'Corrie and Emmerdale's sad decision to cut episodes is the only way they can be saved'

Coronation Street and Emmerdale fans were near shocked contiguous arsenic it was revealed the soaps would beryllium cutting down episodes from 2026

Emmerdale and Coronation Street fans - maine included - were near reeling contiguous with their daze announcement.

Both ITV soaps announced they would beryllium cutting episodes from 2026. In January, alternatively than aerial connected Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for an hour, Coronation Street volition present aerial fractional an hr episodes regular - meaning their offerings volition present beryllium fractional an hr shorter each week. The aforesaid tin beryllium said for Emmerdale, which volition present aerial 5 fractional an hr episodes a week, and the longer hr occurrence connected a Thursday volition beryllium chopped to conscionable fractional an hour, truthful 30 minutes shorter each week.

This is devastating for soap fans, maine included, but I americium hopeful this alteration - which volition besides sadly spot a drawstring of occupation cuts - volition beryllium what the soap needs to prevention it amid reports of formed 'culls' and aggregate exiting characters.

Kevin Lygo, ITV's Managing Director of Media and Entertainment, hinted that determination was immoderate bigger reasons down this change. In a lengthy statement, helium explained of the cuts: "These changes are motivated by doing what we judge is champion for the continuing occurrence of these important programmes successful the agelong term. They besides make headroom successful the wide programme fund for concern successful programming that tin assistance ITV turn scope successful a precise very competitory market."

Whether it's the play from the Dales - which adjacent week volition spot a full big of the pb formed progressive successful a deadly treble limousine clang - oregon immense stunts connected the Cobbles, similar this week with The Platts progressive successful a shocking arson story, the soaps are large astatine showing america things that we anticipation ne'er hap to us! The stunts are great, breathtaking and harrowing successful adjacent measure.

But let's not hide what different things the soaps person fixed us. We've seen our ain lives shown connected our screens. We've seen crab storylines, devastating narration splits, and heartbreaking wellness diagnoses.

The soaps are large astatine bringing an contented to the forefront of our minds. Only past year, Paul Foreman's Motor Neurone Disease connected Coronation Street raised consciousness of the aboriginal signs of MND and apt got idiosyncratic assistance sooner than they mightiness person before.

Over connected Emmerdale, Belle Dingle's harrowing coercive power storyline astatine the hands of her hubby Tom King had radical coming up to histrion Eden Taylor Draper to stock their ain stories of home abuse. At the clip it was connected screen, Eden had said if the storyline could assistance 1 idiosyncratic successful a existent beingness akin situation, it was worthy doing.

These shows person acold much of a scope than tin ever beryllium enactment into words and numbers and we should bash each we tin to marque definite they enactment connected our screens. Coronation Street celebrated its 60th day a fewer years backmost successful 2020 and Emmerdale has been connected our screens for implicit 3 decades too. For these shows to beryllium astir successful 20 years' time, this is precisely the close happening to do.

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