User:AnemoneProjectors/List of EastEnders episodes (2012)
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EastEnders is a British soap opera, examining the domestic and professional lives of working class people who live in the fictitious London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The show entered its 26th broadcasted year on 1 January 2013 with its 4348th episode. It ran for 206 episodes in 2012. They were executively produced by Bryan Kirkwood, until he stepped down from the role in March 2012, and Lorraine Newman took over as acting Executive Producer.[1] Kirkwood's last episode was broadcast on 13 July;[2] Newman's first was the following week, on 16 July.[3] Newman became the full-time Executive Producer on 27 June 2012.[4] The episodes were broadcast on BBC One, apart from the six episode from 30 July until 9 August, which were shown on BBC Two due to the 2012 Summer Olympics being broadcast on BBC One. They are all 30 minutes in length, apart from four one-hour episodes, one of 35 minutes, one of 40 minutes and one of 70 minutes. There were also three shorter episodes shown on BBC Online and BBC Red Button. The highest rated episode was on 25 December. The one-hour Christmas Day episode received ratings of 11.31 million viewers. The lowest-rated episode was on 15 November 2012, with viewers numbering 5.53 million.
EastEnders (2012) | |
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No. of episodes | 206 (+9 supplemental) |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One BBC Two (6 episodes) |
Original release | 1 January (2012-01-01) – 31 December 2012 (2012-12-31) |
Season chronology | |
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Storylines that ran throughout 2012 include Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman) being revealed as the culprit who has been having an affair with Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace), Ben Mitchell (Joshua Pascoe) murdering Heather Trott (Cheryl Fergison) and convincing his father Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) and adoptive half-brother Jay Mitchell (Jamie Borthwick) to help cover up the crime, Tanya Jessop (Jo Joyner) discovering that her mother Cora Cross (Ann Mitchell) had another daughter Ava Hartman (Clare Perkins), Michael Moon (Steve John Shepherd) conning Jean Slater (Gillian Wright) out of all her money and lying that her bipolar disorder is intensifying, Max Branning (Jake Wood) being revealed to have another wife Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing), Ian Beale's (Adam Woodyatt) mental breakdown and homelessness, Lauren Branning's (Jacqueline Jossa) relationship with her cousin Joey Branning (David Witts), Derek's feuds with many of the locals, Jack Branning (Scott Maslen) and Roxy Mitchell's (Rita Simons) custody battle for their daughter Amy Mitchell, Pat Evans' (Pam St. Clement) death from pancreatic cancer on New Year's Day, Sharon Rickman's (Letitia Dean) dramatic return to Walford, Roxy developing feelings for the local landlord Alfie Moon (Shane Richie), Lola Pearce (Danielle Harold) losing custody of her baby daughter Lexi after assaulting Alexa Smith (Saffron Coomber), Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) giving birth prematurely to her baby daughter Scarlett and developing paranoia and Derek's death from a heart attack on Christmas Day.
Characters that were introduced during 2012 were Les Coker (Roger Sloman), Ray Dixon (Chucky Venn), Alice Branning (Jasmyn Banks), Joey Branning (David Witts), AJ Ahmed (Phaldut Sharma), Dennis Rickman Jnr (Harry Hickles), Trish Barnes (Tessa Churchard), Danny Pennant (Gary Lucy), Alexa Smith (Saffron Coomber), Ava Hartman (Clare Perkins), Ayesha Rana (Shivani Ghai) and Kirsty Branning (Kierston Wareing). Bradley Freegard, Jesse Birdsall, Juliet Cowan, Daisy Wood-Davis and Frances Lima all guest starred throughout the year as Gethin Williams, John Hewland, Nina Hewland, Tansy Meadow and Jackie Bosch. Cast returning on a regular basis in the year were Letitia Dean as Sharon Rickman and Rachel Bright as Poppy Meadow, with Lucy Beale and Lorraine Stevens returning played by new actresses, Hetti Bywater and Victoria Alcock. Kellie Shirley, Sophie Lawrence, Michael French and Nick Berry all made guest returns as Carly Wicks, Diane Butcher, David Wicks and Simon Wicks. Characters that departed the soap in 2012 were Pat Evans (Pam St. Clement), Norman Simmonds (George Layton), Jane Beale (Laurie Brett), Heather Trott (Cheryl Fergison), Lorraine Stevens (Victoria Alcock), Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton), Afia Masood (Meryl Fernandes), Ricky Butcher (Sid Owen), Rose Cotton (Polly Perkins), Ben Mitchell (Joshua Pascoe), Andrew Cotton (Ricky Grover), Anthony Moon (Matt Lapinskas), Amira Masood (Preeya Kalidas), Syed Masood (Marc Elliott), Christian Clarke (John Partridge) and Derek Branning (Jamie Foreman). Patsy Palmer, Lindsey Coulson, James Forde, Maisie Smith, Charlie Brooks and Linda Henry all temporarily left their roles as Bianca Butcher, Carol Jackson, Liam Butcher, Tiffany Butcher, Janine Butcher and Shirley Carter, all returning at some point during 2012, except for Brooks, who reprised her role as Janine in April 2013.