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

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Carena Crawford

It’s the end of the week and Emmerdale is on tonight, but what time is it on on, Friday July 25?

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's decision doesn't got down well with Marlon (Credit: ITV)
April’s decision doesn’t got down well with Marlon (Credit: ITV)

What time is Emmerdale on tonight?

Emmerdale is on tonight, Friday July 24, 2025 at its usual time of 7.30pm. The episode will air for half an hour.

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

Robert goes to the police station in Emmerdale
Robert takes his evidence straight to the police (Credit: ITV)

What happens in Emmerdale tonight – Robert goes to the police

Having found out Owen could not have murdered Nate because he was doing something illegal with his brother, Steve, on that date, Robert is determined to act. He goes to the police station to report that he knows something about the death of Nate Robinson. Is the game finally up for John?

Elsewhere, Moira faces a huge decision about her future. Will she sell to Kim and Joe? Or will something stop her in the end?

Also, Eric finds out about the engagment and isn’t happy. Sarah and Jacob are desperate to talk him round, but will he give in?

And, April tells Marlon how much she is loving her job. He wants her to go back to school, but she is clear that’s not happening and she’s taking an apprenticeship with Belle. How will that go down?

Joe offers to buy Butlers farm from Moira in Emmerdale
Will Moira sign her farm away? (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