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EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, which was first broadcast on February 19, 1985.
SettingIt is set in and around the fictional Albert Square, ostensibly located in the equally fictional London borough of Walford in London's East End. Much of the action revolves around the market, and the nearby public house, the Queen Victoria. The Queen Vic, as it is known to its customers, is the primary meeting place for the show's characters and is the site of many of the show's major storylines. The first known landlord, "Dirty" Den Watts (played by Leslie Grantham), endured an acrimonious divorce from his wife Angie, only to be shot and presumed killed until his return in 2003. A subsequent landlady Peggy Mitchell (Barbara Windsor) emerged as a leading character in the 1990s, enduring breast cancer and coping with the on-going problems of her adult sons Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp). Walford has a fictional London postal district, London E20, and a fictional tube station, Walford East, which is located on the Eastenders tube map in the position normally occupied by the real Bromley-by-Bow tube station. It is actually filmed at Borehamwood to the north-west of London. PopularityEastEnders is one of the more popular programmes on British television and used to regularly attract between 15 and 20 million viewers. Its main rival for ratings is usually Coronation Street on rival station ITV. In order to maximise ratings the BBC and ITV are usually careful to avoid scheduling clashes between their flagship soaps. On 20 September, 2004 Louise Berridge, the then executive producer of the show quit following massive criticism of the show. The following day the show received its lowest ever ratings (6.2 million) when it went head-to-head against Emmerdale, ITV's usually less-popular soap, which was watched by 8.1 million. A few weeks later the producers announced a major shake-up of the cast with the highly-criticised Ferreira family, first seen in June 2003, set to leave at the beginning of 2005. CastPresent
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