Emmerdale and EastEnders were cancelled on Thursday night following the sad news of Queen Elizabeth II's death aged 96. BBC One suspended its regular programming schedule earlier in the day and was replaced by breaking news updates.
While ITV also wiped its Thursday schedule to provide continuous news coverage, celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's life, looking back at her reign and her decades of service to the country.There will be a special ITV News At Ten at 10pm while at 11pm the channel will broadcast Queen Elizabeth II, an hour-long obituary programme narrated by Mary Nightingale looking at the life of the Queen with interviews with relatives and commentators.
ITV has also announced that on Friday, Good Morning Britain will air as usual from 6am to 9am, this will be followed by an extended ITV News Special from 9am, which will replace Lorraine, This Morning and Loose Women.
At 8:30pm, feature length documentary Queen Elizabeth II - The Longest Reign, presented by Jonathan Dimbleby, will air and it is an authored tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, charting her historic reign using powerful archive.This will be followed by ITV News At Ten and it has been announced that there will be no commercial breaks on ITV's main channel during this period.
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