‘Where is it?!’ demand panicked EastEnders fans as first look episode goes missing from iPlayer

EASTENDERS fans panicked today after the first look episode went missing from iPlayer.

Die-hard fans of the BBC soap love to watch the episode as soon as it becomes available on the streaming service each day.

This is usually at 6am, a good 13 and a half hours before it airs on BBC One.

But today, EastEnders fans were perturbed when they logged onto iPlayer at 6am and found today's episode was not there.

Taking to X - formerly Twitter - at 6.14am, one wrote: "Where is the 6am release" and tagged the official EastEnders account.

Another added at 6.20am: "No first look episode today."

But thankfully, the episode was finally added to iPlayer a few moments later.

However, once they had seen the episode, some viewers couldn't help but moan.

One wrote: "Well that was boring."

Another added: "what a disappointment #ballum #eastenders."

A third tweeted: "so ben will most likely be extradited for fraud??? how lame."

Indeed, this week will see Max Bowden's character Ben Mitchell face serious legal repercussions for a past crime.

Tonight's episode sees Ben throw a last minute birthday party for husband Callum in the Queen Vic, only for the celebrations to be interrupted by the police, who arrived and revealed an international warrant had been issued for Ben's arrest.

It comes after it was revealed that Max, 29, was being written out of the soap after five years.

EastEnders airs on BBC One and is available on BBC iPlayer.