EastEnders shifted to BBC Two for week amid sports coverage

The BBC soap opera "EastEnders" has been moved to BBC Two for its entire run of episodes this week, with a special double bill airing on Monday, June 29, to compensate for two cancelled broadcasts. The schedule disruption is due to live sports coverage of the FIFA World Cup and Wimbledon on BBC One and BBC Two.

The soap's usual four episodes will air exclusively on BBC Two from Monday through Thursday. There will be no episodes on Tuesday, June 30, or Friday, July 3. On Tuesday, BBC One is scheduled to broadcast a World Cup round of 32 match between Ivory Coast and Norway. The soap's regular Friday slot is typically an off-night for the program.

To accommodate the changes, two episodes aired back-to-back on BBC Two on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Both episodes were made available for streaming on BBC iPlayer from early Monday morning. As is standard practice, all episodes this week are being released on iPlayer from 6 a.m. on their scheduled broadcast date, allowing viewers to watch via catch-up services.

The storyline developments in Monday's episodes included the Fox-Trueman family uniting to evict Sheila Atkins. Meanwhile, Bea Pollard moved back in with Billy and...