Though EastEnders creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland would eventually settle on the fictional Walford with its E20 postcode, at this point the show had a working title of East 8 - and it was to be ...

Comic actress Kathy Burke has opened up on her previous offer to appear on long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders, and made a ...

Vernon Kay took a swipe at Anita Dobson's rendition of the EastEnders theme song after spinning it on his radio show today. Back in 1986, Anita teamed up with Simon May to release Anyone Can Fall ...

The song, which used the EastEnders theme tune as its melody and produced by Queen guitarist Brian May - who later became her husband - became a hit, reaching number four in the UK charts.

It's a question worthy of its famous doof-doofs of its theme tune: after 40 years of ... Christmas" – according to Sky News – does "EastEnders" still have a role to play in today's TV world?

From the most dramatic scenes, to the romantic, thrilling and delightfully camp, the incomparable EastEnders has been delivering the biggest water cooler moments for 40 years. As a new era begins, the ...

Bring on the doof doofs! Relive iconic moments and sneak behind the scenes of the Square with EastEnders Archivist and superfan Mark James Lowe.

For 40 years, EastEnders has shown us life in a fictional community in east London - but from the iconic characters to the theme tune, could it all have been very different? In the early research ...