Current & Classic Emmerdale schedule, week 30 (2026)
EMMERDALE:
UK START TIME FOR THE WEEK: 8:00 PM
20-Jul-2026 (10618, Writer Adam Sales, Director Atem Kuol): There’s been an intruder at Home Farm and Kim sets Ross to investigate. Mackenzie and Vanessa plot to uncover buried complaints against Todd. A certain someone wants their job back at the cafe. Charity doesn’t get the result she wanted from the CPS. Aaron gets in a scuffle with Ross when he accuses Robert of the HF intrusion.
21-Jul-2026 (10619, Writer Isobel Cameron, Director Atem Kuol): Aaron offers Serena a job on the farm as Robert recuperates. Charity encounters another of Todd’s victims, Helen, and opens up to her. Cain goes to another vet for a second opinion on Monty’s cancer. Jacob and Vanessa put their plan in motion with HR rep Carol… she’s hiding something. Serena reels in Ross for her own purposes.
22-Jul-2026 (10620, Writer Dawn Harrison, Director Aashish Godhvi): Cain’s not coping with Monty’s tumors being inoperable leads to distance from Kyle and Moira. Someone wants to make up lost time as Lewis’ birthday nears. Serena strings along an unsuspecting Ross on their date. Charity is thwarted.
23-Jul-2026 (10621, Writer Paul Roundell, Director Aashish Godhvi): Ross notices Lewis’ increased stress because of a certain someone. Cain and Kyle go camping with a third wheel. Cain takes a tumble trapping his leg. Dawn’s overjoyed her wedding dress has finally arrived. Moira confides in Rhona about her troubled marriage, being shut out by Cain.
24-Jul-2026 (10622, Writer Andrew Kirk, Director Aashish Godhvi): Cain remains trapped with no help in sight. Eat Billy’s meal he cooked?… nah, Gabby needs to distract him. An old friend, Steve, arrives creating anxiety for a certain someone. Dawn makes it clear she isn’t thrilled about Billy and Gabby dating.
CLASSIC EMMERDALE (welcome 2009!):
**Aaron appears in the episode (3/5 days).
3:35 PM 20-Jul: 25-Dec-2008** one hour! (5178/5179, Writer Karin Young, Director Lee Salisbury)
Val is horrified seeing Vic and Daz share a kiss and Daz puts the blame on Vic. A drunk Vic falls into the Home Farm lake where she encounters a lifeless before being dragged out unconscious by Daz. Nicola stages a sit-in after Ashley’s final sermon while Val takes care of Pollard and David. It’s Scrooge Pollard courtesy of the local news forcing him to withdraw his church bid. Jasmine forces Eli and Debbie to burn the money from Shane’s flat. Edna spends Christmas with the Kings after being snubbed by Lily.
3:30 PM 21-Jul: 26-Dec-2008 (5180, Writer Bill Lyons, Director Neil Alderton), 29-Dec-2008 (5181, Writer Martin Riley, Director Neil Alderton)
1) Vic spent the night in hospital with Diane worrying over her screaming in her sleep. Vic admits to Daz seeing a body in the lake… Jasmine and Debbie are rattle Vic saw Shane’s body. Jamie and Zak discover Rodney has been ripping them off over the game keeping. Ashley learns the church will only stay open until a new buyer is found. Laurel realizes how much Nicola misses David. Being a nice guy feels good for Nicola.
2) Vic is still having nightmares and Daz tells Diane about the body. Daz admits their kiss was mutual but can’t happen again. Vic has to lie when Diane brings a psychiatrist to see her. Rodney is made to split the profits fairly with Zak. Rodney’s event at Home Farm is a success… he and Jamie plan more of the same. Brenda warns Gennie of the dangers of going on an 18-30 holiday. Terry’s staying longer in Morocco to help Jean who has a broken leg.
3:50 PM 22-Jul: 30-Dec-2008 one hour! (5182/5183, Writer Paul Roundell, Director Neil Alderton)
Vic and Daz check out the lake and luck out in the end when a body rises to the surface. Jasmine wants Eli to move Shane’s body… too little too late when Daz tells a freaking Jasmine of finding the body and it’s been ID’d as Shane’s. Lily catches Leyla at the factory on her day off… she’s making on the side selling curtains… Lily wants in on her enterprise.
3:35 PM 23-Jul: 31-Dec-2008** (5184, Writer Samantha Doland De Vaux, Director Dominic Leclerc), 01-Jan-2009 (5185, Writer Samantha Doland De Vaux, Director Dominic Leclerc)
1) Marlon gives Donna an infinity ring as a birthday gift but her mind is still on Ross. Donna realizes Ross may need to return for questioning re Shane’s death. Jasmine is questioned and her emotionality is put down to her fling with Shane. Val throws a New Year toga party. Sam steals sheets from the B&B. Jamie is furious when he spots the Dingles wearing the missing sheets and plots revenge.
