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

Published: 8 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. Wednesday 9 September 2026 continues that run, the third and final Hollyoaks episode of the week. Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a charity Bake Off special and a new Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA carry the rest of primetime.

E4 Schedule: Wednesday 9 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Wednesday 9 September 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on E4 today

Overnight runs Naked Attraction’s Best Naughty Bits, a Below Deck Down Under repeat and Gogglebox, then Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA, a Simpsons episode, two Goldbergs episodes, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Modern Family carry it to the two Hollyoaks catch-up repeats at 6am and 6:30am that open every first-look day. Couples Come Dine with Me and a further Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA episode 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

Here’s the E4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 9 September 2026.

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm and 6:30pm

Two back-to-back episodes fill the hour before Hollyoaks, the usual pattern on a weekday early evening.

Hollyoaks — E4, 7pm

The third and final first-look episode of the week airs at 7pm, a full day ahead of its Channel 4 broadcast, with Jonah manipulating a situation as Caleb falls ill.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — E4, 7:30pm

Jake meets one of his heroes in this half-hour at 7:30pm (series 1, episode 8), the regular buffer between the soap and the charity special.

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

Four famous faces step under canvas for Stand Up To Cancer: Tan France, Caroline Quentin, Joel Dommett and Johanna Konta bake for charity rather than the tent’s usual trophy, with an éclair round, a pastry technical and a showstopper drawn from something each of them dreads (series 3, episode 3).

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA — E4, 9pm

Gordon Ramsay visits Love on the Blu, a struggling restaurant in Blue Island, at 9pm. It’s a new episode of a returning series rather than a fresh launch, despite how the listing reads.

Gogglebox — E4, 10pm

The regular panel gives its verdict on the week’s television, including Squid Game, at 10pm (series 22, episode 14).

First Dates — E4, 11pm

A 25-year-old graduate is paired with a rom-com-loving date from Yorkshire to close the night (series 19, episode 6).

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 continues at 7pm, the week’s third and final first-look episode, 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 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 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

Wednesday closes out Hollyoaks’ week rather than opening anything new, its third first-look airing since Monday. Brooklyn Nine-Nine acts as the usual buffer before the Bake Off’s charity edition, and Tan France, Caroline Quentin, Joel Dommett and Johanna Konta give the tent more pull than an average celebrity special. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA lands at 9pm as a new episode of an established run rather than the “brand new series” its own listing claims. Gogglebox and First Dates close the night the way they usually 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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