ITV1 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On ITV1 Tonight

Updated: 23 August 2026

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. Sunday 23 August 2026 belongs to No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s last outing as Bond, which takes the 8pm slot and holds most of the rest of the evening. It’s a soap-free night too — Emmerdale and Coronation Street are weeknight shows and return tomorrow — with a new episode of Force of Nature at 7pm ahead of the film, and The Chase Around the World wrapping up its run from 5:40pm before the evening news. There’s no racing either: the Sky Bet Ebor Festival left York on Saturday, so the afternoon reverts to its regular Sunday shape. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Sunday’s daytime reverts to its regular shape now the Ebor Festival has left York — no racing, and the schedule leans on cookery, property and general entertainment rather than the weekday run of Good Morning Britain and This Morning, neither of which airs at weekends. Overnight, English Football League Highlights closes out Saturday’s Championship fixtures at 12:20am, shopping strand Shop on TV takes 1:40am, and true-crime documentary WhatsApp Obsession: The Murder of Stephanie Hansen airs at 3am, before Unwind with ITV (series 5, episode 298) and Fern Britton: Inside the Vet’s (series 2, episode 5) fill the run into breakfast.

The Voice UK repeats last night’s launch episode at 6am, then James Martin’s Saturday Morning (series 9, episode 21) holds a long cookery slot from 7am through to the mid-morning news. After the 9:25am bulletin, Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh (series 4, episode 29) runs for two hours, and The Joy of Pets brings a new episode at 11:30am.

Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy (series 1, episode 6) opens the afternoon at 12:30pm. After the 1pm ITV News, Force of Nature airs an unflagged afternoon episode (series 1, episode 4) at 1:10pm — a different instalment from the new one in primetime — followed by the 1981 Bond film For Your Eyes Only at 2:15pm and The Chase Celebrity Special (series 13, episode 7) from 4:40pm.

Early evening belongs to The Chase Around the World, reaching its final city, Athens, and a £100,000 prize, from 5:40pm to 6:35pm. ITV Evening News follows at 6:35pm, an hour later than Saturday’s slot, with ITV News London at 6:50pm. There are no soap episodes anywhere in today’s schedule — Emmerdale and Coronation Street are both Monday-to-Friday shows and return tomorrow evening.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026. There’s no soap to build the evening around — Emmerdale and Coronation Street are weeknight fixtures — so the channel leans on a Bond film instead, with The Chase Around the World running its closing leg from 5:40pm to 6:35pm before the news double-header.

ITV Evening News and ITV News London — ITV1, 6:35pm & 6:50pm

The national bulletin airs at 6:35pm, followed by the regional update at 6:50pm — both an hour later than Saturday’s earlier slot.

Force of Nature — ITV1, 7pm

A new episode, “Boiling Point,” arrives at 7pm — a different instalment from the one shown earlier in the afternoon. The New Zealand-set crime drama gets the lead-in slot ahead of the night’s film.

No Time to Die — ITV1, 8pm

Daniel Craig’s fifth and final turn as Bond takes the whole of the middle evening, running close to three hours once the ad breaks are factored in. Léa Seydoux returns as Madeleine Swann, with Rami Malek as the villain and Ana de Armas stealing a short Cuban stretch in the first hour. It’s the biggest single item on ITV1, or any of the 32 channels tracked here, tonight.

ITV News — ITV1, 11pm

A short bulletin ahead of the late film.

One Dollar — ITV1, 11:20pm

Episode one, “Garrett Drimmer,” has the shape of a series opener: a single dollar bill changes hands across a small American town, and a killing follows in its wake. Worth a look if you’re still up.

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?

No soaps tonight — Emmerdale and Coronation Street are both Monday-to-Friday shows and return tomorrow. Sunday’s ITV1 centres on the Bond film No Time to Die at 8pm, Daniel Craig’s fifth and final appearance as 007, preceded by a new episode of Force of Nature at 7pm. The Chase Around the World wraps up its Athens leg from 5:40pm, and One Dollar closes the night with a series-opening episode at 11:20pm. 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

Sunday 23 August is a film night on ITV1. No Time to Die takes the 8pm slot and holds it for the best part of three hours — Daniel Craig’s last Bond, and the biggest single item on any of the 32 channels tracked here tonight.

A new episode of Force of Nature leads in at 7pm, The Chase Around the World closes out its run from 5:40pm before the evening news, and One Dollar gets a late slot at 11:20pm with what looks like a series opener. There isn’t a soap in the schedule anywhere today — Emmerdale and Coronation Street both return tomorrow — and there’s no racing either, with the Sky Bet Ebor Festival having left York for another year. Daytime instead runs a regular Sunday shape: Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh, an afternoon Bond rerun in For Your Eyes Only, and The Chase Celebrity Special ahead of the evening handover.

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