EastEnders win CDN Diversity Award
Fabulous news alert!
EastEnders clinched an award for Mainstreaming Disability at last night's Cultural Diversity Network Awards, hosted by Gok Wan.
Into its second year, the CDN Diversity Awards honoured the show for encouraging awareness of disability by featuring disabled contributors and characters. It also recognised that the ongoing drama does not feature storylines which exclusively focus on their disability.
The judges praised the positive portrayal of Jim Branning, played by real-life stroke victim John Bardon, and the bipolar disorder storylines, played by Stacey and her mum, Jean.
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At 09:05 3rd Dec 2010, Roshni wrote:Aww...Jim is awsome, glad he got praised, he deserves it :)
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At 15:43 3rd Dec 2010, smiley wrote:Congrats EE. A well deserved award. Jim/ John is great and Lacey and Gill did a fantastic job with the bi-polar storyline. The production team should be proud of themselves.
That is Eastenders at its best, realistic portrayal of real life issues.
Which is not what can be said about the upcoming Ronnie and Kat storyline, who seems so far fetched and unrealistic.
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At 20:27 3rd Dec 2010, charmingJohnBoy wrote:Well done EE. You should all be proud. This is well deserved. Congrats. :-)
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