It was announced this morning that the 4 additional episodes to MBC East of Eden will now be 6 instead. This final decision means that the drama will end 2 weeks later on 10th March instead of next Tuesday, with the total series having 56 episodes (original was 50). According to MBC, the change was bought about by scheduling difficulties as filming for the follow-up drama Queen Of Housewives starring Kim Nam Joo has not been smooth-sailing. The follow-up drama was supposed to be My Love For You but it was abruptly cancelled with Queen Of Housewives hastily announced to take its spot. The lack of preparation for Queen Of Housewives has led to many difficulties with casting, etc all falling behind schedule, prompting the decision by MBC to further extend East of Eden. Although MBC hasn't yet reach a consensus with Chorokbaem Media over the extension, but it's already confirmed that Queen Of Housewives will debut on 16th March instead of the 9th. The drama extension will help greatly with several issues still unresolved as yet, such as the wedding of Lee Dong Wook (or maybe it has been canned since Hwang Jung Eum has gone missing?). Where is Rebecca anyway? And who exactly is the birth parents of Kim Ji Hyun? 1 thing I was glad to see was Young Ran finally getting married to Dong Chul since it has been a lonngggggg wait. But sadly it was just a dream by Mr. Gook. On the other hand, SBS must be mightily pissed now since they had gone to great lengths to schedule their 50 episode saeguk drama Princess Ja Myung Go starring Ryeo Won, Park Min Young, etc from February to 9th March to avoid clashing with East of Eden and Boys Before Flowers. But their plans for a good opening has been dashed now.