2023 was Emmerdale's 52nd year. Production was overseen by producers Kate Brooks and Laura Shaw for the entire year, and executive producer Jane Hudson until November.

Major storylines included Caleb and Nicky Miligan's failed revenge plot against Kim Tate, the love triangle between Mackenzie Boyd, Charity Dingle and Chloe Harris, Lydia Dingle being raped by Craig Reed and his subsequent death, Paddy Dingle's suicide attempt, Rhona Goskirk's frozen embryos being stolen by her ex-husband Gus Malcolms and used to make a baby, Jai Sharma learning that Rishi Sharma was not his biological father and the fallout from Rishi's death on Jai and Laurel Thomas's wedding day, Arthur Thomas's relationship with Marshall Hamston, whose homophobic father's descent into madness caused him to kidnap Arthur's mother Laurel, Dan Spencer's exit after he was imprisoned for killing his daughter Amelia's stalker with one punch, Jacob Gallagher's relationship with Victoria Sugden leading to David Metcalfe's exit, Wendy Posner's affair with Liam Cavanagh, Tracy Robinson's affair with Caleb Miligan, the arrival of Charles Anderson's mother Claudette and father Victor, who died shortly after his arrival in the village, Gail Loman acting as a donor for her and Ryan Stocks's ill son Oscar Grisham, who they had given up for adoption as a baby, and Bernice Blackstock and Bob Hope buying the B&B.