JE
Im not sure, but I took it that what was reported was Emmerdale would run out of episodes end of May and Corrie end of June. Its pointless telling us when they would have ended if it had kept the 6 or 7 episodes a week as that's not relevant now. Emmerdale finished filming on 20th March and it didn't go down to 3 a week until a week on Monday afterwards (30th March) so they already screened a full week after filming ended before it went down to 3. If it ends at the end of May that would be roughly 24th April they would have filmed to, so its not impossible they were only 5 weeks ahead especially if they had to film 7 episodes a week not 6. Of course its possible that some scenes may have been filmed 6-8 weeks ahead of transmission but not in sequence or the filmed material hasn't been edited properly yet. Also with the village being some distance from the studios they may well have filmed some scenes at the village for some episodes and not the studios or the other way around.
Jez
Founding member
Are you sure by the "end of May" they didn't mean episodes that were originally meant to air at the end of May, not that they'll run out in May now they've cut the number of episodes?
Im not sure, but I took it that what was reported was Emmerdale would run out of episodes end of May and Corrie end of June. Its pointless telling us when they would have ended if it had kept the 6 or 7 episodes a week as that's not relevant now. Emmerdale finished filming on 20th March and it didn't go down to 3 a week until a week on Monday afterwards (30th March) so they already screened a full week after filming ended before it went down to 3. If it ends at the end of May that would be roughly 24th April they would have filmed to, so its not impossible they were only 5 weeks ahead especially if they had to film 7 episodes a week not 6. Of course its possible that some scenes may have been filmed 6-8 weeks ahead of transmission but not in sequence or the filmed material hasn't been edited properly yet. Also with the village being some distance from the studios they may well have filmed some scenes at the village for some episodes and not the studios or the other way around.