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

Published: 21 August 2026

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 Love Island off air, Saturday 22 August 2026 turns ITV2 into a family-film channel for the evening: Matilda gets a repeat afternoon outing that spills into the 6pm hour, before Hairspray and Batman Begins run back to back from 6:45pm through to 11:45pm, each interrupted only by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin. Family Guy reruns close out the night.

ITV2 Schedule: Saturday 22 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Saturday 22 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Saturday’s ITV2 day opens with overnight animation reruns — Family Guy, American Dad! and Bob’s Burgers — before Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records kicks off the schedule proper at 6am. Deal or No Deal follows at 6:10am, then In for a Penny at 7:05am and back-to-back episodes of Dress to Impress from 7:40am.

Deal or No Deal returns for a three-episode run from 9:40am to 12:45pm, when Wheel of Fortune takes over, followed by Celebrity Catchphrase at 1:50pm. The afternoon then turns to family films: Charlotte’s Web from 2:50pm, broken by an FYI Daily bulletin, and Matilda’s first outing from 4:40pm, which runs — after another short FYI Daily break at 5:40pm — through to 6:45pm, when Hairspray opens the evening’s film run.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 22 August 2026.

Matilda — ITV2, 5:45pm

Danny DeVito’s 1996 adaptation of the Roald Dahl story returns for a second run this afternoon, picking up again after a five-minute FYI Daily break to carry ITV2 into the 6pm hour. Mara Wilson’s Matilda squares up to Miss Trunchbull while DeVito himself plays her hapless father, and the film runs through to 6:45pm, when Hairspray takes over.

Hairspray — ITV2, 6:45pm

John Travolta and Queen Latifah lead the 2007 musical, which plays almost straight through to 9pm bar a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 7:45pm. Nikki Blonsky’s Tracy Turnblad chases a spot on a Baltimore dance show while pushing back against the show’s segregation, and the songs carry the film past the interruption without losing pace.

Batman Begins — ITV2, 9pm

Christian Bale’s first outing as Batman, opposite Michael Caine as Alfred, takes over the rest of the evening from 9pm to 11:45pm, broken only by a brief FYI Daily update at 10:05pm. Christopher Nolan’s 2005 origin story swaps the neon excess of earlier Batman films for something closer to a crime thriller, and it is still the version every later take on the character gets measured against.

Family Guy — ITV2, 11:45pm

Series 5, episode 11 closes out the night, returning ITV2 to its usual post-primetime run of Family Guy and American Dad! reruns that carries on into the small hours.

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?

Saturday night on ITV2 is a run of three films: Matilda through to 6:45pm, Hairspray from 6:45pm to 9pm, and Batman Begins from 9pm to 11:45pm, each broken only by a short FYI Daily bulletin. Family Guy reruns close out the night from 11:45pm.

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, Saturday’s ITV2 turns into a straightforward film channel for the evening: Matilda’s afternoon repeat spills into the 6pm hour, then Hairspray and Batman Begins run back to back from 6:45pm to 11:45pm, each broken only by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin.

There’s no reality premiere or live quiz to anchor the night, but three well-known films across roughly six hours gives ITV2 more appointment-viewing weight than its usual rerun-heavy weekend pattern. Batman Begins is the one to plan around if you’re picking just one; Hairspray is the safer choice earlier in the evening for a family audience.

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