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. Friday 7 August 2026 breaks from the usual weeknight shape: there’s no Emmerdale and no Coronation Street tonight, with live football filling the whole 7:30pm to 10:25pm slot instead. Mark Pougatch presents EFL Carabao Cup first round coverage as Middlesbrough host Wrexham at the Riverside Stadium, and because it’s a knockout tie that can go to extra time and penalties, ITV News at Ten, the later regional bulletin and the 11:15pm film could all shift back from their advertised times.

ITV1 Schedule: Friday 7 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Friday 7 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Overnight, teleshopping fills the 1:10am slot, then it’s a run of reality and game-show repeats: The Summit at 3am, where the group argue over who should leave the mountain before a vertical cliff climb, the calming strand Unwind with ITV at 3:50am, and Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special at 5:05am, with Zoe Ball teaming up with friends and family to take on the Banker.

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 Newport, where dealer Karen Dalmeny pays big money for a stunning brooch, newcomer Laurie Scully conducts a male voice choir, and a rare book stuns the saleroom. The afternoon quiz run follows: Deal or No Deal at 3pm, where it’s Ronnie’s turn to face the Banker, Tipping Point at 4pm with Ben Shephard, and The Chase at 5pm, where Comghal, Samantha, Adam and Yung Yung team up against 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, Friday 7 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Regional headlines and weather for London and the South East lead in at 6pm, ahead of the national bulletin.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national half-hour follows at 6:30pm, with reports from ITV’s correspondents on the day’s top stories from the UK and abroad.

EFL Carabao Cup: Middlesbrough v Wrexham — ITV1, 7:30pm

There’s no Emmerdale and no Coronation Street tonight. Instead Mark Pougatch presents live EFL Carabao Cup first round coverage as Middlesbrough host Wrexham at the Riverside Stadium, taking over the whole slot normally shared by the two soaps. It’s a single-leg knockout tie, so a draw after ninety minutes means extra time, and a draw after that means penalties — treat everything scheduled after 10:25pm as provisional rather than fixed.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10:25pm

ITV News at Ten is pencilled in for 10:25pm, but only if the match finishes on schedule. A tie heading to extra time or spot-kicks will push the bulletin back.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:55pm

The regional bulletin follows the national news, again dependent on how long the football overruns.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back — ITV1, 11:15pm

Tom Cruise returns as the drifting ex-military policeman in this 2016 sequel, co-starring Cobie Smulders, tracking a conspiracy inside the US Army while staying one step ahead of the authorities pursuing him. Its 11:15pm start is the most likely casualty if the Carabao Cup tie runs long.

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?

Not the usual weeknight line-up. There’s no Emmerdale or Coronation Street tonight — live football takes over the whole 7:30pm to 10:25pm slot, with Mark Pougatch presenting EFL Carabao Cup first round coverage as Middlesbrough host Wrexham. It’s a knockout tie, so extra time and penalties are possible, meaning ITV News at Ten, the 10:55pm regional news and the 11:15pm film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back could all run later than billed. 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

Friday 7 August is football night on ITV1, and Middlesbrough v Wrexham is the pick simply because it is the only thing on: no Emmerdale, no Coronation Street. A first-round Carabao Cup tie between a Championship side and a promotion-chasing League One club has enough jeopardy to justify the slot, penalties included if neither side breaks the deadlock in normal time.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back closes the night at 11:15pm, on paper. A match that goes to extra time and spot-kicks will push the film, the ten o’clock news and the later regional bulletin back with it. Tom Cruise’s second outing as the ex-military cop is the weaker of his two Reacher films, but it’s serviceable late-night action with Cobie Smulders alongside him.

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