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 changed since. Everything in the table below has already gone out somewhere else on the network. Tonight, Monday 10 August 2026, Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations leads the evening at 7pm.

4seven Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Monday 10 August 2026, on Freeview 49.

What’s on 4seven today

Monday’s daytime opens with American Pickers at 9am, then Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 10am and Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith at 11am, before A Place in the Sun takes over at midday and repeats four more times through the day, at 1pm, 2pm, 5:30pm and 6pm. Come Dine with Me runs five episodes from the same Torbay week between 3pm and 5pm.

The overnight schedule is true crime and cold cases. 24 Hours in A&E opens just after midnight, The Body Detectives follows at 1:10am and Crime Scene Cleaners at 2:20am. An older series 26 Gogglebox repeat carries through to 4:20am, then Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds runs to 4:50am, before teleshopping fills the schedule to 9am.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 10 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm

The last of five A Place in the Sun repeats today lands at 6pm, with Loretta and Carl house-hunting for a Spanish bolthole in Mojácar on a £100,000 budget, guided by Laura Hamilton (series 2025, episode 102).

Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations — 4seven, 7pm

Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations opens the primetime run at 7pm. It’s the first of two episodes, and Hughes starts in ancient Anatolia, tracking how power, ambition and art took root in the region long before Ephesus or Istanbul existed as cities (series 1, episode 1). It’s the one proper history documentary in a schedule otherwise built from true crime and property shows.

Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey — 4seven, 8pm

Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey reaches Sicily at 8pm. Grant cooks with a duchess, then works his way through a volcano climb and an ancient amphitheatre performance before the episode ends (series 1, episode 2).

Celebrity Gogglebox — 4seven, 9pm

Celebrity Gogglebox airs at 9pm, with Denise van Outen and Johnny Vaughan among the celebrities reacting to the week’s television (series 7, episode 1).

The Body Detectives — 4seven, 10pm

The Body Detectives repeats at 10pm, with an ex-detective and forensic experts reopening the cold case of an unidentified man found off the Norfolk coast (series 1, episode 1). The same episode opened the overnight schedule twelve hours earlier.

Murder Case: The Digital Detectives — 4seven, 11:05pm

Murder Case: The Digital Detectives closes the night at 11:05pm, covering the fatal stabbing of Matthew Daulby in Ormskirk and the international manhunt that followed after his killer fled the country (series 2, episode 4).

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?

Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations opens the evening at 7pm, followed by Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey at 8pm, Celebrity Gogglebox at 9pm, The Body Detectives at 10pm and Murder Case: The Digital Detectives closing out the night at 11:05pm. 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 filler for anyone who likes property shows and dinner parties.

Tonight’s headline slot goes to Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations at 7pm, the one proper history documentary in a night otherwise built from true crime and travel. Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey at 8pm and Celebrity Gogglebox at 9pm sit either side of it, and Murder Case: The Digital Detectives closes out the night at 11:05pm. Everything before that, from the run of A Place in the Sun editions to Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith at 11am, is a second pass at something the Channel 4 network already broadcast that week.

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