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

Published: 29 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. Sunday 30 August 2026 has no Love Island tonight, but two films run back to back through the early evening — Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang from 4:30pm and Tomb Raider from 6:40pm, each split by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin — before a new episode of The Only Way Is Essex at 9pm and Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection at 10pm.

ITV2 Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Sunday 30 August 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Sunday’s ITV2 day opens on overnight reruns — two Family Guy episodes from different series, two of American Dad!, a Plebs and an episode of Transaction — before three hours of Teleshopping fill the small hours to 6am. Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records opens the proper schedule at 6am, Deal or No Deal follows at 6:15am, and a Dress to Impress and a double bill of The Only Way Is Essex carry the schedule through breakfast and into mid-morning.

Two further episodes of Deal or No Deal fill 10:20am and 11:20am, The Voice UK takes the early afternoon from 12:20pm and Celebrity Catchphrase follows at 1:35pm. Ella Enchanted then holds the mid-afternoon slot from 2:35pm, pausing for FYI Daily at 3:35pm before resuming at 3:40pm, and Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang opens at 4:30pm to start the evening’s run of films.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 30 August 2026 — two films back to back before the channel’s own line-up takes over from 9pm.

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang — ITV2, 4:30pm

Emma Thompson’s 2010 sequel opens the evening’s film run and holds the whole of the 6pm hour before handing over just short of 6:40pm. A five-minute FYI Daily bulletin splits it just after 5:30pm; the story itself follows the nanny into wartime England, where Maggie Gyllenhaal’s farmer is left to cope alone with her children and an unexploded bomb in the top field.

Tomb Raider — ITV2, 6:40pm

Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft takes over at 6:40pm in the 2018 reboot, with Dominic West as her missing father. It runs to 9pm with its own FYI Daily break shortly before 7:45pm.

The Only Way Is Essex — ITV2, 9pm

A new episode, series 38. The Essex regulars pick up wherever last week’s fallout left them, in the slot the film run has been building towards all evening.

Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection — ITV2, 10pm

Series 3 continues at 10pm, with Attwood turning her focus to the pressures behind cosmetic procedures rather than the usual TOWIE gossip mill.

Family Guy — ITV2, 11pm & 11:30pm

Two editions close the night rather than a matching pair: the 11pm outing comes from series 6, the 11:30pm one from series 5, so don’t expect a storyline to carry across the half hour.

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?

Two films open Sunday’s evening — Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang from 4:30pm and Tomb Raider from 6:40pm, each broken by a short FYI Daily bulletin — before a new episode of The Only Way Is Essex at 9pm, Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection at 10pm and two Family Guy repeats to close. There’s no Love Island tonight — see the schedule table above for the full day’s listings.

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

Sunday’s ITV2 splits the evening in two: an hour and three-quarters of film before 9pm, then the channel’s regular entertainment mix afterwards. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Tomb Raider carry the early slots, each interrupted once by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin.

The Only Way Is Essex returns with a new episode at 9pm, Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection follows at 10pm, and two unrelated Family Guy repeats close the night. There’s no Love Island tonight, but otherwise this is a fairly typical ITV2 Sunday rather than the all-film evening the schedule sometimes runs to on a Saturday.

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