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. Monday 17 August 2026 is a proper weeknight, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street both back in their usual “power hour” slots either side of 8:30pm. Fletchers’ Family Farm opens the evening with a new episode at 7:30pm, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace returns with a fresh case at 9pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Monday 17 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 Monday, so the full weekday run is back. The overnight hours are quiet: shopping strand Shop on TV fills 1:05am, followed by the documentary Inside Iran: War & Revolution at 3am. Unwind with ITV, the channel’s late-night wind-down strand of ambient landscape footage, takes over at 4:10am, and Motorsport UK rounds off the graveyard shift at 5:10am with a look back at the domestic racing season.

Good Morning Britain opens the working week at 6am with its usual mix of news, politics and studio interviews, running through to 10am when This Morning takes over for the rest of the late morning, three and a half hours of lifestyle features, competitions and celebrity guests.

The afternoon runs to the standard weekday shape: ITV Lunchtime News at 1:30pm and a short ITV News London update at 1:55pm, then three quiz-hour staples back to back — Dickinson’s Real Deal at 2pm, Deal or No Deal at 3pm and Tipping Point at 4pm. The Chase closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of the 6pm regional news and ITV Evening News at 6:30pm.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026. Both soaps are on as normal, with no live sport getting in the way.

ITV News London and ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6pm and 6:30pm

The regional bulletin at 6pm leads into the national ITV Evening News at 6:30pm, the usual run-up to primetime.

Fletchers’ Family Farm — ITV1, 7:30pm

Kelvin Fletcher and Liz are back on their Peak District farm for a new instalment, the tenth of the current run. Expect the usual mix of livestock trouble and family bickering played mostly for laughs, with the odd moment where the farming actually looks hard.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

The Dales get their nightly half hour at 8pm. Since the soap’s move to this earlier slot, the storylines have leaned harder on cliffhangers to hold the audience through to Coronation Street straight after.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Weatherfield follows on at 8:30pm, the second half of ITV’s evening soap block. The nightly format keeps things moving faster than the old twice-weekly hour-long editions ever did, for better or worse depending who you ask.

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace – What Happened Next — ITV1, 9pm

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return with a new case revisiting Susanne Barrow, found as a baby in a phone box decades ago with only a note from her birth mother to go on. This strand checks back in on people the main series has already reunited, following what’s happened to them since the cameras first found their relatives. It’s the sort of story ITV1 does well: unhurried, led by the people involved rather than the presenters.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

ITV News at Ten and a further regional update at 10:30pm bridge the gap before the late-night factual hour.

Cold Case Forensics: In the Blood — ITV1, 10:45pm

Forensic scientists revisit an unsolved case using techniques that weren’t available first time round, the third outing in this run. It’s a slower, more procedural watch than the true-crime hour that often fills this slot elsewhere on the schedule.

The Assembly — ITV1, 11:40pm

The night closes with an episode of the interview format built around a panel of autistic, neurodivergent and disabled questioners putting a well-known guest through unscripted rounds of questions. It’s an unusual, low-key way for ITV1 to end a Monday.

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?

Both soaps are on, it’s a Monday. Fletchers’ Family Farm opens primetime with a new episode at 7:30pm, Emmerdale follows at 8pm and Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace – What Happened Next brings a new case to 9pm. 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

Monday 17 August is back to the standard soap night, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street both in their usual slots either side of 8:30pm. Fletchers’ Family Farm gets the earlier 7:30pm hour, a new instalment of Kelvin Fletcher’s Peak District farm series, before the two soaps take over.

The main event after that is Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace – What Happened Next at 9pm, a return visit to Susanne Barrow’s search for her birth family. Cold Case Forensics: In the Blood and a fresh episode of The Assembly round out the later schedule. Daytime keeps to the familiar weekday shape too, Good Morning Britain and This Morning through the morning, then Dickinson’s Real Deal, Deal or No Deal, Tipping Point and The Chase filling the afternoon.

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