Love Island is officially back on our screens for another summer. Season 12 kicked off on 9 June and introduced us to a whole new group of singles looking for their summer of love. As the show marks a decade of cracking on, eggs in one basket and 'got a text', the show has taken things up a notch and already introduced a bunch of surprise twists to the series. And honestly, we're glued to our screens.
Keen to make sure you don't miss a moment of the iconic reality series? Well this is all the essential watching information you need, to ensure you don't skip out on any of the grafting and pies.
Is Love Island on tonight?
Love Island airs every day of the week apart from Saturday nights. Instead of the regular show, a different episode Love Island: Unseen Bits airs on Saturday evenings, which shows viewers behind the scenes moments from that week. It's never essential drama, just funny moments between the cast that don't have time to make the final edit.
Following Sunday night's episode each week, Love Island: Aftersun will air where host Maya Jama will be joined by that week's dumped Islanders and the Aftersun panelists Sam Thompson, Indiyah Polack, Amy Hart and new additions Ash Holme and Joe Baggs to discuss that week's events in the villa.
Why isn't Love Island on Saturday nights?
Since Love Island first began the show has never aired a new episode on a Saturday night, instead a roundup of the not-yet-seen funny moments and outtakes from that week's filming is shown in an hour long episode called Unseen Bits.
Previous contestants have revealed we don't get to see a fresh new episode on Saturday because the Islanders get the day off from filming and cleaners head into the Villa to do a major clean.
"What happens is, it gives them a day to clean the villa, and you take your mics off, and normally we go to the beach," Kem Cetinay explained on This Morning back in 2017.
What time is Love Island on?
Every night Love Island will air at 9pm BST. Some nights the episodes will be exactly an hour long, others an hour and 5 mins, and in some instances, like the series' launch show [9 June], the episode was 90 minutes long.
What channel is Love Island on?
Love Island will be shown on ITV2 and ITVX, with all episodes available for catchup on ITVX.
How many weeks is Love Island on for?
While not 100 per cent confirmed as of yet, Love Island usually runs for around eight weeks.
Love Island starts tonight on ITV2 and ITVX at 9pm
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