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Neil Shaw

EastEnders, Corrie and UK's biggest soaps filming first crossover episode

The UK's biggest soaps are to air their first ever crossover episode.

EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale will combine forces for a program being shown from November 1.

The episode will also feature Casualty, Holby City, Doctors and Hollyoaks.

The storyline will focus on climate change, reports The Mirror.

Soap expert Sharon Marshall appeared on This Morning and told hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: "It's the first time it's ever been done. In November, we're going to be having the world's first soap crossover. Now for the first time, all five British soaps - and our continuing dramas - they're all going to come together and tell the same story at the same time. That story is going to be climate change."

She added: "All of these people have been talking about it in secret for months and months to make this work and what they're each going to do is film a scene, have a reference that is going to cover a different aspect of climate change and - this is the fun bit - a soap first.

"You're going to see all the programmes do a nod to the other and characters will start popping up from one soap in another soap on screen. That has never been done before."

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