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

Published: 26 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. Thursday 27 August 2026 is a film-free night built on gameshows: Celebrity Catchphrase opens at 6pm, Wheel of Fortune follows at 7pm, and The 1% Club Rollover takes the 8pm hour. Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening holds 9pm and Changing Ends follows at 10pm, then the channel hands over to a pair of Family Guy repeats at 10:35pm and 11:05pm before American Dad! closes the schedule at 11:35pm.

ITV2 Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Thursday’s ITV2 day opens on overnight reruns — American Dad! at 12:05am, two helpings of Bob’s Burgers, then a G’wed repeat and the game show Transaction — before Unwind with ITV and then Teleshopping fill the small hours through to 6am. 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, Thursday 27 August 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

A trio of famous faces have a go at Mr Chips’s picture-clue rounds in this celebrity edition (series 4, episode 8). The format hasn’t changed since Roy Walker’s day, and that’s still the appeal: half the fun is shouting the answer at the screen before the panel gets there.

Wheel of Fortune — ITV2, 7pm

Graham Norton’s revival keeps three contestants spinning for cash and prizes (series 1, episode 3). It’s a straightforward puzzle-and-luck format, closer in spirit to the original US show than anything glossy or overproduced.

The 1% Club Rollover — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack’s logic-puzzle quiz returns with a rollover jackpot that has been building across earlier episodes (series 1, episode 4). The questions read like riddles rather than trivia, which is why confident players so often talk themselves out of the right answer.

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening — ITV2, 9pm

Romesh puts well-known parents through mock school assessments about their own children, with a broadcaster, a reality star and a news anchor among tonight’s guests (series 2, episode 1). The joke is in the mismatch between the guests’ public personas and how little they can answer about their kids’ actual school lives.

Changing Ends — ITV2, 10pm

Alan Carr’s semi-autobiographical sitcom continues, with young Alan trying to turn a classmate into material for his writing during a heatwave (series 3, episode 4).

Family Guy — ITV2, 10:35pm and 11:05pm

Two series 5 episodes close out the night, at 10:35pm (episode 18) and 11:05pm (episode 13). They aren’t shown in production order — last night’s run had five in a row, tonight it’s down to a pair, and the schedule jumps back into an earlier stretch of the series rather than continuing where the previous episode left off.

American Dad! — ITV2, 11:35pm

A series 6 repeat closes out the night at 11:35pm (episode 17).

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?

Thursday’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. Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening takes 9pm and Changing Ends follows at 10pm, then two episodes of Family Guy run at 10:35pm and 11:05pm out of their normal order, before 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

Thursday’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 a rollover jackpot on the line.

There’s no film to anchor the night, but the gameshow run does the same job before Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening and Changing Ends take the 9pm and 10pm hours. Family Guy closes the schedule with just two episodes tonight rather than the longer runs the channel sometimes gives it, and they don’t play in production order, 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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