ITV Coronation Street and Emmerdale in huge shake-up this week

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Coronation Street and Emmerdale fans are having their regular soap viewing disrupted this week.

The ITV favourites have had to undergo a schedule change.

That's because throughout this week, the football will be domination both ITV and BBC as the FA Cup goes into its fifth-round.

Despite not games being played tonight (Monday) the changes will begin straight away.

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Emmerdale will air at 7pm as usual but will be on for an hour. This will be followed by an hour-long episode of Coronation Street.

On Tuesday night (March 1) there will be no Emmerdale, with the extra half hour on Monday covering for the missing episode. Corrie doesn't air on a Tuesday.

On Wednesday, March 2, Emmerdale will be on at 7pm, but it won't be followed by Corrie like usual.

The Salford-based soap will be back on Friday night with its usual hour-long episode and an extra hour-long episode of Corrie on Sunday, March 6 at 8pm to cover Wednesday's missing episodes.

Emmerdale will air as usual on Thursday before airing a special hour-long episode on Friday.

The latest changes comes ahead of an overhaul to the schedule which begins next week.

From Monday, March 7, the biggest soaps on British TV move into new optimal schedule slots, as ITV aims to build a "strong block of continuing drama."

Emmerdale will move from 7pm to the slightly later time of 7.30pm every weekday.

Meanwhile, Coronation Street makes the move to three hour-long episodes airing at 8pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

The changes being made allow ITV National and International Evening News to become an hour-long programme.

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