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"East Street"
EastEnders and Coronation Street crossover event
Written byDaran Little[1]
Original air date19 November 2010 (2010-11-19)

"East Street" is a charity

crossover mini-episode between British soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders.[2] It was broadcast on 19 November 2010 as part of children's charity Children in Need's 2010 telethon on BBC One.[3] Written by Daran Little
, it stars several actors from both television shows, and depicts humorous encounters between their characters.

Plot

town twinning
. Eileen invites Zainab into her home and Zainab is shocked to learn that Eileen has a gay son and a gay lodger, so she hurries out, and walks into the door frame. This scene can also be seen as a precursor to the December 2010 tram crash, as when the house shakes and Zainab asks what that was, Eileen says "Oh it was the tram - I've always said they'll be the death of me!"

Meanwhile,

Albert Square. Jay Brown (Jamie Borthwick) wolf whistles at Michelle and points out a ladder in her tights. Dev goes off for a business meeting, while Michelle meets Alfie Moon (Shane Richie) and recognises him from a 2007 holiday in Spain. Inside The Queen Victoria, Kat Moon (Jessie Wallace) cannot understand Jason Grimshaw's (Ryan Thomas) accent, so Liz McDonald (Beverley Callard) serves him. Jason sees Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) and they are attracted to each other. Kat tells Liz her skirt is too short after measuring it. Dev meets Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra
) in the Minute Mart shop where they talk about business and Asian stereotypes. When they part ways, Dev makes a call saying the shop is perfect, while Masood makes one saying Dev has fallen for his ruse. Kat is unhappy that her husband Alfie is talking to Michelle.

Gail McIntyre (Helen Worth) meets Denise Fox (Diane Parish) in Walford's café and asks if Denise is married. Denise says her husband is in prison for murdering her ex-husband. Gail says her husband killed his ex-wife and their neighbour. Denise says hers also killed his ex-wife, and then took her to the canal. Gail says hers drove her and her family into a canal. Denise says hers locked her in a basement, so Gail says it does not compare to being in prison, to which Fatboy (Ricky Norwood) says Gail is the winner. Michelle and Alfie sing karaoke but are stopped by Kat, who tells Michelle to get out of her pub. She then sees a charm on Liz's bracelet and asks her to explain it. Liz says she gave up a child for adoption and made charms out of two nappy pins, one which she kept and one which she gave to the adoptive parents to give to her daughter when she turned 18. Liz says they probably did not do that, but Kat says maybe they did, revealing an identical charm. Kat insists Liz is not her mother, but Liz says she is (as a reference to the majorly recognised Kat and Zoe cliffhanger from 2001).

Background

The crossover was announced on 8 November 2010 as part of the BBC One telethon for the children's charity Children in Need.

John Partridge (Christian),[3] Diane Parish (Denise), Jessie Wallace (Kat),[2] Shane Richie (Alfie),[4] Ricky Norwood (Fatboy), Nitin Ganatra (Masood), Shona McGarty (Whitney)[5] and Jamie Borthwick (Jay).[2] The stars from Coronation Street who appear are Sue Cleaver (Eileen), Antony Cotton (Sean), Julie Hesmondhalgh (Hayley), Shobna Gulati (Sunita),[3] Beverley Callard (Liz), Kym Marsh (Michelle), Helen Worth (Gail),[2] Jimmi Harkishin (Dev) and Ryan Thomas (Jason).[4]

Callard, Marsh, Worth, Harkishin and Thomas visited the EastEnders set, Partridge, Hawkins, Brett, Wadia and Babbington visited the Coronation Street set, while the other cast members remained on their respective usual sets.[citation needed]

Cast reactions

On filming on the EastEnders set, Callard said, "I've visited the EastEnders set many years ago but this is the first time I've worked on it and it was great. We've had a great time and the script is so funny. It's so good."

Albert Square set was "very surreal",[5] adding "I loved watching their reactions when I showed them round the Square. And seeing Bev [Callard] and Jessie [Wallace] behind the bar was strange."[4]

Hesmondhalgh said the experience was exciting but nerve-wracking, and said her character Hayley probably has a crush on Christian when they meet. Wadia joked that the Coronation Street cast were slightly arrogant and obnoxious, while Cleaver said it was as if the EastEnders cast had been on the Coronation Street set forever. Babbington was also excited and said she had fun, and Worth was also very nervous. Borthwick thought the crossover was something that should have been done a long time ago. Norwood said the scene between Kat and Liz was nice because of the similarities between the characters.[6]

A month after the broadcast of "East Street", Callard, who later departed from Coronation Street in 2011, said she loved filming the scenes with Wallace and they could not stop laughing. She added that she would love to play Kat's mother in EastEnders for real.[7]

Reception

Before airing, Mark Jefferies from the

Evening Herald said the episode was "comedy gold" and the best moment of the entire telethon, adding that the conversation between Gail and Denise was the funniest scene, as it poked fun of the soaps' often similar storylines, and praising the cast and writers for parodying soap stereotypes, exaggerating storylines and poking fun at themselves.[9] Kevin O'Sullivan from the Daily Mirror said the crossover was "kind of excruciating."[10] In her review of soap operas in the second half of 2010, Ruth Deller from lowculture.co.uk said that "East Street" deserved a special mention as it was "great fun, especially the evil husband top trumps scene."[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ Little,Daran [@DaranLittle] (23 November 2010). "so East Street was watched by 10 million viewers!" (Tweet). Retrieved 26 August 2017 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Kilkelly, Daniel (17 November 2010). "In Pictures: 'Enders, Corrie crossover". Digital Spy. London. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d Love, Ryan (8 November 2010). "Soaps - News - 'Enders, Corrie 'CIN' crossover confirmed - Digital Spy". Digital Spy. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d e Jefferies, Mark (17 November 2010). "Coronation Street and EastEnders to merge for Children in Need - pics". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Coronation Street and EastEnders to merge for charity". BBC News. BBC Online. 17 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  6. ^ Lou (22 November 2010). "Behind the scenes video: Eastenders unite with Corrie" (video). EastEnders. BBC Online. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  7. ^ Kilkelly, Daniel (16 December 2010). "Corrie's Callard: 'I'd join EastEnders'". Digital Spy. London. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  8. ^ Welch, Andy (17 November 2010). "East meets North as Corrie takes over Albert Square". AOL Television. AOL. Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 17 November 2010.
  9. Evening Herald
    . Dublin. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  10. ^ O'Sullivan, Kevin (21 November 2010). "Children in Needs a great cause.. but how it drags". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
  11. ^ Deller, Ruth (30 December 2010). "Soapstar Superstars: July – December 2010". lowculture.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2010.

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