ITV Share By Carena Crawford Jan 1 2025 By Carena Crawford Jan 1 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 Jan 1 2025 By Carena Crawford Jan 1 2025 Emmerdale airs every week day on ITV and tonight, Thursday January 1, it is not 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 this New Year’s Day. 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! Ray did not murder April (Credit: ITV) What time is Emmerdale on tonight? Emmerdale is not on tonight in its usual 7.30pm slot. Instead it is moving to an earlier time slot this New Year’s Day at 7pm. Tonight it will air for an hour. An extra episode of Coronation Street airs afterwards at 8pm also for an hour. Emmerdale is already available to watch on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am. Has Charity pulled off the surprise wedding? (Credit: ITV) What happens in Emmerdale tonight Ray did not go through with killing April and told her to run. Now she’s missing and Marlon and Rhona are worried. But does Ray know where she is? And how will he explain this to Celia? article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Elsewhere, Sarah can’t believe it when she arrives at the pub and realises Charity has planned a surprise wedding day for her. She is overwhelmed with joy as she and Jacob finally get to wed. However, with Vanessa drinking more and more and firmly against Charity’s lies, will she reveal Charity’s big secret and spoil the big day? Also, with John’s plan having fallen apart, what will he do next as he tries to regain control – and reclaim Aaron as his husband. And, Nicola and Lewis are boxing up Christmas decorations when Kev arrives. Nicola intercepts him before Lewis can see him and tells him to either stay and be a proper dad to Lewis or leave for good. What will Kev do? 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 Jan 1 2025 By Carena Crawford Jan 1 2025 Previous Story Next Story
