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

Published: 4 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. Saturday 5 September 2026 has no Love Island either, new episode or Unseen Bits; instead the evening is a two-film run, Tomb Raider from 6:40pm into The Dark Knight Rises from 9pm.

ITV2 Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV2 schedule for Saturday 5 September 2026, on Freeview 6.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV2 today

Saturday’s ITV2 day opens on the animation block, two runs each of Family Guy, American Dad! and Bob’s Burgers through to just before 3am, then Teleshopping carries the small hours to 6am. Deal or No Deal opens the proper schedule at 6am, In for a Penny follows at 7am, and two episodes of Dinner Date take the rest of the breakfast slot.

Three more Deal or No Deal episodes fill the late morning from 9:35am, then Wheel of Fortune at 12:35pm and Celebrity Catchphrase at 1:35pm carry the early afternoon. Two Kung Fu Panda showings either side of an FYI Daily break take mid-afternoon, and two runs of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, also split by FYI Daily, lead into the evening. There are no films before 6:40pm — Tomb Raider is the first, opening the primetime run into The Dark Knight Rises at 9pm.

ITV2 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

No Love Island and no quiz block tonight — ITV2 hands the whole evening to two films.

Tomb Raider — ITV2, 6:40pm

Alicia Vikander plays Lara Croft in this 2018 reboot, which trades temple-raiding for a scrappier survival story that starts with a shipwreck. It runs to just before 9pm, split by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 7:40pm.

The Dark Knight Rises — ITV2, 9pm

Christian Bale’s last outing as Batman, up against Tom Hardy’s Bane eight years after The Dark Knight. It’s the bigger title of the two and takes ITV2 past midnight, broken once more by FYI Daily at 10:10pm.

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 back to back: Tomb Raider (2018) from 6:40pm, then The Dark Knight Rises from 9pm, each split once by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin. There’s no Love Island tonight — 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

Saturday’s ITV2 skips the quiz block entirely and goes straight to two films. Tomb Raider from 6:40pm is the warm-up, then The Dark Knight Rises takes over from 9pm as the night’s real draw, each interrupted once by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin.

There’s no Love Island tonight, main series or Unseen Bits, and the daytime schedule ahead of the films runs on Deal or No Deal, Wheel of Fortune, Celebrity Catchphrase and the Family Guy/American Dad!/Bob’s Burgers rerun block — see the table above for the full day’s listings.

Related: ITV1 TV Guide | What’s On TV Tonight | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week