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

Published: 24 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. Tonight, Tuesday 25 August 2026, live football takes over: EFL Carabao Cup Live carries Nottingham Forest’s second-round tie against Leeds United from the City Ground, Mark Pougatch presenting from 7:30pm with kick-off at 8pm. Neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airs — both are off entirely rather than moved to another slot. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next closes the night at 11:15pm, a repeat of last night’s edition. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 25 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 25 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Tuesday’s daytime keeps the standard weekday shape, though every edition has moved on from Monday. Good Morning Britain runs its usual four hours from 6am (series 13, episode 167), then This Morning takes over for three and a half hours from 10am (series 38, episode 167) with the regular mix of news, guests, cookery and health items. Overnight, teleshopping strand Shop on TV opens the day at 12:25am, followed by The Staircase at 3am (series 1, episode 6), Unwind with ITV at 4am (series 5, episode 300) and an early Dickinson’s Real Deal at 5:10am (series 16, episode 28).

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 36) takes the early afternoon at 2pm. 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. ITV News London takes 6pm, then ITV Evening News runs a full hour from 6:30pm to 7:30pm — longer than its usual half hour, absorbing the build-up ahead of tonight’s football.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Tuesday 25 August is a football night on ITV1, and it isn’t Emmerdale or Coronation Street. Live coverage takes over the whole evening and pushes the news bulletins either side of it.

ITV News London and ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6pm and 6:30pm

The regional bulletin at 6pm gives way to a full hour of ITV Evening News from 6:30pm, running through to 7:30pm rather than the usual half hour — the extra time absorbs the build-up before kick-off.

EFL Carabao Cup Live: Nottingham Forest v Leeds United — ITV1, 7:30pm

Mark Pougatch presents ITV1’s live coverage of Nottingham Forest’s second-round Carabao Cup tie against Leeds United from the City Ground, with kick-off at 8pm. Forest have won the competition four times and will fancy home advantage against Championship opposition, while Leeds arrive fresh from their return to the Premier League. Coverage is booked to run to 10:25pm, though a tie that goes to extra time or penalties could push the rest of the night later — either way, ITV1 clears almost three hours for it, which is what swallows both of the channel’s regular 8pm soap slots. Neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airs tonight; the football replaces them outright rather than shunting them elsewhere in the schedule.

ITV News at Ten and ITV News London — ITV1, 10:25pm and 11pm

Normal service resumes once the match finishes: the national bulletin moves to 10:25pm and the regional one follows at 11pm, both around ninety minutes later than their usual slots.

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next — ITV1, 11:15pm

The follow-up special gets a second airing at 11:15pm, less than a day after its first outing at 9pm last night. It catches up with nurse Liz Deutsch, found severely ill as an abandoned baby, and with a foundling called Natasha who was reunited with her sister Lee-Ann. Anyone who watched it last night already knows how both stories turn out.

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. On Tuesday 25 August 2026, though, live football takes over the schedule and neither one airs.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Tuesday’s ITV1 is a football night. EFL Carabao Cup Live carries Nottingham Forest’s second-round tie against Leeds United from the City Ground from 7:30pm, Mark Pougatch presenting and kick-off at 8pm. Neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airs. ITV Evening News runs a full hour from 6:30pm ahead of the match, and Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next closes the night at 11:15pm, a repeat of last night’s edition. 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

Tuesday 25 August is a night ITV1 hands over to live football. EFL Carabao Cup Live carries Nottingham Forest’s second-round tie against Leeds United from the City Ground, Mark Pougatch presenting from 7:30pm with kick-off at 8pm, and coverage is booked to run until 10:25pm. That block takes up almost three hours and pushes both of the channel’s regular soap slots off entirely — Emmerdale and Coronation Street are absent tonight, not merely rescheduled.

ITV Evening News runs a full hour from 6:30pm to soak up the build-up, and the rest of the news slate shuffles back afterwards, with ITV News at Ten moved to 10:25pm and the regional bulletin to 11pm. Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next closes the evening at 11:15pm, a repeat of the previous night’s programme rather than a new instalment. Daytime keeps its familiar weekday shape: four hours of Good Morning Britain, three and a half of This Morning, then the regular weekday Chase at 5pm.

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