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

Published: 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. Monday 21 September 2026 runs a soap-heavy weeknight evening. Millionaire Hot Seat airs at 7:30pm, then Emmerdale (Dawn’s funeral) and Coronation Street follow at 8pm and 8:30pm, before the crime drama The Blame, starring Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth, returns for its second episode at 9pm. The night runs through ITV News at Ten and the film RED from 10:45pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Monday 21 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Monday 21 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Monday’s overnight carries Motorsport UK and Unwind with ITV, before Good Morning Britain opens the day properly at 6am. Lorraine and This Morning carry the late morning from 9:30am.

Loose Women and the lunchtime news run either side of 12:30pm, and Dickinson’s Real Deal, Lingo and Tipping Point carry the afternoon ahead of The Chase at 5pm and the evening news.

ITV1 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV1 primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 21 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

Local news and weather for the capital.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The day’s headlines from the UK and further afield.

Millionaire Hot Seat — ITV1, 7:30pm

Jeremy Clarkson hosts the fast-fire spin-off format, distinct from the studio version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as six hopefuls compete for a shot at the top prize.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

It’s the day of Dawn’s funeral in the village, and it brings a horrifying situation for one character while Vinny is pushed into a tearful confession.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Bernie’s determined cheerfulness starts to wear Kit down, Carl makes Steve an offer he wasn’t expecting, Glenda runs a pub quiz for Debbie, and Maggie takes a dim view of Susie’s online habits.

The Blame — ITV1, 9pm

The second episode of ITV1’s crime drama. Emma turns up video evidence that changes the direction of the investigation, and it forces her into arresting one of her own.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The national headlines and analysis.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

The regional close before the film.

RED — ITV1, 10:45pm

The 2010 action comedy starring Bruce Willis as a retired CIA operative dragged back into the field, closing out the night.

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.

What’s on ITV1 tonight?

Monday 21 September 2026 runs a soap-heavy evening: Millionaire Hot Seat at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street at 8pm and 8:30pm, and the crime drama The Blame returning for its second episode at 9pm. The night runs through ITV News at Ten and the film RED 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

The Blame is the one worth building the evening around: ITV1’s crime drama continues with its second episode at 9pm, sitting behind a soap double bill of Emmerdale’s funeral episode and a multi-strand Coronation Street. Millionaire Hot Seat opens primetime at 7:30pm, and the film RED closes out the night from 10:45pm.

Daytime runs a standard weekday shape, with Lorraine and This Morning carrying the late morning into Loose Women and Dickinson’s Real Deal through the early afternoon.

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