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
Emmerdale drug addiction, anorexia, teenage pregnancy, gambling addiction, bereavement, fraud, suicide, mesothelioma, schizophrenia, manslaughter, becoming a parent in later life, sudden infant death syndrome, self-harming, assisted suicide, epilepsy and premature births. "Emmerdale" was first broadcast two afternoons a week in 1972, and it later moved to a prime time 19:00 slot in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It began broadcasting episodes year-round in 1988. The number of episodes per week has increased, to its current six half-hour episodes each week. Each episode is filmed two to four weeks before it is broadcast on ITV. "Emmerdale" reaches viewers in the Republic