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

Published: 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. The soaps are back in their usual weeknight slots on Monday 24 August 2026: Emmerdale at 8pm, on Joe and Dawn’s wedding day, then Coronation Street at 8:30pm. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next takes the 9pm hour, a follow-up special and the only new programme on ITV1 tonight, before the 1998 action comedy Rush Hour closes out the night from 10:45pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Monday’s daytime is the standard weekday shape: four hours of Good Morning Britain from 6am (series 13, episode 166), then This Morning for three and a half hours from 10am (series 38, episode 166) with news, guests and the usual mix of cookery, health and lifestyle items. Overnight, The Staircase closes out the previous night at 12:20am (a new episode, series 1, episode 6), followed by teleshopping strand Shop on TV, Motorsport UK highlights from Oulton Park at 3am, Unwind with ITV and an early Dickinson’s Real Deal at 5:05am.

The ITV Lunchtime News and ITV News London run back to back from 1:30pm, then a second Dickinson’s Real Deal (series 16, episode 28) takes the early afternoon at 2pm, Telford’s dealer’s den giving way to Oldham’s. Deal or No Deal follows at 3pm with Stephen Mulhern, and Tipping Point holds the 4pm hour with Ben Shephard.

Early evening belongs to the regular weekday edition of The Chase, Bradley Walsh in charge from 5pm to 6pm, not the Chase Around the World format. ITV News London takes 6pm, then ITV Evening News runs a full hour from 6:30pm to 7:30pm — this is the weekday shape, an hour longer than a Sunday bulletin.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

The soaps are back where they belong on Monday 24 August 2026, and ITV1 builds its evening around them either side of one genuine event.

Fletchers’ Family Farm — ITV1, 7:30pm

The Fletchers are back in the barns for the half-hour before the soaps: bringing sheep in for worming treatment, Marnie and Milo exploring outbuildings, and Liz and Kelvin trying their hand with the sheepdogs (series 1, episode 4).

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Joe and Dawn finally get married (series 2026, episode 165). Caleb is pleased with how his plan has come together; Jimmy feels badly let down.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Tim opens up to Lucy, Todd works out how Celeste knows Bernie, Ben squares up to Ollie, and Bethany tries to put Sarah’s mind at ease (series 2026, episode 166).

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next — ITV1, 9pm

ITV1’s only new programme of the night. This follow-up special catches up with Liz Deutsch, the nurse found gravely ill in a hedge, and returns to foundling Natasha, whose reunion with her full sister Lee-Ann was one of the strand’s more affecting stories. Real space for a genuine event, not a routine episode.

The news bulletins — ITV1, 6pm, 6:30pm, 10pm and 10:30pm

ITV News London opens the evening at 6pm, ITV Evening News runs the full weekday hour from 6:30pm, and the pair repeat at 10pm and 10:30pm with ITV News at Ten and a further regional update.

Rush Hour — ITV1, 10:45pm

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker’s mismatched cop double act closes out the night, running to 12:25am with the usual ad breaks (1998).

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?

Monday’s soaps are in their usual slots: Emmerdale at 8pm, on Joe and Dawn’s wedding day, then Coronation Street at 8:30pm. Fletchers’ Family Farm leads in at 7:30pm and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next takes the 9pm hour, the only new programme on the channel tonight. Rush Hour closes the evening from 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

Monday 24 August is a soaps night on ITV1, back in their normal weeknight shape after a Sunday off. Emmerdale’s wedding-day episode at 8pm and Coronation Street straight after at 8:30pm are the backbone of the evening, and Fletchers’ Family Farm gets them there at 7:30pm.

The one item that lifts the night above a standard weekday is Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next at 9pm, a follow-up special rather than a routine instalment, and the only new programme ITV1 airs today. Rush Hour, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker’s 1998 buddy comedy, takes the film slot from 10:45pm. Daytime runs the familiar weekday pattern: four hours of Good Morning Britain, three and a half of This Morning, then the regular weekday Chase at 5pm.

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