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, Saturday 15 August 2026, A Place in the Sun fills both the 6pm and 7pm slots before Location, Location, Location takes over at 8pm.

4seven Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 49.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 4seven today

Saturday’s schedule clears out overnight with Celebrity Gogglebox at midnight, Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 1:05am, Naked Attraction at 2:05am, Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits at 3:05am and The Dog House at 4am, before teleshopping takes the channel from 5am through to 9am in two two-hour runs.

Programming proper resumes at 9am with Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds, followed by two further editions of A Place in the Sun at 9:35am and 10:35am. Come Dine with Me then runs five episodes back to back from 11:30am to 2pm, all drawn from the same Warwickshire week, before Couples Come Dine with Me takes the 2pm slot on its own. The 1993 comedy Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit fills the 3pm-to-5pm afternoon film slot, and A Place in the Sun closes out the daytime with two more editions at 5pm and 6pm, the second of which runs straight into primetime.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm & 7pm

Property hunting runs the first two hours of primetime this week. At 6pm, Jasmine Harman helps a couple weighing up a permanent move to rural Murcia stretch a £150k budget; at 7pm, Ben Hillman is house-hunting on Gran Canaria for a father and son with £120k to spend between them. Neither is new — both editions have already aired elsewhere on the Channel 4 network this year.

Location, Location, Location — 4seven, 8pm

Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp split the workload for this repeat: Phil takes a Shrewsbury family hoping to settle in Gloucestershire, while Kirstie sorts out a first home in Bristol for a newly married couple. Standard fare for the strand, and none the worse for it.

Grand Designs — 4seven, 9pm

The night’s most substantial hour. Kara and Jonny attempt a stone-and-zinc build on a West Yorkshire hillside, with accessibility built into the design from the start rather than bolted on afterwards. Kevin McCloud narrates the usual run of budget scares and weather delays; whether the finished house lives up to the plans is, as ever, the whole point of watching.

Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Live — 4seven, 10pm

A stand-up set built around the small comforts of domestic life, tea in the bath included, plus a characteristically dry aside on what she’d swap for a wedding. Millican’s material rewards a rewatch as much as a first watch, which is presumably why it keeps turning up here.

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown — 4seven, 11:05pm

Jimmy Carr chairs, Rachel Riley runs the numbers and Susie Dent holds Dictionary Corner alongside guest Lou Wall. Rob Beckett and Kiell Smith-Bynoe face off against Jon Richardson and Roisin Conaty for the closing letters-and-numbers round.

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?

A Place in the Sun runs twice over at 6pm and 7pm, then Location, Location, Location at 8pm, Grand Designs at 9pm, Sarah Millican: Chatterbox Live at 10pm and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown closing out primetime 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.

Saturday’s headline slot goes to Grand Designs at 9pm, framed by a primetime built entirely from earlier-in-the-week Channel 4 network hits. The daytime runs the same trick, with property and food shows repeating in blocks right down to that five-episode Come Dine with Me stretch. Every one of them is a second pass at something the network already broadcast this week.

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