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

Published: 17 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 18 September 2026 is a normal soap night, with Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm running in their usual slots and no live sport in the way. Beat the Chasers Celebrity Special follows at 9pm, and the night closes through ITV News at Ten into a new episode of The Rainmaker from 10:45pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Friday 18 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Friday 18 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Friday’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, Friday 18 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The local early-evening bulletin.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The day’s headlines from home and abroad, ahead of tonight’s soaps.

It’ll Be Alright on the Night — ITV1, 7:30pm

Another collection of on-set mishaps, corpsing and blown lines from the archive (series 37, episode 1).

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Kim and Sadie clash again tonight, and Sadie has a bombshell of her own to drop before the credits roll. Lewis, meanwhile, doesn’t much like the answer he gets to a question he’d rather not have asked (series 2026, episode 182).

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Kit tries to work through a health scare by staying busy, Shona starts to doubt her own judgement, Summer sees Marco again, and Debbie tells Ronnie something that isn’t true (series 2026, episode 183).

Beat the Chasers Celebrity Special — ITV1, 9pm

A celebrity line-up takes on the Chasers in the higher-stakes format, betting bigger for a shot at beating them as a team (series 4, episode 5).

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The day’s main stories, with the day’s sport and any breaking developments added as the programme goes on air.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A short regional update before the night’s drama.

The Rainmaker — ITV1, 10:45pm

The legal drama continues with a new episode, its characters facing another set of difficult calls (a new episode, series 1, episode 4).

The Assembly — ITV1, 11:35pm

The interview format that hands the questions to a panel of young interviewers closes out the night (series 1, episode 4).

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. Tonight, Friday 18 September, both are in their normal slots with no live sport displacing them.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Friday 18 September 2026 is a straightforward soap night: Emmerdale at 8pm and Coronation Street at 8:30pm, both in their usual slots. Beat the Chasers Celebrity Special follows at 9pm, and the night runs through the news into a new episode of The Rainmaker from 10:45pm. 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 story is a normal Friday: Emmerdale and Coronation Street run in their usual slots with nothing displacing them, Beat the Chasers Celebrity Special follows at 9pm, and a new episode of The Rainmaker closes out the night from 10:45pm.

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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