BBC/Composite: EastEnders Insider Share By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025 By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025 When is EastEnders on this week? All you need to know as soap reveals major schedule change The soap's making a big change this week BBC iPlayer BBC One Ravi Gulati Zoe Slater Share By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025 By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025 This week is a big one for EastEnders, as Zoe Slater finally makes her eagerly-awaited return to the soap after 20 years away. First teased months ago, it’s been a long road to getting Zoe back, with Alfie and Kat convinced that the wayward Slater was further away than ever. However, Tommy succeeded where they’d both failed, and managed to track down Zoe by the end of last week. Zoe will return to Walford in EastEnders tonight (Monday, September 1), in a dramatic week for Zoe and the residents of Walford. But when is the soap airing this week? Zoe makes her long-awaited return to Walford this week (Credit: BBC) When is EastEnders on this week? Updated schedule revealed Ahead of this week’s episodes, the BBC have revealed a major change to the soap’s release schedule. While it will air as usual tonight and tomorrow, there will be no 6am iPlayer release on Wednesday, when the soap will play a special episode devoted to Zoe’s story and secrets. What’s Zoe hiding? Fans will have to wait until 7.30pm to find out, when it simulcasts on both BBC One and BBC iPlayer at the same time. Article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Teasing the events of Wednesday’s episode, Executive Producer Ben Wadey said: “As Zoe makes her dramatic return to Walford next week, more than one secret in her past will come to light as we look to explore the reasons behind her return, and what has happened in the past twenty years to make her the person she is today.” As for the rest of the week, it will drop at 6am on BBC iPlayer on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday as normal, before airing at 7.30pm on BBC One. Zoe comes face-to-face with her family once again (Credit: BBC) Zoe returns as Patrick and Yolande are married and a life hangs in the balance Zoe’s return comes as Patrick and Yolande Trueman celebrate their wedding. Frantic over missing Tommy, Kat is relieved when she gets a message saying that he’s waiting for her outside. Running out onto Albert Square, she finds Tommy waiting for her… along with estranged daughter Kat. As the story continues over the rest of the week, Zoe reunites with her mother and the other Slaters. But it soon becomes clear that she’s now a very changed woman in her absence from Walford. Meanwhile, as Oscar shows Jack the gun he found, the situation takes a dark turn when a gunshot rings out. But who’s been shot? And who was the shooter? Read more: Who’s leaving, joining and returning to EastEnders? Complete list of cast exits, arrivals and returns. Share Good to Know Share By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025 By Joel Harley Sep 1 2025
