Coronation Street fans think they have worked out the "obvious solution" after the soap was pulled from tonight's schedules, along with Emmerdale , to make way for the sport. The two ITV soaps were reduced from six episodes a week to five at the beginning of this year amid the broadcaster's budget cuts , and now viewers have lost out on even more. With a crossover special known as Corriedale in early January , the two long-running programmes launched into a new scheduling format marketed as the