Sunday night Corrie is axed
ITV is to pluck its Billy Sunday night sequence of 'Coronation Street' as part of a transmission channel vamp to make weekends a soap-free zone.
The 30 minutes show will now strike to 8.30pm on Fridays, with 'Emmerdale' too organism ditched from Dominicus nights. Viewers will get an hour-long episode on Tuesdays instead.The changes are part of the station's new Look 2008 schedule.
Simon Shaps, ITV's Director of Boob tube, said: "We've responded to viewer feedback on 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale' so that fans can catch up with their ducky soaps over fewer nights.
"Unity of the dealer ideas behind these changes is to make the weekends on ITV1 feel special.
"We have constantly been the home of Sabbatum nox entertainment and we want to broaden that out to make the unit weekend on ITV1 something to appear forrard to.
"This has meant a wholesale spring clean for Friday nights with newly comedy, play and lineament films to get the weekend started, and a much freshman look to Billy Sunday evenings with amusement shaking up the historically drama-led schedule."
