Coronation Street cast ‘worried’ for soap’s future amid ‘devastating’ cuts

A Coronation Street prima has called the nonaccomplishment of an occurrence of the soap a week ‘devastating’, revealing the formed are ‘tremendously worried’ astir its future. 

Earlier this week, ITV revealed immense changes coming to some Corrie and Emmerdale, with a simplification of episodes and a caller schedule coming into effect from January 2026.

It volition spot the full hours of soap enactment trim from six hours a week to five, with Corrie besides reverting to 5 30-minute episodes each weeknight alternatively of its existent hour-long instalments connected Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. 

ITV bosses said the changes were being made aft assemblage probe recovered it would amended bespeak the mode radical privation to ticker soaps. 

While it is believed the formed volition not beryllium affected by the reported 75 occupation cuts caused by the changes, 1 prima has spoken retired against the move, claiming determination is simply a feeling the soaps are being ‘sidelined’. 

They told The Sun: ‘Losing the primetime 7pm and 7.30pm slots successful the schedule, losing those hallmark hour-long episodes, it each adds up to a feeling that we’re are being sidelined and it’s devastating. 

‘We’re each tremendously worried. We recognize 30-minute episodes volition whip on and consciousness breathtaking and chopped immoderate of the waffle but immoderate fans emotion that waffle.

‘They consciousness similar the characters are their friends and truthful those seemingly duller moments successful the cafe are important. It can’t each beryllium trauma and stunts and affairs and deaths. And we hatred the thought that radical tin conscionable binge 5 episodes astatine the weekend.’

The unnamed prima continued: ‘What’s the constituent successful cliffhangers and tense endings that radical tin sermon with their friends the adjacent time and look guardant to the adjacent episode. It’s stopping america being lawsuit TV and turning america into inheritance noise.’

The changes volition spot Emmerdale volition aerial astatine 8pm, followed by Corrie astatine 8:30pm each weeknight successful what has been dubbed arsenic a ‘power hour’ by the network’s Managing Director of Media and Entertainment Kevin Lygo.

Lygo besides said that the determination had been made to supply a much ‘streaming-friendly’ output, though did code that ‘whilst viewing is increasing connected ITVX, we cognize a important proportionality of our soaps’ assemblage inactive ticker america via the schedule.’

A root told Metro that the determination ‘is starring to a wide scope of redundancies crossed each departments’.

The bulk of these occupation losses are believed to beryllium across the idiosyncratic shows’ accumulation teams.

Metro understands that astir 600 radical are employed crossed the 2 accumulation sites, with 12.5% (75) expected to beryllium made redundant.

An ITV spokesperson told us: ‘We can’t accidental for definite astatine this signifier arsenic we volition beryllium entering into a consultation process with staff.

‘Our purpose is to execute arsenic galore arsenic we tin done voluntary redundancy and filling vacancies.’

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