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Britain's Got Talent and Coronation Street fans miss major episodes as Virgin Media goes down

Britain's Got Talent and Coronation Street fans miss major episodes as Virgin Media goes down

Virgin Media has issued an apology for the unfortunately-timed blackout on Friday night

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Eleanor Bley Griffiths

Published: Saturday, 1 June 2019 at 11:02 am

Britain's Got Talent and Coronation Street fans were left fuming after a Virgin Media outage hit on Friday night – just in time to disrupt two major TV shows.

Virgin Media has now apologised for the blackout, which suddenly began part-way through the live Britain's Got Talent semi-final on ITV and continued all the way through a much-anticipated episode of Corrie.

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While some fans worked out that they could switch to channel 823, others completely missed out after they were were hit with this message:

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Of course, this made everyone extremely frustrated. The Britain's Got Talent feed disappeared before Libby & Charlie could perform their routine, which ultimately earned them a spot in the top three – so was the public vote ultimately fair?

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The ITV and Channel 4 feeds remained down, which was extremely poor timing for Corrie as the ITV soap's 9pm week came to a dramatic conclusion with a mental health episode centred on Carla Connor – as well as the big reveal about the culprit behind the factory collapse.

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At 9.36pm, Virgin Media issued a statement saying: "We sincerely apologise for the loss of some TV channels earlier this evening. All channels are now restored."

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Eleanor Bley GriffithsDrama Editor, RadioTimes.com

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