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More in Entertainment Coronation Street currently airs Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 8pm until 9pm, Emmerdale airs every weekday evenings at 7.30pm with an hour-long episode on a Thursday.

But, there is a catch. While Coronation Street will air every weekday the epsiodes will only be half an hour long instead of the full hour that we get at the moment.

Coronation Street 's hour-long editions for Wednesday, November 23, Thursday, November 24 and Sunday, November 27 are all available to watch now on ITVX.

Tonight (June 30), Coronation Street viewers will be able to watch the soap at 8pm and on Wednesday, July 2, it will also air at 8pm. On Friday, July 4, there will be no new episode to watch.

Coronation Street and Emmerdale will return to airing their full slate of weekly episodes later this month. ITV confirmed today (September 2) with a new trailer that the soaps will resume double ...