Current & Classic Emmerdale schedule, week 24 (2026)
EMMERDALE:
8:00 PM Sunday 07-Jun-2026 (10588, Writer Jo Maris, Director Munir Malik): Charity is heavily drinking due to guilt. Charity is the victim of a horrific assault from Todd. Laurel and Ross are done even though it seemed feelings were deepening! Lonely Lydia starting believing Kim’s theory about Sam.
8:00 PM Monday 08-Jun-2026 (10589, Writer Caroline Mitchell, Director Becky Wild): Lydia spots Sam embracing Laurel leading to a public accusation of them having an affair! Kim clocks a vibe between Ross and Laurel.
Tuesday 09-Jun-2026 PREEMPTED - FIFA (Women’s World Cup Qualifier)
7:00 PM Wednesday 10-Jun-2026 (10590, Writer Tony Higgins, Director Becky Wild): Lydia’s bold accusation sends shockwaves through the pub.. Laurel is mortified but will she fess up about Ross? Chas struggles to hold her tongue. Archie’s left glowering.
Thursday 11-Jun-2026 PREEMPTED - FIFA World Cup 2026
8:00 PM Friday 12-Jun-2026 one hour! (10591/10592, Writers Linton Chiswick/Karin Young, Director Reece Dinsdale): Graham gifts Kyle one of his old Army watches (Sebastian’s getting Robert’s watch when?) 🙄. Gabby’s health obsession takes a dark turn online. Caleb falls for Archie’s criminal cash scam. Kerry catches Archie with an AI copy of Steph’s voice.
CLASSIC EMMERDALE:
UK START TIME FOR THE WEEK: 3:35 PM
08-Jun: 17-Oct-2008 (5119, Writer Peter Kerry, Director Carol Wiseman), 20-Oct-2008 (5120, Writer Lesley Clare O’Neill, Director Carol Wiseman)
1) Ashley’s new computer was stolen from Anna. Ashley seriously considers a promotion to Leeds parish when the villagers won’t fight for their own parish. Learning of Andy’s suicide attempt, Jo and Vic decide he’s not their problem. Andy’s gonna be released from hospital soon and cancelled a psych evaluation. Jo’s staying at the farm with Sarah but who have Andy there. Brenda calls it quits with Doug as she has feelings for someone else. Do Pearl and Alan have anything in common? Louise gets a mysterious call.
2) Andy is upbeat about leaving the hospital and Diane offers him a room in the pub but Val doesn’t want him there. Edna takes action when she realizes they may lose Ashley and the church and the villagers unite setting up a church choir for a regional competition. Pearl wants to impress Alan but are highbrow novels the way to go? Gennie worries about Brenda’s crush on Bob.
09-Jun: 21-Oct-2008 (5121, Writer Bill Lyons, Director Carol Wiseman), 22-Oct-2008 (5122, Writer Samantha Doland De Vaux, Director Carol Wiseman)
1) Andy is out of hospital and is met with much hospital all round (good!!!). Debbie reiterates to Andy she won’t allow him near Sarah. Nicola is once agains scheming, this time to buy the church cheap and turn it into a housing development. Laurel gets Nicola to help but knows something isn’t right. Donna and Marlon are due home and it’s learned she’s going back to work. Donna sends a message for Ross to meet her… No need to change Pearl, Alan likes who you are.
2) Donna and Marlon are back and Ross is gutted they are trying for a baby. Ross tells Donna he loves her and is making a mistake but she ain’t listening. Jo allows Andy to have Sarah for the day under supervision from Diane leaving Debbie reeling. Anna gets a tour of Home Farm then a boat ride where Matthew topples overboard (she retrieves his ruined watch). Laurel and Nicola plan auditions for the choir.
10-Jun: 23-Oct-2008 one hour! (5123/5124, Writer Paul Roundell, Director Mickey Jones)
Anna gives Matthew a replica of his broken watch and they wind up in bed. Things go downhill when Anna presses Matthew on info on his latest business deal which she promptly tells Donald. Anna is torn over for her feelings for Matthew. Manipulate Shane swaps shifts with Donna who winds up on the beat with Ross… Donna won’t ask for another partner. Andy is once against allowed to see Sarah as Jo begs Zak to think of Sarah. Jo hands Andy his suitcases… she’s be who he deals with regarding Sarah here on out.
11-Jun: 24-Oct-2008 (5125, Writer Andrew Kirk, Director Mickey Jones), 27-Oct-2008 (5126, Writer Andrew Kirk, Director Mickey Jones)
1) Donald is more demanding that Anna get more info from the Kings. A key to Pear Tree Cottage is handed over to Donald as her conflicting feelings continue. Shane makes sure Ross sees the romantic overtures from Marlon to Donna to turn the screws on him. Katie is supportive towards Andy and offers work at the stables displeasing Matthew. Diane decides to set Vic up since she’s been avoiding work experience.
2) Shane volunteers Ross and Donna for a training course in London which she is forced to accept because of Drake, her boss. Donna realizes Shane knows about her infidelity with Ross. Jamie accuses Louise of having an affair Vic tries to look for work experience with little success.
12-Jun: 28-Oct-2008 one hour! Goodbye Louise Appleton! (5127/5128, Writer Sarah Bagshaw, Director Adrian Bean)
Jonty arrives in the village asking Louise to leave to Australia with him. Bob and Terry learn more about Jonty. Louise decides to abandon Jamie and go to Australia. The villagers throw an impromptu going away party for Louise. Jamie barely makes it but proposes and the two leave for Australia together. Donna takes out her frustrations over Shane’s twisted games. Ross has applied for a transfer to London leading to a kiss then passion. Donna decides to go on the course and spend time with Ross. Donald leaves the King business in turmoil and he won’t tell Anna what he’s done. Matthew begs Anna to invest… Donald’s elated he’s on the brink of destroying the Kings.
