“Emmerdale” Is About to Deliver Its Most Explosive Week Yet!

High drama and spectacle is on the way to Emmerdale, with a huge week of drama coinciding with the wedding of Joe Tate (Ned Porteous) and Dawn Taylor (Olivia Bromley).

The ITV soap is well known for pulling out all of the stops for event weeks, and this storyline is no different.

In fact, one cast member told me to ‘think Corriedale’, and claimed that it would be a defining week for the show which would change the course of things afterwards.

And who is more best placed to tease than show producer Laura Shaw herself, who has had these episodes in the making for the best part of a year?

Despite ITV’s battle with budgets, the show will deploy special camerawork, directorial effects, and shock stunts to bring a huge set of moments to the arc, which draws in a number of major characters – some expected, some less so.

‘It starts very much at our story conference and we come up with some absolutely wild ideas,’ Laura told me when we caught up at a recent Emmerdale screening. ‘And then lots of people probably go “do you know that’s going to cost a million pounds, Laura?” And we pull it back a little bit, you know!

‘We have great ideas and the team here are absolutely brilliant and they’re so great at managing to fulfil whatever crazy wild ideas that we come up with.

‘Something like the wedding week, sometimes it can be a year in the planning, and it goes through so many different processes to make it on screen

‘I’ve seen some tiny little snippets that have either been sent from set or that I’ve seen myself when we’ve been out on set.

‘I am really, really excited because everybody that’s been working on it just keeps coming up to my office and just keeps saying how fantastic it is and it looks brilliant and everyone has absolutely loved it. So I just know what we’re going to get is going to be magical!’

While the outcomes are unconfirmed and many of the details and twists will catch you off guard, it is known that there are several exits on the horizon – Nick Miles as Jimmy King, Bradley Johnson as Vinny Dingle and, Dawn – the bride herself.

Which doesn’t quite suggest a happily ever after for the couple, especially amid rumours that the exit could be grimly permanent.

But if you think that Emmerdale will drop the ball after investing everything in its big week, fear not – the aftermath and the build-up to Christmas will be just as exciting.

In her interview with Metro, Laura teased: ‘All I can say is that the wedding week is huge and then what follows after, the boom, boom, booms absolutely do not stop.

‘Just because of the way that we film, I’ve actually already watched the run of episodes after the wedding and I just sat there and even though I knew what was coming, I kept gasping out loud. There’s so many shocks, there’s so many twists, there’s so many turns.

‘At the moment, we’ve just been planning Christmas and new year. I know, who’d have thought it? Trying to get in the Christmas mood in the gorgeous sunshine is not that easy! But we’ve just been planning out Christmas and new year. And everything that we’ve got coming up then as well is absolutely going to be top notch. It’s so exciting!’