Tony Holland (born in London, England) is a television writer. He is most famously credited as a writer and co-creator of the BBC soap opera EastEnders. London is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom, and is the most populous city in the European Union. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC, sometimes also known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, founded in 1922. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ...

His career in television began on the popular police drama, Z-Cars as a writer and script editor. It was here that he met producer and director, Julia Smith and started a long and succesfull working relationship. Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars, and always pronounced zed, never zee) was a British television drama series centred around the work of regular beat police officers in the fictional town of Newtown, near Liverpool, in the north-west of England. ... Script Editor is a program included with Mac OS that allows AppleScripts to be written, debugged, and ran. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ...

Tony and Julia became an established producer/script-editor team during their time on Z-Cars and went on to work for the BBC's hospital drama, Angels.

It was during their time on Angels that the format of the programme was expanded from weekly hour-long episodes to a bi-weekly half-hour serial, with the further possibility of the show being aired all year round. And in 1983 the BBC approached Tony and Julia to produce a new experience for their channel, a bi-weekly soap-opera that would rival efforts from the long established ITV favourites, Coronation Street, Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm. The BBC wanted this new serial to reflect "London, today!" and together, Julia and Tony came up with the idea of a programme set in in a Victorian Square within the East End of London, focusing on it's close working-class families and eccentric Cockney inhabitants. Thus, EastEnders was born. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The East End of London, known locally as the East End, is part of London in the United Kingdom. ... A Cockney, in the loosest sense of the word, is a working-class inhabitant of the East End of London. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ...

Tony and Julia wanted a primary focus of EastEnders to be a large extended family, representative of the type most typically found in the East End of London. Tony was from a large London family himself, and in creating some of the show's characters he was able to use some of his own experiences as inspiration for EastEnders central clan the Beales and the Fowlers. In creating the stories and characters, Tony delved into family stories, past and present. His aunt Lou Beale came to inspire the Eastenders character of the same name, along with her two children Peter (Pete) and Pauline. Tony also used some of his experiences as a bar-man in London's pubs and clubs to create the dynamic pairing of Landlord and Landlady Den and Angie Watts. The Beale/Fowler family tree. ... Louise Lou Beale was a fictional character played by Anna Wing in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast on 19 February 1985. ... Peter Pete Beale was a fictional character played by Peter Dean on the popular British BBC1 soap opera EastEnders. ... Pauline Fowler (née Beale) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ...

Tony worked on EastEnders for four years, initially as script-editor and going on to script many episodes himself. Thanks to the genius of it's two creators, and their inate ability to understand the workings of popular British drama, the show experienced huge success. But after only four years, Tony and Julia decided to call it a day, leaving EastEnders together in 1989. In 1991, they were famously tempted back to the 'world of Soap' by the BBC to produce Eldorado, loosely based around the lives of Ex-pats in Spain. Their new show was launched in July 1992, but plagued by a string on and off-screen problems, it received little of Eastenders immense success, and was subsequently axed a year later, in July 1993. Eldorado was an ill-fated British soap opera that aired for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Since the failure of Eldorado and the death of his working-partner Julia Smith in 1995, Tony has all but disappeared from the writing-credits of popular British drama, contributing mainly to television-serials overseas.

In 2002, he was awarded with a Special Achievement Award from the British Soap Awards, and in 2004 he appeared on the Channel 4 documentary How Soaps Changed The World. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British soap operas. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ...

External links

• Tony Holland at the Internet Movie Database