ITV Share By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 What time is Emmerdale on tonight? Get up-to-date schedules and changes here You don't need to miss a minute of Emmerdale with our handy guide Emmerdale Tonight Share By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 Emmerdale airs every week day on ITV and tonight, Tuesday December 30, it is on in its usual time slot. So here’s everything you need to know about what time it’s on and what’s happening in Emmerdale tonight. 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 this time it’s all thanks to Christmas – and we’ve got you covered with all the up-to-date schedule changes right here! April is worried, but must push ahead (Credit: ITV) What time is Emmerdale on tonight? Emmerdale is on tonight in its usual 7.30pm slot after multiple changes last week. There will be more changes later this week, as on New Year’s Day it moves to 7pm. Tonight it will air for half an hour. An extra episode of Coronation Street airs afterwards at 8pm also for half an hour. Emmerdale is already available to watch on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am. Kev is still tied up at John’s mercy (Credit: ITV) What happens in Emmerdale tonight Dylan and April are determined to free Bear and have a plan. But they know this is their only chance to save him. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Ray is soon distracted by a rock thrown through Laurel’s window. April uses the moment to break into the farm and free Bear. When she finally sees Bear – and the state he is in – she is horrified. April begs him to come home, but Bear is too far gone and blindly loyal to Ray. Will April be able to free him? Elsewhere, Sarah is really upset over her missed wedding and the fact she won’t be married when the baby arrives. Charity comes up with a plan to create a surprise wedding for her and Jacob, but will she pull it off? Also, Kev is desperate to persuade John not to go through with blowing Robert up. He reminds John innocent people will die in the blast too. But John hits back that he overheard Robert planning to put Kev back in prison. It’s a bitter blow and Kev is shaken. With Aaron and Robert still taking precautions against Kev, John continues to lurk unnoticed. He soon puts the IED under Robert’s car as he prepares to kill his brother… 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. Read more: Who’s leaving Emmerdale? All the cast exits, arrivals and returns Share Good to Know Share By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 30 2025 Next Story
