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

Published: 2 September 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 3 September 2026, Long Lost Family returns for series 16 at 9pm, with Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell back to reunite people with relatives they lost touch with years ago. Ahead of it, the ITV Evening News runs a full hour from 6:30pm and Millionaire Hot Seat takes 7:30pm, before Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their usual weeknight slots at 8pm and 8:30pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Thursday 3 September 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Thursday’s ITV1 daytime runs its familiar weekday shape. Good Morning Britain opens at 6am and holds the sofa for four hours, then This Morning takes over from 10am.

After the ITV Lunchtime News at 1:30pm and the regional ITV News London bulletin at 1:55pm, Dickinson’s Real Deal fills 2pm (series 16, episode 35), Deal or No Deal takes 3pm (series 2, episode 46), and Tipping Point closes out the afternoon at 4pm (series 13, episode 76). The Chase takes the 5pm slot (series 17, episode 96) ahead of the early-evening news that leads into primetime.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 3 September 2026, and the night belongs to one programme.

Long Lost Family — ITV1, 9pm

Series 16 opens tonight, not another instalment of an existing run — Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell are back fronting the search-and-reunion format that has run since 2011. Two cases anchor the opener. Avril was fifteen in 1964 when she gave up her daughter, and the loss has stayed with her for sixty years. Marie grew up in her grandparents’ care and has never found out who her father was. It’s the emotional heavyweight of the whole ITV1 schedule this evening, and there’s a second outing already booked for 6 September.

Emmerdale and Coronation Street — ITV1, 8pm and 8:30pm

The soaps keep their usual back-to-back slots. In Emmerdale (8pm), Bear sits down with Sarah, embarrassment catches up with Nicola, and Kim has something on her mind. Coronation Street (8:30pm) picks up directly from last night’s cliffhanger: Jodie’s date with Kit goes down badly with Shona and with Bethany, and a trip to the salon brings Debbie face to face with something from her past.

Millionaire Hot Seat — ITV1, 7:30pm

Jeremy Clarkson puts new contestants through the money ladder at 7:30pm.

The news and late slots

ITV News London opens the evening at 6pm, running into a full hour of ITV Evening News from 6:30pm. ITV News at Ten, a further ITV News London update at 10:30pm and The Late Debate fill the run to 11:15pm — there’s no motorsport tonight, so the night closes with Unbelievable Moments: Caught on Camera (series 8, episode 2).

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. Tonight, Thursday 3 September 2026, both are in their regular slots.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Thursday’s ITV1 evening is built around the series 16 launch of Long Lost Family at 9pm, with Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell returning to front it. A full hour of ITV Evening News runs from 6:30pm, Millionaire Hot Seat takes 7:30pm, then Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their usual 8pm and 8:30pm slots. The night winds down with Unbelievable Moments: Caught on Camera from 11:15pm. 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 3 September is a genuine launch night for ITV1. An hour of ITV Evening News and Millionaire Hot Seat carry the early slots, Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their regular 8pm and 8:30pm places, and then Long Lost Family opens its sixteenth series at 9pm with Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell back in charge of the reunions. There’s no motorsport tonight; the night closes with Unbelievable Moments: Caught on Camera from 11:15pm.

Daytime keeps to the familiar weekday shape: Good Morning Britain, This Morning, Dickinson’s Real Deal, Deal or No Deal, Tipping Point and The Chase, the same run that sits behind ITV1 five days a week.

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