EMMERDALE and Coronation Street have been cancelled tonight in a major schedule shake-up.
The ITV soaps have been pulled from the schedules to make way for sport instead.
Viewers hoping to watch the latest instalments from the village and the cobbles will instead have to wait until tomorrow.
Emmerdale usually airs its 30 minute episode at 8pm, with Coronation Street following at 8.30pm.
Instead an international football match between England and Japan will air between 7pm and 10.05pm.
The soaps will air in their usual time slot for the rest of the week, and will make up for Tuesday’s missing episodes by again airing on Sunday evening.
At 7pm Emmerdale will air an episode with Corrie following at 7.30pm before a two-hour episode of detective drama Grace.
They will then return to their usual Monday to Friday slots until the next interruption.
In January ITV launched the so-called soap power hour by moving the two sister shows to air each weeknight from 8pm.
Previously Emmerdale had aired Monday to Fridays with a double episode on Thursday nights, while Corrie had aired Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings with hour-long episodes.
The decision to cut each soap’s output by an episode each week was done to save money and sure up the soaps’ futures.
However The Sun recently revealed that due to the output reduction, cast contracts are being cut by 17% – leaving some of the actors worried about paying their bills.
An insider revealed that the cast are even considering striking over the salary reductions and cuts across the board on the shows.
