EastEnders (the popular BBC TV series, as reported by the Walford Gazette, the world's only newspaper dedicated to the series, published continuously since 1992. Walford State of Mind provides a best of the newspaper's first 18 years and 72 issues, providing analysis, interviews with EastEnders' creative team, reviews, and chronicles the author's battles with the BBC over US distribution of EastEnders.
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Larry Jaffee is a media professional with more than a quarter century of journalism experience. His career highlights include regularly contributing articles to The New York Times at the age of 23, published in Rolling Stone at 24 and editing the prestigious resort newspaper Fire Island News at 25. Since then, Jaffee has run various magazines, conferences and websites in the entertainment and media industry, including MediaCentral.com, Medialine and Promo. He has taught journalism at Pennsylvania State University (MA, 1986) and Hofstra University (BA, 1980). Since 1993 he has published and edited continuously the Walford Gazette (http://www.wgazette.com), a quarterly newspaper published with permission from the BBC, is the world's only publication dedicated to EastEnders. Each 16-page issue provides behind-the-scenes information about the series. While the Walford Gazette has been a labour of love, Jaffee ranks the newspaper and its offshoot book, Albert Square & Me: The Actors of EastEnders, among his most impressive accomplishments. He lives in New York, and may be reached at lsjaffee@gmail.com
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By N. Richie
Format:Paperback
Walford State of Mind is the second volume on the long-running successful British soap opera, EastEnders, edited by Larry Jaffee. Mr. Jaffee is the co-founder of Walford Gazette, an EE fanzine published in America and not officially affiliated with the BBC(producers of EE), but read by EE fans worldwide. My review of the previous volume (Albert Square and Me: The Actors of EastEnders) may be found on Amazon.com and will not be repeated here, other than to say that book is a collection of interviews with EE cast members over the years. Walford State of Mind, in contrast, is a volume for which I see two major audiences, which in some cases may overlap: Die-hard EE fans, and professional TV critics/historians. The first group will likely be entranced by chapters on such subjects as: visits to America by castmembers, to help raise funds for PBS stations which broadcast the series here; articles on the socio-economic aspects of the "real" East End of London and how they are reflected in the series' scripts; the post-EE careers of some of the most popular actors on the series; an analysis of favorite episodes -- among many other topics. For the second audience - TV critics and historians (some of whom may also be fans)this book is a treasure-trove as a case study on the creation of a long-running television series, and its vicissitudes over time. For instance: changes in administration,organization and policy at the BBC which affected the series in both positive and negative ways -- as did personnel changes among the producers, writers and directors of the series itself; competition from its main rival back in the UK -- Coronation Street, which led to EE producers having to increase its production schedule from one episode per week to four, so that now in the USA, PBS viewers in most areas are approximately seven years behind the episodes currently being shown in the UK; the canceling of the series by a number of PBS stations because of steady increases in BBC licensing fees for carrying it -- with resultant panic among fans in the USA (I am fortunate that my local PBS station - WPBT2(Miami) has carried the series since the first episode, but I hold my breath each year, as do other EE fans, that it will be renewed.
Lastly,the book has a nice selection of photos which are relevant to its focus.
Lastly,the book has a nice selection of photos which are relevant to its focus.
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