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. Tuesday 18 August 2026 is a standard weeknight, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street both back in their usual slots either side of 8:30pm. Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel opens the evening with a new episode at 7:30pm, and True Crime Presents brings a fresh case to 9pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 18 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 18 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 Tuesday, so the full weekday run is on. Overnight is the usual quiet stretch: shopping strand Shop on TV fills the small hours from 12:05am, then The Staircase takes 3am (series 1, episode 5). The channel’s late-night wind-down strand, Unwind with ITV, runs at 4:05am, and a fresh Dickinson’s Real Deal opens the early shift at 5:10am.

Good Morning Britain starts the working day at 6am with news, politics and studio interviews, running through to 10am when This Morning takes over for the rest of the late morning.

The afternoon keeps to the standard weekday shape: ITV Lunchtime News at 1:30pm and a short ITV News London update at 1:55pm, then a second helping of 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, Tuesday 18 August 2026.

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

The regional bulletin opens the evening at 6pm, followed by ITV Evening News at 6:30pm with the day’s national headlines.

Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel — ITV1, 7:30pm

A new episode of the fly-on-the-wall series pulls back the curtain on one of London’s grandest hotels. Tonight the spa team hunts for a new skincare line to stock, while a member of the front-desk staff gets starstruck by a guest.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Emmerdale keeps its regular 8pm slot, the Dales’ long-running storylines continuing as normal.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Straight after, Coronation Street takes its half-hour, part of the nightly run the soap moved to earlier in 2026.

True Crime Presents: No Escape – Married to a Stalker — ITV1, 9pm

Tonight’s case follows a woman whose marriage turned controlling, tracing how things curdled into stalking once she tried to leave. As with the rest of the strand, the people who lived through it do the talking rather than a reconstruction team standing in for them.

ITV News at Ten and ITV News London — ITV1, 10pm & 10:30pm

The national bulletin at 10pm and a regional update at 10:30pm round off the news day before the film.

Octopussy — ITV1, 10:45pm

Roger Moore’s sixth outing as Bond, released in 1983, sends 007 undercover into a jewel-smuggling operation fronted by a travelling circus and its owner. Maud Adams plays the title character, one of only two actresses to take a lead Bond role twice.

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 Tuesday. Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel opens primetime with a new episode at 7:30pm, Emmerdale follows at 8pm and Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm. True Crime Presents: No Escape – Married to a Stalker 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

Tuesday 18 August is a standard soap night, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street both in their usual slots either side of 8:30pm. Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel gets the earlier 7:30pm hour, a new visit to one of London’s oldest grand hotels, before the two soaps take over.

The main event after that is True Crime Presents: No Escape – Married to a Stalker at 9pm, a new case in the strand’s ongoing look at relationships that turn dangerous. Octopussy, Roger Moore’s 1983 Bond outing, closes the schedule at 10:45pm after the news. 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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