The explosive collision of Coronation Street and Emmerdale in the landmark Corriedale event was a massive hit with fans, peaking with 4.7 million viewers (averaging 4.2million viewers across the hour).
The impressive live overnight audience figures are the highest live TV ratings for a soap in over a year, and the biggest TV peak audience for a soap since 2022 (outside of Christmas Day episodes). Corriedale is the highest live TV audience for any drama across any broadcaster or streamer since Call the Midwife in February 2025, and ITV’s highest TV audience since I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
The hour-long special, which saw the two soap worlds collide in a high-stakes multi-vehicle pile-up, has sparked a social media frenzy, with a combined reach of over 140 million across social platforms and viewers labelling it ‘the greatest hour of television I have ever seen’ and ‘absolute cinema’.
The success of Corriedale officially launches ITV’s new ‘Soap Power Hour’ scheduling pattern, which will see reverberations of the crash playing out across Coronation Street and Emmerdale on ITV and on ITVX.
Both soaps kick off 2026 following a record breaking year for soaps on ITVX, with a 30% increase in viewing – achieving more than half a billion streams in 2025 for the first time ever.
Corriedale is produced by ITV Studios Continuing Drama.
Emmerdale airs weekday nights at 8pm on ITV1 and STV, and Coronation Street airs weekday nights at 8.30pm on ITV1 and STV as part of ITV’s new ‘soap power hour’ scheduling pattern for Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Episodes are also available for streaming from 7am on ITVX and STVPlayer.