On Location Filming
Several times a year EastEnders is filmed away from the programme's typical setting of Albert Square, which is situated at the BBC Elstree Centre in Borehamwood, Elstree. This is known as on location filming.
Normally, a week's worth of episodes are filmed on location, often following a group of characters on holiday either abroad or in the UK. Occasionally however, scenes in singular episodes are filmed on location, although in such episodes the majority of scenes are filmed on the regular set at Elstree.
It could be suggested that such a common theme helps it differentiate from others in the genre, other soap operas have done it, but rarely on such a prominent scale.
Away days or off-set episodes will often air in late June or early July and again in late October or early November. These episodes have a practical function and are the result of EastEnders making a "double bank". A double bank is when an extra week's worth of episodes are recorded at the same time as the regular schedule. These extra episodes, shot mainly on location, enable the production of EastEnders to stop for a two-week break at Christmas.
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