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

Published: 27 August 2026

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 28 August 2026, A Place in the Sun runs at 5:30pm and 6pm, with the 6pm edition repeating the episode Channel 4 airs itself at 3pm. George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces takes the 7pm hour and Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip wraps up its three-part run at 8pm, before Celebrity Gogglebox and Gogglebox carry the schedule from 9pm to 11pm. There’s no film tonight.

4seven Schedule: Friday 28 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Friday 28 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 12:10am, then Gogglebox at 1:10am, Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich at 2:15am, Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 3:15am and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA at 4:10am, before two hours of Teleshopping take the channel through to 9am.

American Pickers and Find It, Fix It, Flog It take the 9am and 10am hours, then The Great B&B Challenge closes out its own run at 11am. From midday, A Place in the Sun runs three editions back to back — including Trish and Ruth’s hunt for a Lanzarote holiday home at 1pm and Debra and Gordon’s search around Torrevieja at 2pm — before Come Dine with Me takes over the rest of the afternoon, five half-hour episodes set in Inverness running from 3pm to 5pm and ending on the week’s finale. A fourth and fifth A Place in the Sun carry the schedule from 5:30pm into tonight’s primetime run — the 6pm edition is the same episode Channel 4 airs itself at 3pm that same afternoon, Rebecca looking at apartments on the western Costa del Sol for £140,000.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 28 August 2026.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm

The 6pm edition (series 2024, episode 3) follows Rebecca looking for an apartment on the western Costa del Sol with Sara Damergi and a £140,000 budget. It’s a straight repeat of the episode Channel 4 itself broadcasts at 3pm this afternoon, so anyone who caught it earlier will recognise it. The earlier 5:30pm slot is a different search entirely, Vicky and Carl house-hunting on the southern Costa Blanca.

George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces — 4seven, 7pm

George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces (series 13, episode 5) tracks a family’s campervan conversion and a cupcake-shaped build, then detours to Portugal for what’s billed as the country’s thinnest house, wedged between two churches.

Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip — 4seven, 8pm

Martin and Roman Kemp finish their three-part trip in Northern Ireland (series 1, episode 3, the last of the run), chasing local selkie and vampire folklore, spending an uneasy night in a reputedly haunted hotel and catching Derry’s Halloween Festival.

Celebrity Gogglebox — 4seven, 9pm

Nine o’clock belongs to Celebrity Gogglebox (series 6, episode 1), its own line-up rather than the regular cast. Danny Dyer, Chris Packham and Jennifer Saunders are among the famous faces reacting to the week’s telly, from Insomnia and MILF Manor to Canal Boat Diaries, with the week’s Trump coverage on the news thrown in too.

Gogglebox — 4seven, 10pm

The 10pm hour hands over to the regular Gogglebox households (series 26, episode 13) — though it’s worth knowing this is the same episode 4seven already showed at 1:10am this morning, not a fresh one. The households work through a week that took in Stranger Things, Strictly and Songs of Praise, among plenty else.

The Never Ending Murder — 4seven, 11:05pm

The Never Ending Murder opens its four-part run at 11:05pm (series 1, episode 1), re-examining the 1991 disappearance of Coventry teenager Nicola Payne. This first episode gets as far as detectives narrowing the case down to two suspects — an opener, not a wrap-up, with three more episodes still to come.

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 runs at 5:30pm and 6pm, with the 6pm edition repeating Channel 4’s own 3pm episode. George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces takes the 7pm hour, then Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip closes out its run at 8pm. Celebrity Gogglebox holds 9pm with its own celebrity line-up, Gogglebox follows at 10pm (a repeat of 4seven’s own 1:10am airing), and The Never Ending Murder opens a four-part true crime documentary at 11:05pm. There’s no film tonight. 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 pairs two editions of A Place in the Sun at teatime before George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces takes the 7pm hour and Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip wraps its three-part run at 8pm. Celebrity Gogglebox and Gogglebox carry the schedule from 9pm to 11pm — different programmes with different casts, despite the similar name — and The Never Ending Murder opens a four-part true crime documentary at 11:05pm. The daytime runs the same trick as ever, with a five-episode Come Dine with Me stretch and three further A Place in the Sun repeats filling the morning and afternoon. Every one of them is a second pass at something the network already broadcast earlier in the week.

Related: Channel 4 TV Guide | E4 TV Guide | Films on TV This Week