Overview

• The special episode, airing next week, commemorates 80 years since VE Day with historical footage, wartime music, and community remembrance in Walford.
• The Queen Vic's reopening follows its destruction in a dramatic explosion during EastEnders' 40th-anniversary special earlier this year.
• Nigel, portrayed by Paul Bradley, struggles with young onset dementia, believing it is 1995 and planning a party for VE Day's 50th anniversary.
• Phil and Jean persuade Linda to align the pub's reopening with the VE Day anniversary, uniting Walford's residents to honor wartime sacrifices.
• BBC One has rescheduled 'Interior Design Masters' to accommodate VE Day programming, including a concert by Zoe Ball and service coverage by Sophie Raworth.