[IndigoTucker]

Can I say that my sister, who is into her soap operas, was disappointed about the lengths of the Christmas Day episodes of 'Emmerdale' and 'Coronation Street' this year, normally it would've been an hour long for festive episodes, let alone on a Monday.

The Boxing Day episodes of both were a continuation of the Christmas Day episode - makes me think they were meant to be 1hr long, until ITV realised there was too much TV to fit into a single day, esp with BBC1 airing Who/Strictly/Midwife/Eastenders alongside.