Race Across The World moves to Wednesday 8pm for Eurovision week

Race Across the World season 6 will air on race across the world Wednesday at 8pm on One next week, moving off its usual Thursday slot. The shift comes as One hands Thursday night to the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, pushing the penultimate episode forward by a day.

One and Eurovision

The series normally airs on Thursday nights at 8pm, so the change lands in the middle of a run viewers may already have marked on the calendar. One is airing the Eurovision semi-finals on Thursday from 8pm to 10.15pm, with the other semi-final set for Tuesday at 8pm.

The timing is tighter than it looks. Race Across the World is now being squeezed around a week when Eurovision owns three peak-time slots, and the Wednesday move keeps the competition series clear of that Thursday broadcast block. The season 6 episode will also stream on iPlayer next week.

Mongolia leg

The penultimate episode sends the duos to Mongolia, the eighth and final country in the race. That makes this the stretch where the route stops being broad travel television and turns into a final, compressed run toward the finish.

In Mongolia, the teams will face freezing cold temperatures and off-road travel across rugged roads, with some sections requiring car shares rather than public transport. For viewers, that means the episode moved not because the race has slowed down, but because the broadcast schedule had to make room for a live-event week on One.

Saturday finale

The Eurovision grand finale begins at 8pm on Saturday night and is expected to run until 11.50pm, so the network’s schedule stays dominated by the contest through the end of the week. For Race Across the World followers, the practical move is simple: tune in on Wednesday at 8pm, not Thursday, if they want the penultimate leg without missing it.