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. Thursday 20 August 2026 is a standard weeknight, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street both back in their usual slots either side of 8:30pm. Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy closes out its first series at 7:30pm, and The Chase Around the World reaches its Athens finale at 9pm with £100,000 on the table. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Thursday 20 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Thursday 20 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 Thursday, so the full weekday run is on. Overnight is a quiet stretch: shopping strand Shop on TV opens the small hours at 1:05am, then Love and Death takes 3am (series 1, episode 6). Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel follows at 3:50am, and the channel’s late-night wind-down strand Unwind with ITV closes overnight at 4:15am. A repeat of tonight’s Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy airs at 5:30am, hours ahead of the new episode in primetime.

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, covering Yorkshire Oaks Day — Ladies’ Day — at the Ebor Festival. It finishes on time, so there’s no knock-on delay to the rest of the afternoon: 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 a genuinely extended edition of ITV Evening News at 6:30pm, which runs the full hour through to 7:30pm rather than the usual half hour.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 20 August 2026. There’s no live sport in the evening — the day’s only live coverage, ITV Racing from York, wraps well before teatime and doesn’t touch the soaps.

The early evening news — ITV1, 6pm and 6:30pm

ITV News London opens the evening at 6pm. What follows at 6:30pm is a genuinely extended edition of ITV Evening News, running the full hour through to 7:30pm rather than its usual half-hour slot.

Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy — ITV1, 7:30pm

The chef’s six-part tour of Italy in his vintage food truck reaches its last stop tonight, on the volcanic slopes of Etna in Sicily. He spends the episode with citrus growers, from the region’s famous blood oranges to the lemon groves that keep half of Europe stocked.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

A single episode tonight rather than the double bill some weeks bring. Caleb has Joe’s big day firmly in his sights, and it isn’t a friendly interest.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Idris finds himself on the receiving end of Leanne’s temper after gambling with money that was never his to risk.

The Chase Around the World — ITV1, 9pm

The series finale. After six weeks touring Europe, the last team standing lands in Athens to face all four Chasers at once, with £100,000 riding on the result.

The ten o’clock news — ITV1, 10pm and 10:30pm

ITV News at Ten rounds up the day’s stories, followed by a shorter regional update from ITV News London at 10:30pm.

Skyfall — ITV1, 10:45pm

The night closes with the 2012 Bond outing that sent Daniel Craig’s 007 up against Javier Bardem’s Silva, a former agent turned cyberterrorist bent on destroying MI6 from within. Judi Dench’s M gets one of her meatiest send-offs in the role, and the Skyfall Lodge finale still holds up as one of the series’ bleaker set pieces.

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. Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy opens primetime with its series finale at 7:30pm, Emmerdale follows at 8pm and Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm. The Chase Around the World reaches its own finale at 9pm, and Skyfall 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

Thursday 20 August is a soap night with two finales either side of it. Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy closes its first series at 7:30pm on Etna, before Emmerdale and Coronation Street take their usual slots either side of 8:30pm.

The Chase Around the World wraps up its own run at 9pm, with the last team in the competition taking on all four Chasers in Athens for £100,000. Skyfall follows the ten o’clock news at 10:45pm, a solid choice for anyone who’d rather stay in than watch a repeat of last week’s soaps. 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, covering Yorkshire Oaks Day at the Ebor Festival, ahead of Tipping Point and The Chase.

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