For once, it’s not the World Cup moving the soaps around the TV schedules.
EastEnders has been pushed off BBC One tonight – here’s when you can catch the latest episode, and where.
It comes following Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party this morning. The PM revealed that walking up to Downing Street two years ago was the proudest moment of his life, though he accepted that questions were being raised over whether he could lead the party into the next general election.
He also took time to thank his friends and colleagues, the No 10 staff and the “extraordinary civil service”. Starmer vowed to support his successor.
With the speech taking place at 9:30am, BBC One dropped Morning Live for extended news coverage.
A BBC News Special continues throughout the afternoon, before coverage of the FIFA World Cup. Argentina will play Austria in a Group J match at Dallas Stadium, with coverage hosted by Gabby Logan.
With kick-off at 6pm, this will air from 5:30pm onwards. Original schedules had EastEnders following at 8:30pm, though due to today’s developing news story, it will move.
EastEnders will now air at 9pm on BBC Two.
It can also be streamed now on BBC iPlayer, with the episode dropping at 6am this morning.
Chelsea Fox (Zaraah Abrahams) makes a big decision after son Jordan (Jahsaiah Williams) returns home. She grants Sheila Atkins (Sheila Ruskin) access to her great grandson, following an emotional heart-to-heart in Kathy’s Cafe.
Little does Chelsea know, Sheila is still seemingly in touch with Jordan’s dad, the serial killer Gray Atkins (Toby-Alexander Smith).
Meanwhile, amid rising tensions between Billy Mitchell (Perry Fenwick) and Bea Pollard (Ronni Ancona), Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden) hands her a wad of cash in the hope she’ll leave Walford.
She is furious with the bribe, and using AI voice manipulation technology, tells Billy’s wife Honey (Emma Barton) that he tried to lure her into bed.
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Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
