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

Published: 2 September 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, though not always at the same distance behind. Tonight, Thursday 3 September 2026, is about as close to the source as 4seven gets: the 6pm A Place in the Sun is the same episode Channel 4 itself is showing at 3pm today, and the 8pm Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds is the edition Channel 4 ran at 8pm last night. Gogglebox opens primetime at 7pm with a family-friendly compilation, then 9pm hands over two and a half hours to 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America, the contemporaneous-footage documentary Channel 4 broadcast on 1 September. Celebrity Gogglebox closes the night at 11:35pm — the same episode Channel 4 is airing at 10pm this evening, barely ninety minutes earlier.

4seven Schedule: Thursday 3 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 4seven schedule for Thursday 3 September 2026, on Freeview 49.

Overnight

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 4seven today

Thursday’s schedule opens overnight with a two-part episode of The Jury: 14 and on Trial for Murder at 12:15am and 1:20am, the re-enacted trial of two brothers accused of killing their stepdad. A family-friendly Gogglebox compilation follows at 2:20am, then Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids at 3:25am and a single A Place in the Sun at 4:20am, before Teleshopping runs the channel through to 9am.

A New Life in the Sun: Where Are They Now? opens the daytime proper at 9am, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It and The Great B&B Challenge through the late morning, one episode each. A Place in the Sun then runs three times from midday to 2pm, drawn from two unrelated series (2018, then 2025 twice), before Come Dine with Me takes the afternoon from 3pm to 5pm — five consecutive half-hours from the same 2013 North Kent week, clairvoyant host and all.

Two further A Place in the Sun episodes carry the day into the evening: 5:30pm is a 2023 outing, while 6pm is the episode Channel 4 itself is showing at 3pm this afternoon — same-day catch-up rather than the usual week-behind rerun. Across the whole day 4seven shows five A Place in the Sun episodes from three unrelated series, two of them running right up to primetime.

4seven tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 4seven primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 3 September 2026 — and almost the entire evening is borrowed straight from elsewhere on the Channel 4 network, some of it barely hours old.

A Place in the Sun — 4seven, 6pm

Newly-weds Bev and Errol hunt for a holiday home near the Mar Menor (series 2025, episode 8). This isn’t a week-old repeat: it’s the exact episode Channel 4 itself broadcasts at 3pm this afternoon, so 4seven is running only a few hours behind its own parent channel rather than the usual seven days.

Gogglebox — 4seven, 7pm

A family-friendly compilation of series 27 highlights takes the 7pm hour.

Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds — 4seven, 8pm

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer revisit two stuck property problems, including a garden too steep to fix (series 7, episode 2). Channel 4 aired this same edition at 8pm last night, making it another near-immediate handover rather than a week’s wait.

9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America — 4seven, 9pm

Two and a half hours of contemporaneous footage shot by New Yorkers during the 11 September 2001 attacks, with no narration added. Channel 4 first showed this documentary on 1 September; 4seven’s airing is a straight repeat of that broadcast, not new programming.

Celebrity Gogglebox — 4seven, 11:35pm

A group of celebrities react to The Piano, Bridgerton and UK’s Strongest Man 2024, among other clips (series 6, episode 2). Channel 4 shows this identical episode at 10pm tonight, so 4seven’s late slot follows it by about ninety-five minutes — as neat a demonstration as any of what a catch-up channel is actually for.

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 primetime at 6pm — the same episode Channel 4 itself is airing at 3pm today. Gogglebox follows at 7pm with a family-friendly compilation, then Kirstie and Phil’s Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds at 8pm repeats Channel 4’s showing from last night. 9pm is given over entirely to 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America, the documentary Channel 4 broadcast on 1 September, and Celebrity Gogglebox closes the night at 11:35pm, roughly ninety minutes behind Channel 4’s own 10pm airing of the same episode. 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 is about as close to same-day as this channel gets. The 6pm A Place in the Sun is the episode Channel 4 itself is showing at 3pm today; the 8pm Kirstie and Phil is Channel 4’s from 8pm last night; the 9pm slot hands over two and a half hours to 9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed America, which Channel 4 broadcast on 1 September; and Celebrity Gogglebox at 11:35pm follows Channel 4’s own 10pm showing of the identical episode by about ninety-five minutes. Only the 7pm Gogglebox compilation isn’t chasing a specific same-day Channel 4 slot. The daytime keeps to the usual property-and-food shape, with five A Place in the Sun episodes spread across three unrelated series and a consecutive five-part Come Dine with Me run from a 2013 North Kent week. There’s nothing new on the channel tonight — that isn’t really the point of it.

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