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
EastEnders in popular culture Other Way" by The Streets, and Tippa Irie's 'Complain Neighbour' "EastEnders" is referred to in John Godber's play "Teechers". The drama students, Gail, Salty and Hobby, say that they have acted out a part of "EastEnders", quoting "Hello, Arfur... All right, my love". When "Emmerdale" actor Nick Miles (who plays Jimmy King) starred in a play at the Edinburgh Festival called "Meeting Joe Strummer", his character was from Walford. Miles said in an interview that his character was originally going to be from the village of Emmerdale, but it was changed to Walford for fun. During the 1990s, whilst on