What time is Emmerdale on tonight (Friday)? Get up-to-date schedules and changes here
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The drama is ramping up again in this week’s Emmerdale as Joe and Dawn’s affair is exposed and a party at Home Farm takes a very dark turn – but at what time is Emmerdale on tonight, Friday, May 9?
With football, rugby and other special shows, ITV tends to shift the soap schedule round to accommodate them. But we’ve got you covered with all the up-to-date schedule changes right here.
What time is Emmerdale on tonight?
On Friday, May 9, 2025, Emmerdale will air at the usual time of 7.30pm on ITV.
The episode is already available on streaming service ITVX. It is normally released there every weekday at 7am.
What happens in Emmerdale tonight – the hunt is on for Joe’s attacker
After Joe Tate was pushed out of a window at Home Farm last night (Thursday, May 7), Noah makes an alarming discovery when he arrives at Home Farm to talk to his half-brother. He wants answers over why Joe spiked him, but Joe’s clearly in no fit state to give them.
What does Noah find when he starts looks for Joe? He certainly has shocking news to deliver, but what is it?
With Joe’s fate still unknown, the police are soon called. They have some questions for rather a lot of the villagers. Many of them had motive for hurting Joe or even wanting him dead. But is this now a murder enquiry?
As the suspects are gathered, will anyone own up to what they did? And who did try to kill Joe Tate?
Emmerdale powering ahead as schedule set to change again for 2026 ‘power hour’
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, 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
Emmerdale usually airs weeknights on ITV at 7.30pm, with an early release on ITVX at 7am.
Classic Emmerdale usually airs every weekday on ITV3 at 6am and 6.30am, plus 1.40pm and 2.10pm.
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