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 19 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 Professor T opens a new series with a fresh case at 9pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 19 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 19 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 Wednesday, so the full weekday run is on. Overnight is a quiet stretch: shopping strand Shop on TV opens the small hours at 1:10am, then reality series The Summit takes 3am (series 1, episode 6), with a trust-testing food shortage and a nerve-jangling chasm crossing among the group’s challenges. Unwind with ITV, the channel’s late-night wind-down strand, follows at 3:50am, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace: What Happened Next closes overnight at 5:05am, checking back in on two people from earlier series.

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 breaks from its usual shape today. After the 1pm ITV Lunchtime News and a short 1:20pm London update, racing takes over: ITV Racing: Live from York runs for three hours from 1:30pm, with Francesca Cumani and Ed Chamberlin presenting the Ebor meeting’s opening day, built around the Juddmonte International Stakes. Tipping Point: Best Ever Finals returns at 4:30pm and 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, Wednesday 19 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Regional news and weather for London and the South East.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national bulletin ahead of primetime.

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

Tonight’s episode is a different visit from last night’s: the events team is stretched by an oversubscribed birthday booking, and executive pastry chef Andrew has trouble getting the occasion’s showpiece cake through a doorway. It’s part of the fly-on-the-wall series following one of London’s oldest grand hotels.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

A confession from Kev leaves Billy reeling, and a piece of evidence goes missing in the village.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Idris coaches Ollie through poker-night tactics ahead of the Speed Daal game, Sally and Tim sort out foster care arrangements for Lucy, and Todd finds himself cornered by a woman called Celeste.

Professor T — ITV1, 9pm

Series four opens with Jasper cut off from the police force following a death he couldn’t prevent. He’s still the only one who can crack the puzzle when a young woman goes missing from a luxury yacht, in an opener titled Overboard.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The day’s national and international headlines.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A further regional update.

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

This follow-up strand checks back in on two people whose stories featured in earlier series: Susanne Barrow, found as an infant inside a London phone box, and Tom Yeo, discovered as a baby beneath a bench at Reading station.

British Touring Car Championship Highlights — ITV1, 11:40pm

Nicki Shields rounds up the sixth BTCC weekend, raced at Knockhill. This is a highlights package, not live coverage — the racing itself happened earlier in the day.

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, as usual midweek. 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. Professor T opens a new series at 9pm, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace: What Happened Next follows the news at 10:45pm. 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 19 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 fresh visit to one of London’s oldest grand hotels, before the two soaps take over.

Professor T opens a new series at 9pm, sending its socially awkward detective after a woman who has vanished from a yacht. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace: What Happened Next follows the ten o’clock news at 10:45pm, and British Touring Car Championship Highlights closes the schedule at 11:40pm — a round-up from Knockhill rather than live racing. Daytime breaks from its usual shape for one afternoon: Good Morning Britain and This Morning run as normal, but ITV Racing: Live from York takes over for three hours from 1:30pm ahead of Tipping Point and The Chase.

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