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

Published: 10 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. Friday 11 September 2026 is a normal soap-and-quiz weeknight that closes on drama rather than a factual strand: Millionaire Hot Seat leads in at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street hold their usual slots, and Beat the Chasers – Celebrity Special follows at 9pm. ITV News at Ten comes next, then The Rainmaker closes in from 10:45pm ahead of Sorry, I Didn’t Know at 11:40pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Friday 11 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Friday 11 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Friday’s daytime is the standard weekday run: Good Morning Britain from 6am, Lorraine at 9:30am and This Morning at 10am. The lunchtime news follows at 12:30pm.

ITV Racing: Live from Doncaster fills the afternoon from 1pm, and Tipping Point and The Chase close out the pre-evening run at 4pm and 5pm ahead of the news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 11 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin and weather ahead of the national evening news.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The UK-wide evening bulletin, running a full hour tonight.

Millionaire Hot Seat — ITV1, 7:30pm

Bradley Walsh’s daily solo spin on the Millionaire format, one contestant at a time working through the money ladder without a lifeline from a studio audience they can’t see.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

The Yorkshire Dales soap holds its usual weeknight slot ahead of Coronation Street, episode 178 of the current run.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Weatherfield’s nightly half-hour follows straight after Emmerdale, as it has done since the show’s move to a daily format earlier in 2026.

Beat the Chasers – Celebrity Special — ITV1, 9pm

Famous faces take on the Chasers as a team, betting their winnings on whether they can beat one, some or all five of the quiz’s resident experts. The celebrity edition tends to run looser and funnier than the civilian version.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The main evening bulletin, followed by a further regional update.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A short regional round-up closing the news block.

The Rainmaker — ITV1, 10:45pm

ITV’s adaptation of John Grisham’s legal thriller continues into its third episode, following newly qualified lawyer Rudy Baylor as he squares up against a veteran courtroom operator on the other side. It launched with a double bill on 4 September and has run weekly since.

Sorry, I Didn’t Know — ITV1, 11:40pm

The Black history panel show closes out the night, midway through its sixth series with Chizzy Akudolu now in the host’s chair.

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, Friday 11 September, both are on in their usual slots.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Friday’s line-up starts as a normal soap night. Millionaire Hot Seat holds 7:30pm, then Emmerdale and Coronation Street run back to back at 8pm and 8:30pm. Beat the Chasers – Celebrity Special follows at 9pm, ITV News at Ten comes next, and the night closes on drama: The Rainmaker from 10:45pm, then Sorry, I Didn’t Know at 11:40pm. 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 soaps run exactly as they should tonight, and the real point of interest is what comes after the news: The Rainmaker gives ITV1 a genuine new drama in the late slot rather than the usual factual wind-down, now three episodes into its weekly run since launching on 4 September.

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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