

My late Nan always used to refer to Challenge as ITV46!

I'm guessing the opening scene being them finding Nick dead was a reference to the opening scene of the very first episode. Watching this evening the script writing seemed to be fairly good in terms of keeping you guessing as to who did it. No surprise that the reveal part was done live, and I'm guessing that more than one character/actor may have rehearsed appearing in front of Ian.


I did wonder whether they were planning an explosive ending to the episode, though I guess they decided they've blown up the Vic a bit too recently. I seem to recall the last (or recent) time Eastenders was live it featured someone else giving birth though. I'm assuming that filming in or near Greenwich was done primarily because they were live.

Probably a very nerdy observation but some very nice titles just there. Was wondering if they'd do anything like back in 2010.

Yep - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/eastenders/entries/b0f3d8d0-b562-4fc3-b2b9-fc70eb6883fe

They must have recorded two versions for the 19:30 episode tonight, one with Ian Beale with wet hair, and one with him dry, as of course no way of knowing too far in advance whether or not the live outdoor scenes would be affected by rain ?

No but they may have planned fake rain which would probably be less effort.

I think they also filmed away from the set because