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. Saturday 15 August 2026 drops the weeknight soaps entirely in favour of a film and game show night: a new Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special at 7pm with Joe Lycett up against the Banker, then Skyfall at 8pm and a new episode of The Staircase at 11pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

It’s a Saturday, so the weekday run of Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Tipping Point and The Chase is off the air entirely. Teleshopping runs until 3am, then two documentary strands fill the small hours: Force of Nature looks at how warming seas are affecting flamingos, sea otters, clownfish and anole lizards, and Long Lost Family follows Mark Thorpe’s search for an older brother and Jane Lewis’s hunt for the three siblings she was separated from as an eleven-day-old baby. Unwind with ITV closes out the overnight slot from 4:45am.

James Martin takes the whole of breakfast: his French Adventure lands in Paris for an early trip to the Rungis wholesale market at 6am, and his American Adventure moves on to Fort Worth for cattle roping and line dancing at 6:30am. Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh takes over at 7:30am, with actress Sarah Parish, broadcaster John Humphrys and young riders from the Royal Windsor Horse Show joining him for Manor Farm’s first Mounted Games.

Racing dominates the middle of the day. ITV Racing: The Opening Show with Rishi Persad previews the card from Newbury at 9:30am, before James Martin’s Saturday Morning brings on Josie Gibson, Victoria Pendleton, Merlin Griffiths and chefs Dipna Anand and Tom Shepherd at 10:30am. Oli Bell then presents ITV Racing: Live from Newbury from 1:15pm, with the Group 2 Hungerford Stakes the highlight across meetings at Newbury, Ripon and Newmarket. Roger Moore’s Bond takes the 4pm film slot in Moonraker, running through to the evening news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026. No soaps tonight, film and game show fans are well served.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national bulletin opens the evening at 6:30pm.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6:45pm

The regional update and weather follow at 6:45pm.

Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special — ITV1, 7pm

Stephen Mulhern is back behind the boxes for another celebrity outing, and tonight’s contestant facing down the Banker is comedian Joe Lycett. The format has settled into a reliable Saturday fixture since its recommission, and a guest with Lycett’s instinct for mischief should make for a livelier half hour than most.

Skyfall — ITV1, 8pm

Daniel Craig’s third Bond film gets the big Saturday slot, and it holds up better than most repeats in this schedule position. Javier Bardem’s Silva is one of the series’ nastier villains, an ex-agent turned cyberterrorist with a personal grudge against M, and the assault on MI6 itself gives the film a different shape from the globe-trotting missions either side of it. Judi Dench’s final appearance as M adds a genuine send-off to the plot.

ITV News — ITV1, 10:40pm

The late bulletin runs at 10:40pm, ahead of the night’s second premiere.

The Staircase — ITV1, 11pm

Episode five of the true-crime drama arrives at 11pm. With the verdict now delivered, the Peterson family is left picking through the wreckage of the trial, and Michael leans on an unlikely long-distance friendship to get through it. Colin Firth and Toni Collette continue to anchor a series that’s more interested in the fallout of a case than the courtroom drama itself.

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?

No soaps tonight, it’s a Saturday. A new Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special opens primetime at 7pm, with Joe Lycett facing the Banker, before Skyfall takes the 8pm film slot. The night closes with a new episode of The Staircase at 11pm. 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

Saturday 15 August breaks from the weeknight routine entirely: no Emmerdale, no Coronation Street, just a game show and two hours of Bond. Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special opens the evening at 7pm with Joe Lycett up against the Banker, a lighter warm-up before Skyfall takes the 8pm slot.

The Staircase closes out the night at 11pm with a new episode, following the Peterson family through the aftermath of the trial verdict. Racing fans get a full afternoon of it too, with live coverage from Newbury running into the early evening.

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