E4 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On E4 Tonight

E4 is Channel 4’s younger-skewing entertainment channel: American sitcom reruns through the day, reality formats after dark, and the Hollyoaks first-look Monday to Wednesday at 7pm. Saturday 24 October 2026 is a film and then Gogglebox. Independence Day starts at 6:20pm, Celebrity Gogglebox is at 9pm, and two ordinary Gogglebox episodes follow at 10pm and 11:05pm. There is no Hollyoaks tonight.

E4 Schedule: Saturday 24 October 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Saturday 24 October 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

Also on TV tonight at 9pm

• BBC One: Wisdom of the Crowd (from 8.35pm)
• ITV1: The Voice UK (from 8.35pm)
• BBC Two: Amy Winehouse at the BBC (from 8.35pm)
• Channel 4: The Equalizer 2
• Channel 5: Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More (from 8.35pm)
• Film4: Shaun of the Dead
• ITV2: FYI Daily
• ITV3: Midsomer Murders (from 8pm)
• ITV4: Darts: European Championship (from 6pm)
• More4: 24 Hours in A&E

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What’s on E4 today

Overnight is Naked Attraction at 12:20am, Gogglebox at 1:20am and Below Deck Down Under at 2:20am, then Simpsons and Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes and a Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA before Lego Masters Australia at 6am. Modern Family is on at 7:50am and 8:20am, Made in Chelsea at 8:50am, and four Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA episodes run from 9:50am to the early afternoon. Nine Simpsons episodes then fill 1:50pm to 6:20pm and hand over to the evening film.

Here’s the E4 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 24 October 2026.

Independence Day — E4, 6:20pm

The 1996 alien-invasion blockbuster, with Will Smith, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum. The slot runs to 9pm, longer than the film itself, so expect a generous number of ad breaks.

Celebrity Gogglebox — E4, 9pm

An older edition (series 2, episode 7) in which the famous sofa-sitters comment on the telly of its day, pandemic news bulletins included. It is a repeat.

Gogglebox — E4, 10pm and 11:05pm

Two episodes back to back from series 24, numbered 11 and 12. Both are repeats of earlier weeks: the first catches the viewers reacting to the start of an I’m a Celebrity run, the second their takes on The Day of the Jackal and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. The listing numbers for Gogglebox have been unreliable, so treat them as a guide only.

Popular shows on E4

Reality

Married at First Sight Australia is E4’s most-watched acquisition and the one that reorders the whole schedule when a series is on. Three or four episodes a week, strangers paired off by “experts”, married at first meeting, then sat at a dinner party until somebody says the unforgivable thing. The UK version plays much quieter. Its couples absorb the pressure rather than detonate at the table, which is more realistic and considerably less watchable.

Celebs Go Dating has been on E4 since 2016 and has never changed shape: two relationship coaches, currently Paul C. Brunson and Anna Williamson, a handful of celebrity clients, and dates with members of the public.

Soap

Hollyoaks has been on Channel 4 since 1995 and in E4’s first-look slot long enough that most viewers under 35 have never known it any other way. It takes on the heavy issue storylines soaps go in for, mental health and addiction and the rest, while keeping the pace quick and the cast young.

US comedy

The Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Modern Family anchor daytime, and all three sit on Channel 4’s streaming service on demand. The Simpsons is the exception to everything. E4 holds so much of it that a single day can jump across two decades of the show without anyone at the channel appearing to mind.

How to watch E4

Channel numbers

Where to find E4 by platform:

E4 is free-to-air everywhere. A Freeview aerial carries it, and so does every Sky package as standard.

Streaming

E4 streams live and on demand for free through Channel 4’s app and channel4.com, covering smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and most streaming sticks. Registration is free and asks for no payment details. Adverts play regardless. The full E4 library is there as well, including complete runs of Married at First Sight Australia and MAFS UK, and Hollyoaks as catch-up after transmission.

E4 +1, E4 Extra and the Channel 4 family

E4 +1 on Freeview 30 is a straight one-hour timeshift, so 7pm here is 8pm there.

E4 Extra is the sister channel for repeats and extra runs of E4’s biggest shows. It launched in 2022 in the slot 4Music vacated, and sits on Freeview 31 and Sky 139.

Both sit in the wider Channel 4 family alongside the main channel, More4 for factual and Film4 for cinema. All of them are commercially funded. Channel 4 is publicly owned but takes no licence fee money and no government subsidy, a distinction worth remembering the next time somebody complains about the adverts.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on E4 tonight?

Saturday 24 October 2026 has the film Independence Day at 6:20pm, Celebrity Gogglebox at 9pm, and Gogglebox at 10pm and 11:05pm. There is no Hollyoaks tonight. Times are in the schedule table above.

Does E4 have adverts?

Yes. It is a commercial channel, so ad breaks run on linear TV and on the streaming free tier alike. No licence fee, no subscription. Record it on a PVR and you can skip them as usual.

When did E4 launch?

E4 launched on 18 January 2001 as a companion to Channel 4, aimed at younger viewers from day one. It began as a subscription service, later went free-to-air, and reached Freeview in May 2005.

Verdict

Saturday is one film and then Gogglebox. Independence Day at 6:20pm is the only big-screen event, and everything after 9pm is a repeat: an older Celebrity Gogglebox, then two ordinary episodes. If you want something new, E4 is not the channel tonight.

Earlier in the day the pattern is E4’s usual one: Ramsay in the morning and a Simpsons block through the afternoon.

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