EastEnders schedule change to occur in summer on BBC One

This is partly thanks to the BBC's coverage of Wimbledon, which will last from Monday, June 30 to Sunday, July 13.
Due to this, there won't be any room for EastEnders to air in the usual 7.30pm slot.
Instead, viewers will need to head over to BBC Two to get their usual fix of the soap.
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On the week commencing June 30, EastEnders will only air on Monday and Tuesday.
However, it will broadcast two episodes in a row, therefore effectively broadcasting a week's worth of episodes in just two days.
As reported by The Metro, the storylines across those two days will involve Linda Carter (Kellie Bright) and Elaine Peacock (Harriet Thorpe) clashing, while Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) plots to catch someone out.
At the time of writing, no information has been revealed regarding whether the episodes will arrive on BBC iPlayer at the usual time of 6am or what the schedule will look like for the week commencing July 7.
A post shared on the r/EastEnders Reddit page shared the changes to the schedule for EastEnders.
Quite a few were wondering how this would impact the usual release of episodes on BBC iPlayer.
A person commented: "Will we get the 6am releases on iPlayer to be able to watch it at the usual time on the usual days?"
One replied: "Glad you asked this because I was wondering the same! Hopefully we still get 6am iPlayer releases but wonder if they'll be double bills on Monday and Tuesday, or the usual Monday-Thurs (which would mean terrestrial/schedule viewers would get the storylines before the iPlayer episodes drop…)
"Also the temptation to watch the doubles on Monday and Tuesday will be too much, but then what on earth do we do with ourselves for five days 🤣.
"I find Friday-Sunday weird enough without checking in on the Square lol, five days feels looong."
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Another person said: "I don't understand why people complain when something is moved to accommodate something else, especially when it's just a channel change.
"In the world of streaming and catch up, there is absolutely no way someone can 'miss' it because it was moved.
"It really doesn't matter because all you have to do is instead of switching to bbc one, you just switch to bbc 2. It's better that than them not airing an episode or taking it off for Wimbledon."

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