What time is Emmerdale on tonight? Get up-to-date schedules and changes here

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What time is Emmerdale on tonight? All the info you need on Thursday night’s episode as Cain gives Kammy a warning.

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!

April and Dylan are caught out by Mandy in Emmerdale
The soap is on at the normal time (Credit: ITV)

What time is Emmerdale on tonight?

Emmerdale is on tonight, Thursday, August 14, 2025 at its usual time of 7.30pm. The episode will air for an hour.

It has already been released on ITVX and YouTube where it drops every day at 7am.

Charity is told she is pregnant in Emmerdale
Charity discovers she’s pregnant (Credit: ITV)

What happens in Emmerdale tonight – Charity gets baby news

This evening in the Dales, Charity heads for her embryo transfer appointment and gets a surprise when she discovers she’s actually already pregnant. Sarah’s delighted, as you can imagine.

Elsewhere, April is horrified to learn that Dylan’s involved with Ray and wants her to do a drug drop. Hoping that if she agrees to do so that Dylan will cut ties with Ray, April does so.

Oblivious Marlon, after receiving some wise advice from Mandy, starts to get on board with April and Dylan’s relationship. But, will he find out about their involvement with Ray?

Emmerdale's April is frightened when Dylan tells her Ray wants her to do a drug drop.
Ray manipulates April into doing the job (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