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

Published: 22 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 23 September 2026 is one of those first-look nights — Hollyoaks opens primetime at 7pm, with a new Below Deck Down Under following at 8pm and a new Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA at 9pm. Gogglebox closes out the evening with a single airing at 10pm, ahead of First Dates at 11pm.

E4 Schedule: Wednesday 23 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete E4 schedule for Wednesday 23 September 2026, on Freeview 13.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on E4 today

Overnight opens with a Naked Attraction repeat just after midnight, then Gogglebox, Below Deck Down Under and Ramsay’s Hotel Hell carry the small hours. Two Simpsons episodes and two Goldbergs episodes lead into a Brooklyn Nine-Nine rerun before 6am, when the day’s first Hollyoaks pair — both catch-up repeats rather than new episodes — run at 6am and 6:30am. Couples Come Dine with Me and a two-part Ramsay’s Hotel Hell carry the schedule into mid-morning.

Below Deck Down Under repeats again at 10am, then a Modern Family double bill fills the late morning. A four-episode Simpsons run, pulled from two different original seasons, carries lunchtime into early afternoon, followed by two Goldbergs episodes and four more Modern Family instalments. A second four-episode Simpsons run closes out the afternoon at 6:30pm, just ahead of tonight’s line-up.

E4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the E4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 23 September 2026.

The Simpsons — E4, 6pm and 6:30pm

Two episodes close out the long daytime Simpsons run before the evening schedule proper begins.

Hollyoaks — E4, 7pm

Tonight’s episode is new, not one of the two catch-up repeats E4 runs earlier in the day. James can’t make sense of what’s happening around him, Jenson turns to Imran for help, and another resident finally owns up to something.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine — E4, 7:30pm

A repeat from the show’s first season fills the gap between Hollyoaks and the evening’s reality run.

Below Deck Down Under — E4, 8pm

A new episode turns the pressure up during a four-day charter.

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA — E4, 9pm

A new episode has Gordon Ramsay visiting Renate’s German Restaurant. The strand has been back on air for some weeks by tonight, so this plays as a new instalment rather than a series launch, whatever the on-screen flag says.

Gogglebox — E4, 10pm

Just one airing tonight, not the double bill earlier in the week — the sofa critics weigh in on Squid Game and Strictly Come Dancing.

First Dates — E4, 11pm

A Traitors finalist looks for love in the closing slot of the night.

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’ evening episode opens primetime at 7pm, with a new Below Deck Down Under at 8pm and a new Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA at 9pm. Gogglebox airs once tonight, at 10pm, before First Dates closes the night at 11pm. 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 keeps E4’s first-look habit but runs a different back half than earlier in the week. Hollyoaks at 7pm is the draw for regular viewers, with Jenson helping Imran while a resident on the Square decides to come clean about something. Below Deck Down Under adds a genuine new episode at 8pm, and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA follows with a new instalment at 9pm, this time at Renate’s German Restaurant. Gogglebox takes a single slot at 10pm rather than running twice, and First Dates closes out the night from 11pm.

Daytime keeps closer to E4’s usual habits: two Simpsons runs bookend the day, Ramsay’s Hotel Hell and Below Deck Down Under fill the mid-morning, and Modern Family runs six times across two separate blocks.

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