ITV Share By Carena Crawford Dec 17 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 17 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 17 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 17 2025 Emmerdale airs every week day on ITV and tonight, Wednesday December 17, it will move from its usual time slot. So here’s everything you need to know about what time it’s on and what’s happening. 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! Laurel is left blindsided by Celia’s comments (Credit: ITV) What time is Emmerdale on tonight? Emmerdale is on tonight but not in it’s usual 7.30pm slot. Instead, it will air for half an hour from 7pm. It will then be followed by football. Newcastle United take on Fulham in the Carabao Cup with kick-off at 8.15pm. Emmerdale is already available to watch on ITVX and YouTube where it is released every day at 7am. Ray is left hurt by Celia’s actions (Credit: ITV) What happens in Emmerdale tonight – Celia destroys Ray Laurel goes against Ray’s wishes and invites Celia for lunch. She soon wishes she hadn’t when things take a turn. article continues below Read all the latest spoilers Celia clocks how much Ray and Laurel really like each other and can see she is losing control of her son. So she sets out to sabotage things by telling Laurel Ray is a playboy who is manipulative and emotionally distant. Upset Laurel soon asks Ray to leave. He’s hurt and angry at his mother and heads off for a confrontation. Rhona sees him leave and contemplates telling Laurel the whole truth. But will she? Elsewhere, Kim continues to push her friends and family further away. As Sam and Lydia bring her home from hospital, Lydia’s guilt grows. Will she confess? Rhona is worried after seeing Ray angry (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 Share Good to Know Share By Carena Crawford Dec 17 2025 By Carena Crawford Dec 17 2025 Previous Story Next Story
