From last year’s devastatingly bleak Call the Midwife to the routine carnage of EastEnders, there’s a long tradition of dark telly over the festive season
Blame Den and Angie. Until the devastating 1986 EastEnders episode in which the Queen Vic’s landlord Den Watts chose Christmas Day to drop divorce papers on his wife, most TV Christmas specials were innocuous. Chas & Dave around the old Joanna. Ronnie Corbett in a Christmas sweater. Now, Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an aeroplane crashing into a pub and maiming half a dozen beloved soap stalwarts.
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