EastEnders to air double bills as soap faces another major schedule shake-up

EastEnders fans have dealt with a number of schedule changes over the past few weeks - and things are about to change once again - with fans set for double bills of the BBC soap
It's been a dramatic few weeks in EastEnders with shock returns, a new executive producer, and huge schedule changes. However, it looks like things aren't set to calm down anytime soon.
Last week, for Kat and Alfie's wedding, the soap moved it's scheduling from Tuesday - Friday due to the football. This Monday, fans were unable to sit down and watch EastEnders with their morning cuppa. The soap delayed it's usual 6am iPlayer release for Ben Wadey's first episode - in which Zoe Slater made her shock return.
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Fans will be happy to know that the soap will resume to it's normal Monday - Thursday schedule next week, with episodes dropping at 6am on iPlayer. However, the week after that will see a huge schedule shakeup due to Wimbledon coverage.
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For the first time in a while, the soap will air a double bill on Monday June 30 and Tuesday July 1, meaning fans will get their two hour fix of EastEnders over two days.
On Monday June 30, the BBC soap will begin at the earlier time of 7pm, airing back to back episodes.
The second episode of the day will air straight after, meaning things will wrap up at 8pm. It will be the exact same schedule on Tuesday (July 1) with the soap airing a double bill from 7pm - 8pm.
That's not the only major change though, as the soap will be airing on BBC Two for those two days as BBC One will be airing coverage from the first two days of Wimbledon. The soap will be off air on Wednesday and Thursday - with the next episodes airing the following week.
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Spoilers have revealed a huge week before the double bills, with the Kat and Alfie drama continuing. Kat continues to worry about how things are between them and she soon confides in someone about their lack of communication.
Elsewhere, she soon makes an alarming discovery about her ex Phil Mitchell. Phil's worried about Nigel deteriorating amid his dementia diagnosis, and some of his actions next week leave Phil struggling.
He then ends up injured when he and Nigel grapple over a pan of boiling water, as Kat suggests he gets some extra support to care for Nigel. She's not the only one, as ex-Denise also tells him he needs to look after himself.
Phil isn't the only one sparking concern however, as Elaine Peacock is also sparking concern as she struggles after her split from George Knight.

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Glastonbury 2025 - How to watch on TV and BBC iPlayer and listen on Radio and BBC Sounds

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Watch Glastonbury on BBC iPlayer Listen to Glastonbury on BBC Sounds Here's how you can watch and listen to Glastonbury 2025 across TV, BBC iPlayer, Radio and BBC Sounds... Meet your Glastonbury presenters Clara Amfo and Lauren Laverne kick off the live coverage from this year's Glastonbury Festival on Thursday, 26 June from 10pm on iPlayer and BBC Two. From their studio overlooking The Park Stage and beyond to the rest of the festival, they'll bring you all the stories from the first 48 hours on site and look ahead at what's to come. They'll be joined by special guests, including a couple of unique performances from the BBC Park Studio, and also look forward to some of the anticipated sets from the likes of The 1975, Rod Stewart, Olivia Rodrigo, Raye, Charli xcx and many more. 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Intimacy by Ita O'Brien: How Normal People can have great sex

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In her thought-provoking 'field guide to intimacy', O'Brien becomes an intimacy coordinator for us all, drawing on her filming work to give us helpful tips on how we should make our real-life sex lives both realistic and sexy, while respecting each other's boundaries. People have asked her to visit their bedrooms to help coordinate their sex lives. She does not do that; but this book is the next best thing. Best known for her coordination of the mutually respectful but highly erotic sex scenes between Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones 's characters in the BBC drama Normal People (2020), O'Brien is justifiably proud of her work (which also includes It's A Sin, Gentleman Jack, and I May Destroy You). Viewers of Normal People were 'profoundly affected', she writes, by the scene in which Connell (played by Mescal) and Marianne (Edgar-Jones) make love for the first time. 'Are you sure you want this?' Connell asks. When Marianne nods, he says: 'If it hurts, I'll stop.' A bit later, he asks: 'Does it hurt?' 'A bit.' And then she says: 'It's nice.' And they tenderly make love. I remember how captivated we all were by the eroticism as well as the charm of that series during the first lockdown. Those scenes 'helped viewers remember all the joy and gorgeousness of their first relationships as teenagers, and how unsure they felt'. 'The prospect of bringing something to the screen that I felt was representative of the reality of young people in love having sex was really exciting to me,' O'Brien writes. Sex is too often portrayed unrealistically. 'All that bumping and grinding, the thrusting and heads thrown back in simulated ecstasy, rarely bears much relationship to people's own experience of their sexual encounters. We see penetration after 30 seconds of kissing. Is that how it happens in your life? No!' The film world certainly needed someone like O'Brien. 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'Tuesday sex' is what she calls the ordinary stuff, which many of us might hope to keep up as a habit over a long lifetime. This is very different from 'Nine And A Half Weeks sex' (named after the film of the same name). Online porn has made too many young people think sex must be of the latter variety. Whereas, in reality, 'intimacy is rarely spontaneous' – and can be just as satisfying if you schedule it into the diary. Most importantly, O'Brien reminds us, 'it's possible to have intimacy without sex, and sex without intimacy'.

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