eastenders in comic relief

[crisgal]

i let my kids stay up a bit lter last night to watch comic relief. While the Eastender thing was on I went to get their pjs and put the washer on etc., so i didn't see it.
I don't watch eastenders so have no idea about their storylines.

When my 9 year old daughter went to bed, she was crying. I thought it was because of the africa films, but she said the eastenders thing had really scared her. She wouldn't tell me what she'd seen though.
What was it?

[Whickerman]

this storyline is running at 7.30 each evening and is appropriate to the programme it's in; 9.25 is past the watershed and you need to be aware that programming becomes more adult after 9.
As explained above, it highlights the plight of some kids in the UK and this is part of what comic relief is about. There were also clips of people dying of Aids and other horror stories; this fictional tale wasn't half as harrowing as those

[crisgal]

well i hate to disagree with you whickerman, but this obviously WAS more harrowing to my daughter. I know that Eastenders storylines can be dark, and that is one of the -many-reasons we don't watch it.
Don't worry, I won't be letting her stay up next time. At 8.55, she'll have to go to bed, won't she?

[goldilocks24]

EE is on at 8pm at the latest so this will be shown before the watershed anyways - i think it is quite shocking though but thats the impact it's meant to have I suppose