Tony Holland 1940-2007
I was asked to write a blog for the Guardian this morning to commemorate the passing of Tony Holland, who co-created EastEnders. You can read it here, and now Guardian readers can comment on me. (Under Tony's obituary on their website, someone weighed in immediately with the helpful comment that EastEnders has destroyed British culture or something. Nice. He won't be sending any flowers then.) Sorry about the doleful self-portrait.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 11:20 AM
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Andrew, your picture makes you look a bit like Kevin Spacey. Yummy!
I went to an EastEnders Christmas do last night, and the current producer made a very nice speech about Tony Holland.
I think he'd approve of what's going on in the show today. It's certainly better now than it's been for ages.
No Bob, he looks more like Patrick Troughton. Yummy!
As I remember, Me and My Girl was quite good. I used to quite fancy Joanne Ridley when I was a little boy. Now we're on this track, I used to be absolutely head over heels in love with Leslie Ash in 'The Happy Apple'. It broke my heart when the series ended. She cut her hair in the last episode, and I didn't like that. A bit like when Olivia Newton John went curly in Grease. The first woman I fell in love with, apart from me Mam, was Debbie Harry singing Sunday Girl. I was in me high chair. I shit you not, I was utterly seduced. It's funny that, despite falling for blondes in a big way when I was a young man, my wife is a brunette.
No one can deny that EastEnders is both thoroughly depressing miserabilism, and, were it real, it would be crawling with more police than Brookside Close as the place is an absolute deathtrap.
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