The week after Blackpool, the week before musicals week (and the quarter finals) AND the first time the couples were doing two dances. (In further confirmation that we’re in the latter stages, they’ve started the pro challenge on It Takes Two.)
I don’t know how much the commissioners and schedulers thought about the timing of airing this, but it is about being the right-hand man of a king who’s gone down in history as a tyrant.