EASTENDERS and Emmerdale will go head-to-head after a scheduling shake-up that will see the BBC soap dropped from Fridays. It is bringing in a "simplified schedule" that will see it air at 7.30pm on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The move - which starts from March 7 - will see it go head to head with ITV's Emmerdale. The countryside soap is moving to a 7.30pm slot as part of ITV's own soap shake-up.
It will see hour-long episodes of Coronation Street on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8pm. EastEnder said the new schedules would kick off with what it called a "hugely exciting" week of plots that will include killer Gray Atkins finally being exposed.
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