THERE has been ANOTHER soap schedule shake-up resulting in both Emmerdale and Coronation Street being cancelled tonight.

As a result of the 2022 World Cup, the soap schedules have been severely disrupted with many episodes airing outside of their regular timeslots.

Tonight ITV has been forced to cancel both of it's flagship soaps with neither of them airing tonight.

It comes after ITV also pulled last night's edition of Emmerdale from the schedules resulting in a second soap-free night.

All episodes of the soap are currently available to catch-up on ITVX with the streaming service even releasing episodes in advance in a bid to combat the major disruption as created by the football tournament.

Coronation Street aired earlier this week across four nights from Sunday-Wednesday in a series of unconventional timeslots with Emmerdale joining suit everyday bar Monday

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For the last two weeks both BBC iPlayer and ITVX have dropped that week's episodes of the soaps at the start of the week in advance of their TV airing.

Running from November 20 to December 8, the football fixtures will air on both ITV and the BBC – with the soap schedules in chaos because of it.

Typically, ITV broadcasts the equivalent of six episode per soap each week.

Emmerdale airs Monday-Friday at 7:30pm with Thursday's edition being an hour-long affair.

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Whilst Coronation Street is broadcast as three 60 minute episodes a week, airing on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8pm.

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