{"id":368989,"date":"2026-01-14T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368989\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:23:08","slug":"corrie-and-emmerdale-fans-demand-change-as-itv-soaps-axed-from-tv-schedule-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/368989\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrie and Emmerdale fans demand change as ITV soaps axed from TV schedule tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Emmerdale and Coronation Street being removed from the TV schedule tonight (January 13), many fans are demanding a change.<\/p>\n

Both ITV soaps will not air in their usual Tuesday evening slots as they have been replaced with coverage of the Carabao Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Manchester City, from 7.30pm.<\/p>\n

Every year, soaps tend to be axed from the likes of ITV and BBC schedules to make room for major sporting events such as the Euros and World Cup.<\/p>\n

But although this isn\u2019t a new move from broadcasters, it seems loyal Corrie and Emmerdale viewers have had enough and \u201cdon\u2019t understand\u201d why ITV can\u2019t air a specific channel for football and wider sports as it \u201cjust makes sense\u201d.<\/p>\n

Corrie and Emmerdale fans demand change due to ITV soap schedule changes<\/p>\n

In a discussion about tonight\u2019s missing soaps \u201cpower hour\u201d, someone on Emmerdale\u2019s Reddit<\/a> page shared: \u201cI don’t understand how they can’t just have a football channel, they would get much more advertising revenue if they did a separate channel for football. The don’t even put the soaps on ITVX, at least give us a choice instead of taking it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another agreed: \u201cI would turn itv quiz into itv sport to show football,horse racing rugby ect.\u201d<\/p>\n

This person also chimed in: \u201cIt just makes sense to do that. Plus The additional revenue for advertising they could get would pay for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

A fourth opinionated soaps fan added: \u201cyes I completely agree and then that way they could just show the highlights [of sport] on the main channel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corrie’s Top 5 Villains<\/p>\n

But this account argued: \u201cI watch emmerdale and Corrie but also watch football, granted I\u2019m not watching tonight\u2019s game as it doesn\u2019t bother me but I also don\u2019t care that an episode is missed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBBC do the same, they can\u2019t create a channel just for a once a month thing, there isn\u2019t enough sport unless they do repeats to warrant a sport channel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s still over 150 episodes of emmerdale and Corrie to watch, if you dont like football, just watch another show. It\u2019s been this way for 20 odd years, it\u2019s never going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, this X user warned soap fans to \u201cstop being greedy\u201d in a separate discussion and said: \u201cits the way football is fixed im afaird its not the end of the world least u getting 5 days a week stop being greedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, those concerned they are going to miss out on Tuesday\u2019s Corrie episode after it has been removed from TV tonight also asked on X: \u201cSo when is tomorrows Corrie gonna be on then?\u201d<\/p>\n

A second questioned: \u201cWhen we getting Tuesday episode.\u201d<\/p>\n

Are you fed up of sport disrupting Corrie and Emmerdale schedules? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Emmerdale and Coronation Street being removed from the TV schedule tonight (January 13), many fans are demanding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[140993,2525,1608,96,140994,347,941,140995,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-368989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbc-schedules","tag-coronation-street","tag-emmerdale","tag-entertainment","tag-football-channel","tag-itv","tag-newcastle-united","tag-sport-channel","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368989","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=368989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}