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

Published: 5 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. Sunday 6 September 2026 has no soaps either — neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airs at the weekend. The evening runs The 1% Club into The Box‘s second episode, then the returning Trigger Point and the UK premiere of Reckless, an Australian comedy-drama based on the BBC’s Guilt. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Sunday’s daytime keeps James Martin’s Saturday Morning in its slot despite the day of the week — a repeat rather than a live edition — running from 7am into Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh at 9:30am. The Joy of Pets returns with a new episode at 11:25am, then Love Your Garden and a Chase blooper reel fill the early afternoon.

Saturday’s opening episode of The Box repeats at 2:05pm for anyone who missed the launch, ahead of the Bond film A View to a Kill from 3:05pm running into the evening bulletins.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

The Chase Celebrity Special — ITV1, 6pm

Four celebrities play for their chosen charities in series 13, episode 10: the broadcaster Jon Sopel, Paralympic swimmer Maisie Summers-Newton, sprinter Perri Shakes-Drayton and Brian Conley.

The 1% Club — ITV1, 7pm

Lee Mack’s elimination quiz grinds down another studio audience with questions that are less about knowledge than working out how a question is trying to catch you out.

The Box — ITV1, 8pm

Episode two, not the launch — that was last night. Gary Lineker’s nine remaining celebrities are back in their yellow boxes for another round of challenges, ending in the Duel between whichever two are still standing.

Trigger Point — ITV1, 9pm

Vicky McClure’s bomb-disposal drama is three episodes into its fourth series, with the team chasing a breakthrough that keeps circling back to people they already know. It’s had two episodes to build the case; tonight’s the one where it starts paying off.

Reckless — ITV1, 10:15pm

This is the one genuinely new thing on ITV1 tonight: an Australian comedy-drama, based on the BBC’s Guilt, about a lawyer and her brother who cover up a hit-and-run only for the victim’s niece to start asking questions. Tasma Walton, Hunter Page-Lochard and Jessica De Gouw lead.

Long Lost Family — ITV1, 11:20pm

Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell reunite another family separated by adoption, closing the night on ITV1’s most reliably tear-jerking format.

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. Neither airs at the weekend, so there’s no episode of either tonight.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Sunday’s line-up has no soaps and no live sport either. The 1% Club holds 7pm, The Box airs its second episode at 8pm (the actual launch was Saturday night), and Trigger Point moves into its fourth series at 9pm. The night’s one real premiere is Reckless at 10:15pm, an Australian comedy-drama based on the BBC’s Guilt. 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

Sunday’s genuine new arrival is Reckless at 10:15pm, not The Box — that launched last night and tonight’s is just its second outing. Trigger Point is doing the quiet work of a drama building toward a payoff three episodes in, and The 1% Club ahead of it is exactly the quiz it always is.

Daytime repeats James Martin’s Saturday Morning and Saturday’s Box premiere rather than running the usual weekday shows, since there’s no soap or breakfast strand at the weekend. No live sport on ITV1 today.

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