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

Published: 9 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. Thursday 10 September 2026 has no Hollyoaks, since that run finished the night before, so Simpsons repeats carry straight into Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a charity Bake Off special, and a Gogglebox double bill.

E4 Schedule: Thursday 10 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Thursday 10 September 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on E4 today

Overnight runs Naked Attraction, Gogglebox, First Dates and a Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA repeat, then a Simpsons episode, two Goldbergs episodes and an early Brooklyn Nine-Nine carry it into breakfast, where two Modern Family episodes and a short Rude(ish) Tube Shorts slot take over from 6am — no Hollyoaks catch-up this morning, since there’s no first-look episode to repeat. 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, Thursday 10 September 2026. There’s no Hollyoaks in the mix, as that run wrapped up on Wednesday, so the evening moves from Simpsons repeats into a charity baking special and a Gogglebox double bill.

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm, 6:30pm and 7pm

Three of a five-episode Simpsons run land either side of 6pm, at 6pm, 6:30pm and 7pm (series 36 episodes 17 and 18, then series 14 episode 8), the tail end of a block that actually started at 5pm.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — E4, 7:30pm

Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows at 7:30pm with series 1, episode 9, in which Jake’s favourite pizzeria burns down and he sets out to clear the owner’s name.

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

The charity tent opens at 8pm with James Blunt, Alison Hammond, Alex Jones and Joe Sugg taking on the bakes, judged as ever by Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith and hosted by Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.

Gogglebox — E4, 9pm and 10pm

Two Gogglebox episodes run back to back from 9pm, the sofa critics working through the week’s television including It’s a Sin and Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, before turning to The Late Late Show with James Corden and Prince Harry at 10pm.

First Dates — E4, 11:05pm

The night closes with First Dates at 11:05pm, pairing stand-up comedian Mani with a 30-year-old nursing home owner.

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?

No Hollyoaks tonight — the week’s first-look run ended on Wednesday. Simpsons repeats run through to 7pm, Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows at 7:30pm, then The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer at 8pm with James Blunt, Alison Hammond, Alex Jones and Joe Sugg. Two Gogglebox episodes 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

Thursday has no Hollyoaks to build the evening around, so it falls to the Bake Off’s charity edition to carry the night. James Blunt, Alison Hammond, Alex Jones and Joe Sugg give the tent more pull than an average celebrity special, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine does its usual job of bridging the Simpsons repeats into it at 7:30pm. Two Gogglebox episodes back to back from 9pm, running into First Dates, is the channel settling back into its normal late-evening rhythm once the special is done.

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

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