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

Channel 4 (Ch4) is the UK’s publicly owned but ad-funded broadcaster, free to watch and responsible for a fair chunk of the odder British television of the past forty years. You’ll find it at 4 on Freeview, and at 104 on Freeview HD, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. It streams live and on demand for free at channel4.com and through the Channel 4 app. Channel 4 News runs weeknights at 7pm.

Saturday 24 October 2026 is two history documentaries into a Denzel Washington film. The weekend Channel 4 News is at 6:30pm, then Alice Roberts rides the Ottoman Empire’s railways at 7pm and Bettany Hughes investigates a Viking ship burial at 8pm. The Equalizer 2 follows at 9pm, and the Finnish war-action film Sisu closes the night at 11:25pm.

Channel 4 Schedule: Saturday 24 October 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Channel 4 schedule for Saturday 24 October 2026, on Freeview 4.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

Also on TV tonight at 9pm

• BBC One: Wisdom of the Crowd (from 8.35pm)
• ITV1: The Voice UK (from 8.35pm)
• BBC Two: Amy Winehouse at the BBC (from 8.35pm)
• Channel 5: Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More (from 8.35pm)
• Film4: Shaun of the Dead
• E4: Celebrity Gogglebox
• ITV2: FYI Daily
• ITV3: Midsomer Murders (from 8pm)
• ITV4: Darts: European Championship (from 6pm)
• More4: 24 Hours in A&E

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What’s on Channel 4 today: the daytime schedule

Weekday daytime is sitcom repeats and property. The King of Queens runs from 6:30am, then Everybody Loves Raymond from 7:45am and four episodes of Frasier from 9:10am. American Pickers is at 11:10am.

The afternoon has Renovation Nation at 12:10pm, The Great House Giveaway at 1:10pm, Countdown at 2:10pm and A Place in the Sun at 3pm. Help! We Bought a Village is at 4pm, Four in a Bed at 5pm and Come Dine with Me at 5:30pm.

Channel 4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Channel 4 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 24 October 2026.

Channel 4 News — Channel 4, 6:30pm

The weekend edition, shorter than the weeknight programme, with sport and weather.

Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts — Channel 4, 7pm

The listing gives this as series 1, episode 1. The first stop is Adana, and the line then climbs through the Taurus Mountains towards Konya, with Alice Roberts using the railway to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire.

Secrets of the Viking Ship with Bettany Hughes — Channel 4, 8pm

Also listed as series 1, episode 1, and flagged new. Bettany Hughes examines burials in the eastern Baltic, including one in Estonia, and tests the idea that the men in them were Vikings from more than 1,200 years ago, one of whom may have been a king from legend.

The Equalizer 2 — Channel 4, 9pm

Denzel Washington returns as Robert McCall, a former intelligence operative who turns avenger when a friend at the CIA is killed. It is a 2018 sequel, and the 9pm slot runs to 11:25pm to allow for advert breaks.

Sisu — Channel 4, 11:25pm

A 2022 Finnish action film with Jorma Tommila as a former soldier in Lapland, hauling gold towards the city with Nazi troops on his trail. It is scheduled in a 1 hour 40 minute slot.

Popular shows on Channel 4

Comedy and entertainment

Gogglebox has been running since 2013, filming regular families and friends reacting to the week’s telly from their own sofas. When something big happens in the culture, their reactions often land harder than any think-piece. It won the BAFTA for Reality and Constructed Factual in 2014 and is still going more than a decade later.

Taskmaster moved to Channel 4 from Dave in 2020 and has run a new series most years since. Greg Davies’s mock authority and Alex Horne’s deadpan make for a double act that never feels forced.

Factual and documentary

24 Hours in A&E films inside a working NHS hospital, originally St George’s in Tooting and later King’s College, with fixed cameras and no presenter. It trusts the patients and staff to carry it, which they do. Dispatches, running since 1987, does the investigative work few other British programmes go near; its 2023 Russell Brand investigation was made jointly with two national newspapers.

Baking, lifestyle and food

The Great British Bake Off can make an entire nation care about proving times and choux pastry. It moved from the BBC to Channel 4 in 2017 and still pulls some of the biggest entertainment audiences of the year each autumn. Bake Off: The Professionals swaps the amateurs for trained pastry chefs, and the sugar-work sculptures they produce are frankly ridiculous. Come Dine With Me just keeps going in the afternoons, held together entirely by Dave Lamb’s narration.

