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 17 August 2026, A Place in the Sun carries the channel into the evening, ahead of a primetime built around the concluding part of Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations, Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey, and the two-part Anna Chapman spy documentary running back to back at 9pm and 10pm.

4seven Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 49.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 4seven today

Monday’s schedule clears out overnight with Big Fat Quiz: Best Bits at 12:45am, Naked Attraction at 1:50am, Gogglebox at 2:50am and The Dog House at 3:50am, before teleshopping takes over until 9am.

American Pickers opens the daytime proper at 9am, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 10am and Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith at 11am. A Place in the Sun then settles in for three editions from midday, handing over to Come Dine with Me at 3pm for a run of five half-hour episodes that carries the channel to 5:30pm. A Place in the Sun closes out the afternoon with two more editions either side of 6pm, the second of which opens tonight’s primetime schedule.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 5:30pm and 6pm

Two more editions of the property format ease the channel into the evening before anything new starts. Nothing here is being seen for the first time; it’s the usual afternoon-into-evening holding pattern before 4seven’s proper primetime begins at 7pm.

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

The second and final part of Bettany Hughes’ journey through ancient Anatolia lands on 4seven a week after the first, picking up at the Neolithic sites of Karahantepe and Göbeklitepe. Stone figures buried for twelve thousand years get read here as evidence of a world just emerging from the last Ice Age, which is a bigger claim than most factual hours attempt on a Monday night.

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

Grant’s loose retracing of Homer reaches Djerba, the Tunisian island long claimed as the land of the lotus eaters, before doubling back to Italy in search of Circe. The format leans on Grant’s own curiosity rather than a script full of facts, which is either the show’s charm or its limitation depending on how much patience you have for a famous face wandering around ruins.

Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story — 4seven, 9pm and 10pm

Both halves of the Anna Chapman documentary run back to back tonight, a repeat of the two-part film Channel 4 first broadcast earlier in the week. It traces how a London-based businesswoman turned out to be part of a Russian sleeper network the FBI eventually rolled up, ending in one of the more publicised spy swaps of recent memory. Watching the two parts together changes the shape of it slightly; strung out over two nights first time round, back to back it plays more like one long film than a serial.

Gogglebox — 4seven, 11:05pm

A compilation from series 27 closes out primetime, the reliable end-of-night slot this channel almost never moves off.

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 through to 6pm, then Bettany Hughes’ Lost Worlds: Dawn of Civilisations concludes its two-part run at 7pm, Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey at 8pm, the Anna Chapman spy documentary across 9pm and 10pm, and Gogglebox 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.

Monday’s headline slot is really two items: the second half of Bettany Hughes’ Anatolia series at 7pm and the Anna Chapman documentary running in full across 9pm and 10pm. The daytime runs the same trick as ever, with A Place in the Sun and Come Dine with Me repeating in blocks right through the afternoon. Every one of them is a second pass at something the network already broadcast earlier in the week.

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