Emmerdale Her next appearance on 10 October attracted 6.7 million, then Thursday's 7pm episode attracted 6.9 million, the highest while 8pm's got 6.8 million. Emmerdale Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British soap opera set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, "Emmerdale Farm" was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. Produced by ITV Yorkshire, it has been filmed at their Leeds studio since its inception. The programme is broadcast in every ITV region. The series originally aired during the afternoon until 1978, when it was moved
Scheduling of Emmerdale was broadcast at the same time as the BBC's soap "EastEnders"; this was unusual, as the main terrestrial channels in the UK usually schedule their soap operas to avoid clashes like this. On 8 July 2009, ITV announced that they were to revamp their schedule yet again. This time, "Emmerdale"'s Tuesday hour-long episode was reduced back down to 30 minutes, and replaced with a second Thursday episode. "Emmerdale" and "EastEnders" ratings have improved thanks to this, with "Emmerdale" getting 7.7 million, its highest in over 6 months, on 1 October 2009. Old episodes of "Emmerdale Farm" were repeated in the