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Jasmine Allday

Emmerdale to get extra long episode tonight amid ITV schedule shake-up

Emmerdale will air an extra long episode tonight amid a huge ITV schedule shake-up as the Meena saga continues.

The ITV soap will have an hour-long episode tonight - but there will be no episode tomorrow night - as ITV switch up their schedule in order to broadcast the live FA Cup football coverage throughout the week.

Coronation Street will also have its times changed over the next few days - as well as rival BBC soaps, EastEnders and Holby City.

In tonight's episode, the Meena Jutla (Paige Sandhu) storyline will continue as she finally confesses all to vicar Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin), who has been desperately trying to get her to confess to her sins with secret prison visits.

Charles is desperate to get a confession from Meena (ITV)

Spoilers reveal Charles is set to be devastated as Meena details every moment of Andrea Tate's murder.

"Meena finally does confess, but she uses it as an opportunity to stick the knife in," he explained recently, "There's a test of wills and strength between her and Charles. It's like a stand-off at that particular visit.

"So Meena breaks him by describing every detail of what happened to Andrea. Charles is broken by this. It's painful because there's a part of him that feels guilty for Andrea's death, especially with being in love with Manpreet and moving on from Andrea so quickly."

Charles is making secret visits to Meena in prison (ITV)

And Kevin teased there is a lot more to come from the Meena storyline.

"This storyline is just plot twist after plot twist. I've read ahead and it's exciting, very exciting," he said, "It's going to be a great crescendo to an ongoing storyline. It feels like it's never-ending, but it's worth it!

"It went even better than I expected, because Paige was amazing. In the game-playing we did, I wanted to match Paige and make that scene as strong as I knew it could be. I feel happy with what we've done. I'm looking forward to the audience seeing it."

Meena's been charged for her crimes - but there's still a trial to be had (ITV)

Despite being charged for her long list of crimes, Meena is still able to manipulate from prison and in a scary scene, the other day, she looked directly down the camera lens, leaving fans 'creeped out'.

"God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth," she said as she stared down the camera lens, "And they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil. Come to your senses Charles, escape the snare of the devil."

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