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Things are getting tricky for Caleb in Emmerdale tonight as Jai knows what he did, so what time can we watch it?

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!

Vinny is scared in Emmerdale
Vinny is hiding his own guilty secret (Credit: ITV)

What time is Emmerdale on tonight?

Emmerdale is on tonight, Friday September 26, at its usual time of 7.30pm. It is on for half an hour. If you can’t wait that long it’s already available on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am.

Gabby and Vinny hold hands in Emmerdale
Gabby admits she cheated on Vinny (Credit: ITV)

What happens in Emmerdale tonight – Jai ups the pressure

After discovering that Caleb helped John, Jai knows he holds all the cards. Caleb is sweating as he waits to hear how he can pay Jai off. What will they agree?

Elsewhere, Gabby and Vinny return from honeymoon and are all smiles. But both of them are still hiding their secrets and it all becomes too much for Gabby who confesses the truth to Laurel.

Laurel insists she has to be honest with Vinny, but Gabby is adamant she will take her secret to the grave. Can she really keep it from him? And as Vinny gets a letter that throws him, will he also be forced to reveal all?

And, April is given food for thought about something – but what will she decide?

Jai looks at his phone in Emmerdale
Jai is shocked by Caleb’s behaviour (Credit: ITV)

Soap power-hour in 2026

In October 2024, Emmerdale announced they were going to start 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 after the soap 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 – meaning we don’t have to wait all day if we don’t want to!

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.

Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns