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. Tuesday 4 August 2026 is a straightforward weeknight: Emmerdale holds its 8pm slot with Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm, and the Weatherfield fallout from Cassie’s exit keeps rolling on. Inside The Langham opens the evening at 7:30pm with a new episode, and a new Cold Case Forensics: A Death on the Nile takes the 9pm hour. Bad Boys II closes the night at 10:45pm — a repeat, having already had an outing on ITV1 the previous Thursday.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Overnight is teleshopping and an old US drama import: The Staircase at 3am, followed by Unwind with ITV from 4:05am and an early rerun of Dickinson’s Real Deal at 5:05am, with the dealers’ den set up beneath Concorde’s wings at Aerospace Bristol.

Good Morning Britain runs from 6am, then This Morning takes the late-morning slot from 10am through to the lunchtime and regional news. Dickinson’s Real Deal returns at 2pm, this time from Crewe Hall, before the afternoon quiz run takes over: Deal or No Deal at 3pm with Stephen Mulhern, Tipping Point at 4pm with Ben Shephard, and The Chase at 5pm, where a team of four contestants try to take down one of the Chasers ahead of the evening news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

ITV News London and ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6pm and 6:30pm

The regional bulletin at 6pm gives way to the national ITV Evening News at 6:30pm, ahead of the evening’s entertainment.

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

A new episode. The Langham’s chief executive inspects a newly finished terrace on one of the hotel’s suites, while the head bartender and the executive chef disagree over what should be on the bar menu. Series 1, episode 3.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Cain reaches a decision he’s been putting off, and it clearly costs him something. Noah is dreading telling Charity what he’s found out, and Nicola stumbles on something that unsettles her. Series 2026, episode 152.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

The fallout from Cassie’s departure keeps spreading: Ross starts changing his account of what actually happened, which won’t do much for anyone’s trust in him. Dylan is knocked unconscious after a run-in with Brody, and Ronnie admits to James that his holiday wasn’t the escape he’d hoped for. Series 2026, episode 153.

Cold Case Forensics: A Death on the Nile — ITV1, 9pm

A new case for forensic scientist Angela Gallop, who looks again at the sudden death of solicitor Cheryl Lewis on holiday in Egypt. The format works because Gallop treats each case like a genuine investigation rather than reheating the same true-crime beats. Series 2, episode 2.

ITV News at Ten and ITV News London — ITV1, 10pm and 10:30pm

The national bulletin at 10pm is followed by a further regional update at 10:30pm.

Bad Boys II — ITV1, 10:45pm

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s cop sequel gets a second ITV1 outing this week, having already aired on Thursday 30 July. Marcus and Mike chase down a Cuban cartel’s ecstasy trade into Florida, at considerable volume and expense.

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. Weekend episodes happen occasionally.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

A regular weeknight line-up. Emmerdale holds its 8pm slot with Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm. Inside The Langham opens the evening at 7:30pm with a new episode, then Cold Case Forensics: A Death on the Nile brings a new case to the 9pm hour. ITV News at Ten follows at 10pm, and Bad Boys II closes the night at 10:45pm, a repeat of its Thursday 30 July outing. 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

Coronation Street is the pick of tonight’s ITV1 schedule. Ross changing his story over Cassie’s exit is the kind of small, nagging detail that tends to unravel a soap character over several weeks, and it’s better plotting than a single big reveal.

Cold Case Forensics: A Death on the Nile gives the 9pm hour a genuine new case rather than a rerun, and Inside The Langham is a decent watch for anyone who likes hotel-based fly-on-the-wall television. Bad Boys II at 10:45pm is worth skipping if you caught it on Thursday.

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