"EastEnders Live Week" | |
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Episode no. | Episode 5015–5020 (6 episodes) |
Directed by | Karl Neilson |
Written by | Matt Evans Lauren Klee Rob Gittins Jesse O'Mahoney James Payne |
Produced by | Dominic Treadwell-Collins |
Original air date | 17–20 February 2015 |
Running time | 185 minutes (2x30; 1x55; 2x35) |
EastEnders Live Week (also known as EastEnders: The Week of Revelations) is a set of five EastEnders episodes, including live elements, which was broadcast 17–20 February 2015 to mark the programme's 30th anniversary. The week was based around the wedding of Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and Jane Beale (Laurie Brett), whilst concluding the "Who Killed Lucy Beale?" storyline and featuring elements of the aftermath of Nick Cotton's (John Altman) demise, after he collapsed in his mother Dot Branning's (June Brown) arms having injected himself with impure heroin on 13 February 2015. The week also featured Kim Fox-Hubbard (Tameka Empson) giving birth to her daughter Pearl two months prematurely, the continuing fall out from Dean Wicks' (Matt Di Angelo) rape of Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and the shock return of Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth), who was presumed dead nine years earlier.
All episodes were set on the day of Ian (Adam Woodyatt) and Jane's (Laurie Brett) wedding. Each episode included live "inserts" before broadcasting a full live episode on 20 February. There were two episodes broadcast on 19 February; following its usual broadcast, the show aired its first flashback episode, in which viewers relived the hours leading up to Lucy's death.