Whilst I appreciate it is still July and Summer has only just begun, I wanted to see what everyone thinks the big Autumn storylines will be this year, leading up to the major stories at Christmas and New Year. We usually have some indication by now I.e. Last year we had the Bobby stuff and Kathy's return which were both key Autumn or Christmas stories.

So far, I think Autumn storylines will involve new stories with SOC taking over. Max's return and revenge. Cora's return. Can't think of anything else.
No clue what they have planned for the festive season even though one of the writers recently posted on Twitter that they had started to plan. I can see either an ensemble Christmas (lots of storylines in one) or a Christmas similar to 2014 with one family dominating (2014 was Carter's).

Christmas will be Branning season I'm sure!

I want a Slater Christmas maybe Alison turns up with the other slater sisters and hell breaks loose. Then we can have the reveal of Kathy and Busters affair on the side and the Branning stuff.

They need to cancel Christmas, its always a complete disaster. You can bet your life the Mitchell's will be involved somehow.

Slater xmas this year ???.

The high quality Christmas episodes pretty much peaked back in 2007. It hasn't been near as good since.

I think Christmas will have a storyline which won't be hinted onscreen until September (when SOC's work is seen). At the moment I don't see any of the current storylines leading up to Christmas Day.

I feel like Max's return, Babe's exposed crimes and Lee/Whitney's wedding will occur this Winter but not on Christmas Day/New Year's. Jay, Dean (trial) and Donna's storylines will probably take a backseat.

Alright Scrooge.

I can't even remember last Christmas, shows how memorable that was.

Was Beale/Mitchell centric- Ian and Phil's car crash and Bobby finding out he killed Lucy

It's all that wasted food that gets me😞

As it's mitchell year surely we should have Phil getting a new liver for xmas

Clearly you have no sense of tradition if you've never smashed up your living room with a baseball bat because the sprouts are over cooked.

It's always bloody Mitchell year!

I did burst into tears once when I accidently ruined the oven before I even got started on the dinner😱

Xmas will see a death I bet

Probably a load of shit, like the last two years!

Gavin Escapes and Heads back to the fun House

He could come back as an evil Santa Clause.

Peg ripped hers out before she carked it, tied it up with a nice bow and everything

She screamed at it "Call yerself a Mitchell?! Gerr into mah son!" And it jumped into Phil in fright.

How did you manage to ruin the oven?!

Tbf I'd cry too if I didn't get my pigs in blankets on Christmas Day.

Mitchell Christmas I think, Phil gets a new liver and he celebrates by having a swig of Christmas Champers and then promptly drops dead. It's obvious, this is the way EE works, a character can receive only a few moment of happiness before it all goes horribly wrong.

As I've said before, people arrive on there successful in life, good job/business, happily married, etc. By the time the year is up they're divorced and living on the streets bankrupt.