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. Thursday 6 August 2026 keeps to the usual weeknight shape: a new Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy opens the evening at 7:30pm, Emmerdale holds its regular 8pm slot, and Coronation Street follows at 8:30pm. A new episode of The Chase Around the World sends Bradley Walsh and the Chasers to Paris at 9pm, and Casino Royale, the 2006 Bond reboot with Daniel Craig and Eva Green, closes the night at 10:45pm after the ten o’clock news.

ITV1 Schedule: Thursday 6 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Thursday 6 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Overnight, teleshopping fills the 12:10am slot, then it’s a run of factual and drama repeats: legal drama Love and Death at 3am, hotel documentary Inside The Langham at 3:50am, and the calming strand Unwind with ITV at 4:15am, followed by a repeat outing of Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy at 5:35am 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 with David Dickinson in Sheffield, 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, Thursday 6 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Regional news and weather for London and the South East.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national and international bulletin, with correspondent reports from around the UK and abroad.

Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy — ITV1, 7:30pm

A new episode sends Tom Kerridge to Puglia to make passata from scratch before he turns his attention to pomegranates, an ingredient he finds used everywhere in the region’s cooking. Expect a couple of dishes built around both by the closing credits.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Monty’s funeral brings the Dingles together in Emmerdale’s regular 8pm slot, with Charity pushed toward some decisions of her own as the village grieves.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Four strands run at once tonight. Kit puts an unsettling proposition to Gary, Tim gets to know his cousin Richie, Lauren tries to smooth things over with an apology to Betsy, and Fiz tells Ross how much she misses Cassie.

The Chase Around the World — ITV1, 9pm

A new leg of the format takes Bradley Walsh and the Chasers to Paris, where teams face a quiz built around the city with £100,000 on the table. The location changes; the format’s tension between greed and caution doesn’t.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The day’s headlines, with the usual correspondent analysis.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

Regional headlines, sport and weather for London, running a quarter of an hour before the film.

Casino Royale — ITV1, 10:45pm

Daniel Craig’s first outing as 007 remains one of the better Bond reboots two decades on, stripping the character back to something closer to Ian Fleming’s original novel. A newly promoted 007 tracks a financier bankrolling terrorism to a high-stakes poker table in Montenegro, with Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd giving Bond a rare match for his nerve. It runs past 1am, so this one’s for the night owls.

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. A new Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy opens the evening at 7:30pm, Emmerdale holds its 8pm slot with Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm, and a new episode of The Chase Around the World takes Bradley Walsh and the Chasers to Paris at 9pm. ITV News at Ten follows at 10pm, and Casino Royale, the 2006 Bond film with Daniel Craig, 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 threads running at once (Kit’s proposition to Gary, Tim and cousin Richie, Lauren’s apology to Betsy, and Fiz confiding in Ross about Cassie) is a lot to carry in thirty minutes, but the nightly half-hour format keeps each one moving rather than stalling.

Casino Royale at 10:45pm is worth staying up for even on a repeat viewing. Daniel Craig’s first go at Bond still holds up better than several of the newer entries. The Chase Around the World earlier in the evening suits anyone after undemanding viewing, with the Paris setting giving a familiar format a change of scenery. Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy at 7:30pm opens the evening gently, with passata and pomegranates the order of business in Puglia.

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