Get Johnny Week Get Johnny Week "Get Johnny Week" is a week-long storyline in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", which was first screened at the end of March 2006. The storyline refers to the character of Johnny Allen (Billy Murray), and also features the characters of Ruby Allen (Louisa Lytton), Grant (Ross Kemp) and Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), and Jake (Joel Beckett) and Danny Moon (Jake Maskall). "Get Johnny Week" is an "EastEnders" storyline that reunited the popular characters Phil and Grant Mitchell (aka the Mitchell brothers) in 2006. Actor Ross Kemp, who played Grant continuously from 1990 to 1999, was persuaded to
Peggy Mitchell a comic actress, notably appearing in the long-running "Carry On" films. Scott Matthewman of "The Stage" commented on the recast in 2006: "Quite the biggest – and most inexplicable – transformation is that of Peggy Mitchell in "EastEnders". While Barbara Windsor has dominated the role...first appearing in [1994], the character had appeared briefly [three] years earlier, played by Jo Warne, a lady who physically is as different from our Babs as it's possible to get." Steve McFadden and Ross Kemp had attempted to persuade "EastEnders" writer Tony Jordan to develop a spin-off for their characters, which would star Windsor as