ITV2 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On ITV2 Tonight

ITV2 has been ITV’s channel for the 16-34 crowd since December 1998, and since the 2015 Love Island revival it has essentially been the Love Island channel. Free on Freeview, free to stream live on ITVX. With the main series off air, Thursday evening on ITV2 runs on quizzes and factual entertainment rather than films: Celebrity Catchphrase and a new, later episode of The Floor US carry the early slots, Lee Mack’s The 1% Club takes 8pm, and new factual series Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening opens at 9pm ahead of Changing Ends and a late run of Family Guy and American Dad!. Times and channel numbers for every platform are in the tables below.

ITV2 Schedule: Thursday 6 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Thursday 6 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

What’s on ITV2 today

Thursday daytime on ITV2 opens with home improvement and dating formats, Backyard Builds at 6am followed by Dress to Impress at 6:30am. From 7:30am the American Real Housewives franchise takes two hours of the schedule, Salt Lake City’s Santorini trip followed by Orange County, before The Only Way Is Essex rejoins its own Essex storyline at 9:20am.

Both Dawson’s Creek and Charmed rewind to early episodes at 10:15am and 11:15am, a rare pairing of two different decades of US drama back to back. Deal or No Deal and Supermarket Sweep carry the schedule past lunch, The Floor US returns at 2:15pm, and a new Salt Lake City episode closes out the afternoon at 4:10pm ahead of Orange County at 5pm.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 6 August 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern hosts a celebrity edition (series 7, episode 8), with Alex Brooker, Vicky Pattison and Max Whitlock guessing well-known phrases for charity rather than the usual civilian contestants.

The Floor US — ITV2, 7pm

A new, later-slot episode (series 4, episode 10) drops the field to 16 players for a semi-final round. Rob Lowe hosts the US version of the format, and this stage is where the money squares start to bite.

The 1% Club — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack’s logic quiz (series 5, episode 2) sticks to its usual shape: questions built on common sense and reasoning rather than trivia recall, which is why supposedly easy ones so often thin out the studio.

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening — ITV2, 9pm

The opening episode of a new factual format, pairing celebrities with their own parents for an evening of frank conversation. Tonight’s line-up is Alison Hammond and her son Aidan, Iain Stirling and his mum Alison, and Carol Vorderman and her son Cameron, each pair testing how much faith they really have in each other.

Changing Ends — ITV2, 10pm

Series 3 opens with an episode titled Swimming. Set in 1989, it finds young Alan bitten by the love bug while trying to keep his head above water, with a chance encounter forcing a choice between sinking and swimming.

Family Guy — ITV2, 10:35pm & 11:05pm

Two archive episodes back to back: Spies Reminiscent of Us (series 8, episode 3), in which Stewie and Brian tail their new neighbours to Russia after realising they’re spies, followed by Road to Germany (series 7, episode 3), which sends Mort through a time machine into Poland in 1939 with Brian and Stewie close behind.

American Dad! — ITV2, 11:35pm

Plot Heavy (series 17, episode 16) closes the night. Stan sells the family burial plot, so the Smiths open their own cemetery in the back garden, with a basketball Hall of Famer roped in to help.

What kind of shows are on ITV2

Reality TV and dating formats

Love Island is what the channel is built around, but the daytime schedule runs on the same fuel at lower stakes: Dress to Impress, Dinner Date, TOWIE, and imported American Real Housewives by the yard. Most of it is repeated within the same day, which tells you how it is meant to be watched.

Comedy and US animation

Family Guy, American Dad! and Bob’s Burgers hold up the late-night schedule. None of it is exclusive to ITV2 and none of it is new, but there is enough of it in circulation that a rerun is on somewhere between 11pm and 3am most nights.

Family films

Weekend evenings usually go to animated and studio comedy films, the Ice Age and Madagascar sort of thing.

How to watch ITV2

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find ITV2 across the main UK television platforms:

ITV2 is free on all of the above platforms, no subscription required.

Streaming online

ITV2 streams live and free through ITVX, ITV’s streaming service, at itv.com/watch and via the ITVX app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV and most games consoles. You’ll need a free ITVX account, which takes a couple of minutes to set up and costs nothing. Full episodes of Love Island, Family Guy and most other ITV2 shows are also available on demand shortly after broadcast.

ITV2 +1 and sister channels

ITV2+1 repeats the schedule an hour behind, which is the fix for sitting down at 9.15pm and finding you have missed the opening. Numbers are in the table above. Beyond the timeshift channel, ITV2 sits alongside ITV1, ITV3 and ITV4, and a show premiering on ITV1 will often turn up on ITV2 later.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is ITV2 on Freeview?

ITV2 is on Freeview channel 6, with ITV2+1 on channel 29. Both are free with no subscription.

What channel is ITV2 on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat?

Sky channel 118, Virgin Media 115, and Freesat 113. ITV2+1 sits on 218, 315 and 114 respectively.

What’s on ITV2 tonight?

Thursday night on ITV2 opens with Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm and a new episode of The Floor US at 7pm, before The 1% Club takes 8pm. New factual series Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening follows at 9pm, then Changing Ends at 10pm, two Family Guy repeats from 10:35pm, and American Dad! closes the night at 11:35pm.

What time is Love Island on ITV2?

9pm every night from Sunday to Friday during the main series. Saturdays get Love Island: Unseen Bits instead of a new episode, because the Islanders get the day off from filming.

Can I watch ITV2 free on ITVX?

Yes, ITV2 streams live and free on ITVX with no subscription needed, just a free account.

Verdict

With Love Island off air until the next series, ITV2 fills Thursday evening with quizzes and a factual newcomer rather than films. Celebrity Catchphrase and a new episode of The Floor US cover the early slots, Lee Mack’s The 1% Club takes 8pm, and Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening gets its opening episode at 9pm ahead of Changing Ends and the usual late Family Guy and American Dad! reruns.

Either side of it the channel does what it always does. Reality reruns and game shows at teatime, animated comedy into the small hours. Dependable rather than essential.

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