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

Published: 26 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, Thursday 27 August 2026, it’s a normal weeknight on ITV1 — there’s no football and no live sport anywhere on the channel. Tom Allen hosts It’ll Be Alright on the Night at 7:30pm, then Emmerdale takes its usual 8pm slot, straight into Coronation Street at 8:30pm, before Bradley Walsh presents Beat the Chasers at 9pm. The evening closes with the Bond film No Time to Die, starting at 10:45pm and running past 1am. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Thursday’s daytime keeps the standard weekday shape, though every edition has moved on from Wednesday. Overnight, teleshopping strand Shop on TV opens the day at 1:10am, followed by Love and Death at 3am (series 1, episode 7), the archive documentary Inside The Langham: Britain’s First Grand Hotel at 4am, Unwind with ITV at 4:20am (series 5, episode 302) and Tom Kerridge Cooks Italy at 5:35am (series 1, episode 6). Good Morning Britain runs its usual four hours from 6am (series 13, episode 169), then This Morning takes over for three and a half hours from 10am (series 38, episode 169) with the regular mix of news, guests, cookery and health items.

The ITV Lunchtime News and ITV News London run back to back from 1:30pm, then Dickinson’s Real Deal (series 16, episode 45) takes the early afternoon at 2pm. Deal or No Deal follows at 3pm, 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 It’ll Be Alright on the Night 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, Thursday 27 August 2026 — an ordinary weeknight, with no football or live sport on the channel.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Local news and weather for the regional bulletin.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national evening bulletin runs a full hour tonight, through to 7:30pm.

It’ll Be Alright on the Night — ITV1, 7:30pm

Tom Allen hosts the long-running clip show, digging through decades of on-set fluffs, corpsing and technical mishaps from British television. It’s a mid-run instalment rather than a launch, series 37 by the broadcaster’s own count, and the format hasn’t changed in the slightest since it began in the 1970s: famous faces, blooper reels, and Allen’s dry commentary holding it together.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Episode 167 of the year finds shock and horror rippling through the village, with Joe left horrified and Graham still trying to work his way free of trouble.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Harry’s safety weighs on Sarah’s mind, Ollie ends up in police custody after going for Jake, a routine visit from Lucy’s caseworker brings its own tension, and Maggie keeps a wary distance from Brian.

Beat the Chasers — ITV1, 9pm

Bradley Walsh puts contestants up against the full Chasing gauntlet at once, with the option to bank a smaller prize early or push on and try to beat the lot of them for a bigger payout. Series 6 by the feed’s count. It’s brasher and higher-stakes than its parent show, and that gamble is the whole appeal.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The national late bulletin.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A short regional update closes out the news block.

No Time to Die — ITV1, 10:45pm

Daniel Craig’s last outing as Bond, opposite Ana de Armas, gets a late-night slot running to 1:25am with ad breaks. Craig hands the franchise on with one of its bleaker, longer endings — this one clocks in at nearly two and three-quarter hours once the breaks are counted, so it’s a late finish for anyone staying with it to the credits.

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, Thursday 27 August 2026.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Thursday’s ITV1 runs a normal weeknight schedule, with no football or live sport anywhere on the channel. It’ll Be Alright on the Night opens the evening at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their usual 8pm and 8:30pm slots, and Beat the Chasers follows 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 No Time to Die 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

Thursday 27 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 It’ll Be Alright on the Night ahead of them at 7:30pm and Beat the Chasers following at 9pm.

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 No Time to Die, Daniel Craig and Ana de Armas, 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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