Biggest Soap Opera Events

There are often major events within soaps that everyone tunes in to watch. These are events of significant magnitude which will turn the soap upside-down. On Christmas Day 1986, 30.15 million viewers tuned in to watch Den Watts serve Angie, his wife, with the divorce papers. This was the largest rated soap episode in the history of British soaps.

More recently in October 2010, 9.79m (38%) viewers tuned in to watch Harry's revenge on Vanessa in Eastenders at 8'0Clock. BBC Three's 10pm repeat added 829k (4%). Furthermore, the death of iconic character Jack Duckworth, from Coronation Street, be re-united with his dead wife Vera, saw 11.6 million viewers.

Week beginning November 2010, Eastenders was 3rd position in highest figures with 10.4 million viewers. This shows me that Eastenders is a popular soap, so to make sure our soap would get high ratings, we should follow the story lines and keep them similar as we can see these are popular.