BBC One (BBC 1) TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On BBC One Tonight

Published: 23 August 2026

BBC One is the UK’s most-watched television channel, running around the clock and streaming live on BBC iPlayer. This guide covers tonight’s line-up and the regular weekly schedule, plus where to find the channel across every platform.

Monday 24 August 2026: the working week brings EastEnders back to its regular 7:30pm slot, followed by a series opener for Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon at 8pm and the last episode of the current Death in Paradise run at 9pm. Have I Got News for You takes its usual 10:40pm berth with Stephen Mangan hosting, and the Emily Brontë biopic Emily closes the night from 11:10pm.

BBC One Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete BBC One schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 1.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on BBC One today: the daytime schedule

A standard weekday shape today. Breakfast runs its usual three and a half hours from 6am, handing over to Morning Live at 9:30am (series 8) for consumer tips, including a segment on unclaimed premium bonds and the right way to stack a dishwasher.

Garden Rescue takes 10:30am (series 10, episode 9), with Chris and Charlie reworking a concrete, weed-choked garden in Swindon, and Homes Under the Hammer follows at 11:15am (series 28, episode 32) with auction buys in Cornwall, the West Midlands and Tyne and Wear.

Bargain Hunt opens the afternoon at 12:15pm (series 74, episode 22) from the Ardingly antiques fair, and BBC News at One with BBC London News runs from 1pm. Money for Nothing at 2pm (series 18, episode 17) and Escape to the Country at 2:45pm (series 24, episode 54) fill the mid-afternoon, before The Repair Shop returns at 3:30pm (series 14, episode 11) to fix an onyx ring and a whirligig.

The Answer Run, Jason Manford’s rapid-fire 50/50 quiz for couples, opens its second series at 4:30pm, and Pointless closes out the afternoon at 5:15pm (series 30, episode 19) with Alexander Armstrong joined by guest co-host Nish Kumar, ahead of the evening news.

BBC One tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

A weeknight shape returns to BBC One for Monday 24 August 2026: EastEnders back in its regular slot, a new series opener behind it, and Death in Paradise seeing out its current run.

News and regional bulletins — BBC One, 6pm, 6:30pm, 10pm & 10:30pm

The evening opens and closes the way it usually does on a weeknight, with the national bulletin at 6pm and 10pm and the London opt-out following half an hour later each time.

The One Show — BBC One, 7pm

Roman Kemp and Lauren Laverne front the nightly mix of guests and topical chat that bridges the news and primetime proper.

EastEnders — BBC One, 7:30pm

The first of this week’s four episodes, with the Fox-Truemans still hunting for a stem cell match for Denise while Priya and Jean join forces to get to the bottom of things.

Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon — BBC One, 8pm

Series five opens with the Appleyards, a family of six raising triplet boys, whose home has all but disappeared under years of accumulated belongings. Stacey and the team give them a week to let go of half of it.

Death in Paradise — BBC One, 9pm

The current series bows out with a prestigious chess match that ends in murder, leaving Saint Marie’s detectives to work out how a killing happened in full view of a room of onlookers.

Have I Got News for You — BBC One, 10:40pm

Stephen Mangan takes the guest host’s chair opposite team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, with comedian Chloe Petts and writer-comedian Andy Hamilton filling the two remaining seats for the week’s news quiz.

Emily — BBC One, 11:10pm

The night closes with Frances O’Connor’s 2022 film about Emily Brontë, starring Emma Mackey as the Wuthering Heights author in a story that mixes documented biography with an invented romance.

Popular shows on BBC One

Soaps

EastEnders is the anchor: 7:30pm, Monday to Thursday, running since February 1985 and still among the highest-rated things on British television. Walford is fictional. The Queen Vic is a set at Elstree.

Entertainment and Quizzes

Pointless is the cleverest of the BBC’s teatime quizzes. Find the answers a survey group didn’t think of, score as low as you can: it rewards obscure knowledge over fast fingers, which is why it plays well with people who are terrible at buzzer rounds. Alexander Armstrong has fronted it since 2009.

The Apprentice comes back each autumn for Lord Sugar’s boardroom firings, and Strictly Come Dancing arrives in September and runs to the December final. Blankety Blank, revived with Bradley Walsh, and Celebrity Bridge of Lies with Ross Kemp fill the lighter Saturday teatime slots.

Drama

Death in Paradise is the dependable one, a Caribbean murder procedural that runs the same formula every week and has never pretended otherwise. Casualty has held Saturday nights at 8pm since 1986.

Newer drama tends to arrive as a limited series of three to six episodes at 9pm, rotating through the year rather than occupying a permanent slot.

