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. Wednesday 5 August 2026 keeps to the usual weeknight shape: Emmerdale in its regular 8pm slot, Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm, then Jeremy Clarkson putting six new contestants through their paces on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 9pm. A new instalment of Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles opens the evening at 7:30pm, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace rounds off the night at 10:45pm after the ten o’clock news.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 5 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 5 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Overnight runs teleshopping at 1:10am, then a repeat of Ben Shephard’s survival series The Summit at 3am, followed by Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace at 3:50am and Unwind with ITV filling the 4:45am slot before breakfast telly starts up.

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 from Oldham, where dealers Michael Hogben and Simon Schneider are put through their paces, 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, Wednesday 5 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Local news and weather for the capital and south-east ahead of the national bulletin.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The main evening bulletin, with correspondents covering the day’s national and international stories.

Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles — ITV1, 7:30pm

A new instalment of this look-back format has Stephen Mulhern revisiting one of the show’s classic stand-offs, pitting former players James and Jack against the Banker again. It’s clip-show comfort viewing rather than a fresh game, built for anyone who likes rewatching a good scrap over the boxes.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Emmerdale keeps its regular 8pm slot, its permanent home since the start of the year. Tonight brings a difficult day for the Dingles, with a send-off planned for the family dog and Charity holding her nerve through it.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Straight after Emmerdale, Corrie has plenty in motion: Lauren walks out on Betsy, Kit lets slip to Bethany just how deep Gary is in Sarah’s crime, Asha steps in to help Sienna with a tricky task, and Sean turns on Brody over the attack on Dylan.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — ITV1, 9pm

Jeremy Clarkson returns to the chair for another run of the quiz, putting six new contestants through fifteen questions with a million pounds on the table for whoever gets there. The format needs no introduction after this many years on air, and Clarkson’s dry needling of nervous players remains most of the appeal.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The late bulletin, with the day’s top stories and analysis from ITV’s correspondents.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A shorter local update rounding off the news block before the schedule returns to entertainment.

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — ITV1, 10:45pm

This strand turns to two people abandoned as babies and left to piece together, decades later, who left them and why. One was found in a phone box, the other inside a locked block of flats. Both cases end with the kind of answers that take a lifetime to arrive.

The Assembly — ITV1, 11:45pm

Rapper Aitch faces questions from a panel of autistic and learning-disabled interviewers, a format that has already produced some of the more unguarded celebrity interviews on British TV. Nothing is ruled out, from his lyrics to his finances.

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. A new Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles opens the evening at 7:30pm, then Jeremy Clarkson hosts Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 9pm. ITV News at Ten follows at 10pm, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace closes the night at 10:45pm. 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. Four separate strands moving at once (Lauren and Betsy, Kit’s confession to Bethany, Asha and Sienna, Sean and Brody) is a lot to carry in thirty minutes, but the nightly half-hour format keeps each one moving rather than stalling for a mid-week lull.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 9pm is the safer bet for anyone after undemanding viewing, with Clarkson’s hosting style doing most of the heavy lifting. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace at 10:45pm is worth staying up for if the reunion format appeals; Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles earlier in the evening is a clip-show retread and easy to miss.

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