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. Friday breaks that pattern too: there’s no Hollyoaks tonight, and The Simpsons fills the early evening instead. Friday 7 August runs six Simpsons episodes from 5pm to 7:30pm, jumping from a mid-1990s season to one made two decades later, before Vanderpump Rules opens a new series episode at 8pm. Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer follows at 9pm, a charity special built around clips from Rivals, First Dates and Only Connect, then American Pie: The Wedding takes the 10pm film slot. E4 is free to air on Freeview and Sky, and free to stream through Channel 4’s app.

E4 Schedule: Friday 7 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Friday 7 August 2026, on Freeview 13.

What’s on E4 today

The small hours are reruns: Gogglebox just after midnight, then a new series episode of Vanderpump Rules at 2:10am, followed by an older Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA episode. A run of Simpsons and Goldbergs repeats carries the channel past 4am, then two Brooklyn Nine-Nine episodes lead into Modern Family at 6am and 6:30am, the pair of episodes weekday viewers get before breakfast.

Rude(ish) Tube Shorts and Couples Come Dine with Me fill the school-run hour, then two more Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA repeats either side of 8am and 9am. America’s Funniest Home Videos and a Below Deck Mediterranean episode take the channel into midday, then it’s largely sitcom reruns for the rest of the afternoon: four Simpsons episodes, two of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and four of Modern Family carry through to 5pm, when six more Simpsons episodes take over and run through to the 8pm hour.

E4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the E4 primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 7 August 2026.

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm

A fortune-teller shows Lisa a future in which she falls for an upper-crust English student at a prestigious university, in “Lisa’s Wedding” (series 6, episode 19). It’s one of the more tender flash-forward episodes from the show’s mid-1990s run.

The Simpsons — E4, 6:30pm

Santa’s Little Helper turns out to be a father several times over in “Two Dozen and One Greyhounds” (series 6, episode 20), and Mr Burns has designs on the puppies for a coat lined with their fur.

The Simpsons — E4, 7pm

The jump to a much later season lands here. “Simprovised” (series 27, episode 21) has Homer taking up improv comedy to sharpen his public speaking, while Marge rebuilds Bart’s collapsing treehouse and he starts to doubt her carpentry.

The Simpsons — E4, 7:30pm

Marge is arrested for neglect after letting Bart walk to the park alone, in “Orange Is the New Yellow” (series 27, episode 22). She finds a strange kind of relief in a break from family life.

Vanderpump Rules — E4, 8pm

A new episode, “Seeing Red (Flags)” (series 12, episode 5), has Lisa dangling a DJ slot at a premiere party in front of Marcus while Shayne juggles two dates at once. One friendship in the group gets a rocky attempt at repair.

Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer — E4, 9pm

This charity special (series 24, episode 7) pairs celebrities with the regular Gogglebox households to react to clips from Rivals, First Dates, Only Connect and more, in aid of Stand Up To Cancer.

American Pie: The Wedding — E4, 10pm

The third instalment of the franchise, from 2003. Jim is finally marrying Michelle, and Stifler makes sure the run-up to the big day is anything but smooth.

Naked Attraction — E4, 11:55pm

Series 5 opens with Stephanie, who never quite makes it to a second date, and Bethany, dating women for the first time, both looking for a match among the naked line-up.

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.

Gogglebox is a Friday-night Channel 4 show. E4 runs the repeats.

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?

There’s no Hollyoaks tonight. Friday is a Simpsons night on E4, with six episodes running from 5pm to 7:30pm and a jump partway through from a mid-1990s season to one made two decades later. Vanderpump Rules opens a new series episode at 8pm, then Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer, a charity special, airs at 9pm. American Pie: The Wedding takes the 10pm film slot, and Naked Attraction closes the night at 11:55pm. 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

There’s no Hollyoaks to open the evening tonight. Friday is one of E4’s weeknights without the first-look, and The Simpsons fills the gap instead, running six episodes that swing from a mid-1990s season to one made two decades later. Vanderpump Rules gets the night’s first new episode at 8pm.

Worth knowing before the 9pm slot settles in: Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer is a charity special rather than a regular episode, built from the cast reacting to clips of other shows rather than following its usual format.

Friday’s line-up leans on reruns before dark, then a new Vanderpump Rules episode and a Gogglebox special once primetime begins.

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