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, Wednesday evening on ITV2 runs on its usual reserve fuel: Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, Rob Brydon’s The Floor at 7pm and Lee Mack’s The 1% Club at 8pm, before five editions of Family Guy and a closing American Dad! carry the schedule past midnight.

ITV2 Schedule: Wednesday 12 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

What’s on ITV2 today

Wednesday’s daytime line-up on ITV2 is a rerun block from start to finish. Backyard Builds and Dress to Impress open the morning, then the schedule shifts into Real Housewives of Potomac and Real Housewives of Orange County before The Only Way Is Essex, Dawson’s Creek and Charmed cover the mid-morning stretch.

Deal or No Deal and Supermarket Sweep fill the early afternoon, and a UK edition of The Floor and a second TOWIE episode follow before teatime. Real Housewives of Potomac returns at 4:10pm, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills takes 5pm, and Celebrity Catchphrase closes the daytime run at 6pm, just ahead of tonight’s primetime line-up.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 12 August 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern hosts a charity edition of the guess-the-phrase format, with Trevor Nelson, Adrian Chiles and Adjoa Andoh taking turns to read Mr Chips’ animated clues. It’s a lighter, panel-show pace than the daytime version, built more around the guests than the prize money.

The Floor — ITV2, 7pm

Rob Brydon’s elimination quiz enters its second heat of the day, contestants defending shrinking squares of studio floor as rivals pick off their subject categories one by one. The format rewards nerve as much as knowledge, since a wrong answer can hand an opponent your entire patch.

The 1% Club — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack is back with another run of questions pitched less at trivia than plain logic, the kind that can catch out a confident adult while a child works it out in seconds. It’s built the show’s reputation as ITV2’s most reliable non-Love Island draw.

Family Guy — ITV2, from 9pm

Five episodes carry the channel from 9pm to gone 11pm, pulled from series eight but shown out of their original order. A boardroom takeover storyline opens the run, followed by an amnesia plot, then the schedule jumps back a few episodes for undercover neighbours, an unwanted errand-running job and a pop star’s guarded secret. None of it is new, but five in a row is a serious commitment to comfort viewing.

American Dad! — ITV2, 11:35pm

The night wraps with Stan Smith roped into a father-son cycling event by Steve, unaware quite how uneasy the whole arrangement makes him. It’s the kind of domestic unravelling the show has leaned on since it began.

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?

Wednesday night on ITV2 runs Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, The Floor at 7pm and Lee Mack’s The 1% Club at 8pm, then five Family Guy episodes and a closing American Dad! from 9pm through to 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’s Wednesday leans entirely on its game-show bench. Celebrity Catchphrase, The Floor and The 1% Club carry the early evening between them, and there’s no original programming at 9pm tonight to break up the animation that follows.

The rest of the night does what ITV2 always does. Reality reruns and game shows at teatime, five Family Guy episodes and American Dad! into the small hours. Dependable rather than essential.

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