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

Published: 11 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. Saturday 12 September 2026 is soap-free and closes on a film rather than a factual strand or drama: The Chase Celebrity Special leads in at 6pm, The Voice UK at 7pm and The Box at 8:15pm, then Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening at 9:30pm. ITV News at 10:30pm gives way to Rush Hour 2, which closes the night from 10:40pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Saturday 12 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Saturday 12 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Saturday’s morning opens with James Martin’s Islands to Highlands at 6am and Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh at 6:30am, then a run of food and travel strands — Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen, James Martin’s Saturday Morning and Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour: New Zealand — carries the schedule to lunchtime around the news bulletins.

ITV Racing: Live from Doncaster fills the early afternoon from 1:15pm, and Tipping Point closes out the pre-evening run at 4:30pm ahead of the evening news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 12 September 2026.

The Chase Celebrity Special — ITV1, 6pm

Bradley Walsh puts a celebrity line-up up against the Chasers in this specially recorded edition, opening the evening ahead of the weekend’s bigger entertainment slots.

The Voice UK — ITV1, 7pm

The blind auditions continue into a fourth episode of series 14, which began on 22 August. The judging panel hears contestants without seeing them, turning only for the voice.

The Box — ITV1, 8:15pm

Gary Lineker’s celebrity game show carries on with its third episode. Ten contestants face physical and mental challenges with little instruction, and the two lowest performers meet in a head-to-head duel that eliminates one of them. The format launched on 5 September, so tonight’s outing is a returning episode rather than a fresh premiere.

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening — ITV1, 9:30pm

A second episode of the series airs at 9:30pm, ahead of the late news.

ITV News — ITV1, 10:30pm

The late bulletin runs for ten minutes before the night’s closing film.

Rush Hour 2 — ITV1, 10:40pm

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker’s buddy-cop sequel closes the night from 10:40pm, giving ITV1 a film finish rather than the usual factual or drama slot.

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, Saturday 12 September, there’s no episode of either; The Voice UK and The Box occupy the equivalent hours instead.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Saturday’s line-up is soap-free. The Chase Celebrity Special holds 6pm, then The Voice UK and The Box run back to back at 7pm and 8:15pm. Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening follows at 9:30pm, ITV News comes at 10:30pm, and the night closes on a film: Rush Hour 2 from 10:40pm. 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

There’s no soap at all tonight, and the whole evening is built around entertainment instead: The Voice UK’s blind auditions and The Box’s celebrity challenges fill the early primetime hours before Rush Hour 2 closes things out just before 11pm, rather than the factual or drama wind-down ITV1 usually runs.

Daytime is a Saturday run of food and travel strands, with ITV Racing: Live from Doncaster carrying the early afternoon.

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