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, Friday 21 August 2026, A Place in the Sun carries the channel into the evening at 6pm — a Lanzarote edition, and the second of two back-to-back screenings after one at 5:30pm — ahead of Grand Designs at 7pm, Location, Location, Location at 8pm and 24 Hours in A&E at 9pm, with Murder Case: The Digital Detectives and Celebrity Gogglebox closing out the night.

4seven Schedule: Friday 21 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Friday 21 August 2026, on Freeview 49.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 4seven today

Friday’s schedule opens overnight with Celebrity Hunted at 12:05am (series 7), then three episodes of Love You to Death run back to back from 1:05am. Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich follows at 4:05am, then four hours of Teleshopping fill the small hours through to 9am.

American Pickers opens the daytime proper at 9am, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 10am and The Great B&B Challenge 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 — filmed in Lanzarote — opening tonight’s primetime schedule.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 21 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm

A Place in the Sun (series 2025, episode 26) opens the evening with a Lanzarote hunt, the second of two back-to-back screenings after an earlier one at 5:30pm.

Grand Designs — 4seven, 7pm

Grand Designs (series 25, episode 3) follows a self-build in West Yorkshire, where a couple takes on a stone and zinc home.

Location, Location, Location — 4seven, 8pm

Location, Location, Location (series 22, episode 4) has Phil and Kirstie house-hunting across north London, taking in Archway, Holloway and West Hampstead.

24 Hours in A&E — 4seven, 9pm

24 Hours in A&E (series 31, episode 4) is back for its regular Friday repeat, a rerun of one of Channel 4’s most consistent factual formats.

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

Murder Case: The Digital Detectives (series 2, episode 2) tracks how investigators use phone and computer data to build a case, following on from its original Channel 4 broadcast.

Celebrity Gogglebox — 4seven, 11pm

Celebrity Gogglebox (series 7, episode 2) closes the night, with familiar faces reacting to the week’s television from their own sofas.

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 earlier in the week and there’s a decent chance it’s back on 4seven within a few days.

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 opens the evening at 6pm, then Grand Designs at 7pm, Location, Location, Location at 8pm, 24 Hours in A&E at 9pm, Murder Case: The Digital Detectives at 10pm and Celebrity Gogglebox at 11pm. 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 line-up runs Grand Designs into Location, Location, Location at 7pm and 8pm, then 24 Hours in A&E holds the 9pm slot before Murder Case: The Digital Detectives and Celebrity Gogglebox carry the schedule to close at 11pm. 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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