HER Majesty The Queen breathed her last in Balmoral Castle on September 8, 2022.
As a result, ITV has altered its schedule. Both Coronation Street and Emmerdale will not be aired tonight (Friday, September 9).
The long-running dramas will be postponed in favour of a continuous ITV News Special all day, beginning at 9am, despite the broadcaster not being obliged to interrupt regular scheduling.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street were due on screens tonight at 7.30pm and 8pm respectively.
A number of other regularly-scheduled ITV programs in the likes of This Morning and Loose Women have also been cancelled.
This will be followed by Queen Elizabeth II – The Longest Reign at 8.30pm, hosted by Jonathan Dimbleby which will chart the monarch's historic seventy-year long reign from its unlikely beginnings to the present day.
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ITV News At Ten will then be airing at 10pm.
Emmerdale and Coronation Street viewers will have to wait before they can catch up with all the drama as no details regarding the new airing date for the postponed episodes have been revealed.
Corrie stars in the likes of Jack P. Shepherd, Daniel Brocklebank and Jude Riordan have paid tribute to the Queen on social media, remembering her visit to the Salford set in July, 2021.
A statement from the Palace shook the world by announcing the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8.
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"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon", the statement read.
The Queen died at the age of 96 surrounded by her family at her home in Balmoral, including her son and heir Charles and her grandsons, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince William and the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry.
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The country will go into a period of mourning led by the Queen eldest son now known as King Charles III, due to his automatic accession to the throne.
ITV immediately revised its plans for the evening, which included an hour-long episode of the Yorkshire-based show.
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The awaited instalment was replaced by news coverage following the death of the monarch.
BBC One also suspended its programming and cancelled its last EastEnders episode of the week in favour of news coverage.
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