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, Friday evening on ITV2 is built around quizzes and one film rather than its usual factual slot: a celebrity edition of Catchphrase and a new episode of The Floor US carry the early slots, Lee Mack’s The 1% Club takes 8pm, and John Wick fills the 9pm hour, broken briefly by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin before Family Guy reruns close the night. Times and channel numbers for every platform are in the tables below.

ITV2 Schedule: Saturday 8 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Saturday 8 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

What’s on ITV2 today

Friday 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 close to two hours of the schedule, Salt Lake City marking its 100th episode with a reunion 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 10:20am and 11:20am, 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 reunion episode closes out the afternoon at 4:10pm ahead of Orange County’s own reunion at 5pm.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 8 August 2026.

Johnny English — ITV2, 6:10pm

Rowan Atkinson’s 2003 spy comedy, with Natalie Imbruglia, in which Britain’s least capable agent becomes its only remaining one.

Miss Congeniality — ITV2, 6:45pm

Sandra Bullock and Michael Caine, 2000. An FBI agent goes undercover as a beauty pageant contestant to find whoever has threatened it. It pauses for FYI Daily at 7:55pm and resumes at 8pm, so it is one film across the break rather than two showings.

John Wick: Chapter 2 — ITV2, 9pm

Keanu Reeves back in the underworld with a very large bounty on him, from 2017. Breaks for FYI Daily at 10:05pm and picks up at 10:10pm.

Family Guy — ITV2, 11:20pm and 11:50pm

Two archive episodes to close the night.

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?

Friday night on ITV2 opens with a celebrity edition of Catchphrase at 6pm and a new episode of The Floor US at 7pm, before The 1% Club takes 8pm. John Wick fills the 9pm slot, breaking for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm and resuming at 10:05pm, with two Family Guy repeats closing the night from 11:05pm.

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 hands Friday night to quizzes and its one film of the week. A celebrity edition of Catchphrase and a new episode of The Floor US cover the early slots, Lee Mack’s The 1% Club takes 8pm, and John Wick provides the night’s change of pace at 9pm, interrupted briefly by FYI Daily before resuming at 10:05pm ahead of the usual late Family Guy 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.

Related: ITV1 TV Guide | What’s On TV Tonight | Freeview Channel Guide