Are Emmerdale and Coronation Street on tonight amid World Cup?

The schedule has been shaken up this week, including tonight (June 17) so you might wonder when you can tune in to watch the drama unfold.

Here’s what we know about the changes and which episodes the TV schedule shake-up affects.

Are Emmerdale and Coronation Street on tonight?

There will be no Emmerdale or Coronation Street episodes tonight because ITV will broadcast two football matches back-to-back.

Tonight, the World Cup matches available to watch on ITV1 are England v Croatia with coverage starting at 8pm and kick-off at 9pm.

Football fans can also watch the Ghana v Panama match from 11.40pm with kick-off 20 minutes later at 12am.

Soap fans will miss out on an episode on Thursday too, however, the longer episodes on Monday and Tuesday made up for the missing slots.

Do you remember these emotional Coronation Street plots?

After a week of disruption, Emmerdale and Corrie are back to their usual 30-minute slots on Friday, June 19 at 8pm and 8.30pm respectively.

EastEnders has also seen some schedule changes throughout the week due to the BBC’s World Cup coverage.

Tonight, it will air an hour later than usual (at 8.30pm) as it follows BBC coverage of the Portugal v DR Congo match which kicks off at 6pm.

Have you noticed ITV’s new scheduling this year?

From January 2026, the broadcaster introduced a “soaps power hour” on weekdays with 30-minute Emmerdale episodes at 8pm and 30-minute Coronation Street episodes at 8.30pm.

Coronation Street previously aired three hour-long episodes a week, while Emmerdale aired four 30-minute episodes and one hour-long instalment.

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