How to watch Channel 4 live and on demand

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Channel 4 depending on your platform:

All of these are free-to-air, no subscription needed. Channel 4 takes no money from the TV Licence; it runs on advertising and commercial partnerships, which is why you get ad breaks on both the linear channel and the stream.

Channel 4 streaming service

Channel 4 streams live and on demand for free at channel4.com and through the Channel 4 app, which runs on smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and most major streaming sticks. You need a free account to watch; registration takes a couple of minutes. Alongside the live feed there’s the full on-demand library, box sets, and some series that never appear on linear TV. Most programmes stay up for at least 30 days after broadcast. The service used to be called All 4 before Channel 4 folded it under its own name in 2023.

The Channel 4 family of channels

Channel 4 runs a group of free-to-air digital channels alongside the main service.

E4 is the entertainment and comedy channel aimed at younger viewers. It’s the linear home of Hollyoaks, which airs Monday to Wednesday at 7pm on E4, with the omnibus appearing on Channel 4 overnight on Tuesdays. E4 also carries American imports including The Big Bang Theory and Friends. It’s on Freeview 28, Sky 140 and Virgin Media 144.

More4 is where the factual and lifestyle back catalogue goes to live a second life: property, true crime, acquired documentary series, and a great many daytime repeats. More4 is on Freeview 18, Sky 144 and Virgin Media 148.

Film4 is the free movie channel, and a genuinely good one: mainstream Hollywood in the evenings, world and independent cinema later on, no subscription anywhere in it. Film4 is on Freeview 15, Sky 313 and Virgin Media 428.

4seven replays the past week of Channel 4 and its sister channels at different times of day, for anyone who’d rather not use the app. It’s on Freeview 47 and Sky 149.

Frequently asked questions

What channel number is Channel 4 on Freeview?

Channel 4 is on channel 4 on Freeview. If you have a Freeview HD receiver or a TV with a built-in Freeview HD tuner, Channel 4 HD is on channel 104. Both carry the same programmes.

What channel is Channel 4 on Sky?

Channel 4 is on channel 104 on Sky, which covers Sky Q, Sky Stream and Sky Glass. Channel 4 HD is the default feed at 104.

What channel is Channel 4 on Virgin Media?

Channel 4 is on channel 104 on Virgin Media.

What channel is Channel 4 on Freesat?

Channel 4 is on channel 104 on Freesat. If you’re in Wales you may find S4C at 104 on some tuners; check your regional listing accordingly.

What time is Channel 4 News on?

Channel 4 News is on Monday to Friday at 7pm, running until 7:55pm. It’s produced by ITN and streams free on channel4.com and the Channel 4 app alongside the linear broadcast. Weekend bulletins are shorter and earlier, typically around 6:30-6:35pm and roughly twenty-five minutes long.

What time is Gogglebox on Channel 4?

Gogglebox’s slot moves from series to series, and it is not on Channel 4 tonight, Saturday 24 October. Episodes are available on the Channel 4 streaming service shortly after broadcast, and the Celebrity Gogglebox spin-off turns up in other slots with a different line-up of famous faces.

What’s on Channel 4 tonight?

Saturday 24 October 2026 has Channel 4 News at 6:30pm, Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts at 7pm and Secrets of the Viking Ship with Bettany Hughes at 8pm. The film The Equalizer 2 is at 9pm and the Finnish action film Sisu at 11:25pm.

Can I watch Channel 4 online for free?

Yes. Channel 4 streams live and on demand for free at channel4.com and through the Channel 4 app. A free account is required to watch. The service is available on smart TVs, phones, tablets, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and most streaming sticks. Channel 4 is ad-supported, so adverts are included in the stream.

Does Channel 4 have a streaming service?

Yes. It’s the same free service covered above at channel4.com and via the Channel 4 app, previously known as All 4 before Channel 4 dropped the separate branding in 2023.

Verdict

The Equalizer 2 at 9pm is the night’s centrepiece, with the two history documentaries as a lead-in and Sisu as a late second film. Weekend daytime is sitcom repeats, The Simpsons and Four in a Bed.

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