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

Published: 25 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, Wednesday 26 August 2026, it’s a normal weeknight on ITV1 — there’s no football and no live sport anywhere on the channel. Emmerdale takes its usual 8pm slot, straight into Coronation Street at 8:30pm, then Professor T at 9pm. The evening closes with the Bond film Spectre, starting at 10:45pm and running past 1am. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 26 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 26 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Wednesday’s daytime keeps the standard weekday shape, though every edition has moved on from Tuesday. Good Morning Britain runs its usual four hours from 6am (series 13, episode 168), then This Morning takes over for three and a half hours from 10am (series 38, episode 168) with the regular mix of news, guests, cookery and health items. Overnight, teleshopping strand Shop on TV opens the day at 12:10am, followed by Love and Death at 3am (series 1, episode 6), Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace — What Happened Next at 3:50am and Unwind with ITV at 4:45am (series 5, episode 301).

The ITV Lunchtime News and ITV News London run back to back from 1:30pm, then Dickinson’s Real Deal (series 16, episode 42) 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 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm ahead of Celebrity Lingo at 7:30pm. There’s no football tonight, and no live sport anywhere on ITV1.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 26 August 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin opens the evening run at 6pm, half an hour ahead of the national news.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

ITV Evening News still runs the full hour from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, exactly as it did last night — that part of the schedule hasn’t moved.

Celebrity Lingo — ITV1, 7:30pm

The 7:30pm hour belongs to Celebrity Lingo (series 2, episode 9).

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Emmerdale is back in its regular 8pm slot (series 2026, episode 166) after standing aside for the Carabao Cup last night. Caleb has good reason to feel pleased with himself, Dawn is left weighing up a decision she can’t dodge much longer, and Graham finds himself boxed into an uncomfortable corner.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Coronation Street follows straight on at 8:30pm (series 2026, episode 167). A therapy session gives Lucy the opening to say exactly what she thinks of the Metcalfes, while across the cobbles Bethany spots a bloodstain on Kit’s shirt that he can’t easily explain away.

Professor T — ITV1, 9pm

The 9pm hour belongs to Professor T (a new episode, series 4, episode 2).

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The national news is back at its usual 10pm slot tonight, having been pushed later by football coverage last night.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

The regional update wraps up the news block at 10:30pm, just before Spectre begins.

Spectre — ITV1, 10:45pm

The 10:45pm hour belongs to Spectre.

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. Both are on at their usual times tonight, Wednesday 26 August 2026.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Wednesday’s ITV1 runs a normal weeknight schedule, with no football or live sport anywhere on the channel. Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their usual 8pm and 8:30pm slots, Celebrity Lingo airs at 7:30pm ahead of them, and Professor T follows the soaps at 9pm. ITV Evening News runs from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, ITV News at Ten is at its regular 10pm slot, and the night closes with the Bond film Spectre 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

Wednesday 26 August is a normal weeknight for ITV1, with no football and no live sport anywhere on the channel. Both soaps hold their regular slots — Emmerdale at 8pm, straight into Coronation Street at 8:30pm — with Celebrity Lingo ahead of them at 7:30pm and Professor T following at 9pm, the second episode of its fourth series.

ITV Evening News runs from 6:30pm to 7:30pm, ITV News at Ten sits at its usual 10pm slot and ITV News London follows at 10:30pm. The night closes with the Bond film Spectre, Daniel Craig and Christoph Waltz, running from 10:45pm to past 1am. 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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