Sport

BBC One carries Match of the Day on Saturday nights, still the UK’s most-watched football highlights programme, plus major international tournaments, Wimbledon shared with BBC Two, the FA Cup and Sports Personality of the Year each December.

Factual and News

Panorama, on air since 1953, is the current affairs strand. Countryfile takes Sunday evenings, usually with a Natural History Unit documentary and Antiques Roadshow after it.

How to watch BBC One live and on demand

Channel Numbers

Here’s where to find BBC One depending on your platform:

BBC One is free-to-air on all of these platforms, with no subscription required. The regional version you receive is determined by your postcode.

BBC iPlayer

BBC One streams live and free on BBC iPlayer at bbc.co.uk/iplayer, and via the iPlayer app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and most streaming sticks.

Most BBC One programmes stay on iPlayer for 30 days after transmission. EastEnders sometimes sticks around longer.

Freely

BBC One is available on the Freely platform, the free streaming service set up jointly by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 for broadband-connected televisions. If you have a Freely-enabled smart TV, BBC One is on channel 1.

Do You Need a TV Licence?

Yes. Watching BBC One live requires a valid TV Licence, whether that’s via aerial, satellite, cable or an online stream, and so does watching iPlayer content on the day of broadcast. As of April 2026 a colour licence costs £180 a year.

BBC One regional variations and the nations

BBC One is not a single national feed. It splits into regional and national opt-outs that swap network programmes for local ones.

In England, that mostly means the 6:30pm news: BBC North West Tonight, BBC London, Look North and the rest, made in regional centres around the country, with further opt-out windows during the day.

The devolved nations get more than that. BBC One Scotland, BBC One Wales and BBC One Northern Ireland share most of the network schedule but run their own news and commissions, with Wales Today and BBC Newsline as the respective evening bulletins.

Every regional and national variant is on BBC iPlayer. On satellite or cable, the version you get is tied to your registered postcode.

BBC One HD is available on all the main platforms and is the default for most viewers with an HD set. There’s no separate BBC One +1 channel.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel number is BBC One on Freeview?

BBC One is on channel 1 on Freeview. If you have a Freeview HD receiver or an HD-ready TV with a built-in tuner, BBC One HD is on channel 101. Both carry your regional version of the channel.

What channel is BBC One on Sky?

BBC One is on channel 101 on Sky. This applies to Sky Q, Sky Stream and Sky Glass. The regional opt-out you receive depends on the postcode registered to your Sky account.

What channel is BBC One on Virgin Media?

BBC One is on channel 101 on Virgin Media.

What channel is BBC One on Freesat?

BBC One is on channel 101 on Freesat. The regional version is determined by the postcode entered during your box’s initial setup.

What time is EastEnders on BBC One?

EastEnders airs on BBC One at 7:30pm, Monday to Thursday, and has done since the Friday episode was axed in 2022. During Wimbledon fortnight those episodes sometimes shift over to BBC Two if the tennis runs long into the evening. Every episode lands on BBC iPlayer from 6am on the day of broadcast.

What’s on BBC One tonight?

Monday 24 August 2026: EastEnders is back in its regular 7:30pm slot, the first of this week’s four episodes. Sort Your Life Out with Stacey Solomon starts a new series at 8pm with the Appleyards, a family of six raising triplet boys, and Death in Paradise wraps up its current run at 9pm with a murder at a chess match. Have I Got News for You follows at 10:40pm with Stephen Mangan hosting, and the film Emily, a Brontë biopic starring Emma Mackey, closes the night from 11:10pm.

Does BBC One have adverts?

No. BBC One carries no commercial advertising on any platform, and nor does any other BBC channel. The BBC is funded entirely by the TV Licence fee.

Can I watch BBC One online without a TV aerial?

Yes. BBC One streams live on BBC iPlayer and on Freely for broadband-connected TVs, so no aerial or satellite dish is needed. You do need a broadband connection, a free BBC account and a valid TV Licence. The iPlayer app runs on smart TVs, phones, tablets, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and most major streaming devices.

Verdict

A proper Monday line-up after a Sunday built entirely around factual programming and football: EastEnders is back, Sort Your Life Out opens a new series, and Death in Paradise sees out its current run. Between them they give the night more pull than most weekday primetime on this channel.

Sort Your Life Out is the pick of the earlier evening — a cramped, triplet-filled family home is exactly the kind of case the format handles best. Have I Got News for You does what it always does at 10:40pm, and Emily is worth staying up for if the Brontë biopic passed you by at the cinema.

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