The live episode this Friday will reveal who killed Archie Mitchell on Christmas Day.

Personally, I couldn't care less, but am aware of it because my wife watches!

One thing that I can't work out is this: The cast don't know who did it, and won't know until Friday. However, they film Eastenders months in advance so, surely, the story line of one character will have given it away to the cast already?

I don't suppose I shall know on Saturday.

Eastenders - the show that always tries to cheer you up on Christmas day by putting a grisly death in the storyline.

Can't stand it myself

I don't watch Eastenders, but I'm just intrigued as to how/why is it 'live'?

Car Expert

Who is Archie Mitchell? I've never watched Eastenders I'm afraid!

Git aaaaaraa mar pub!!!!

Scary!

Neither know, nor care - I last watched Eastenders the night they killed off the bloke from Spandau Ballet.

It is a live transmission, i.e. we're seeing it as it happens. There's no editing process and things can (and probably will) go wrong. I remember a live Bill episode a few years ago where part of the set fell down and you could see the actors trying not to laugh!

I have watched probably around 15-20 minutes of EastEnders in about 25 years. That was plenty

That's 15-20 minutes more than me!

I wouldn't bother starting to watch it, missypiano!

I saw that! My dad and I were killing ourselves laughing at that, it was brill




Same! Just doesn't appeal to me somehow

What little I've seen doesn't even remotely remind me of the East End of London...

Sarcasm? Or being serious? Having never seen Eastenders OR been to the East End Of London, I genuinely have no idea whether this is serious or not, I'm curious

Serious!

I live south of the river, but have regularly travelled to places like Bethnal Green/Stepney/Stratford/Whitechapel/Mile End/Wapping. None of these places are like Walford...

I lie, I've been to Bethnal Green before (I think)

If you've ever been on a school trip to the Museum of Childhood, you've been to Bethnal Green

The Museum Of Childhood? Can't say I have, but it certainly sounds like a fab place! we went to the Natural History Museum in London on a school trip, but me and a few friends got lost in the lunch break as we wandered off to try to find the Royal College Of Music instead (well, it WAS signposted...)

It's a good museum. Not sure it warrants more than one visit, but it's certainly worth seeing once.

I might just have to look it up on Google, I'm curious what it's about now

I had to endure an episode once when I was staying with a friend's family; courtesy won the day I'm afraid.

In exchange for a lift home once, a colleague requested that I watch Emmerdale and report back the following day. Pre-iplayer days, she hadn't set the video and wouldn't have got home in time to watch it. I had never watched an episode (and haven't since) but it was a trial to recall unfamiliar names and relationships that were otherwise unknown to me. I've never remembered any of it! Next time I think I'd consider walking instead!

I blame Wellard.....

Jeez I... 'strongly dislike' that woman. She's such a bad actress! They all are, to be quite frank. I'm not a big fan of soaps. Actually, I despise them.

Apparently they've rehearsed every possible ending and on Friday only the murderer will be told that they killed Archie before the live show. It will be a surprise for the rest of the cast.

Quite a few shows have done this. I think it at the turn of the millennium that Coronation Street did a live episode to 'Save our Street' when they wanted to tarmac over the cobbles. Also, Will and Grace did two live episodes one in season 6 and the other in season 8...You could tell that the cast just wanted to laugh at each other and the jokes, which in turn made it even funnier for the viewer.

Wow Ben. You're such a GEEK.

Don't know who Archie Mitchell was either and doubt that I ever will.

What amazes me is how well some of the minor soaps do at National TV awards. I have never watched Hollyoaks either.

I really can't be bothered with soaps (or TV for that matter). I get all the entertainment I want from music

I'm from Walthamstow, which is North East London and my parents are from Hackney, born and bred. Although I haven't lived there for about 15 years and things may have changed, I don't remember people being as nasty as they all seem to be on Eastenders.
I do watch it occasionally as I now live in Turkey and it's shown here on BBC Entertainment.

That's the attitude to have! *high five*

I still have withdrawal symptoms from Brookside ... My excuse is, I was once off work sick and couldn't be bothered to do anything except watch very undemanding stuff on television. It coincided with the digging up of the body under the patio and I became completely hooked ..
Before they finally scrapped the programme, the storylines became more and more bizarre and they kept moving it round the schedules so it was really difficult to track it down. But I did!

Those were the days,

PatC

I suppose at least Hollyoaks has some nice eye candy to look at for viewers of both genders and of whatever persuasion! It's forgivable

<3 Jessica Fox

It was Stacey. Well well well!

I must admit I couldn't care less. I dislike soaps.