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Emmerdale will not air on ITV1 tonight(Image: PA Wire\/PA Images)<\/p>\nThe ITV soap has been taken off the scheduleEmmerdale will not air on ITV1 tonight(Image: PA Wire\/PA Images)<\/p>\n
Emmerdale will not air at its usual time on ITV1 tonight due to coverage of the European qualifier Latvia vs England. The broadcast starts at 7pm for a 7.45pm kickoff, meaning that Emmerdale<\/a> has been taken off the schedule.<\/a> Emmerdale fans can normally tune into the drama every weeknight at 7.30pm, with an additional hour-long episode on Thursdays.<\/a><\/p>\n However, viewers will have to wait until Wednesday for the drama to continue in the Dales <\/a>as England and Wales will take centre stage on ITV1 tonight. Mark Pougatch is joined by Roy Keane and Ian Wright to present the action from the FIFA World Cup Group K qualifier at Daugava Stadium in Riga.<\/p>\n But it isn’t the first time the Yorkshire-based soap<\/a> has faced disruption due to sports coverage. Last week, Emmerdale had to take a back seat<\/a> due to ITV’s coverage of England vs Wales live from Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n As well as the current disruption, fans can expect more changes to their daily schedule after ITV recently confirmed a full revamp to its usual broadcasting routine next year.<\/p>\n Coronation Street<\/a> usually airs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for an hour-long broadcast from 8pm until 9pm, with Emmerdale airing every night. But next year, 30-minute episodes of both soaps will air each night in a new schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n ITV<\/a> has branded the change a soaps power hour, as a 30-minute episode of Emmerdale <\/a>will be followed by a 30-minute episode of Corrie each weeknight. Kevin Lygo said: “The new commissioning pattern is viewer-led.<\/p>\n “We already give more choice than ever to viewers on how they watch us through ITVX and we want to present their favourite soap to them in the most digestible way.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a world where there is so much competition for viewers’ time and attention, and viewing habits continue to change, we believe this is the right amount of episodes that fans can fit into their viewing schedule to keep up to date with the shows.<\/p>\n \u201cResearch insights also show us that soap viewers are increasingly looking to the soaps for their pacey storytelling. Streaming-friendly, 30-minute episodes better provide the opportunity to meet viewer expectations for storyline pace, payoff and resolution.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile viewing is growing on ITVX, we know a significant proportion of our soaps\u2019 audience still watch us via the schedule. This new pattern is in the DNA of the soap genre – nobody else does 30-minute drama this successfully.<\/p>\n “It creates a soap power hour that’s consistent, and easy to find in the linear schedule, for the UK\u2019s biggest soaps.”<\/p>\n Emmerdale returns on Wednesday at 7:30pm on ITV1 and ITVX.<\/p>\n The episode description reads: “Cain returns, but he is not in a good place, while Robert is in a quandary and Laurel makes an admission.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ITV soap has been taken off the scheduleEmmerdale will not air on ITV1 tonight(Image: PA Wire\/PA Images)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1608,96,347,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-201149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-emmerdale","tag-entertainment","tag-itv","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Cain](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16_10_emm_cain_moira_01-6adb.jpg\")
Cain returns home in Wednesday’s episode(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n