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 12 August 2026 breaks from the usual weeknight shape: Emmerdale and Coronation Street are both off, with Manchester United’s pre-season friendly against Leeds United taking the whole 7pm to 10pm block instead. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 12 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Teleshopping runs until 3am, then The Summit climbs back onto screens with an exhausting snow hike that leaves the surviving climbers on edge. Former Gladiator turned reverend Warren wrestles with a decision that could change the group’s fortunes. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace follows at 3:50am, reopening two searches: a baby left in a box outside a hospital on Halloween night, and another found at Waterloo station, both now adults piecing together how their lives began. The soothing Unwind with ITV takes over at 4:45am ahead of breakfast programming.

Good Morning Britain runs from 6am, then This Morning fills the late-morning slot from 10am through to the lunchtime and regional news. Dickinson’s Real Deal returns at 2pm from Grimsby, where the Duke watches Simon Schneider fall for a necklace, Karen Dalmeny face her worst nightmare and David Ford take a trip down memory lane. Deal or No Deal follows at 3pm with Stephen Mulhern, as Jack tries his luck against the Banker. Tipping Point takes the 4pm slot with Ben Shephard, then The Chase rounds off the afternoon at 5pm, with Bradley Walsh’s team of four, Alan, Kathy, Genevieve and Andy, 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, Wednesday 12 August 2026. No Emmerdale, no Coronation Street: football takes the whole evening.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin covers London and the South East, followed straight after by the national and international headlines.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The half-hour national bulletin runs through the day’s main stories before handing over to the evening’s live sport.

Manchester United v Leeds United: Pre-Season Friendly — ITV1, 7pm

United and Leeds meet at Croke Park in Dublin, chasing the Boyle Sports Cup in front of a ground more used to hurling and Gaelic football. Coverage is scheduled to run for three hours, so it swallows the 8pm and 8:30pm slots Emmerdale and Coronation Street normally hold on a weeknight. Treat that finish time as approximate; the actual final whistle and studio wrap will decide when ITV1 gets back to its regular schedule.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The day’s headlines get their usual half-hour, with match reaction from Dublin likely to lead depending on how the football finished.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:35pm

A short regional update closes out the news block before the evening’s factual programming resumes.

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

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return to two searches that began without a single clue: a baby left in a cardboard box outside a maternity unit one Halloween, and a second child abandoned at Waterloo station. Both are now adults hoping DNA and old records can finally fill in where they came from.

The Assembly — ITV1, 11:45pm

Jade Thirlwall takes the hot seat for this episode, answering unscripted questions put to her by a panel of autistic and learning-disabled interviewers who don’t do small talk. It’s a format that gets further under a guest’s skin than most chat shows manage.

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?

The soaps step aside tonight for live football. Manchester United play Leeds United in a pre-season friendly from Dublin at 7pm, running through to the 10pm news and taking the slots Emmerdale and Coronation Street would normally fill. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace follows at 10:45pm, and The Assembly, with Jade Thirlwall as the guest, closes the schedule at 11:45pm. 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

Wednesday 12 August is an odd one for ITV1 regulars. Emmerdale and Coronation Street both drop out of the schedule, replaced by three hours of pre-season football as Manchester United take on Leeds United in Dublin. Soap fans will need ITVX for a catch-up fix elsewhere, or simply a night off.

The football’s kick-off means the 10pm news could run a little later than usual if the match goes long. Once it does land, Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace revisits two searches for the truth behind an abandoned childhood, and The Assembly closes with Jade Thirlwall fielding unfiltered questions from a panel unwilling to let her dodge anything.

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