Tony Jordan (born 21 July 1957) is a British television writer. He is listed as the number 1 television screen writer in the UK by Broadcast magazine (2008) and among British Broadcastings Top 20 in The Stage (2009).
For many years, he was lead writer and story consultant for BBC One soap opera EastEnders. Jordan had written for the programme since 1989, and is considered to be an 'elder statesman' of the show, for which he has written over 250 e...
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Tony Jordan (born 21 July 1957) is a British television writer. He is listed as the number 1 television screen writer in the UK by Broadcast magazine (2008) and among British Broadcastings Top 20 in The Stage (2009).
For many years, he was lead writer and story consultant for BBC One soap opera EastEnders. Jordan had written for the programme since 1989, and is considered to be an 'elder statesman' of the show, for which he has written over 250 episodes as of 2006.
Beginning his career as a market stallholder — an experience which later directly fed into his writing for EastEnders, which is set around such a market — Jordan only began writing at the age of thirty-two. He joined the soap after sending a spec script to the BBC about market traders, with a covering letter saying he had been born and raised in the East End of London. The BBC turned down the spec script, but gave him a job on EastEnders because of his apparent life experience. Afraid of what would happen if the producers...
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