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

Published: 10 September 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.

Friday 11 September 2026 is a light-entertainment night rather than a soap-and-drama one: The One Show opens at 7pm, then The Travelling Auctioneers takes the 7:30pm slot EastEnders holds Monday to Thursday. Celebrity MasterChef follows at 8pm, Would I Lie to You? at 9pm and Mrs Brown’s Boys at 9:30pm, before the news gives way to RuPaul’s Drag Race UK at 10:40pm and a very late close with Alan Carr’s Celebrity Picture Slam at 11:55pm.

BBC One Schedule: Friday 11 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete BBC One schedule for Friday 11 September 2026, on Freeview 1.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on BBC One today: the daytime schedule

Friday’s daytime is the usual weekday strip: Breakfast from 6am, then Morning Live at 9:30am, Rip Off Britain at 10:45am and Homes Under the Hammer at 11:30am. Bargain Hunt takes the post-lunch slot at 12:15pm, right after the News at One.

Sister Boniface Mysteries, Escape to the Country and Garden Rescue Revisited carry the afternoon, with The Answer Run and Pointless closing out early evening ahead of the 6pm bulletins.

BBC One tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the BBC One primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 11 September 2026.

BBC News — BBC One, 6pm

The early evening bulletin runs through the day’s national stories before handing over to the regional update.

BBC London News — BBC One, 6:30pm

The capital’s own bulletin and forecast, back to back with the national news.

The One Show — BBC One, 7pm

Alex Jones and guest co-hosts run the sofa chat, celebrity interviews and studio segments that have opened this slot since 2006. It’s live, so the odd fluffed link is part of the appeal.

The Travelling Auctioneers — BBC One, 7:30pm

Two rival auctioneers scour the country for bargains at house clearances and salerooms, then try to turn a profit reselling what they find. Friday’s outing is the sixth of the current run and sits in the slot EastEnders occupies earlier in the week.

Celebrity MasterChef — BBC One, 8pm

The cooking competition swaps home cooks for famous faces, this being the twelfth episode of the present celebrity run. The format hasn’t changed in years: a technical test, an invention round, and a lot of visible panic at the pass.

Would I Lie to You? — BBC One, 9pm

Two panels try to work out which of their opponents’ outlandish personal claims are genuine and which are invented on the spot. It’s a simple idea that’s held up well since 2007, and tonight is the eighth episode of the current series.

Mrs Brown’s Boys — BBC One, 9:30pm

Brendan O’Carroll’s sitcom keeps its half-hour behind Would I Lie to You?. The broad, panto-flavoured humour has never chased critical approval, and the studio audience’s laughter is as much a part of the joke as anything scripted.

BBC News and Weather — BBC One, 10pm

The late bulletin and forecast, ahead of the regional update.

BBC London News — BBC One, 10:30pm

A shorter regional update rounding off the news block.

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK — BBC One, 10:40pm

Drag performers compete through design, comedy and lip-sync challenges, judged by RuPaul and a rotating UK panel. This is only the second episode of series eight, so the cast are still being sized up against each other.

Alan Carr’s Celebrity Picture Slam — BBC One, 11:55pm

A picture-round panel format with celebrity guests, closing out a Friday schedule that runs later than most weeknights on BBC One.

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. Tonight, Friday 11 September, the slot instead belongs to The Travelling Auctioneers. During Wimbledon fortnight the weekday 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?

Friday 11 September 2026 is a light-entertainment evening rather than a drama night. The One Show is at 7pm, then The Travelling Auctioneers takes the 7:30pm slot EastEnders holds earlier in the week. Celebrity MasterChef runs at 8pm, Would I Lie to You? at 9pm and Mrs Brown’s Boys at 9:30pm. The news is at 10pm, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK runs from 10:40pm, and Alan Carr’s Celebrity Picture Slam closes out a late night at 11:55pm.

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

Would I Lie to You? at 9pm is the pick of the evening for anyone who prefers wit to spectacle, and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK only two episodes into its eighth series is worth catching before the field narrows. There’s no EastEnders and no drama tonight; the whole evening is built around comedy and light entertainment instead.

Daytime is a standard weekday strip, nothing that needs planning around.

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