ITV Share By Carena Crawford Jun 26 2025 By Carena Crawford Jun 26 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 Jun 26 2025 By Carena Crawford Jun 26 2025 What time is Emmerdale on tonight as Sarah goes in for her surgery – and things don’t go to plan leaving Charity and Cain terrified? Between 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 Thursday, June 26 2025, Emmerdale is airing in its usual time slot of 7.30pm. The hour-long episode will see Sarah head in for her cancer operation as Charity and Cain anxiously await news. Tonight’s episode of Emmerdale is also already available on ITVX, where is it released every day at 7am. Charity comforts Sarah ahead of her surgery, but it turns into a row (Credit: ITV) What happens in Emmerdale tonight – bad news for Sarah Sarah is feeling anxious as she awaits her operation for cervical cancer. Charity is at the hospital with her, but things soon take a turn when Sarah starts talking about her IVF and it’s clear Charity isn’t all that keen. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers As Sarah asks her gran to confirm she’s fully supportive, Charity can’t do it. They argue and Sarah is left heartbroken just as she’s wheeled into surgery. Charity waits outside and feels awful for how things were left. And it gets even worse when the surgeon reveals things didn’t go to plan during the operation. Will Sarah be okay? Meanwhile, Matty is grateful to Victoria when she is enthusiastic about celebrating Amy’s birthday with him. Charity and Cain receive worrying news about Sarah (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, 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 this:Click to share on X (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Good to Know Share By Carena Crawford Jun 26 2025 By Carena Crawford Jun 26 2025
