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

Published: 27 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. Friday 28 August 2026 opens with three gameshows in a row — Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, Wheel of Fortune at 7pm and The 1% Club Rollover at 8pm — before Batman Begins takes the 9pm slot, breaks briefly for FYI Daily at 10pm, and resumes until 11:45pm, when a single episode of Family Guy closes the schedule.

ITV2 Schedule: Friday 28 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Friday 28 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Friday’s ITV2 day opens on overnight reruns — American Dad! at 12:05am, two helpings of Bob’s Burgers, then Deal or No Deal at 1:30am — 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, Friday 28 August 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern’s celebrity edition of the guess-the-phrase gameshow opens the evening (series 10, episode 3). Jake Wood joins Girls Aloud’s Nadine Coyle and broadcaster Rick Edwards on the panel, working through a run of animated clues in aid of charity.

Wheel of Fortune — ITV2, 7pm

Graham Norton keeps hold of the word-puzzle format at 7pm (series 1, episode 4). Content writer Lewis, safeguarding coordinator Roxy and engineer John take their turns on the Wheel this time, each hoping a run of solved puzzles carries them into the bonus round.

The 1% Club Rollover — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack’s logic quiz reaches the 8pm hour with a rolled-over jackpot still up for grabs (series 1, episode 5). The questions lean on common sense rather than trivia knowledge, and the field of 100 thins out fast once the harder rounds start.

Batman Begins — ITV2, 9pm

Christopher Nolan’s 2005 Batman reboot fills most of the rest of the night. It runs 9pm to 10pm, breaks for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin, then picks back up at 10:05pm and plays through to 11:45pm. Christian Bale takes over as Bruce Wayne, training under Ra’s al Ghul before returning to a corrupt Gotham City with Michael Caine’s Alfred waiting at home.

Family Guy — ITV2, 11:45pm

A single episode of Family Guy closes the schedule (series 6, episode 9) — just the one tonight, rather than the longer late-night runs the channel sometimes gives it.

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’s line-up opens with three gameshows: Celebrity Catchphrase at 6pm, Wheel of Fortune at 7pm, and The 1% Club Rollover at 8pm. Batman Begins takes over at 9pm, pausing for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm before resuming until 11:45pm, when a single episode of Family Guy closes the night.

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

Friday’s ITV2 opens 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 rolled-over jackpot on the line.

Batman Begins then anchors the second half of the night, running from 9pm with a short break for FYI Daily at 10pm before finishing at 11:45pm. A single episode of Family Guy closes the schedule rather than the longer late-night run the channel sometimes gives it, so tonight is a gameshows-then-film evening rather than an animation block.

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