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

Published: 7 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. Tuesday 8 September 2026 has no Emmerdale or Coronation Street. The National Television Awards 2026 takes the whole 8pm–10:30pm slot instead, broadcasting live from the O2. Millionaire Hot Seat at 7:30pm leads in, and ITV News at Ten plus Murder on a Knife’s Edge: True Crime Presents close out the night. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 8 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 8 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Tuesday’s daytime is the standard weekday run: Good Morning Britain from 6am, Lorraine at 9:30am and This Morning at 10am. Loose Women takes its usual early-afternoon slot at 12:30pm, followed by the lunchtime news.

Dickinson’s Real Deal, Lingo and Tipping Point carry the mid-afternoon, and The Chase closes out the pre-evening run at 5pm ahead of the news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin covering the capital, running local politics, courts and community stories the network news doesn’t have room for. Elsewhere in the country the equivalent regional programme takes this slot instead.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The main national bulletin, running the day’s top stories at greater length than the lunchtime update. It leads into the game-show run that opens the evening proper.

Millionaire Hot Seat — ITV1, 7:30pm

Bradley Walsh puts members of the public through a faster, studio-audience-backed version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, with contestants swapping in and out of the “hot seat” as they’re eliminated. It’s a genuinely new edition tonight, but the format is unchanged: same questions ladder, same lifelines, same easy watchability.

The National Television Awards 2026 — ITV1, 8pm

Joel Dommett hosts for a sixth year running as the ceremony returns to The O2 in London, handing out awards decided entirely by public vote rather than an industry panel — the reason it tends to reward popularity over critical acclaim. Expect a run of category winners across drama, soaps, reality and factual, plus the usual red-carpet arrivals segment beforehand. This is the one night this week where neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street gets a look-in on ITV1, so anyone mid-storyline on either soap will have to wait until tomorrow.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10:30pm

The late bulletin follows straight on from the awards ceremony, running the day’s news plus a wrap of anything that happened at The O2. Regional news follows immediately after.

ITV News London — ITV1, 11pm

A short regional update rounding off the day’s London stories before the schedule moves into the late-night true-crime slot.

Murder on a Knife’s Edge: True Crime Presents — ITV1, 11:15pm

The strand returns for a second series, reconstructing a real case using court transcripts, police interviews and reporting from the trial rather than dramatised guesswork. It’s a sober, fact-led approach rather than the more sensational end of the true-crime genre, closing out the night just before midnight.

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. Tonight, Tuesday 8 September, is a further exception: neither soap airs, because the National Television Awards 2026 takes the whole 8pm–10:30pm slot.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Tuesday’s line-up has no soaps at all. Millionaire Hot Seat holds 7:30pm, then the National Television Awards 2026 runs live from the O2 from 8pm to 10:30pm in the slot Emmerdale and Coronation Street would normally fill. ITV News at Ten follows, and Murder on a Knife’s Edge: True Crime Presents closes the night 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

The National Television Awards is the story tonight, not a soap episode: it’s a live event, so if you follow either Emmerdale or Coronation Street, tonight is a gap rather than a missed instalment. Millionaire Hot Seat beforehand is unaffected and runs as normal.

Daytime is the standard weekday run of magazine shows and quizzes, with The Chase closing out the pre-evening slot as usual.

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