Emmerdale and Corrie’s TV schedule changes this week

This week, football on ITV1 impacts the usual TV slots for the two soaps, which regularly get moved around for matches.

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

Emmerdale and Coronation Street to see schedule changes due to World Cup this week

On Monday, June 15, soap fans can watch Emmerdale at its usual time of 8pm, but the episode will last an hour instead of 30 minutes, meaning Coronation Street will follow from 9pm until 10pm, as it also gets a longer episode.

This is also the case on Tuesday, June 16, however, on Wednesday and Thursday (June 17 and 18), there will be no episodes on ITV1 as back-to-back World Cup matches take over.

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

Over the course of this week, the schedule changes mean that Emmerdale and Corrie will still have the same amount of soaps to watch, but they are split differently.

Normally, you can expect 5x 30-minute episodes of each soap.

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

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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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