CORRIE and Emmerdale fans are in for a summer of misery as the World Cup is set to cause scheduling chaos.
The , which is being hosted across Canada, Mexico and America starts in June.
Emmerdale is set for schedule chaos this summer due to the World CupCredit: ITV
Coronation Street fans will also have to wait for their daily dose of dramaCredit: ITV
And following ITV’s decision to have a soap power hour every night from 8pm until 9pm, and are going to be forced out of their slots for some of the games.
A source said: “It’s proving quite the headache behind the scenes.
“Soap fans have already had to get used to the new slots, which came in at the beginning of the year, so with more changes coming there’s a real fear they could lose more viewers.
“Airing the episodes on a Sunday just does not work and now with the new schedule it’s very unlikely they’ll be able to run before these big World Cup matches start.
“There are lots of discussions behind the scenes about what they can do.”
In previous years put the episodes on streaming service each morning regardless of when it aired on the main channel but that led to confusion with viewers.
And more recently sporting matches have meant that some episodes have been cut entirely.
In other weeks episodes have been shifted to a Sunday evening slot as is the case with this week’s missing Tuesday episodes.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street did not air that night and instead, the episodes were simply shifted forward.
What would have been the fifth episodes of the week will air in an hour-long slot from 7pm on Sunday instead.
However schedules are not yet finalised for the summer and ITV may come up with a way to keep the on air for viewers more regularly.
The channel recently announced that its new soaps power hour schedule – along with its ITVX first broadcast pattern – had led to a huge surge in streaming viewers.
Streams for the soaps are up 48% year on year while Coronation Street and Emmerdale achieved their highest monthly streaming figures on record.
The soaps clocked up 65 million streams in January 2026, 10 million higher than the next nearest monthly total on record.
was also ITV’s biggest programme in January, with an audience of 5.9 million across consolidated TV and streaming.
ITV has been contacted for comment.
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