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EastEnders 2025 Christmas schedule confirmed by BBC - including festive episode timings

Here's where you can catch EastEnders this Christmas.

EastEnders logo in front of a snowy Albert Square sign with snowflakes falling and a Christmas tree

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Published: Tuesday, 2 December 2025 at 3:53 pm

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The EastEnders Christmas special is one of the highlights of the festive period, pulling in millions of viewers each year. From Den serving Angie the divorce papers to six Walford women becoming entwined in a murder, it's never a dull day for the Albert Square residents.

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This time is no exception, with a jam-packed two weeks of drama, intrigue and nostalgia.

TV schedules will once again be moved around to facilitate a host of other holiday specials, meaning if you want to catch Pat Evans's (Pam St Clement) return to Walford or find out the identity of Zoe Slater's (Michelle Ryan) tormenter, you'll have to do some adjusting.

There's also an exciting flashforward episode on New Year's Day, giving us a unique look ahead to 2027...

EastEnders Christmas 2025 schedule

Nigel Bates - wearing a suit - sits beside Pat Evans - wearing a bright pink blazer - in The Queen Vic in EastEnders. There are glasses, cigarettes, a lighter and an ashtray on the table in front of them.

St Clement is returning for the first time in nine years. BBC/Jack Barns/Kieron McCarron

The BBC soap usually airs Monday to Thursday at 7.30pm, but there are a few changes throughout Christmas week, including two episodes on the big day.

EastEnders New Year schedule

Max Branning loosening his tie, wearing a white rose that is blood stained in EastEnders

We soar ahead to 2027 on New Year's Day. BBC

Luckily, things are back to normal during the last week of 2025, heading into 2026.

It's still to be confirmed which episodes will drop early on BBC iPlayer at 6am, though it's likely that some big instalments will be held back until transmission later that day.

A bumper selection of classic EastEnders Christmas crackers will air throughout the evening on BBC Three.

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Michael Adams is the Soaps Editor at Radio Times, covering all of the hot gossip and spoilers from Weatherfield to Walford, Emmerdale to Hollyoaks and everywhere in-between. He joined the team from Metro, where he spent two years as a Soaps Reporter and previously worked on the sets of both Coronation Street and Emmerdale.

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