4seven TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On 4seven Tonight

Updated: 14 July 2026

4seven is Channel 4’s catch-up channel: rather than commissioning anything of its own, it spends its schedule re-airing whichever programmes from across the Channel 4 stable — Channel 4, E4, More4 and Film4 — generated the most conversation over the previous seven days, which is where the name comes from. It launched on 4 July 2012 as the broadcaster’s first new linear channel since More4 in 2005. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, A Place in the Sun opens the evening at 6pm before The Dog House and Location, Location, Location take the 7pm and 8pm slots. 24 Hours in A&E follows at 9pm, then the true-crime documentary 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Home County Cartel takes the 10pm hour before Beau Is Afraid closes out the night. Channel numbers are in the table further down.

4seven Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 49.

What’s on 4seven today

Tuesday’s daytime schedule on 4seven runs through a familiar rotation of factual and property formats before the evening repeats take over. Teleshopping fills the small hours, then Car S.O.S at 9am and American Pickers at 10am cover restoration and salvage before Narrow Escapes rounds out the mid-morning at 11am. A Place in the Sun takes over from midday with three straight episodes through to 3pm, hopeful buyers weighing overseas properties against budgets that rarely quite stretch far enough. Come Dine with Me then fills the 3pm-to-5pm stretch with four half-hour heats, before two further episodes of A Place in the Sun at 5:30pm and 6pm carry the schedule into the evening.

4seven Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm

House-hunters weigh up a move abroad against a fixed budget, the format’s usual push and pull between wish list and reality.

The Dog House — 4seven, 7pm

Wood Green’s rescue centre pairs up hopeful adopters with dogs that need a second chance, this time including an American bulldog and a 12-year-old terrier both looking for a calmer home.

Location, Location, Location — 4seven, 8pm

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer take first-time buyers house-hunting around Buckinghamshire, negotiating the usual gap between what people want and what their budget will actually stretch to.

24 Hours in A&E — 4seven, 9pm

The fixed-rig documentary returns to the emergency department, tonight following a choking infant and a patient fighting a serious infection.

24 Hours in Police Custody: The Home County Cartel — 4seven, 10pm

The first of a two-part special reopens one of Hertfordshire’s biggest ever drugs busts: a covert police unit tracking a Class A smuggling operation before closing in on Robert Brooks, the driving instructor at the centre of a £58 million cartel. It’s denser and more procedural than the channel’s usual factual fare, built on the surveillance footage and dashcam evidence that eventually put Brooks away for 21 years. Part two follows later in the week.

Beau Is Afraid — 4seven, 11:05pm

4seven closes the night with something unusual for a repeats channel: Ari Aster’s sprawling, anxiety-fuelled odyssey starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man whose simple trip home to his mother spirals into a waking nightmare. At three and a half hours it’s a serious late-night commitment, closer to arthouse cinema than the property and food formats that dominate the rest of the schedule, and it’s the one booking on tonight’s line-up genuinely worth staying up for.

What kind of shows are on 4seven

The week’s biggest talking points, repeated

4seven’s core purpose is right there in the name: it exists to replay whatever from the Channel 4 network has been generating the most buzz over the past seven days. That means recent episodes of Gogglebox and Celebrity Gogglebox turn up constantly, alongside whatever drama, documentary or panel show has been dominating conversation that week. If you missed something everyone else was talking about earlier in the week, there’s a decent chance 4seven has already scheduled it back in.

Property and renovation favourites

Property and renovation programming does a lot of heavy lifting on 4seven, and it’s easy to see why: A Place in the Sun, George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations and Grand Designs are all durable, low-cost-to-repeat formats with loyal audiences who don’t mind watching an episode a second or third time. Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids fits the same bracket, a factual format built around a genuinely likeable family rather than a competitive edge.

Panel shows, food formats and factual filler

Beyond the property strand, 4seven leans on comedy panel formats like 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, food-competition staples like Come Dine with Me, and factual/clip shows such as Car S.O.S, American Pickers and Narrow Escapes to fill out the daytime hours. None of it is new to the channel, but it’s dependable scheduling that costs Channel 4 very little to keep running.

How to watch 4seven

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find 4seven across the main UK television platforms:

4seven is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. As with any Freeview or Freesat channel, your on-screen guide is the definitive source if your box shows a different number.

Streaming online

4seven streams live and free at channel4.com/now/4s and via the Channel 4 app on smart TVs, iOS, Android and Amazon Fire TV. You’ll need a free Channel 4 account, which costs nothing to set up. Many of the individual shows that have aired on 4seven also turn up on demand through Channel 4’s streaming platform, though not everything broadcast stays available indefinitely.

4seven sister channels

4seven is one of four channels that make up the Channel 4 network, all owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. The Channel 4 main channel carries the original commissions everyone talks about first. E4 leans younger, with US imports and entertainment reality formats. More4 carries the bulk of Channel 4’s documentaries and factual programming, including much of what 4seven repeats in its daytime schedule. Film4 is the film channel, running a mix of Hollywood, British and world cinema. 4seven sits across all four, picking out whatever’s generated the most attention that week and giving it a second airing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is 4seven on Freeview?

4seven is on Freeview channel 49, part of the main Freeview line-up since the channel launched in July 2012. No subscription is needed beyond a standard Freeview tuner.

What’s on 4seven tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, A Place in the Sun opens at 6pm, followed by The Dog House at 7pm and Location, Location, Location at 8pm. 24 Hours in A&E takes the 9pm slot, before the true-crime special 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Home County Cartel airs at 10pm and the film Beau Is Afraid closes the night from 11:05pm. Check the schedule table above for the full day’s listings.

Is 4seven free to watch?

Yes, completely free on every platform, though it does carry advertising breaks during its schedule.

Can I watch 4seven online for free?

Yes. It streams live at channel4.com/now/4s and through the Channel 4 app; you’ll need a free Channel 4 account. Many shows also turn up on demand afterwards, though not every title stays available.

Verdict

4seven does one job and does it well: it’s the closest thing British television has to a highlights reel that updates itself every week, without a subscription attached. The 7pm-to-10pm run is where it earns its keep, giving anyone who missed a talked-about episode the week before a genuine second chance to catch it. The daytime schedule is less essential, leaning heavily on the same rotation of property and food formats, but it’s inoffensive background television rather than a reason to avoid the channel.

Tonight’s lineup opens on familiar property and rescue-centre formats before the schedule turns properly serious at 10pm, when 24 Hours in Police Custody revisits Hertfordshire’s Home County Cartel bust in forensic detail. It’s a heavier, more procedural watch than most of what 4seven repeats, and a reminder that the channel’s “most talked-about” remit stretches well beyond property shows and panel games. Beau Is Afraid closing out the night afterwards is the real outlier, though: a three-and-a-half-hour arthouse fever dream is not what anyone expects from a catch-up channel, and it’s exactly the kind of late booking that makes 4seven worth a scroll past 11pm.

Related: Channel 4 TV Guide | E4 TV Guide