Overview
- The 30-minute BBC One special airs on New Year’s Day at 7:30pm and jumps exactly a year ahead to Max’s fifth wedding.
- Executive producer Ben Wadey says viewers will begin getting answers from the next episodes, with monthly reveals that reframe the flashforward.
- Promotional teasers show Max’s suit with a bloodstained buttonhole and a clearly pregnant woman beside him when he wakes.
- The bride’s identity remains deliberately secret, with cast members including Jake Wood and Jacqueline Jossa saying they have not been told.
- Confirmed in the sequence are Max, Lauren, Oscar, Jack and Ian Beale, as the team locks actors’ looks and sets year-long story tent poles to preserve continuity.