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

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Emmerdale is back on tonight (Friday November 14) after the hour-long episode was cancelled last night. So what time will it air?

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!

Kev cries in Emmerdale
Kev is utterly distraught tonight (Credit: ITV)

What time is Emmerdale on tonight?

Emmerdale returns on Friday at it’s usual time of 7.30pm. It is on for half an hour and is already available to watch on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am.

Paddy is upset in his house in Emmerdale
Paddy is starting to believe Bear has abandoned them (Credit: ITV)

What happens in Emmerdale tonight?

After the shocks of Wednesday night’s episode which revealed Kev had stabbed himself to stop Robert from appealing, and then that Faith Dingle had been the one to persuade Robert to fight his sentence and finally that Kev is Lewis’ dad, Friday’s episode sees Kev spiralling.

Kev knows Robert has lied to him about Victoria having a brain tumour. He wants to know the truth and why Robert lied – but will he work out exactly what has gone on?

Meanwhile, Paddy is still worried sick about Bear. The car rental company don’t come up with any clues as to what has happened to him either.

But Eve spots her grandad when she’s out playing with Matty and Isaac. However as they’re playing ‘going on a bear hunt’ everyone thinks she’s just got herself confused. Will they realise she really did see him?

How has he ended up in this state? (Credit: ITV)
Will anyone find Bear? (Credit: ITV)

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