Soap fans will soon be getting used to a new pattern of catching up with the goings-on in Weatherfield and the Dales as Coronation Street and Emmerdale have been confirmed for a new schedule which means ITV will be reducing it's soap output.
As fans know, Corrie currently airs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8pm to 9pm. It transmitted twice a week when it started on December 9, 1960, before it went to three episodes a week in October 1989.
A fourth weekly episode was added in November 1996 before the addition of a fifth episode in October 2002. A sixth episode of Coronation Street was added in September 2017 before it then moved to three-hour long episodes a week in March 2022 Meanwhile, Emmerdale currently airs at 7.30pm on weekdays as half hour episodes, apart from Thursdays when the show runs for one hour.
When Emmerdale began in 1972 it started as two days a week, in daytime. The show went from three episodes to five episodes in 2000, and moved from five episodes to six episodes in 2004.
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