User:AnemoneProjectors/List of EastEnders episodes (2020)
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EastEnders is a British soap opera, examining the domestic and professional lives of working class people who live in the fictitious London Borough of Walford in the East End of London. The show airs on BBC One and entered its 35th broadcast year on 1 January 2020 with episode number 6053/6054. Jon Sen continued his role as executive producer, working alongside Kate Oates as senior executive producer. In the typical week, EastEnders airs four episodes of roughly 30 minutes in a time slot of 8:00 pm on Mondays and Fridays, and 7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. However, filming was suspended in March 2020 because of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and two episodes were shown a week on Mondays and Tuesdays until 16 June 2020, when the last episode produced before the national lockdown was shown. Filming later resumed and the show returned to screens on 7 September 2020, with four episodes of around 20–25 minutes being shown each week, in slightly varying time slots to the usual ones. A total of 138 episodes were broadcast, with the final episode of the year, number 6193, being shown on 31 December 2020.
EastEnders (2020) | |
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No. of episodes | 138 |
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Original network | BBC One |
Original release | 1 January 2020 (2020-01-01) – present |
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← Previous 2019 Next → 2021 |
The year included a number of special episodes, such as the first episode of the year, which contained a flashback to Christmas Day 2019. The show celebrated its 35th anniversary in February 2020 with a week of episodes set over one 24-hour period.New regular cast members introduced in 2020 included Balvinder Sopal (Suki Panesar) and Stevie Basaula (Isaac Baptiste). Guest stints for former cast members included Danny Hatchard as Lee Carter. Characters that returned in 2020 with new actors included Peter Beale, now played by Dayle Hudson. Departing regular cast included Danny Walters (Keanu Taylor), Tilly Keeper (Louise Mitchell), Lucy Benjamin (Lisa Fowler), Tom Wells (Leo King) and Jasmine Armfield (Bex Fowler).