![]() The rivalry between these two soaps endures today, with Coronation Street back on top – for now. It shook things up and brought Coronation Street back to life too." Why was it so popular? "On Coronation Street, the scenes in Rover's Return had become sedate: nobody passed the camera, there was no background noise, no one was fighting to be heard," Cashman says. But in just one year, EastEnders had beaten Coronation Street's all-time most-viewed episode by 10m viewers. It was about a community in the East End of London and it moved as sharply or as slowly as their lives."ĮastEnders debuted in a crowded field of British soaps: Coronation Street was already 26 years old, while Emmerdale and Brookside were popular too. There were no lingering shots or long reactions. "The dialogue was quick and the scenes were fast. ![]() You were a fly on the wall," Michael Cashman, who played Colin Russell in the soap from 1986 to 1989, tells BBC Culture. For Britons, it might be hard to imagine that the soap was ever brand new, but, back in the mid-1980s, EastEnders was different from anything viewers had seen before. Even people who have never watched it can hum its opening theme music. ![]() Now, 36 years since that momentous TV event, and 37 years after EastEnders began, the BBC's flagship soap is part of the UK's cultural furniture. – The 11 best TV shows to watch in October The nation was on tenterhooks as "Dirty" Den Watts finally handed over divorce papers to his wife Angie, with the episode drawing higher ratings than The Queen's Speech. In 1986, 30.1 million people tuned in to watch the Christmas Day instalment of BBC soap EastEnders. ![]()
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