Is Coronation Street on tonight amid World Cup coverage?

ITV and BBC are showing coverage from every single game of the tournament, which has expanded to 48 countries this year.

The USA, Canada and Mexico hosting combined with the increased number of games means that evening UK TV coverage has been impacted.

Here’s all you need to know on if Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be on tonight (Tuesday, June 16).

Are Coronation Street and Emmerdale on tonight?

Both Coronation Street and Emmerdale will be on tonight, as BBC One will be showing the main evening match of France vs Senegal (kicks off at 8pm BST).

ITV will be broadcasting coverage of Algeria vs Argentina, but this will not start until 2am BST on Wednesday, June 17.

Soap fans can watch Emmerdale at its usual time of 8pm, but the episode will last an hour instead of 30 minutes.

Coronation Street will follow from 9pm until 10pm, as it also gets a longer episode as well.

Neither soap will be on tomorrow night (Wednesday, June 17) as ITV will be showing England vs Croatia from 8pm BST.

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.

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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