It's bad news for Coronation Street and Emmerdale fans tonight as the popular shows have been cancelled AGAIN by ITV. 

The 'soap power hour' will once again be scrapped on April 14 to make way for sporting events on the channel.

This time it's the Women's European Qualifier match, which will see England's Lionesses go head-to-head with Spain.

Emmerdale typically airs on ITV from Monday to Friday at 8pm while Coronation Street typically airs at 8:30pm. 

But it's good news for fans of EastEnders, which will still air at its usual time of 7:30pm on BBC1. 

Emmerdale and Coronation Street will continue airing tomorrow (April 15) and fans will be treated to an extra episode of each on Sunday to ensure that they still get an ample weekly fix.  

This is not the first time that the soaps have recently been cancelled to make way for sport and it also happened just two weeks ago.  

Airing in their place was an international football match of England vs Japan, from 7pm and 10.05pm.

As is the case this week, the new episodes aired on Sunday evening to make up for fans missing out on Tuesday.  

Beginning in January, ITV debuted their soap power hour, with each programme airing a 30-minute episode from Monday to Friday.

Before this, Coronation Street aired hour-long episodes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Emmerdale, meanwhile, aired Monday to Friday, with a double episode on Thursdays.

As previously mentioned, soap viewers faced a similar schedule shake-up just the week before this. 

The soaps did not air on Friday (March 27), with the England vs Uruguay football match being shown on ITV instead.

News of the latest schedule change comes amid a triumphant year for the popular soaps after they were brought together in a crossover episode - dubbed 'Corriedale' - for the first time. 

Fans branded the highly-anticipated crossover 'absolutely amazing' and 'beautifully done', as the worlds of Coronation Street and Emmerdale were brought together for the first time in January, at the time of the power hour's launch. 

The explosive events never let up throughout the jam-packed hour, with viewers treated to plenty of drama from start to finish, from grisly murders, a romantic proposal, tense chase scenes and even several deaths.

And fans didn't waste anytime in taking to X after it aired to praise the cast and crew for giving them 'the most special piece of tv', predicting the crossover would win a slew of awards and expressing their desire for another Corriedale in the future.

They praised: 'Standing ovation from my living room. What an episode'; 'That was the greatest hour of television I’ve ever seen. Everyone involved should be incredibly proud.'

'I think that was the single best episode of a soap I’ve ever seen in my life and I’m not even being dramatic. My brain is going to take 3-5 business days to process this. So many questions. Absolute cinema. Everyone who worked on it take a f***ing bow.'