Scheduling of Emmerdale and Central Television chose to move the programme to 19:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays in February 1989, This was the first time Anglia had screened "Emmerdale Farm" in the 19:00 slot, Central were simply returning to the slots they used until December 1987, for a period Anglia and Central saw episodes one week later than other regions. From January 1990 all other regions followed the Central and Anglia schedule in the familiar Tuesday and Thursday 19:00 slot. Most companies continued to broadcast the series at 7 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, repeats was shown in the daytime slot of the
Scheduling of Emmerdale making "Emmerdale" the first British soap to broadcast six episodes a week. In January 2008, as with "Coronation Street", ITV announced they would cease airing "Emmerdale" on a Sunday night; this meant that "Emmerdale" would still air at the same time on a Monday–Friday, but, to compensate, the Tuesday episode would run until 20:00. Producers of the soap revealed that "each hour-long episode on Tuesday will be specially written and won't be two half-hour ones put together. Each Tuesday episode was given an episode title but this practice was stopped in August 2008. The second half-hour of each Tuesday episode