2026 has been the year of Max Branning (Jake Wood) in EastEnders.
Despite a chaotic few weeks for the Carter family; including the return of conniving Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks), Nancy’s (Maddy Hill) pregnancy and Lee’s (Danny Hatchard) struggle with alcoholism, Max gets down on one knee to pop the question to departing matriarch Linda (Kellie Bright).
Elsewhere in Albert Square, there's problems for Suki and Eve Panesar-Unwin (Balvinder Sopal and Heather Peace) when they attend Ria Virdi's (Aaria Sharma) social services hearing and Oscar Branning (Pierre Counihan-Moullier) bids for Josh Goodwin's (Joshua Vaughan) attention.
Plus, Penny Branning (Kitty Castledine) is troubled by a new Vinny Panesar (Shiv Jalota) development, and Jasmine Fisher (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness) gets some big news.
Here's everything happening in the episodes of EastEnders airing between Monday 16 and Thursday 19 November.
7 EastEnders spoilers for next week
1. Max Branning proposes to Linda Carter
Max finds himself contemplating a proposal to Linda, but recent events leave him wrestling with guilt and questioning whether marriage is really the right step for them both.
However, caught up in the emotion of the moment, Max decides to take a leap of faith and asks Linda to be his wife.
The happy couple waste no time sharing their engagement news, but their announcement proves difficult for his estranged wife Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) to stomach. As she celebrates the final stages of her annulment, his news sends her into a spin. A conversation with Ravi Gulati (Aaron Thiara) soon leaves her reconsidering her next move.
Over at Peacock Palace, Lee’s birthday celebrations take an unexpected turn when the occasion becomes a joint birthday and engagement party. Bracing himself for a showdown, Max is taken aback when Cindy arrives with paperwork for him to sign.
He duly puts pen to paper, but what does this mean for their future?
2. Jess Fang makes an offer to Nancy Carter
Nancy makes her return to Walford with Lee’s baby and decides to move in with brother Johnny Carter (Charlie Suff). Jess soon arrives to meet her child, but her visit comes with an ultimatum for Lee.
Later, Jess makes her sister-in-law an unexpected offer, proposing that she and the baby start afresh with her elsewhere.
How will Lee react when he learns that his sister plans to move to Dover with his newborn?
3. Suki and Eve Panesar-Unwin face losing Ria Virdi
Trouble is brewing for Sukeve as their family life is thrown into disarray. With Ria’s final hearing taking place, Suki secretly arranges one last meeting between the child and birth mum Harleen, keeping Eve completely in the dark.
When Suki heads to court, she's determined to make her voice heard and delivers an impassioned plea. But will her intervention make any difference?
Later in the week, Eve continues to give her wife the cold shoulder and eventually decides to get out of the house in a bid to take her mind off everything.
4. Oscar Branning has his heart set on Josh Goodwin
With Kat Moon’s (Jessie Wallace) return approaching, Mo Harris (Laila Morse) ropes Josh into helping Sean Slater (Rob Kazinsky) give The Vic a makeover.
Keen to get back into Josh’s good books, Oscar volunteers to lend a hand, but his dad Max is concerned that he could let something slip about Zoe Slater’s death and warns him to keep his distance.
Sean, however, has other ideas and encourages Oscar to follow his heart. Determined to win Josh back, Oscar enlists brother-in-law Peter Beale (Thomas Law) and nephew Louie (Jake McNally) to help him with his plan.
5. Gemma Hawkins launches her book club
It's an exciting time for Gemma Hawkins (Patricia Potter) as she prepares to get her book club off the ground, but there's one rather important obstacle standing in her way: finding enough people willing to join.
Can she drum up enough interest to make her new venture a success?
6. Gina Knight uncovers Vinny Panesar's proposal plans
Gina Knight (Francesca Henry) starts to suspect that Vinny is hiding something, prompting her and Penny to join forces and investigate his increasingly mysterious behaviour.
Their snooping leads them to Knight Fusion, where they interrupt what appears to be a clandestine meeting. However, the pair soon discover that Vinny is actually meeting with an investor.
Before long, the couple find themselves keeping up the elaborate pretence, but their supposed engagement soon takes on a life of its own as word spreads around Walford.
Eventually, the pair come clean to their friends and family, but the whole debacle leaves Vinny with an unexpected realisation – he actually wants to marry her.
Could a genuine proposal be on the cards, and how will Penny react amid her huge baby secret?
7. Jasmine Fisher officially becomes Jasmine Slater
Jasmine receives a welcome boost when Kat presents her with official confirmation that she is now a fully-fledged member of the Slater family.
As viewers will remember, Jas made the decision to honour mum Zoe after her funeral.
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