RTE viewers are set to be gutted as a popular soap has been hit by a scheduling blunder.
Thursday’s Eastenders episode will be pushed back until tomorrow on the Irish station, despite it being shown tonight on BBC One.
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It was originally revealed two weeks ago that the BBC soap would be pushed back by 24 hours as part of an abrupt schedule change.
The soap was moved from its regular Thursday slot to Friday at 7:30pm due to the BBC securing an interview with former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, set to be hosted by Laura Kuenssberg.
However, in a last-minute schedule change, the Beeb have now confirmed that EastEnders will go ahead tonight as usual.
RTE have confirmed that despite BBC’s decision, they have not decided to follow suit.
This means that RTE viewers will see the episode a day late on Friday at 8pm.
While RTE will be re-running an episode of The End of the World with Beanz at 7.30pm tonight.
The BBC interview was pulled after broadcaster Laura was forced to axe their major interview due to an “embarrassing” blunder on host Laura’s behalf.
BBC was forced to abandon its plans with just 24 hours to go after Laura accidentally sent her briefing notes for the interview to Boris himself.
The presenter fessed up to the “embarrassing and disappointing” blunder last night but said “honesty is the best policy”.
She had been due to grill the former Prime Minister, who is doing a series of rare sit-downs to mark the release of his memoir, Unleashed.
In a statement on X last night, Kuenssberg said: “While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team.
“That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead.
“It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked.
“But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.”
The former BBC Political Editor is a highly-regarded journalist who has presented the flagship Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show for two years.
Her sit-down with Mr Johnson was highly anticipated given some of the startling revelations in his new book chronicling his political career including the three years as PM.
As a result of the interview no longer going ahead, EastEnders viewers will be left delighted that the soap will be going ahead as normal meaning no disruption to the soap schedules.
