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- EastEnders is a British soap opera series that has aired on BBC One since 19 February 1985. It has been nominated for a variety of different awards including 11 British Academy Television Awards (five wins), six Royal Television Society Programme Awards (two wins), nine Television and Radio Industries Club (TRIC) Awards (seven wins) and 166 British Soap Awards (50 wins). Its first award, for Favourite Programme, was given by the Anna Scher Theatre on 24 January 1986. At the British Academy Television Awards, EastEnders has won the Best Soap or Best Continuing Drama Award four times, in 1999, 2000, 2002 and 2006, with a further four nominations (2001, 2003, 2007 and 2008), and Best Drama Series once, in 1997. The show has received a total of 15 nominations in the Most Popular Serial Drama and Best Soap Opera categories at the National Television Awards, which it has won a total of 10 times. It has also won Best Soap at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards twice, in 2002 and 2009, with a further three nominations in 2004, 2005 and 2006. At The British Soap Awards, it has won Best British Soap seven times (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009; also nominated in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007), Best Storyline twice (1999, for the storyline for when Tiffany Mitchell discovers her mother's affair with her husband Grant and in 2008, for the aftermath of Max Branning and Stacey Slater's affair), and Best Single Episode twice (in 2006 for an Armistice Day episode, and 2002 for the episode where Zoe Slater learns that Kat is her mother). The show has won Inside Soap's Best Soap Award every year from 1996 to 2006, and again in 2008. In the TV Quick and TV Choice awards, it won Best Soap in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2009. In March 2009, EastEnders won its third TRIC award in the category TV Soap of the Year, having also won similar categories at the British Soap Awards, National Television Awards, TV Quick and TV Choice Awards, and Inside Soap Awards within 10 months. EastEnders' Executive Producer Diederick Santer commented that this was due to having "the most talented cast and crew in the business, and the most fantastic and dedicated audience. " Several different EastEnders actors have received acting award nominations for their performances in the show. June Brown is the only EastEnders actor to receive a nomination at the British Academy Television Awards and Patsy Palmer is the only one to be nominated in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Simon May won a TRIC award in 1986 for the EastEnders theme tune. Co-creator Tony Holland and writer Tony Jordan have also been honoured. As of April 2009, EastEnders has been nominated for over 400 awards and won more than 180.
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