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

Published: 28 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, Saturday 29 August 2026, there’s no Emmerdale and no Coronation Street — both are weeknight-only and Saturday’s slot goes to entertainment instead: The Chase Celebrity Special at 6pm, The Voice UK at 7pm and The 1% Club at 8:15pm. The Voice UK carries a new-episode flag, but it’s the second outing of series 14 rather than a series launch. A fifteen-minute ITV News bulletin at 9:15pm leads into the film Man of Steel (2013) from 9:30pm, running to midnight. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Saturday 29 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Saturday 29 August 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Saturday’s ITV1 daytime has nothing in common with a weekday. There’s no Good Morning Britain, no Lorraine, no This Morning, no Loose Women and no afternoon Tipping Point — all five are weekday fixtures that sit this one out. The day opens with the 1981 Bond film For Your Eyes Only at 6am, then Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen at 8:25am, a new episode (series 3, episode 9) with Mariella Frostrup as her guest. James Martin’s Saturday Morning takes the 9:30am slot for two and a half hours (series 9, episode 24), cooking for Lorraine Kelly with Romy Gill and Jonathan Phang.

Live football fills the middle of the day: EFL Live: Middlesbrough v West Bromwich Albion kicks off at noon and runs for nearly three hours. A second Bond outing, Never Say Never Again (1983, Sean Connery and Kim Basinger), follows at 2:55pm.

Early evening brings ITV Evening News at 5:25pm and ITV News London at 5:45pm, ahead of the entertainment run into primetime. Emmerdale and Coronation Street don’t feature anywhere in today’s schedule — both are weeknight-only on ITV1, and Saturday’s 8pm slot goes to a quiz instead.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026. There’s no Emmerdale and no Coronation Street this evening — both sit out the weekend, so the 8pm half-hour that would normally belong to Weatherfield or the Dales goes to a quiz instead.

The Chase Celebrity Special — ITV1, 6pm

Bradley Walsh puts four famous faces up against the Chasers in this celebrity outing from series 13, with Jasmine Harman, Helen Lederer, Jamie Borthwick and Neil Delamere playing for their chosen charities.

The Voice UK — ITV1, 7pm

Emma Willis hosts another round of blind auditions. Sir Tom Jones is now the longest-serving of the four chairs, alongside Kelly Rowland, will.i.am and the McFly pairing of Danny Jones and Tom Fletcher. The listing flags it as new, though this is series 14’s second episode rather than its launch, which went out the previous Saturday.

The 1% Club — ITV1, 8:15pm

Lee Mack works through his ladder of logic puzzles, whittling a studio audience down to whoever survives the question that beats 99 in 100 people.

Man of Steel — ITV1, 9:30pm

A fifteen-minute ITV News bulletin at 9:15pm is the only break before Man of Steel takes the rest of the night, running to midnight. Henry Cavill’s first turn as Superman is paired with Amy Adams as Lois Lane in Zack Snyder’s 2013 origin story.

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, but neither is on today, Saturday 29 August 2026 — the 8pm slot goes to The 1% Club instead.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Saturday’s ITV1 has no Emmerdale, no Coronation Street and no football beyond the lunchtime EFL match. The evening is an entertainment block: The Chase Celebrity Special at 6pm, The Voice UK at 7pm and The 1% Club at 8:15pm, before a fifteen-minute ITV News bulletin and the film Man of Steel from 9:30pm to midnight. 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

Saturday 29 August is a straightforward entertainment night for ITV1: The Chase Celebrity Special at 6pm, The Voice UK at 7pm and The 1% Club at 8:15pm, three studio shows in a row rather than anything with drama or reality-launch weight. The Voice UK carries a new-episode flag, but it’s the second outing of series 14, not the opener. There’s no Emmerdale, no Coronation Street and no football beyond the lunchtime EFL coverage — both soaps sit out the weekend entirely, so their absence is just how Saturdays work here, not a scheduling gap.

A fifteen-minute ITV News bulletin at 9:15pm is the only break before Man of Steel takes over from 9:30pm, running to midnight with no regional update or late bulletin after it. Daytime pairs two Bond films with live EFL football at noon, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen and James Martin’s Saturday Morning — a shape with nothing in common with the weekday run of Good Morning Britain, This Morning and Tipping Point.

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