“We are in a developing and dynamic situation with respect to the coronavirus.”
Representatives of Coronation Street and Emmerdale have responded to rumours that the weekly amount of episodes could be cut down to as few as two because of the worldwide coronavirus outbreak.
Tabloid newspapers have claimed that show bosses have held ‘crisis talks’, one star has been quarantined, and production could be halted with filmed episodes being spread out across more weeks than usual.
Digital Spy has been in touch with ITV, and understands that reports of the shows reducing their weekly number of episodes during the crisis are purely speculative at this stage.