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. Friday 21 August 2026 keeps Emmerdale and Coronation Street in their usual slots either side of 8:30pm, with Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes opening primetime at 7:30pm and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special taking the 9pm hour. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox reaches its series finale at 10pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Friday 21 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Friday 21 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 Friday, so the usual weekday shape holds until racing takes over the afternoon. Overnight is a quiet stretch: shopping strand Shop on TV opens the small hours at 1:20am, then Love and Death takes the 3am slot (series 1, episode 7). Unwind with ITV, the channel’s late-night wind-down strand, closes out the overnight run at 4am (series 5, episode 296), and Deal or No Deal: Celebrity Special rounds off the graveyard shift at 5:05am (series 3, episode 5).

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 the Ebor meeting at York, with the Nunthorpe Stakes — five furlongs, some of the fastest horses in training — as the feature race. 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 an unusually long edition of ITV Evening News at 6:30pm, which fills 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, Friday 21 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin opens the evening, covering the capital and the surrounding counties.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

An unusually long edition fills the whole 6:30pm hour tonight, running straight through to 7:30pm rather than the usual half hour before handing over to entertainment.

Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes — ITV1, 7:30pm

Abbey’s latest house call is on fashion designer Alice Temperley, whose Somerset home is done out with the colour and print you’d expect from someone who dresses the red carpet. It’s the fifth episode of the run.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Jimmy finally sells the haulage business that’s been dragging him under, and Nicola’s relief turns to delight once he says yes to renewing their vows.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Glenda’s sharp tongue leaves Todd itching for payback, Tim tries to talk a rattled Lucy down, and Nina walks away from a job interview with little to feel good about.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special — ITV1, 9pm

Jeremy Clarkson takes the host’s chair as broadcaster Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Olympic cyclist Laura Kenny have a go at the million-pound question.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox — ITV1, 10pm

The dramatisation reaches its last chapter, titled “Libertà”: Amanda, free but still shadowed by Perugia, finally confronts the man who called her a murderer. It’s the eighth and final episode, new to ITV1 tonight even though the series streamed in the US last year — a genuine UK broadcast premiere, and the biggest thing on the channel this evening.

ITV News — ITV1, 11pm

The national headlines round off the day.

ITV News London — ITV1, 11:30pm

A short regional update follows.

Rush Hour — ITV1, 11:50pm

The night ends with the 1998 buddy-cop comedy starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, in which a Hong Kong inspector and a mouthy LAPD detective are forced together to rescue a kidnapped diplomat’s daughter.

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: Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm. Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes opens the evening at 7:30pm with a new episode, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special occupies the 9pm hour. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox reaches its series finale at 10pm, and Rush Hour rounds off the night at 11:50pm. 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

Friday 21 August is a soap-and-quiz night, with Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes opening primetime at 7:30pm before Emmerdale and Coronation Street settle into their usual slots either side of 8:30pm.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special takes the 9pm hour, Jeremy Clarkson watching Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Laura Kenny chase the million pounds. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox reaches its finale at 10pm, new to ITV1 tonight after streaming in the US last year. Daytime keeps its usual shape until the afternoon, when ITV Racing: Live from York takes over for three hours from 1:30pm, covering the Ebor meeting and the Nunthorpe Stakes, ahead of Tipping Point and The Chase.

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