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

Published: 15 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. Wednesday 16 September 2026 drops the soaps altogether: a live Carabao Cup third-round tie between Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion takes the entire 7:30pm-10:25pm block, with neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street airing in their normal slot. ITV News at Ten follows the final whistle, and Peston closes the night from 11:15pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 16 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 16 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Wednesday’s morning opens with Good Morning Britain at 6am, then Lorraine takes the mid-morning slot at 9:30am ahead of This Morning at 10am. Loose Women follows the lunchtime news at 12:30pm.

Dickinson’s Real Deal and Lingo carry the early afternoon, and Tipping Point takes over at 4pm ahead of a new episode of The Chase at 5pm.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 16 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The local bulletin opens the evening.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

Half an hour of national headlines before the football takes over.

EFL Carabao Cup Live: Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion — ITV1, 7:30pm

Mark Pougatch presents ITV1’s live coverage of Manchester United hosting Brighton & Hove Albion in the Carabao Cup third round at Old Trafford, kick-off just after 8pm once the studio build-up runs its course from 7:30pm. It’s the reason neither soap airs tonight: Emmerdale and Coronation Street are both off the schedule completely rather than just shuffled to a later hour, and the match runs through to ITV News at Ten.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10:25pm

The nightly round-up follows the final whistle, five minutes later than its usual slot to give the match room to run — and later again if the tie goes to extra time.

ITV News London — ITV1, 11pm

A short regional update ahead of Peston.

Peston — ITV1, 11:15pm

Robert Peston’s political discussion show closes out the night with a new edition.

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 normally 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, and tonight, Wednesday 16 September, is one of the weeknight exceptions — a live Carabao Cup tie between Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion takes over the entire evening, so there’s no new episode of either soap today.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Wednesday 16 September 2026 has no soaps at all. A live Carabao Cup third-round tie between Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion takes the entire 7:30pm to 10:25pm block, with Mark Pougatch presenting. ITV News at Ten follows the final whistle, and Peston closes out 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

Tonight’s whole story is the total absence of the soaps: a live Carabao Cup tie between Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion takes over the entire 7:30pm-10:25pm block instead. Neither Emmerdale nor Coronation Street has anything new to offer today, on TV or on ITVX.

Daytime runs the standard weekday shape, with Lorraine and This Morning carrying the late morning into Loose Women at half past twelve.

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