June Brown’s real-life children were among the mourners in attendance at Dot Cotton’s funeral in Monday night’s episode of EastEnders (12 December).
The actor, who died aged 95 in April, portrayed the chain-smoking Walford matriarch for 35 years and was one of the most iconic figures on the soap.
In a scene at the character’s funeral in the tribute episode, three of Brown’s children – Nim, Sophie and Billy – could be seen sitting on the same row as Dot’s great-nephew Reiss Colwell (played by Jonny Freeman), as Dot was laid to rest.
After being contacted regarding the episodes surrounding Dot’s death, Brown’s children had asked if they could attend the character’s funeral.
Speaking about the family’s appearance on the show, executive producer Chris Clenshaw previously told RadioTimes.com: “June’s children, Nim, Sophie and Billy, knew how much EastEnders meant to their mother, so...
The actor, who died aged 95 in April, portrayed the chain-smoking Walford matriarch for 35 years and was one of the most iconic figures on the soap.
In a scene at the character’s funeral in the tribute episode, three of Brown’s children – Nim, Sophie and Billy – could be seen sitting on the same row as Dot’s great-nephew Reiss Colwell (played by Jonny Freeman), as Dot was laid to rest.
After being contacted regarding the episodes surrounding Dot’s death, Brown’s children had asked if they could attend the character’s funeral.
Speaking about the family’s appearance on the show, executive producer Chris Clenshaw previously told RadioTimes.com: “June’s children, Nim, Sophie and Billy, knew how much EastEnders meant to their mother, so...
- 12/13/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
A number of former EastEnders stars are returning to Albert Square to film scenes for Dot Cotton’s funeral.
June Brown, who portrayed the long-running soap character, died in April at age 95.
Although she’d played the role since 1985, Brown stepped away from the programme in 2020, putting her departure down to feeling underwhelmed by the recent storylines she’d been offered.
Dot’s final appearance on the show took place in January 2020 via a voicemail left for Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy), explaining that she had fled Albert Square for Ireland.
In light of Brown’s real-life death, the soap will announce the character’s demise in the coming weeks.
As a way of paying respects to both the character and the actor, EastEnders will air special funeral scenes saying goodbye later this year, which will see some characters return for the occasion.
A notable returning character includes Dot’s granddaughter,...
June Brown, who portrayed the long-running soap character, died in April at age 95.
Although she’d played the role since 1985, Brown stepped away from the programme in 2020, putting her departure down to feeling underwhelmed by the recent storylines she’d been offered.
Dot’s final appearance on the show took place in January 2020 via a voicemail left for Sonia Fowler (Natalie Cassidy), explaining that she had fled Albert Square for Ireland.
In light of Brown’s real-life death, the soap will announce the character’s demise in the coming weeks.
As a way of paying respects to both the character and the actor, EastEnders will air special funeral scenes saying goodbye later this year, which will see some characters return for the occasion.
A notable returning character includes Dot’s granddaughter,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - TV
Roddick was an author, academic, industry consultant and publisher as well as a journalist.
Tributes from many different sections of the film business have been paid to former Screen International and Moving Pictures editor Nick Roddick, who died on New Year’s Day aged 73.
“I have to say for me he was a classic British rock and roll type of guy,” Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said of Roddick. “He looked a little like Abbey Road… He was very cool and he always had this humour I really liked.”
Kosslick, who first met Roddick in the late 1980s, had one...
Tributes from many different sections of the film business have been paid to former Screen International and Moving Pictures editor Nick Roddick, who died on New Year’s Day aged 73.
“I have to say for me he was a classic British rock and roll type of guy,” Berlinale festival director Dieter Kosslick said of Roddick. “He looked a little like Abbey Road… He was very cool and he always had this humour I really liked.”
Kosslick, who first met Roddick in the late 1980s, had one...
- 1/3/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
He is the legendary Arsenal captain who has his own statue outside the Emirates Stadium; the former alcoholic who founded the Sporting Chance clinic; the budding manager and coach. Now, Tony Adams is being seen in a new guise – as the special guest at a film festival where a new documentary about him, directed by his friend – the author and broadcaster Tom Watt (formerly Lofty on EastEnders) – will receive its world premiere.
- 9/21/2012
- The Independent - Film
A season of football films in London; a Critics' Circle award for Ken Loach; and a pair of great ape movies
Can I kick it?
As the new football season raises its curtain, the team sheet for the UK's first football film festival is looking tasty. Kicking and Screening arrives in the UK after great success, surprisingly, in New York and will kick off at London's Everyman cinemas on 23 September.
Tom Watt, former EastEnders star and now a respected broadcaster and football historian — well, for all things Arsenal anyway — is on the festival's selection committee and is thrilled by the footage he's been sent. "We've got a beautiful short film, discovered and restored, of the first match ever played in New York," he tells me. "We've got documentaries that go behind the scenes at stadia; the premier of Match 64, about the last World Cup in South Africa; a brilliant doc called The Other Chelsea,...
Can I kick it?
As the new football season raises its curtain, the team sheet for the UK's first football film festival is looking tasty. Kicking and Screening arrives in the UK after great success, surprisingly, in New York and will kick off at London's Everyman cinemas on 23 September.
Tom Watt, former EastEnders star and now a respected broadcaster and football historian — well, for all things Arsenal anyway — is on the festival's selection committee and is thrilled by the footage he's been sent. "We've got a beautiful short film, discovered and restored, of the first match ever played in New York," he tells me. "We've got documentaries that go behind the scenes at stadia; the premier of Match 64, about the last World Cup in South Africa; a brilliant doc called The Other Chelsea,...
- 8/8/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Via http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaymeydad/3783054484/" target="_blank">jaymeydad/Flickr. Tom Watt, the English actor, broadcaster, and soccer writer, has accomplished something rather marvelous with A Beautiful Game. This is more than simply an attractive coffee table book full of wonderful photographs of some of the world’s best soccer players. Watt has also managed to get these players to put pen to paper and open up in ways we’re not used to seeing. Watt sets the tone with a foreword by Arsene Wenger and an introduction by David Beckham, and it just gets better from there. There are stories from Lionel Messi, Fabio Cannavaro, and Franck Ribery, along with many others. In this reading for Fair Play, Landon Donovan explains how his love of soccer began at a young age—growing up poor east of Los Angeles, he got his first lessons on the pitch from his older brother,...
- 6/12/2010
- Vanity Fair
Former EastEnders actor Tom Watt will make a guest appearance in an episode of Doctors alongside familiar soap face Sue Jenkins. The 53-year-old, who played the role of Lofty Holloway between 1985 and 1987, takes on the role of idle layabout Ray MacGyver, while Jenkins portrays his terminally ill screen wife Brenda. Ray, who happily spends more time at the local watering hole or in the local police cell than with his family at their home on the local caravan park, knows his wife is ill, but is unaware of the true extent of her illness. Meanwhile, both Ray and Brenda are forced to deal with the news that their wayward daughter Carly - played by Sue Jenkins' real-life daughter Emily Fleeshman - is pregnant by the local wannabe gangster. Producer Fiona Pandelus said: "'The MacGyvers' is a brilliantly told story about a ramshackle family (more)...
- 4/29/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
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