2) Donna worries for Ross with rumors he was also a dodgy copper. After arguing with Paddy, Donna admits everything to Marlon about her affair with Ross. Val assures Val she was at a party at New Year, not with Daz. Daz takes Vic to the January sales to cheer her up. Val worries about Daz and Vic’s growing closeness. Leyla admits to Lily she’s sleeping rough at the factory and her venture was a lie… Lily offers Leyla a room at Edna… Edna and Lily agree… Lily and Leyla move into Pearl’s.
3:35 PM 24-Jul: 02-Jan-2009 (5186, Writer Sue Mooney, Director Dominic Leclerc), 05-Jan-2009** (5187, Writer Sue Mooney, Director Dominic Leclerc)
1) Donna tries to explain herself to Marlon but blurts out loving Ross and Shane knew of the affair. Marlon goes to the coppers about Donna and Ross/the blackmail accusing Ross of killing Shane. Resurrecting the King business isn’t going so well. Lexi advises Carl to arrange for Matthew’s burial to give Jimmy closure but will Anna return for the funeral? Scarlett feels sidelined thanks to Vic turning up at her cozy night with Daz. Val warns Daz if she sees Vic falling for him, Diane is being told.
2) Donna is disowned by the Dingles and is stunned Marlon reported Shane’s blackmail to the coppers. Ross is back trying to defending himself to Paddy. Ross and Marlon get in a brawl, Marlon is released, Ross is advised to get a solicitor. Ashley is curious why Matthew’s funeral is moving forward without Anna but with Jimmy’s bad state of mind, it becomes clear. Jimmy can’t deal and rebuffs the villagers’ comfort of him. Scarlett and Carl drag Jimmy out of the pub bemoaning the King’s bad luck that has struck his broken family.
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Most of her complaints were Kev related yesterday and she is still asking me if I've heard any "secrets" about when he's leaving 😂.
As soon as I arrived she started telling me how Kev is ruining the show for her. Even though she mutes most of his scenes she can't bear seeing him in every scene involved in everyone's business. And she absolutely hated the way he just let himself into the farm and the grabbed Robert. She said you could see how uncomfortable it made Robert and how Kev touching him makes his skin crawl but no one mentions it and it's never addressed. If he'd done that to a woman there would be complaints. She also mentioned the bit when he called Nicola dirty and said "he's the one that needs a good wash, looks like he's been dunked in a deep fat fryer"!. She likes Nicola and Robert and Aaron so unfortunately she is having to unmute their scenes with Kev.
Her pals in the community have asked her to ask me if Graham has left again as it's been a few episodes without him, I said no we are just getting a few episodes break from him, unfortunately he's not leaving anytime soon. Nan said that won't go down well with her pals!.
She thinks Moira and Cain should divorce, he has no respect for her and Moira is becoming a doormat to his constant moods. She can't believe any women would stay with a man that cares more about a dog than their marriage.
Serena is starting to get on her nerves a bit with her constant questioning of everyone and said they obviously didn't teach her subtly at police training college, but she still loves her hair and hopes she doesn't turn out to be a baddie. She thought she'd gone for good on Friday but I told her she's back again Monday and Nan said "how odd, this whole story is very strange and her knowing John and taking that photo with him when he was meant to be an unhinged on the run killer is just bizarre".
She's started having to reply the episode two or three times as muting all the Kev stuff is making it hard to follow what's happening because he's everywhere!
She was very worried about Robert after he was hit with the trailer but was pleased to see him doing farm work and the countryside looked glorious. She said the field where Robert was nearly crushed by the trailer would make a lovely spot for him and Aaron to have a picnic!
Out of interest as her and the community are GA I asked her if she thought Robert and Aaron lacked affection and she said " I've not really noticed, but if I had as much stress as those two have I probably wouldn't have been all over your grandad either, hopefully they will be allowed to be happy again soon and then they can go for that picnic".
I'm taking her to the safari park next week and she's really looking forward to that, they have a baby rhino and she can't wait to see it! I will report back next week after our trip.
Hope you have a lovely weekend and nan sends her love and best wishes 🤍.
Another gorgeous update with only correct takes as per 🤍
I will personally start working on the spells needed to make that Robron picnic happen 🥹🥹 it is what we and nan deserve!!
Also omg a BABY RHINO 😭😭😭 have a safe trip and lots of fun! I cant wait to hear all about it next week 🤍
It also didn’t make sense why John’s mother would give him the surname “Sugden”. It makes more sense than Lewis being a Barton but not much.
