Emmerdale airs every week day on ITV and tonight, Friday December 19, it is on in its usual time slot after a change earlier this week. So here’s everything you need to know

about what time it’s on and what’s happening. Between football, rugby and other special shows, ITV tends to shift the soap schedule round to accommodate them.

And boy have they been shifting A LOT lately! But we’ve got you covered with all the up-to-date schedule changes right here!

What time is Emmerdale on tonight?

Emmerdale is on tonight in it’s usual 7.30pm slot. It will air for an hour and is followed by Coronation Street at 8pm.

Emmerdale is already available to watch on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am.

What happens in Emmerdale tonight –

After last night’s showdown, Moira is concerned she made a mistake with Celia. Although Moira doesn’t trust her at all and wants out of their business arrangement, Moira knows Celia has the upper hand after the violent outburst.

But with Cain by her side, Moira steels herself to have it out with Celia. How will it go? And is Moira right to be nervous.

Someone else who is worried is Charity. She is sure her baby secret is going to be blown and is worried sick the baby will have a genetic disease and that will expose the truth.

Sarah is non-the-wiser and is banging on about her gender reveal party. Of course it’s actually a secret wedding, but no one knows that. Charity makes up an excuse to miss the party, but will Sarah let it lie?

Soap power hour from January

In October 2024, Emmerdale began streaming the daily episode of the soap from 7am. Despite some concerns that it meant the soap was in trouble, coupled with lots of cast exits, it has been revealed that actually it was a great move by ITV.

Stats for the first quarter of 2025 revealed that ITVX has achieved a ‘record-breaking’ billion streams in a quarter for the ‘first time ever.’ Coronation Street and Emmerdale have raked up 124 million streams on ITVX so far this year. Soap viewing is up 35 percent in comparison to the first quarter of 2024. So it seems fans are really enjoying the 7am uploads.

It’ll soon be all change once again for ITV and Emmerdale in 2026 however.  The soap has announced a new schedule. The soap ‘power hour’ will start from next January.

Emmerdale will continue to air five nights a week. New episodes will also drop on ITVX every morning at 7am as usual.

However, there is a big change coming as the soap will move to a new time slot of 8pm. The Thursday double bill will also be cut to half an hour to make way for additional episodes of Coronation Street.

This ensures faster-paced, digestible episodes – a 30-minute format which has already proven popular with viewers.