ITV1 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On ITV1 Tonight

ITV1 is the UK’s biggest commercial channel: Freeview 3, channel 103 on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat, free on ITVX if you can stomach the ad breaks. Saturday 5 September 2026 has no soaps — neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airs at the weekend. Instead it’s The Voice UK at 7pm followed by the launch of The Box, Gary Lineker’s new celebrity game show, at 8:15pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Saturday 5 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Saturday’s ITV1 daytime is cookery and racing rather than the usual GMB/This Morning run. Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen and James Martin’s Saturday Morning hold the late-morning slots from 8:25am, with Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour: New Zealand and James Martin’s Great British Adventure following at midday.

ITV Racing: Live from Haydock takes the early afternoon from 1:15pm, then Celebrity Lingo and the evening news bulletins fill the run-up to primetime, with the film Jurassic World occupying most of the late-afternoon slot from 4:50pm.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

No soaps, no live sport: tonight’s ITV1 is built around one returning singing contest and one brand-new format.

The Voice UK — ITV1, 7pm

Emma Willis hosts the third blind audition show of the series. will.i.am and Sir Tom Jones are still the pair with the most first auditions between them; Kelly Rowland and the McFly two, Tom Fletcher and Danny Jones, make up the rest of the panel. At this stage they are filling seats rather than picking a winner. The “New:” flag on this one just means a fresh weekly edition, not a relaunch — the series began in late August.

The Box — ITV1, 8:15pm

Gary Lineker’s first presenting job since leaving Match of the Day opens here: ten celebrities are shut inside a box, sent somewhere unknown, and made to face a challenge with no rulebook. It’s a genuine series launch, adapted from the Norwegian format Boksen, and it’s the one thing on the schedule tonight that’s actually new rather than just newly aired.

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening — ITV1, 9:15pm

Celebrities pair up with a parent or relative for a comedy quiz built around how much they really know about each other. The opening episode brings in Gabby Logan, Pete Wicks and Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

Lucy — ITV1, 10:30pm

The 2014 Scarlett Johansson thriller closes the night, Luc Besson’s fairly ridiculous premise about a woman gaining escalating brain power played dead straight. ITV News and the weather get ten minutes beforehand.

Popular shows on ITV1

Soaps

Coronation Street is the world’s longest-running soap opera, first broadcast in December 1960 and set in fictional Weatherfield in Greater Manchester. Sixty-five years on it’s still one of ITV’s most-watched programmes. The 2026 move to nightly half-hour episodes cut the wandering subplots and the show is better for it. Emmerdale, set in a Yorkshire Dales village, has run since 1972 and leans on long slow-burn storylines, with the odd plane crash or storm when the ratings need a jolt.

Quizzes and game shows

The Chase is the strongest quiz ITV1 has. Bradley Walsh hosts it, and the six Chasers each have their own following: Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Jenny Ryan and Darragh Ennis. Mine’s Hegerty, for the record. The format has also spawned foreign versions and a celebrity edition.

Tipping Point, ITV1’s other daily quiz, is the simpler of the pair: get a question right, drop a counter into the machine, hope it shoves some money off the shelf. Ben Shephard fronts it.

Entertainment

Britain’s Got Talent returns each spring for its auditions, with Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli on the panel. The live shows pull some of the biggest Saturday-night audiences on linear TV.

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! has aired every autumn since 2002. The premise is thin: recognisable faces stuck in a remote camp with nothing to do but bicker and eat insects. It still pulls millions, which says something, though I’m not sure what.

How to watch ITV1 live and on demand

Channel numbers

ITV1 is free-to-air on all of these. The regional version you get is set by the postcode on your account or box setup.

ITVX

ITV1 streams live and free on ITVX at itv.com/watch, and through the ITVX app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, the Sky boxes, Virgin Media TV360 and most streaming sticks. You need a free ITVX account, just an email and password, no card details.

Most programmes stay on demand for 30 days after broadcast. Emmerdale and Coronation Street go up at 7am on broadcast day, hours before they air on TV.

To watch the live stream you need a TV Licence, the same as watching any live channel online in the UK. On-demand catch-up doesn’t. ITVX is funded by advertising like the channel itself; an optional ITVX Premium subscription strips the ads from on-demand viewing.

ITV1 regions, STV and UTV

ITV1 isn’t one channel but a network of regional licence holders sharing the national schedule and producing their own local news. The bulletins around the ITV Evening News come from whichever licence holder covers your area: ITV London, Granada, ITV Central, Meridian, Yorkshire, Anglia, Border, Tyne Tees, Wales and West Country.

Scotland is the exception. In the centre and north, STV (Scottish Television) holds the channel-3 licence as an independent broadcaster. It runs most of the ITV1 schedule, including Coronation Street, Emmerdale, The Chase and Britain’s Got Talent. But it makes its own news and some of its own drama and factual output, and runs a separate streaming service, STV Player. STV isn’t owned by ITV.

In Northern Ireland the channel-3 licence belongs to UTV (Ulster Television), which carries the network schedule alongside its own local news. UTV is owned by ITV plc. Both STV and UTV sit on channel 3 on Freeview in their regions.

Frequently asked questions

What time are Emmerdale and Coronation Street on ITV1?

Both soaps keep to their weeknight run, Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm, Monday to Friday, landing on ITVX from 7am the same morning. Neither airs at the weekend, so there’s no episode of either tonight.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Saturday’s ITV1 has no soaps and no live sport. The Voice UK holds 7pm with its third blind audition show, then Gary Lineker launches his new game show The Box at 8:15pm. Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening follows at 9:15pm, and the film Lucy closes the night from 10:30pm. Full listings are in the schedule table above.

Is ITV1 the same as STV in Scotland?

No. Across most of Scotland the channel-3 slot is STV, and in Northern Ireland it is UTV.

Verdict

Saturday 5 September is the night The Box actually launches, and it’s the one genuine new show ITV1 has on air tonight. The Voice UK ahead of it is a solid but familiar blind-audition episode, and Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening after it is a reasonable comedy-quiz opener, but neither is trying to be event television the way The Box is.

Daytime is a departure from the weekday run too: cookery with Prue Leith and James Martin, then live racing from Haydock, rather than Good Morning Britain and This Morning. There’s no soap and no live sport on ITV1 tonight.

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