Coronation Street fans ask the same thing after change this week

Coronation Street fans have urged ITV to make a permanent change to the soap’s scheduling a shake up this week. To accommodate the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent, ITV made a change to their programming.

Usually the soap has three hour-long episodes each week, which air on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. However, this week it’s been replaced with five half-hour episodes every day from Monday to Friday.

Viewers can catch the soap from 7.30pm-8pm every night this week, with Britain’s Got Talent following afterwards. It will return to its normal time slots next week.

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On Monday fans tuned in to watch Gemma Winter and Chesney Brown’s wedding on Monday evening, with Gemma wearing a gorgeous bright orange wedding dress. Yet many viewers pointed out how they preferred the new scheduling and took to Twitter to share their thoughts.

Matt said: “Much better episode tonight it felt like Coronation Street being on back to 30 mins and its old time slot bring it back permanently”

Owen wrote on Twitter: “Can we have half-hour episodes all of the time? So much easier to get through.”

Paul added: “Reading people prefer the #Corrie half hour ep tonight. One hours always too long for a murder each ep. Stopped watching #Coronationstreet.”

However, a few viewers wanted the show to last longer. Twitter user Claw wrote: "I wish the episode was a whole hour. I need to see what happens next, straightaway! That ending was a proper cliffhanger!

Olivia added: "#coronationstreet that needed the other 30 minutes.... didn't deserve to be cut in half."