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

Published: 1 September 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 2 September 2026 has no Love Island tonight; instead the evening runs on quiz and entertainment formats, Celebrity Catchphrase, Wheel of Fortune Celebrity Special and The 1% Club, before Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening at 9pm and a late run of Family Guy and American Dad! to close the night.

ITV2 Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Wednesday 2 September 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! and Bob’s Burgers from a mix of series, a Plebs and Deep Fake Neighbour Wars, before Unwind with ITV and three hours of Teleshopping carry the small hours to 6am. Backyard Builds opens the proper schedule at 6am, Dinner Date follows at 6:30am, and the American Real Housewives franchise takes breakfast, Potomac at 7:30am then Beverly Hills at 8:20am.

The Only Way Is Essex airs at 9:15am, then a run of imports fills the late morning: Dawson’s Creek at 10:15am and Charmed at 11:15am. Deal or No Deal takes the early afternoon from 12:10pm, Supermarket Sweep follows at 1:10pm and Wheel of Fortune returns at 2:10pm ahead of a second Only Way Is Essex episode at 3:10pm. The Real Housewives double bill repeats through the back half of the afternoon, Potomac at 4:10pm and Beverly Hills at 5pm, running through to 6pm exactly as Celebrity Catchphrase opens the evening. There are no films and no FYI Daily bulletins anywhere on today’s ITV2 schedule.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV2 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 2 September 2026.

Celebrity Catchphrase — ITV2, 6pm

Stephen Mulhern puts the “say what you see” format to work for charity in this celebrity edition (series 11, episode 9), with James Acaster, JB Gill and AJ Odudu taking turns at guessing the animated puzzles. The prizes go to good causes rather than the players, which tends to loosen everyone up.

Wheel of Fortune Celebrity Special — ITV2, 7pm

Graham Norton hosts a one-off celebrity spin on the revived wheel-and-puzzle format, with AJ Odudu, Gok Wan and Charlotte Church spinning for money that goes to charity. Same wheel, same puzzle boards, but the banter carries more of the hour than the gameplay does.

The 1% Club — ITV2, 8pm

Lee Mack’s general-knowledge elimination show returns for series 4, episode 5, whittling a big studio crowd down question by question until only the sharpest player is left standing. The pull is always the same: questions that look absurdly easy until you’re the one under the lights.

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

Series 2 continues with Romesh Ranganathan hosting Alex Brooker alongside two real parent-and-child pairings: singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor with her mother Janet Ellis, and Jeff Brazier with son Bobby. The format puts families on the spot in front of an audience, and the Braziers give tonight’s episode a sharper edge than usual, since father and son are working through more than just the game.

Family Guy — ITV2, 10pm-11:05pm

Three episodes back to back close out the night’s cartoon block. Two consecutive series 7 instalments run first — “The Juice Is Loose” at 10pm and “Fox-Y Lady” at 10:35pm — before the schedule jumps back to series 6 for “McStroke” at 11:05pm, an older episode slotted in rather than a continuation of the run.

American Dad! — ITV2, 11:35pm

“Son of Stan” (series 7, episode 2) closes the night, with the animated spy-dad format doing what it usually does at this hour: filling the last half-hour before the schedule hands over to reruns and repeats.

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 evening opens on three quiz and entertainment formats, Celebrity Catchphrase, Wheel of Fortune Celebrity Special and The 1% Club, before Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening at 9pm. Family Guy runs three times from 10pm — two consecutive episodes, then a jump back to an earlier series for the 11:05pm edition — and American Dad! closes the night at 11:35pm. There’s no Love Island tonight, and no films anywhere on today’s schedule — see the 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

Wednesday’s ITV2 keeps the evening in-house rather than reaching for a film. An hour each of Celebrity Catchphrase, Wheel of Fortune Celebrity Special and The 1% Club carries the schedule from 6pm to 9pm, all home-grown quiz and entertainment formats rather than the imported reality the channel sometimes leans on.

Romesh Ranganathan’s Parents’ Evening takes the 9pm hour for its second outing of the series. Family Guy then runs three times from 10pm: the 10pm and 10:35pm editions are consecutive episodes, before the schedule jumps back to an earlier series for the 11:05pm one, and American Dad! closes the night at 11:35pm. There’s no Love Island tonight, and no film anywhere on today’s schedule — the whole day, daytime included, runs on quiz shows, reality imports and animation reruns.

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