{"id":208843,"date":"2025-12-24T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208843\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:32:08","slug":"eastenders-tube-crash-former-boss-shares-alternative-plan-for-40th-anniversary-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/208843\/","title":{"rendered":"EastEnders Tube crash! Former boss shares alternative plan for 40th anniversary disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former EastEnders<\/a> boss Chris Clenshaw has revealed his alternative idea for the BBC One soap’s 40th anniversary episode, and explained why we got the dramatic fire in the Queen Vic instead.<\/p>\n

Clenshaw, who departed a few months after the tentpole episodes aired in February to make way for Ben Wadey, appeared on the Albert Square After Dark<\/a> podcast. He spilled the beans on the anniversary, The Six, and emotional storylines such as Lola Pearce’s death and Phil Mitchell’s mental health issues.<\/p>\n

“EastEnders is best when it’s a blockbuster storyline cut against something incredibly rooted in realism, something people can relate to, or an issue-led storyline,” he explained.<\/p>\n

“But I think when it comes to anniversaries, you want spectacle, I think you want to be surprised. I want more a Six type of storyline than you do a Lola type of storyline.<\/p>\n

“That’s what we were looking for, and we talked about the Tube coming off the tracks and things like that.”<\/p>\n

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Both Clenshaw and the hosts agreed that it would make for quite the spectacular event, so why didn’t it happen?<\/p>\n

He explained: “It would be brilliant, we couldn’t make it work for various reasons. But I loved The Vic. The Vic is the heart of the show and I know that it was kind of announced, or people got wind of it, people were like ‘we’ve seen Vic fires before’.<\/p>\n

“I knew that this would be different, it wasn’t a ‘fire’, it was an explosion and [what was important was] what it was going to lead to, which is Martin’s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“But that became the spectacle, and it also became the heart, and a way of getting everyone there. You want there to be a community event at the heart, we had Billy and Honey’s wedding.”<\/p>\n

He also stated that they had “more meetings than we ever did” for any other storyline during his tenure, which started in 2017 as a story producer\/script editor and then saw him become executive producer in 2022.<\/p>\n

Wadey’s tenure has mostly focused on the return of Zoe Slater and all the issues surrounding her, with the identity of her stalker finally being revealed in today’s episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

EastEnders airs on Mondays-Thursdays at 7.30pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer, where most episodes drop early at 6am ahead of their TV broadcast. <\/p>\n

Read more EastEnders spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

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