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

Published: 22 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 23 September 2026 pairs the soaps with a short companion piece rather than the Up documentary itself: 7 Up: The Story, a look back at how the original series came together, airs at 7:30pm, then Emmerdale and Coronation Street follow at 8pm and 8:30pm, and the returning detective drama Professor T takes the 9pm hour. There’s no Millionaire Hot Seat tonight; the night runs through ITV News at Ten and the weekly interview strand Peston at 10:45pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

ITV1 Schedule: Wednesday 23 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV1 schedule for Wednesday 23 September 2026, on Freeview 3.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV1 today — the daytime schedule

Wednesday’s overnight carries a repeat of the Up documentary strand 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, Wednesday 23 September 2026.

ITV News London — ITV1, 6pm

The local news and weather lead into the regular political broadcast slot.

Party Political Broadcast: Liberal Democrats — ITV1, 6:25pm

A five-minute scheduled broadcast by the Liberal Democrats runs ahead of the evening news. It’s a scheduling note, not a programme.

ITV Evening News — ITV1, 6:30pm

The national bulletin closes out the pre-soap news block.

7 Up: The Story — ITV1, 7:30pm

A short documentary looks back at how the original Up series came about in 1964, the concerns of the day and what it was like growing up in Britain at the time. It’s a companion piece to the main Up documentary strand, not a continuation of it.

Emmerdale — ITV1, 8pm

Nicola makes a public admission, Caleb sets out to get revenge on Joe, and Kim visits Joe’s baby in hospital (series 2026, episode 186).

Coronation Street — ITV1, 8:30pm

Christina gets a rude awakening on her first day in the job, Debbie is unimpressed by Carl’s latest fling, Lucy makes amends with Sally, and Susie bags herself a musical audition (series 2026, episode 186).

Professor T — ITV1, 9pm

Climate activists appear to be caught up in the destruction of a painting in this returning episode of the detective drama.

ITV News at Ten — ITV1, 10pm

The national headlines wrap up the day.

ITV News London — ITV1, 10:30pm

A short regional update follows.

Peston — ITV1, 10:45pm

Robert Peston’s weekly interview and current-affairs strand runs through the week’s political stories.

The Assembly: Unseen — ITV1, 11:30pm

The night closes on this late-evening strand.

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?

Wednesday 23 September 2026 pairs the soaps with 7 Up: The Story, a short documentary about how the original Up series came together, at 7:30pm — Emmerdale and Coronation Street follow at 8pm and 8:30pm, then the returning drama Professor T takes the 9pm hour. Millionaire Hot Seat doesn’t feature tonight. The night runs through ITV News at Ten and Peston at 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 soaps carry the evening tonight: Emmerdale and a multi-strand Coronation Street sit either side of 8:30pm, framed by 7 Up: The Story ahead of them and Professor T behind. Millionaire Hot Seat doesn’t feature; the night runs on through ITV News at Ten and Peston’s weekly interview slot at 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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