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’s daytime on ITV2 runs its usual mix of Real Housewives imports and TOWIE reruns before an early-evening run of quiz shows: Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, The Floor at 7pm and a Valentine’s Special edition of The 1% Club at 8pm. The night then belongs to The Batman, which runs continuously from 9pm, broken only by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10:10pm, and doesn’t wrap up until around 12:25am.

ITV2 Schedule: Friday 21 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Friday 21 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Friday’s daytime on ITV2 opens with Backyard Builds at 6am and Dress to Impress at 6:30am, before a Real Housewives double bill: Potomac at 7:30am and Beverly Hills at 8:20am. An older Only Way Is Essex episode fills the 9:15am slot, followed by Dawson’s Creek and Charmed through mid-morning.

Deal or No Deal takes over at 12:10pm, then Supermarket Sweep at 1:10pm and an earlier-series The Floor rerun at 2:10pm. A second TOWIE rerun airs at 3:10pm, before the Real Housewives strand returns for early evening with Potomac at 4:10pm and Beverly Hills at 5pm, running straight into Celebrity Catchphrase at 6.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 21 August 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern hosts a celebrity edition of Catchphrase (series 7, episode 10), putting Nikki Fox, Robert Rinder and Georgia Taylor through the picture-clue rounds in aid of their chosen charities.

The Floor — ITV2, 7pm

Rob Brydon’s tile-based quiz reaches its semi-final (series 1, episode 9), with the field down to its last 17 players and the squares getting harder to hold onto as the prize money climbs.

The 1% Club Valentine’s Special — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack hosts a Valentine’s-themed outing of the logic quiz (series 5, episode 11). Surviving matters more than being clever here; the questions are built to catch out anyone too sure they already know the answer.

The Batman — ITV2, 9pm

Matt Reeves’ 2022 film gets a rare free-to-air outing, with Robert Pattinson as a younger, more withdrawn Bruce Wayne and Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle, both drawn into the hunt for a serial killer targeting Gotham’s corrupt elite. It plays as one continuous film from 9pm, interrupted only by a five-minute FYI Daily news bulletin at 10:10pm, and the credits don’t roll until around 12:25am.

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 run of quiz shows: Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, The Floor at 7pm and a Valentine’s Special edition of The 1% Club at 8pm. The Batman takes over from 9pm and runs through to around 12:25am, as one continuous film aside from a five-minute FYI Daily break at 10:10pm.

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, Friday’s ITV2 leans on its early-evening quiz run: Celebrity Catchphrase, The Floor and a Valentine’s Special edition of The 1% Club, back to back from 6pm to 9pm. The Batman then takes over the rest of the night, running almost uninterrupted from 9pm to around 12:25am.

There’s no reality premiere to anchor tonight, but a three-and-a-half-hour outing for a recent blockbuster gives the evening more appointment-viewing weight than the channel’s default rerun pattern usually manages. The Batman is the reason to watch live; the quiz run beforehand is solid but familiar ITV2 furniture.

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