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

Updated: 20 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. Sunday 20 September 2026 runs a factual and game-show evening into ITV1’s newest drama launch. New: The Box airs at 7pm and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? follows at 8pm, before the channel launches its new crime thriller The Blame, starring Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth, at 9pm. The night runs through the news and 70 Up from 10pm, with The Blame getting a same-night repeat at 11:45pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Sunday 20 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Sunday 20 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Sunday’s overnight carries EFL football highlights and Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen, before The Voice UK repeats at 6am and James Martin’s Saturday Morning fills the rest of the early slot. Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh takes the late morning from 9:30am.

New episodes of The Joy of Pets and Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour: New Zealand run either side of midday, and Love Your Garden and the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park carry the early afternoon ahead of Licence to Kill at 4pm and the evening news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 20 September 2026.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The evening bulletin covers the day’s top stories from home and abroad.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6:45pm

A regional update follows with news from the capital.

The Box — ITV1, 7pm

Gary Lineker’s elimination game show continues, with the remaining celebrities locked into their yellow pods and released one at a time to face the episode’s physical and mental challenges.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? — ITV1, 8pm

The revived quiz returns with new contestants working up the money ladder toward the top prize, lifelines intact from the format’s original run.

The Blame — ITV1, 9pm

ITV1 launches The Blame, a new six-part crime thriller from Quay Street Productions. Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth play two detectives investigating the discovery of a teenage figure skater’s body in the fictional town of Wakestead, an inquiry that starts turning up misconduct inside the local police station itself. Tonight’s opener gets a same-night repeat at 11:45pm; the next new episode follows on Monday at 9pm.

ITV News — ITV1, 10pm

The ten o’clock bulletin rounds up the day’s news.

70 Up — ITV1, 10:15pm

70 Up is the closing chapter of the documentary series that has followed the same group of Britons since they were seven-year-olds in 1964, now checking in with the survivors at 70. It’s the second major British TV institution to reach its final instalment this year, made without director Michael Apted, who died in 2021.

The Blame — ITV1, 11:45pm

A same-night repeat of the 9pm launch episode, for anyone who missed it first time round.

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, so neither is part of tonight’s Saturday schedule.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Sunday 20 September 2026 runs a factual and game-show evening into a new drama launch: The Box at 7pm, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? at 8pm and the new crime thriller The Blame at 9pm. The night runs through the news and 70 Up from 10pm, with The Blame repeated at 11:45pm. 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

The Blame is the one worth building the evening around: ITV1’s new crime thriller launches at 9pm between Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and the news, with a same-night repeat at 11:45pm for anyone who misses it first time. 70 Up closes out the current-affairs side of the evening from 10:15pm.

Daytime runs the standard Sunday shape, with Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh carrying the late morning into new episodes of The Joy of Pets and Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour around midday.

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