THE soaps look set to be rocked by a slew of schedule shake-ups over the next few weeks with various summer sporting events blowing the usual programming pattern out of the water.
and will both fall victim to being bumped around the timetable with the BBC‘s London based soap going off air for a total of eight days amid the chaos.
As well as not being aired in their usual timeslots on set days, one soap will even be forced to move channels entirely.
This week, EastEnders has been demoted from its regular slot onto sister channel, .
Despite usually airing Monday-Thursday at 7:30pm on the main BBC channel, fans will instead see two episodes broadcast on just Monday and Tuesday on BBC Two.
On Monday, EastEnders will air an episode at 7pm followed by another episode at 7:30pm as a result of taking over BBC One.
The same scheduling pattern will then occur on Tuesday 1st July.
ITV will also begin to be affected by the chaos on Tuesday with Emmerdale airing an extended one-hour edition.
It will directly rival EastEnders with the episode being brought forward to kick-off at 7pm.
From Thursday the 3rd of July, fans will be left with no soap content for days with ITV and BBC pulling all their coverage across Thursday and Friday.
Emmerdale and will both be bumped from air as a result of the Women’s Euro matches.
But its fans of EastEnders that will suffer the most.
Following the double-bill on Tuesday 1st July, they will have to go a whole eight days before getting their next fix of Albert Square action.
The soap won’t air again until the 9th July.
The chaos as expected to continue throughout July as a result of the many sporting events.
Both and are expected to continue to release their episodes at 7am on their respective services for each day they are scheduled to air on linear TV.
