EMMERDALE and Coronation Street have been pulled from schedules yet again in another shake-up.
The are in their third month of their new schedules but bosses are once again axing regular episodes to make way for sport.
Emmerdale will see Cain confess all to MoiraCredit: ITV
Jim McDonald’s funeral takes place next weekCredit: ITV
As it stands airs at 8pm for 30 minutes, with then following at 8.30pm to make up a so-called soap power hour on ITV.
However later this week it will disappear from schedules.
Neither soap will be on on Friday March 6 with a Match on instead.
In previous years the schedule shake-ups would mean the episodes moving to a later time – either in the week or onto days when the soaps didn’t air.
However with the new five day per week schedule there is less room for manoeuvre so long-standing fixtures can be accounted for.
And in some cases there will be Sunday broadcasts for the soaps.
However that is not the case this week.
Emmerdale and Corrie will return on Monday for a full-week in their usual slots between 8 and 9pm.
Next week will see Corrie’s residents come to terms with Jim McDonald’s shock death as his funeral takes place.
However his ex-wife Liz and son Andy both refuse to return to Weatherfield for it having been betrayed by Jim enough in the past.
And in Emmerdale Cain Dingle will finally open up about his secret cancer battle by telling his wife Moira what’s really going on.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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