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

Updated: 21 July 2026

ITV1 is the UK’s biggest commercial channel, on Freeview 3 (HD: 103) and channel 103 on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. It streams free on ITVX, ads included. Tuesday 21 July 2026 is a regular weeknight: Emmerdale and Coronation Street run back-to-back from 8pm as usual, new documentary series Inside The Langham opens the evening at 7:30pm, and the Highlands crime drama The Dark reaches its fourth episode at 9pm.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 21 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 21 July 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

ITV1’s small hours are a mix of magazine repeats and shopping: The Debrief with Dan and ROG rounds off the previous night just before 1am, Shop on TV takes the 1:30am slot, and Nobody’s Fool and Unwind with ITV carry the schedule through to sunrise, with Dickinson’s Real Deal easing things in from 5:05am.

Good Morning Britain opens the proper broadcast day at 6am and hands over to This Morning at 10am, which runs straight through to the Lunchtime News at 1:30pm and a regional update at 1:55pm. The afternoon keeps its familiar shape: a second helping of Dickinson’s Real Deal at 2pm, Deal or No Deal at 3pm, Tipping Point at 4pm and The Chase rounding off the afternoon at 5pm, before the evening news takes over.

ITV1 Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 21 July 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin covers the day’s stories from London and the South East ahead of the national news.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

ITV’s flagship half-hour bulletin rounds up the day’s national and international headlines.

Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel — ITV1, 7:30pm

A new documentary series gets under way with a look inside one of London’s oldest hotels, tracing its history and the staff who keep it running today. It’s a gentler slot ahead of the soaps, aimed at anyone who enjoys behind-the-scenes factual television.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

The Dales soap holds its regular 8pm slot on an ordinary weeknight, continuing its usual run of village drama.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Weatherfield’s soap follows straight after Emmerdale, in the nightly half-hour slot the show settled into earlier this year.

The Dark — ITV1, 9pm

Laura Donnelly’s DI Monica Kennedy reaches the fourth of six episodes tonight, still hunting the killer who staged a young man’s body in the Scottish wilderness while her own past keeps intruding on the case. Adapted from GR Halliday’s novel From the Shadows, this is the pick of the night for anyone after something with more bite than the soaps.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The national late bulletin.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A further regional update ahead of the late-night entertainment.

The Chase Around the World — ITV1, 10:45pm

The quiz spin-off sends contestants and Chasers to a new location for the format’s usual mix of general knowledge and nerve.

Sorry, I Didn’t Know — ITV1, 11:45pm

The panel show closes out the evening with its fourth outing of the series, putting celebrity guests on the spot over questions of Black history.

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 — Anne Hegerty, Paul Sinha, Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Jenny Ryan and Darragh Ennis — each have their own following; mine’s Hegerty, for the record. There are spin-offs, foreign versions and a celebrity edition.

Tipping Point at 4pm 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 — Coronation Street, Emmerdale, The Chase, Britain’s Got Talent — but makes its own news and some of its own drama and factual programmes, and it has a separate streaming service, STV Player. It 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 hold their regular weeknight slots, Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street immediately after at 8:30pm, Monday to Friday, landing on ITVX from 7am the same morning. Neither airs at weekends; the next new episodes are Monday.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

It’s an ordinary Tuesday on ITV1. New documentary series Inside The Langham opens at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street run back-to-back at 8pm and 8:30pm, and The Dark takes over at 9pm for its fourth episode. The Chase Around the World follows the ten o’clock news, with Sorry, I Didn’t Know closing out the schedule at 11:45pm.

Is ITV1 the same as STV in Scotland?

Not quite. Across most of Scotland the channel-3 slot is STV, an independent broadcaster that runs most of the ITV1 schedule but makes its own news and isn’t owned by ITV. In Northern Ireland the equivalent is UTV.

Verdict

The Dark is the one to watch tonight. Laura Donnelly’s detective drama is four episodes into its six-part run and the Highlands murder case has had time to properly tighten its grip, without the slower stretches some crime dramas suffer once the initial mystery has worn off.

Inside The Langham is worth a look too if factual TV is more your evening than a soap double bill; a new series digging into one of London’s grand old hotels is a reasonable change of pace at 7:30pm. Either way, it’s a solid Tuesday for ITV1.

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