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

Published: 6 September 2026

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. Monday 7 September 2026 is that strand’s return after a soap-free weekend — the first new Hollyoaks since Friday. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a charity Bake Off special and a new Below Deck Down Under carry the rest of primetime.

E4 Schedule: Monday 7 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Monday 7 September 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on E4 today

Overnight is Gogglebox, a Simpsons repeat and two Below Deck episodes, then a Hollyoaks Omnibus at 4:30am ahead of the two catch-up repeats at 6am and 6:30am that open every first-look day. Couples Come Dine with Me and two Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA episodes carry breakfast into mid-morning.

Two America’s Funniest Home Videos episodes, four Simpsons episodes and two Goldbergs episodes fill the middle of the day, then four Modern Family episodes and another four-strong Simpsons run take the schedule right up to primetime.

E4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm and 6:30pm

Two back-to-back episodes clear the runway before the evening’s real business starts at 7pm.

Hollyoaks — E4, 7pm

The soap is back after its usual weekend off, and this is the first new episode since Friday. E4’s first-look slot has run the show a day ahead of its terrestrial Channel 4 airing for years now, which is why long-term viewers treat 7pm on E4, not Channel 4 itself, as the real transmission time.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — E4, 7:30pm

The Nine-Nine’s Halloween heist episode, one of the sitcom’s better-loved running gags, holding its regular half-hour slot.

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer — E4, 8pm

The charity edition returns for another year, with Louis Theroux, Jenny Eclair, Russell Howard and Ovie Soko taking on the tent. It’s a format that survives celebrity casting changes precisely because nobody involved has to be any good at baking — the comedy is in the trying.

Below Deck Down Under — E4, 9pm

New episode of the Antipodean spin-off. Same yacht-crew formula transplanted south, guests included.

Gogglebox — E4, 10pm

The nation’s sofas react to the week’s telly, this time.

First Dates — E4, 11pm

Closes the night with the usual restaurant-table nerves and awkward silences.

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?

Hollyoaks returns at 7pm, its first new episode since Friday, after two Simpsons repeats. Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows at 7:30pm, then The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer at 8pm and a new Below Deck Down Under at 9pm. Gogglebox and First Dates close the night. 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

Monday brings the soap back, and that’s really the story of the night. Hollyoaks returning after two days dark still resets the whole 7pm-to-9pm run around it, with Brooklyn Nine-Nine as a reliable buffer and the Bake Off’s charity edition doing solid counter-programming against whatever the main channels put up at 8pm. Below Deck Down Under is the one genuine new episode after that; Gogglebox and First Dates close things out the way they always do.

Daytime is the usual comedy-repeat wallpaper: four Simpsons runs and a scattering of Modern Family and Goldbergs episodes carrying the schedule to early evening.

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