EastEnders viewers will remember having the show’s set around for some decades.
While show stalwarts such as Phil Mitchell (played by Steve McFadden) and Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) have been wandering around the same set for years, the BBC recently announced it would be getting a new look.
However as plans to redefine how EastEnders ought to look are underway, MPs heard that the project had been “managed badly.”
Reported by The Telegraph, MPs at a committee discussing the soap’s plans first heard the set, which was originally built in 1984, was “no longer fit for purpose.”
The project, which has been dubbed E20, will now cost £27 million more than originally expected.
As well as this, the new set was deemed “crucial to the future success of EastEnders.”
While a new set may initially seem like a minor change, this will surely have enormous repercussions for the inherent style of the soap.
The new set is being built to “better reflect East End London,” according to the BBC, and to extend Walford as Albert Square and the Queen Victoria are also rebuilt.
However the Public Accounts committee said: “The BBC has managed [the] project badly.”
They went on to say they were “disappointed by
