Sunday night Corrie is axed
ITV is to pull its Lord's Day night episode of 'Coronation Street' as part of a channel revamp to take in weekends a soap-free zone.
The half-hour demo will nowadays move to 8.30pm on Fridays, with 'Emmerdale' besides organism ditched from Dominicus nights. Viewing audience will find an hour-long sequence on Tuesdays rather.The changes ar role of the station's new Look 2008 schedule.
Simon Shaps, ITV's Managing director of Television, said: "We've responded to viewer feedback on 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale' so that fans tin catch up with their ducky soaps over fewer nights.
"Ace of the principal ideas behind these changes is to make the weekends on ITV1 feel special.
"We hold always been the home of Saturday night amusement and we require to extend that out to make the whole weekend on ITV1 something to look forward to.
"This has meant a wholesale spring make clean for Friday nights with newly comedy, drama and feature films to get the weekend started, and a practically freshman look to Dominicus evenings with amusement quivering up the historically drama-led schedule."
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