Fans of Emmerdale and Coronation Street will notice more schedule changes this week as the FIFA World Cup continues with more matches being shown on ITV1.
Usually, Emmerdale airs 30-minute episodes at 8pm on the channel Monday to Friday, while Coronation Street is aired on the same days, also for 30 minutes, at 8.30pm.
However, football matches taking place this week mean the soaps will change their schedules.
With knockout stages of the tournament well underway, schedule changes have been announced later than usual in previous weeks and may change.
Here are the current schedules for Emmerdale and Coronation Street this week, as per the Freeview TV guide.
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On Monday, July 6, Emmerdale will air earlier than usual with a new episode lasting an hour from 7.30pm.
Corrie will follow it at 8.30pm with an hour-long episode.
There are no episodes of the soaps scheduled for Tuesday, July 7, but they will be back on Wednesday, July 8 with 30-minute episodes.
Emmerdale and Corrie will return to their usual timeslots of 8pm and 8.30pm respectively.
ITV will not show a new episode of either soap on Thursday, July 9, but episodes will return on Friday, July 10.
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Viewers can tune into Emmerdale at 8pm for one hour and Coronation Street at 9pm, also for an hour.
Although the TV schedules for Emmerdale and Coronation Street look different this week, fans will still get their usual five 30-minute episodes, just in a different format.
Which World Cup matches are on ITV this week?
On Tuesday, ITV will broadcast the Argentina v Egypt match from 4.15pm with kick-off at 5pm, while the Switzerland v Colombia game will air from 8.15pm as it’s a 9pm kick-off.
The France v Morocco game will be broadcast from 8.15pm with a 9pm kick-off on Thursday.
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Then, on Saturday, ITV is due to air the World Cup game from 8.15pm, with the 10pm fixture seeing England take on Norway.
On Sunday, ITV will air the fixture between the winners of the Switzerland v Colombia and Argentina v Egypt games from 1.15am for the 2am kick-off.
All the above games will be broadcast on ITV1.
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