Lewis is not a Barton by blood as that was Emma’s married surname not by birth. As for J, it’s sort of understandable Barbara wanting her son to have his father’s name and keeping that from Jack since that can and does happen. But the rest of it… any other Sugdens having known about J’s existence and keeping that from Jack’s other siblings makes zero sense at all. It all falls apart no matter what angle you look at it. They’ve made a muck of it through Serena needing mystery to be part of her backstory. This could also have been their chance to make J an imposter and bring the real straight John on with Serena the instigator of that with no history with the real John but through investigating.
The big problem for ED (other than a general lack of affection across the board) for quite a while is that every scene has to mean something to the plots that are currently in progress. The missing link are scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with plot but are just casual everyday life. Like for the lads, we could’ve seen them focus on redecorating the farm (to make up for Aaron not having much to do with the Mill in the end), a little bit of painting fun, etc. Maybe gossiping like we used to have with Pearl and Betty. Or, shock of all shocks, have the villagers at work a lot more (occasionally it happens but boost it up). I get it, there’s cost cutting involved but, come on, gorging on plot (and poor plot at that at times) gets you only so far.
A recap on Serena/John - None of it makes any sense 😭
John’s mother (Barbara) had a fling with Jack back in 1988, they met at the wedding of Jackie and Kathy as Barbara was a good friend of Kathy’s mother. Jack never knew about John and neither did his kids but John knew about them and even had their last name, Eric also knew about it for 38 years and never said a word despite living on the same village as the Sugdens for that same amount of time up until John’s mother passed away and by coincidence Victoria ended up at her funeral. Not to mention coincidently John ended up meeting Aaron in the middle of the road on their way to meet eachother at a hotel from an app who happened to have been married to his brother in the past, after years of being none existant.
Then Serena came along (who is related on Jacob’s brother’s side of the family) and they ALL knew about her. Serena and John’s mothers were close to the point John looked after her mum when she was sick and gave her mum his army pension and John even saw her around the time he went on the run in December.
Yet Robert/Vic never knew about his existence prior to only a few years ago and yet Serena did but Serena also had Robert’s phone number but didn’t know she use to be a police officer. Yet Serena never attended the funeral of John’s mother or went to John’s wedding to Aaron and John was set on letting everyone know he had no one else, no other family. Then only a few months after John’s death, Serena randomly shows up after years of not seeing any of them (but seeing John in December).
Did John and Serena grow up together? How did Serena and the Sugden siblings all know of eachother but only Serena knew of John? What’s the story behind Serena not being at any big moments of John’s (funeral and wedding) but still seeing him in the December? How and why was John kept a big secret from the other Sugdens for 30-odd years? Did Serena know about John’s ex fiance? Did she meet him? Have a relationship with him? What happened to the cottage? Where was Serena and her mother when John tried to move Aaron to the cottage? No photos of them there…
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I have to say that I watch the episode through your gifs. I watch the episode to get context ITS TOO DARK and then watch the actual episode through your gifs to see clearly the expressions of the actors. its all too depressing hahahah bit thank you your efforts are very appreciated!!
It’s too dark is an understatement (did they cut funding on the lighting because really). Took a while to figure out a balance but the gifs seem to be coming out better than expected (well mostly). Glad they are helping you to see the expressions better.
Aaron is head of the dingles so shouldn’t he be leading Dingle court.
Not that I’m going to watch, what a waste, can they not use their budget more efficiently. But who’s going to be sacked to make way for this?
Aaron isn’t A plot, Cain is. So he gets to lead wtf this thing is on YT. Improving the set lighting/better quality video should be a far more useful priority than this offshoot.
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Can they atleast use scrapes of the new investment money in bringing the boy for his dads before they make any bullshit courts !! Stop wasting money that you keep saying you don’t have!!!
(I think this will be like a podcast but in youtube???)
Sebastian is irrelevant to the show currently probably due to his youth and the lads not being in an A plot (when that will change is the big question). Making a YT show based the Dingle Court, something that should’ve been banished a very long time ago, is a lousy idea imo. The show itself is already oversaturated with Cain. And they want more Cain in a YT offshoot? Good luck.
I swear this show treats its viewers like morons in ways not even Sesame Street does to its kid audience!! We watch and remember everything god damn it We know scenes by date and outfits hahahha plotholes look like the Grand Canyon to us oh my god just STOP TWISTING! And let things flow normally ugggh!
This is a norm for US soaps which I grew up on but they didn’t do it on such a regular fashion. But now on this show, the amount of retcon, rewrites and whatnot of late… they’ve gotten out of hand with the high volume of them. My memory is quite good (mostly) on recent scenes and content and when you’re redoing stuff going back a few weeks to about two years specifically for plot, that means the show can’t come up with organic solutions to make things flow properly. That is the crux of plot shows… manipulate characters and past events to fit the current narrative. it drives me nuts.
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