Wednesday 16 September 2026: What’s on TV tonight? Top picks including Celebrity MasterChef, and brand new Grand Designs
Tonight’s television schedule is packed with high-stakes sports, emotional family histories, architectural ambition, and unmissable reality drama. Whether you are looking for free-to-air football or culinary showdowns, here is your essential guide to the best TV on tonight and where to stream it.
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1. Live Football: EFL Cup Action
- Manchester United vs Brighton & Hove Albion | 8pm on ITV1 & ITVX Old Trafford plays host to a major third-round cup clash as Manchester United welcome Brighton. Free-to-air coverage kicks off at 8pm on ITV1 and streams live via ITVX.
- Coventry City vs Aston Villa | 8pm on Sky Sports+ Sky Sports subscribers can tune into Sky Sports+ to catch Midlands rivals Coventry City take on Unai Emery’s Aston Villa at the Coventry Building Society Arena.
2. Food & Reality Competition
- Celebrity MasterChef | 8pm on BBC One & BBC iPlayerJudges Grace Dent and Giorgio Locatelli challenge the remaining finalists to revisit their day-one signature dishes, re-imagining them to demonstrate how far they have come. The stakes are immense: only the best will advance to cook at the prestigious Chef’s Table for world-renowned restaurateurs including Raymond Blanc, Jean-Philippe Blondet, Lisa Goodwin-Allen, and James Martin.
- Big Brother | 9pm on ITV2 & ITVXTensions reach boiling point in the iconic house. Tonight, Big Brother offers a crucial lifeline to the nominated housemates. Meanwhile, fallout from Rochelle’s recent comments continues to divide the group, and Johanne and Yasmin’s ongoing dispute over drinks threatens to explode.
3. Property & Architecture
- Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds | 8pm on Channel 4 Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit two contrasting property dilemmas. In Whitley Bay, Sarah and Sean struggled with a sprawling Victorian home hampered by a tiny kitchen, one bathroom, and zero garden. Meanwhile, in Stevenage, Steven and Adeola faced layout chaos in a modern new-build compounded by extended visits from grandparents.
- Grand Designs (Series Return) | 9pm on Channel 4 Kevin McCloud returns for a brand-new series following ambitious self-builders. Tonight features Bryony and Matt, who have spent five years planning an eco-friendly, passive-standard Cornish beach house complete with a custom surfboard room. The twist? They have given themselves just one year to hand-build an irregular frame on site while balancing demanding careers and family life.
4. Factual & History
- Who Do You Think You Are? | 9pm on BBC Two & BBC iPlayer Actress Anna Maxwell Martin explores her ancestral heritage. A trip to Northern Ireland exposes a tragic family history surrounding her paternal grandparents, while an investigation into her maternal grandfather—whose name inspired her stage moniker—uncovers a dark past of domestic abuse, balanced by extraordinary acts of family devotion.
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