Interview with EastEnders New Executive Producer Bryan Kirkwood

The folks over at Digital Spy scored themselves an interview with EastEnders newest executive producer Bryan Kirkwood. In the interview the former Hollyoaks boss discusses what it was like working on Hollyoaks, the differences between the two shows, how he was accepted and much more.

Here is a quick snippet of the interview:

What's your overall vision for the show?
"The obvious fear is that I'm going to turn EastEnders into Hollyoaks - but that's not going to happen. Quite the contrary. I feel the storytelling tactics on Hollyoaks - like the dream sequences and flashbacks - work brilliantly because that's how it was originally conceived. In contrast, my approach to EastEnders is to make it as real as possible. It must exist in reality. Over the course of 25 years of story, the sense of it being a real place with real people has occasionally been lost. I'd like to retrieve that and ensure that sense of reality runs through every story."

The full interview can be read here.

Are you looking forward to Kirkwoods run on EastEnders?

Mr. Kirkwood's first episode airs on June 7th 2010.