Emmerdale will not air on ITV1 or ITVX on Thursday evening and hasn’t dropped early-release style either, thanks to a schedule shake-up with the channel that wasn’t really mentioned
Emmerdale will not air on ITV1 or ITVX on Thursday evening and hasn’t dropped early-release style either(Image: ITV)
There won’t be any Thursday action for Emmerdale fans thanks to a schedule shake-up.
While it had been revealed in TV listings previously, not everyone was aware that Thursday’s hour-long visit to the Dales was not going to air. There is no episode airing on ITV1 or ITVX on Thursday night, with the early release episode on Thursday morning also scrapped.
This is because the slot was needed for something else, seeing Emmerdale ‘dropped’ with it not seeming as though it will move to another day instead. It would have likely been planned in advance, with ITV instead airing live football coverage on ITV1.
With it not airing on TV or being moved, this is why there is also no ITVX episode. Viewers can get their next TV fix on Friday for 30 minutes or so at the normal time of 7:30PM.
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There won’t be any Thursday action for Emmerdale fans thanks to a schedule shake-up(Image: ITV)
It comes as fans commented on the sudden return of a character who they had noticed had been “missing” for a while. Billy Fletcher has been mentioned in new storylines, while not having been onscreen for a while.
Billy has been involved in a number of big storylines this year, including the breakdown of his marriage with Dawn Taylor. New spoilers reveal that Billy is set to return to the soap very soon.
Spoilers for next week reveal teens Dylan and April continue to be trapped in Ray and Celia’s drug schemes. When Dylan is offered a trial shift at the depot as a driver, elsewhere we see Ray telling Celia it’s part of their plan.
Billy is back next week(Image: ITV)
Ray pressures Dylan into taking a delivery for him during his Hull trip and he reluctantly agrees, only for him to find out it’s Billy doing the driving not him. Fans have been left baffled by the character’s three-month absence, with many recently taking to Reddit to question why the character seems to have ‘disappeared off the face of the Earth’.
“Has Billy disappeared off the face of the earth… hasn’t been seen in months,” penned one, while another wrote: “Which is weird as we have seen a lot of the depot recently.”
Another curious fan penned: “Not even mentioned anymore. You would think someone would say where is Billy?” However, fans were overjoyed when they realised he’d be making a return soon, with one writing: “At last! Billy is back next week!”
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