EastEnders is 40 years old – but will the soap opera make it to 50? - IN FOCUS: The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that ...

Back in 1985 the first episode of EastEnders aired and rejuvenated the soap opera world and now it's about to ... attracting around 13 million viewers, including myself, then a 12-year-old ...

EastEnders is 40 years old ... Dirty Den serve his wife divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986 – but it remains an institution, as reliable in the TV schedules as the News at Six. ...

IN FOCUS: The primetime soap may not have its peak 30-million audience, but its humour, warmth and the certainty that someone on the square is having a worse day than you have helped it to reach ...