ITV Pulls Coronation Street and Emmerdale For Live Carabao Cup Coverage

The one-night change highlights that ITV’s weekday soaps block can be overruled to prioritise live sport and that no early streaming is possible when no episode is produced.

Overview

ITV pre-empted both soaps on Wednesday 16 September to broadcast live EFL Carabao Cup coverage of Manchester United v Brighton from 7.30pm with kick-off at 8pm and coverage running until 10.25pm.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street will return to their usual weekday 'power hour' slots on Thursday 17 September, with Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm.
No episodes from the missing night are available early on ITVX or YouTube because neither soap had a new episode produced for 16 September, so there is nothing for the streamer to release.
ITV introduced a regular weekday 'soaps power hour' to give both shows consistent slots, but broadcasters routinely move or drop those programmes to accommodate live football and other major events.
The disruption directly affects viewers who expect daily streaming and nightly broadcasts and signals that future big live events are likely to prompt similar one-night schedule changes by ITV.