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

4seven is Channel 4’s catch-up channel. It commissions nothing. What it does instead is take whatever from across the Channel 4 stable (Channel 4, E4, More4 and Film4) got people talking over the previous seven days and put it out again, which is where the name comes from.

It launched on 4 July 2012, Channel 4’s first new linear channel since More4 in 2005, and the premise hasn’t shifted since. Everything in the table below has already gone out somewhere else on the network. Tonight, Friday 7 August 2026, Dover 24/7 and Renovation Rescue fill the 7pm and 8pm hours, 24 Hours in A&E takes 9pm, and Murder Case: The Digital Detectives repeats at 10pm before Gogglebox closes at 11:05pm. Previously two episodes ran back to back from 10pm.

4seven Schedule: Friday 7 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Friday 7 August 2026, on Freeview 49.

What’s on 4seven today

Friday’s daytime leans heavily on property. Find It, Fix It, Flog It opens at 9am with Henry Cole and Simon O’Brien working through a Pembrokeshire mechanic’s sheds of classic cars and tractors, American Pickers follows at 10am with a Louisiana and New Hampshire haul, and Saving Country Houses with… Penelope Keith takes 11am, covering a drainage tunnel crisis at Pitchford Hall and a Dragon Quest at Brancepeth Castle. A Place in the Sun then runs three times back to back at 12pm, 1pm and 2pm, moving from a Hampshire-versus-Valencia dilemma to a Costa Blanca townhouse and an Almería retirement search. Come Dine with Me fills the whole 3pm-to-5pm stretch across five half-hour episodes from an old Northampton dinner-party week, and A Place in the Sun returns for two more slots at 5:30pm and 6pm, first in Cyprus, then Tenerife, ahead of the evening schedule.

The overnight run is a mix of true-crime and relationship documentaries rather than the usual factual filler. Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich opens just after midnight, followed by Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 1:45am and Secrets of the Celebrity Sex Tapes at 2:50am. An older Gogglebox episode, from series 26, carries the schedule to 4:50am, and teleshopping fills the gap through to 9am. That’s the trade-off for a channel with nothing of its own to broadcast.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 7 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 5:35pm and 6pm

Two back to back. The first follows Uri and Hazel looking for somewhere in south-west Cyprus to escape Scottish winters on a £200,000 budget. At 6pm Jasmine Harman takes Jesica and Karl around the Costa de la Luz near Cadiz with £95,000.

Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port — 4seven, 7pm

The engineers take on their biggest job of the year, Border Force go looking for smuggled meat, and the police run a stakeout.

Renovation Rescue — 4seven, 8pm

Vogue Williams and Luke Mabbott in West Sussex, trying to get Penny’s stalled seaside retirement renovation over the line.

24 Hours in A&E — 4seven, 9pm

A 21-year-old arrives after riding his motorbike into a telegraph pole with serious leg and lung injuries, and a patient with locked-in syndrome is struggling to breathe.

Murder Case: The Digital Detectives — 4seven, 10pm

A repeat of Thursday’s Channel 4 broadcast, following the killing of Matthew Daulby in Ormskirk and the international manhunt that followed once his killer left the country. Note the feed clips the title after “Digital”.

Gogglebox — 4seven, 11:05pm

The usual late-night repeat to close.

What kind of shows are on 4seven

The week’s biggest talking points, repeated

Gogglebox and Celebrity Gogglebox turn up constantly, alongside whatever drama or documentary dominated the week. Miss something on a Tuesday and there’s a decent chance it’s back by Friday.

Property and renovation favourites

Property does most of the heavy lifting. A Place in the Sun, Grand Designs and George Clarke’s Remarkable Renovations all repeat well, partly because the audience for them doesn’t much mind having seen the episode before. Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids sits in the same bracket, though it’s family factual rather than a competition.

Panel shows, food formats and factual filler

The rest of the day is 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Come Dine with Me, and clip-led factual like Car S.O.S and American Pickers. Cheap to re-run, all of it.

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 in the Channel 4 network, all run by Channel Four Television Corporation. Channel 4 itself carries the original commissions everyone talks about first. E4 leans younger, with US imports and reality formats. More4 handles the documentaries and factual output, a fair amount of which ends up back on 4seven in the daytime. Film4 is the film channel.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is 4seven on Freeview?

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

What’s on 4seven tonight?

Extraordinary Extensions and Hotel Chocolat Unwrapped fill the 7pm and 8pm hours, each a repeat rather than a first broadcast. 24 Hours in A&E takes 9pm, and true crime series Don’t Date Brandon closes out the primetime run with two episodes from 10pm. The schedule table above has the full day.

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. It’s the closest thing British television has to a weekly highlights reel, and it costs nothing. The 7pm to 10pm run is where it earns its place; the daytime is wallpaper, though pleasant enough wallpaper if you like other people’s kitchens.

Tonight’s headline slot goes to Don’t Date Brandon, with the first two episodes of the true crime series running back to back from 10pm, a fresher addition to the schedule than most of what surrounds it. 24 Hours in A&E at 9pm and Hotel Chocolat Unwrapped at 8pm are solid supporting repeats either side of it. Everything before that, from the run of A Place in the Sun editions to Saving Country Houses with… Penelope Keith at 11am, is doing exactly what 4seven was built to do: a second pass at something that already had its moment elsewhere on the network.

Related: Channel 4 TV Guide | E4 TV Guide