The great
British soap is going on hold. But if you’re pining for the fake deaths, awful lotharios or businesses that could never exist in the real world, there are alternative shows out there
The news that EastEnders and other
BBC soaps (namely the hospital ones: Doctors, Casualty, Holby City) have paused filming may be little more than a footnote in the history books when we look back upon this pandemic. But we – the die-hard EastEnders fans who are nurtured by its philanderous plotlines and the ill-fitting knitwear of Ian Beale – will for ever remember.
If now more than ever you need the distraction of an unrealistically well-stocked Minute Mart and the only caff in east
London that does not sell flat whites, we have got you covered. True, there is only one EastEnders, but with some careful curation, you can get your fix of soap-tropes elsewhere.