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

Published: 21 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. Tuesday 22 September 2026 bookends the soaps with the final chapter of the Up documentary strand: 70 Up: The Victorians at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street at 8pm and 8:30pm, then a new instalment of 70 Up itself at 9pm. There’s no Millionaire Hot Seat or The Blame tonight; the night closes on ITV News at Ten and the true-crime documentary A Deadly Betrayal from 11:15pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Tuesday 22 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Tuesday 22 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Tuesday’s overnight carries the drama serial The Rainmaker 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, Tuesday 22 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The regional bulletin ahead of the network news.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The day’s headlines and talking points nationally.

70 Up: The Victorians — ITV1, 7:30pm

A half-hour companion film built around rediscovered footage shot in 1965, made to mark the closing chapter of the long-running Up project. It’s a scene-setter rather than the main event.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Joe goads Caleb about what he’s done, and Vinny arrives at Home Farm with news that won’t improve the mood.

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Sally isn’t happy about how Lucy reacted, so she says something about it. Elsewhere, Kit’s frustration at work boils over and Lisa has to intervene, George puts a promotion Christina’s way, and Glenda goes after Maggie. Four plots in one half-hour is a lot even by Corrie’s standards.

70 Up — ITV1, 9pm

The main event: Asif Kapadia’s film brings the original Up participants back together at seventy, the same group first filmed as seven-year-olds in 1964. This is the second of two 90-minute instalments marking the project’s final chapter, not a repeat of last week’s opener, and it’s worth the ninety minutes if you’ve followed any part of the series before.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10:30pm

The day’s national and international headlines, with sport and weather to round off the bulletin.

ITV News London — ITV1, 11pm

A short regional update before the night’s last programme.

A Deadly Betrayal: True Crime Presents — ITV1, 11:15pm

This week’s instalment of the true-crime strand, a case-of-the-week format rather than a rebrand of Monday’s RED.

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?

Tuesday 22 September 2026 wraps the soaps in the closing chapter of the Up documentary strand: 70 Up: The Victorians at 7:30pm, Emmerdale and Coronation Street at 8pm and 8:30pm, then a new instalment of 70 Up at 9pm. Neither Millionaire Hot Seat nor The Blame feature tonight. The night runs through ITV News at Ten and A Deadly Betrayal: True Crime Presents 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

70 Up is the one worth building the evening around: the closing chapter of the long-running documentary series returns at 9pm, sitting behind a half-hour companion film and a soap double bill of Emmerdale and a multi-strand Coronation Street. Neither Millionaire Hot Seat nor The Blame feature tonight; A Deadly Betrayal: True Crime Presents closes out the night from 11:15pm.

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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