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

Published: 25 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. Wednesday 26 August 2026 is a film-free night built on gameshows and comedy reruns: Celebrity Catchphrase opens at 6pm, Wheel of Fortune follows at 7pm, and The 1% Club Rollover takes the 8pm hour. From 9pm the channel hands over to Family Guy, five episodes in a row through to 11:05pm, before American Dad! closes the schedule at 11:35pm.

ITV2 Schedule: Wednesday 26 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Wednesday 26 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Wednesday’s ITV2 day opens on overnight reruns — American Dad! at 12:05am, two helpings of Bob’s Burgers, then Plebs and Deep Fake Neighbour Wars — before Teleshopping fills the 3am slot. Backyard Builds gets the schedule properly under way at 6am, Dress to Impress follows at 6:30am, and the channel’s US reality imports take over from 7:30am with Real Housewives of Potomac followed by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

The Only Way Is Essex holds the mid-morning slot at 9:15am with a series 31 repeat, ahead of Dawson’s Creek at 10:15am and Charmed at 11:10am. Deal or No Deal opens the afternoon at 12:10pm, Celebrity Supermarket Sweep follows at 1:10pm, and an early episode of Wheel of Fortune airs at 2:10pm — the same series that returns properly in primetime at 7pm — before a second TOWIE repeat at 3:10pm. The Real Housewives double runs from 4:10pm through to 6pm and the start of tonight’s proper primetime schedule.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 26 August 2026. There’s no film on the channel this evening; the whole night is format television.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern opens the evening with a celebrity edition of the “say what you see” quiz, series 4’s seventh outing.

Wheel of Fortune — ITV2, 7pm

Graham Norton’s revival of the puzzle-board format follows at 7pm, only its second episode back on air, with contestants chasing cash prizes for solving word puzzles as the wheel decides their fortune.

The 1% Club Rollover — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack’s logic quiz takes the 8pm hour with its third rollover edition, where prize money nobody claims on one show carries over to the next.

Family Guy — ITV2, 9pm–11:05pm

Five episodes of Family Guy fill the next two hours and five minutes, and the run does not play in order: the feed has them as series 5, episodes 16, 17, 10, 11 and 12, so the story jumps backwards partway through rather than progressing normally. Treat it as a straight comfort-viewing block rather than a sequential run.

American Dad! — ITV2, 11:35pm

A single episode of the Smith family’s animated sitcom closes the night at 11:35pm.

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’s line-up is gameshow led rather than a film night: Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, Wheel of Fortune at 7pm, and The 1% Club Rollover at 8pm. Five episodes of Family Guy then run from 9pm to 11:05pm, out of their normal order, and a single American Dad! closes the schedule 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

Wednesday’s ITV2 leans entirely on format television: Celebrity Catchphrase and Graham Norton’s Wheel of Fortune carry the early evening, and The 1% Club Rollover holds the 8pm hour with its third rollover edition.

There’s no film to anchor the night, but the gameshow run does the same job before handing over to five straight episodes of Family Guy from 9pm. They don’t play in the order they were made, jumping back into an earlier stretch of series 5 partway through, so it’s best treated as background viewing rather than a story worth following closely. American Dad! rounds things off at 11:35pm.

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