"Emmerdale" is a British soap opera that began airing on BBC UKTV in July 2006 from episode 4288. It currently airs at 7:00 pm EST each weeknight. In 2006, BBC UKTV Aust. were showing episodes four months behind the UK. "Emmerdale" is a six episodes a week series, but only five a week were being screened. Thus over a period of years since 2006, a time lag of episodes developed. From 16 October 2017, until 11 September 2020 BBC UKTV Aust. screened two episodes nightly from Monday to Friday, as a planned catch up, episodes being aired in Australia at that time were 2 years behind the UK airings. Monday to Friday single episode screenings returned from 14 September 2020. As of March 2021 episodes being aired are from February 2021.