Their constant desperation to be running some other type of show instead of the one with 50 years of history they are actually tasked with only makes me feel more pessimism tbh. Sorry, it's hard right now.
And therein lies the problem. Instead of looking back at the show’s rich history to understand what made it work so successfully, they are relying on feedback that is outside the niche of soaps. In doing so, they are fracturing/dissolving the very essence of what soaps are about. If I wanted to watch a crime drama, I’d watch a crime drama not remold a soap to be one. Soaps are an ensemble that work together to bring varying pov’s into diverse stories to make them as robust and engaging as possible. Removing that essence just makes it all mechanical, without heart. You also need a balance of light and dark but when it’s mostly dark…
I really wanna bring optimism but I need something more than the crumbs that we’ve been handed by arch enemy PowerPoint Shaw these last few months as to what’s to come moving forward with the lads. It wouldn’t take much, just something that’s more substantive than a line here and there and that’s more than a concept based on a US show.
There’s also Jimmy’s death which I hope will have some impact for Robert.
Look at us being clowns and hoping 😆. The barn fires have been directly impacting Robert and now he’s nowhere to be seen. The psycho husband is coming back and he doesn’t seem to be around for that, initially, either. Dead Jimmy will not even enter Robert’s story bubble.
Yeah, definitely 🤡 ing when it comes to Jimmy since they barely exchanged a line since Robert returned. It becomes very frustrating when you have the foundation built and bricks were being laid but it’s all torn down in the end, and those moments can’t be made up later, forever lost.
Too many storylines have been started and turned into something else, there's so much that has to come out or be wrapped up. There's Sadie returning. K*v and whatever happens whilst he's here and when he goes. The farm 'wars.' Charity and the revelation of the baby secret and what Dr. Todd has done to her. It's looking pretty obvious what the rest of the year holds...
It’s feels very Dingle-centric with the Tates (plus the PowerPoint butler) coming in a close second. The rest (including the lads) are fighting for reasonable airtime amongst all that. Maybe if LS would actual give more than a few throwaway lines about them, my overall outlook for them would be boosted.
Surely they must finally get the A plot and proper pov, it will be over 6 months at that stage of being in other people’s stories.
I have zero faith in the show at this point (Robert’s ptsd continuing to be ignored as is Aaron’s own psychological abuse by J). They start a plot and drop it when they seem to get bored of it, have no closure planned or just want to go in a different direction. I hope they’ll get pov’s and depth but it’ll all depend on the plot(s) they’ll be involved in. The Sarah angle and the new Sugden has potential but the farm wars… nope. Sebastian is key really but when they’ll actually decide to bring him back is the big question…
A van pulling up sounds like Lewis is about to get abducted but surprise! It’s just a guy with cakes! Yay! You see because he may look tough and scary on the outside but he’s actually as sweet as his cakes:)
Lewis will be so thrilled to see the funny one so abruptly that he will change his plans ready and willing to listen to more advice while Vinny will see the psycho as he truly is.
I’m leaning toward it not happening this year. We have the so-called farm wars and whatever form that will translate onto the screen. There’s Sarah wondering over to the Sugden side ‘for a time’ and whoever they are bringing into the Sugdens to boost their numbers. There’s also Jimmy’s death which I hope will have some impact for Robert. And there’s their wedding (will it be secondary to another plot or will they be allowed to be A plot?).
One issue for me currently pushing things to next year is how isolated they’ve made Robert and this bs about him being responsible for Coira’s ills (Moira’s imprisonment and ‘taking’ their farm from them). Sebastian could be easily used as a pawn against both of them by Joe and others. There’s already gonna be built-in angst because of the years missed out but messing with a child’s head because of hatred against the two of them…
When are we properly expecting them back? I know there might be a chance we get them in between but it does seem Danny was at work the other week.
Is third week of July too optimistic?
Week 26 (wo 22-Jun) potentially looks to be around the time Danny came back briefly to film before going on holiday (or is that too soon?). Mid/late July is the timeframe I’m expecting them to be on more frequently (whatever that will mean in this new normal for them and gaining their own pov’s).
At least it looks like his return is a Z plot. It does involve Lewis, after all. I hope it stays that way if he’ll be around for a bit. I can’t imagine anything or anyone else will be allowed as A plot with Cain and Charity around.
More than likely he shows up at the tale end of the Friday episode (the midnight spoilers/Digital Spy alluding to the specific day) and will unfortunately be more prominent the following week, C plot. If we are lucky, we might get a brief glimpse of the lads in week 26 being happy in his sights 😈 before they disappear again 😔.
“A van pulls up” makes it sound like clowny shows up to the village as opposed to being nearby and gets seen. God. I wonder if he’ll try and get Lewis’ attention by being a “rival” business that sells food. More manipulation, then.
Pfft. His form of manipulative ‘bonding’ by creating a competition with his food truck (obviously purchased using money from pawning the stolen loot… which should’ve been on the coppers radars but is gonna be ignored as well 😒). Plot has gotta revision plot.
Another week of Cain. I think he's had 1 week off this year for those rubbish flashbacks.
The new normal it appears. They really don’t get that you need breaks every once in a while from your umbrella plot and they definitely didn’t learn anything from the slavery one (or whatever taf it turned into in the end). This year’s new format continues to tank.
