Corriedale air date confirmed, here's when you can watch the highly-anticipated soap crossover

Corriedale is just weeks away
Tamzin Meyer

Corriedale is fast approaching and the air date of the Emmerdale and Coronation Street crossover is just a few weeks away.

January will see a huge car pile-up take place, involving characters from the two soaps.

It’s something that’s never been done before, and we now finally know exactly when the scenes will air on our screens. Eek!

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Corriedale will air in January (Credit: ITV)

Corriedale January air date confirmed

Corriedale is set to welcome in a new ‘soap power hour’ onto ITV for 2026 which will see half an hour of Emmerdale air between 8pm-8.30pm, followed by Coronation Street at 8.30pm-9pm. This will be the standard, week nightly soap schedule from Monday, January 5th onwards.

Yes, pen that date into your diaries because January 5th will see the special Corriedale episode air.

A regular episode Emmerdale will air for half an hour at 7pm-7.30pm on the night. A regular episode of Coronation Street will also air between 7.30pm-8pm.

And, then that’s when the real drama kicks in as the hour episode of Corriedale hits our screens at 8pm-9pm.

This will mean that viewers will be treated to two hours worth of the ITV soaps on that Monday. And the consequences of the car pile-up are set to be huge. The lives of Emmerdale and Corrie residents will ‘never be the same again.’

Coronation Street's Vicky Myers and Emmerdale's Danny Miller on set of Corriedale
A huge car stunt will take place (Credit: ITV)

Everything else we know about Corriedale so far

Turns out the Corrie/Emmerdale crossover chaos is even juicier than we thought. We already knew Aaron Dingle and Weatherfield’s Lisa Swain were being thrown into the mix, but a brand-new trailer recently dropped a few more familiar voices into the mayhem.

Among the frantic shouts for help, fans can pick out David Platt panicking in true Platt style, Tracy Barlow sounding thoroughly unimpressed with the universe, and Emmerdale’s Liam Cavanagh trying to keep everyone breathing and upright. We bet everyone’s truly happy to have a doctor one the scene. But, but one medic in a storm of smashed cars? Good luck, mate.

The teaser finally confirmed the big disaster too. Yes, it’s a massive pile-up on a dark, miserable rural road just outside Hotten.

Also, back in the Emmerdale village, Belle Dingle is apparently juggling Debbie Webster’s wedding plans, which explains all the mysterious ‘bridezilla in Manchester’ chatter. How any of this spirals into catastrophe, and why on earth Weatherfield residents end up in Yorkshire is yet to be confirmed though. The suspense truly has us on the edge of our seats!

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