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

Published: 10 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. Friday 11 September 2026 has no Hollyoaks, as usual outside that Monday-to-Wednesday run, and tonight the channel turns into a straight movie night: Simpsons repeats carry into Brooklyn Nine-Nine at 7:30pm, then Captain Marvel and Gemini Man fill the rest of primetime.

E4 Schedule: Friday 11 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Friday 11 September 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on E4 today

Overnight runs Naked Attraction, a Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer repeat, First Dates and a Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA episode, 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, Friday 11 September 2026.

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm to 7pm

Three episodes back to back close out a five-strong Simpsons run that starts at 5pm, carrying the channel through the early evening before the schedule turns to scripted comedy at half past seven. Nothing unusual here, just E4’s standard rotation through the show’s long back catalogue.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — E4, 7:30pm

The Nine-Nine squad get a half-hour slot before the channel hands the night over to film. It’s one of the sturdier US sitcom imports E4 has picked up, and this early-evening spot has been its regular home for years.

Captain Marvel — E4, 8pm

Captain Marvel opens a genuine two-film evening on E4, a break from the channel’s usual sitcom-heavy primetime. Brie Larson’s Kree soldier uncovers her past on 1990s Earth, with Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury along for the ride.

Gemini Man — E4, 10:25pm

Gemini Man closes the double bill. Will Smith’s veteran assassin finds himself hunted by a younger clone of himself, in a film best known for Ang Lee’s push into high-frame-rate visuals.

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, since the first-look run only airs Monday to Wednesday. Simpsons repeats run through to 7pm, Brooklyn Nine-Nine follows at 7:30pm, and then E4 turns into a two-film evening: Captain Marvel at 8pm and Gemini Man from 10:25pm. 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

Friday has no Hollyoaks either, but tonight the channel does something different with the gap. Rather than settling into its usual reality-and-panel-show rhythm, E4 runs two films back to back. Brooklyn Nine-Nine still does its regular job of bridging the Simpsons repeats into primetime at 7:30pm, then Captain Marvel and Gemini Man take the rest of the night between them — a genuine change of shape worth knowing about if you’re expecting the channel’s normal format.

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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