ITV3 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On ITV3 Tonight

Published: 23 August 2026

ITV3 is ITV’s drama channel, launched on 1 November 2004 as a home for the broadcaster’s back catalogue of detective series, period drama and classic sitcoms. Midsomer Murders, Vera, Wycliffe, Inspector Morse: if it involves a body in a village and a detective who doesn’t much like being interrupted, it has probably run here. Today, Monday 24 August 2026, eleven programme titles cover the day’s 24 scheduled slots, with George and Mildred, Classic Emmerdale, Classic Coronation Street, Poirot and Heartbeat each repeated once through the morning and afternoon. Primetime starts early: a Heartbeat double from 5:50pm, one Midsomer Murders case at 8pm, Lewis at 10pm and Trial and Retribution closing the night at 11:50pm. There’s no film on ITV3 tonight, and neither Vera nor Wycliffe are on the schedule today.

ITV3 Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV3 schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 10.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV3 today

Monday’s daytime line-up leans heavily on doubled-up archive strands. Overnight opens with a feature-length Inspector Kennedy case in The Dark at 12:55am, then a George and Mildred repeat at 2am and a short Unwind with ITV segment at 2:25am, before four hours of teleshopping through to 6am.

Breakfast runs a George and Mildred double from 6am, then two archive strands back to back: Classic Emmerdale from 7:05am and Classic Coronation Street from 8:05am, both 2009 vintage episodes rather than tonight’s real soaps, which air on ITV1. Agatha Christie’s Poirot takes the late morning with a double from 9:10am — The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, then The Underdog — before a Heartbeat double from 11:30am carries the channel to 1:35pm. The afternoon opens with a feature-length Midsomer Murders case, Dead Man’s Eleven, at 1:35pm, then repeats the same Classic Emmerdale and Classic Coronation Street pairing from 3:35pm before Heartbeat’s evening double opens at 5:50pm.

ITV3 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV3 primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 24 August 2026.

Heartbeat — ITV3, 5:50pm

The evening starts more than an hour early with Heartbeat, which takes up most of the 6pm hour before a second episode straight after. PC Crane and Dr Merrick are uneasy about how an elderly farmer’s widow is coping alone, while David tries to help Blaketon organise opposition to a proposed quarry.

Heartbeat — ITV3, 6:55pm

A second Heartbeat follows immediately. A stranger’s arrival in Aidensfield gets tongues wagging when she moves in with Steve Crane, and Vernon has a go at the modern art trade with predictably mixed results.

Midsomer Murders — ITV3, 8pm

Just one Midsomer Murders case tonight rather than the usual pair. Barnaby and Nelson are pulled into a vicious rivalry inside a competitive cycling event after its leading rider turns up dead, with the race itself becoming a suspect list on wheels.

Lewis — ITV3, 10pm

Lewis and Hathaway trace a death back to a leaked dating video, working out how far online humiliation can push someone toward murder in a case built around a disgraced academic.

Trial and Retribution — ITV3, 11:50pm

Trial and Retribution closes the night with a fatal fall from a fairground Ferris wheel that looks like an accident until a detective’s own relative raises doubts about what really happened.

What kind of shows are on ITV3

Detective drama and cosy crime

The backbone. Midsomer Murders, Vera, Inspector Morse, Endeavour and Wycliffe cover roughly four decades of British detective television between them, and ITV3 works through them in long runs rather than one-off repeats. You can usually pick a series up mid-week and stay with it.

Period and literary adaptation

The Darling Buds of May, and Agatha Christie’s Poirot when it comes round. David Suchet played the part across thirteen series for ITV between 1989 and 2013. These tend to be scheduled in full-series blocks.

Classic sitcom

George and Mildred and its ITV contemporaries fill the overnight and early-morning slots. Nobody’s setting an alarm for these; they’re on while the day gets going.

How to watch ITV3

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find ITV3 across the main UK television platforms:

Free on all of them, no subscription. Numbers shift regionally, so check your on-screen guide if one doesn’t match.

Streaming online

ITV3 streams live and free through ITVX, at itv.com/watch and via the ITVX app on smart TVs, mobiles, tablets and most games consoles. A free account is all that’s needed, no payment details. The ITVX library also carries individual episodes and full boxsets from the channel, Vera and Poirot included, if you’d rather not wait for a repeat to come round.

ITV3 +1 and sister channels

The +1 channel is less useful than it used to be. Since November 2023 it has broadcast only a reduced overnight window rather than a full hour-behind simulcast, so if you’ve missed the start of something, ITVX catch-up is the better bet.

ITV3 sits alongside ITV1, home to Coronation Street, Emmerdale and the network’s biggest primetime shows, and ITV4, which handles sport, action films and older action series.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is ITV3 on Freeview?

Channel 10, free to air.

What’s on ITV3 tonight?

A Heartbeat double opens the evening at 5:50pm and 6:55pm, then a single Midsomer Murders case at 8pm, Lewis at 10pm and Trial and Retribution at 11:50pm. Five programmes fill the whole primetime run, with no Vera or Wycliffe tonight. Times are in the rundown above.

Can I watch ITV3 online for free?

Yes, live through ITVX on the website, the app, and most smart TVs and consoles.

Is ITV3 free to watch?

Yes, and it has been since 2004. There’s advertising, but no subscription fee on any platform.

Verdict

ITV3 has never pretended to be about new television, and today’s eleven titles across 24 slots is a fairly typical spread for the channel, with a run of doubled-up archive strands carrying the morning and afternoon before Heartbeat opens the evening more than an hour early. There’s no film on the schedule today, and Midsomer Murders gets a single outing at 8pm rather than its usual pair, with neither Vera nor Wycliffe in the line-up. The evening still runs five programmes from 5:50pm to well past midnight — Heartbeat twice, then Midsomer Murders, Lewis and Trial and Retribution in succession — which suits a channel built on depth rather than variety. It’s a schedule for dipping in and out of rather than sitting through start to finish, and one of the easier ways into British detective and country drama on Freeview, since you can land in almost any slot from late morning onwards and still follow what’s going on.

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