50 Years of Emmerdale: The official story of TV's most iconic rural drama

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By 1993, Emmerdale was into its third decade on the air and December 1993 saw a major turning point in the show's history, when an episode featured a plane crashing into the village of Beckindale, killing four main characters, [8] [6] giving Emmerdale its highest-ever audience of 18 million [8] and marking its transformation into a major prime time soap opera. Emmerdale is broadcast in New Zealand on TVNZ 1, where it is the second-most-watched daytime programme, after the news. I'm especially grateful for the words of encouragement and advice about making the jump from university practice to industry work opportunities- a change that I need to prepare for as a current 3rd year.

Celebrating 50 years since the show’s creation, this book is packed with history, engrossing features, long lost imagery, and plenty of behind-the-scenes detail. Years of Emmerdale, “The complete story of TV’s most iconic rural drama” published by ITV Ventures and Octopus Publishing Group, follows 60 Years of Coronation Street “ The Incredible Story of Britain’s Favourite Continuing Drama” which was released in 2020 to mark the fellow ITV serial’s six decades of drama.

Major storylines during this period included a bus crash, Sarah Sugden's death in a barn fire, a New Year's Eve storm, the Kings River explosion, and the Sugden house fire.

Emmerdale 50th Anniversary Special: How to watch, when is it on TV, what is ‘the storm’ and who dies? This time, Emmerdale 's Tuesday hour-long episode was reduced back down to 30 minutes, and replaced with a second Thursday episode. It includes a delve looking back at Emmerdale legends, the show's villains, births, marriages, deaths, and celebrity cameos.Earlier this year, the drama’s cast and producers kicked off the birthday celebrations with a huge cake in the shape of the show’s famous Woolpack pub.