Coronation Street and Emmerdale fans are facing a major schedule shake-up next year. At present, Emmerdale airs every day at 7.30pm on ITV with a half-hour episode, and a special hour-long episode each Thursday.
Coronation Street, on the other hand, airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 8pm for an hour. However, from 2026, both soaps will undergo a schedule change.
Starting January, there will be a soap 'power hour', with Emmerdale airing for half an hour each day at 8pm and Coronation Street following suit at 8.30pm each day, again for half an hour.This means that the drama from the Cobbles will return to its daily offerings.
As a result, soap fans will get a total of five hours a week rather than the six they are currently getting.The special soap schedule change will kick off in January with a huge stunt week for both soaps.The soaps will continue to be uploaded to ITVX at 7am each morning, reports the Mirror.
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