EastEnders’ Kat And Alfie Moon TV Spin-Off Gets Prime Time BBC Slot

If you haven’t had enough of drab drama, an EastEnders extension is getting a major spot in the BBC’s evening schedule – and may be commissioned for more series.

Redwater, featuring Albert Square characters Kat and Alfie Moon – played by Jessie Wallace and Shane Ritchie, below – will be a six-part drama.

Filmed in Ireland, it will be based around Kat’s search for her longlost son, which leads the couple to the remote fishing village of Redwater.

It was originally intended as a one-series project but BBC bosses were so impressed with the way filming has gone that they have given the green-light for it to return in extended form in a primetime 9pm slot.

A BBC source told The Sun: “Everyone thought Redwater would be just a one-off, but plans are being drawn up for it to return once the six episodes are done.

“There are high hopes that it will become a brilliant new long-running series.

“Apart from Kat and Alfie there are numerous characters living in this lovely village who all have stories to tell.”

Irish and Northern Irish acting talent will be in supporting roles including Maria Doyle Kennedy, Lost’s Fionnula Flanagan and Game Of Thrones’ Ian McElhinney.

Wallace and Ritchie, partying together at a TV do in 2006, were last seen in EastEnders in the emotional Christmas episodes, coping with the death of Kat’s taxi driver dad Charlie.

Before that they won a £1million jackpot on a scratchcard and headed off for a new life in Spain.

Now they have left Albert Square once again, this time to find Kat’s son after a nun played by June Whitfield existence.

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