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

Channel 4 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; Gogglebox is the Friday 9pm fixture.

Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port opens a run of new episodes at 8pm tonight, followed by a new Celebrity Hunted at 9pm. Gogglebox takes its usual 10pm slot, and Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives closes out primetime at 11:05pm.

Channel 4 Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Channel 4 schedule for Tuesday 11 August 2026, on Freeview 4.

What’s on Channel 4 today: the daytime schedule

The graveyard slot opens with Secrets of the Celebrity Sex Tapes at 12:05am, then Ramsay’s Hotel Hell and Murder Case: The Digital Detectives carry it past 1am. The drama Saba fills the middle of the night, and Find It, Fix It, Flog It and the Hollyoaks omnibus close out the early hours ahead of Countdown at 5:50am.

Three episodes each of The King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond carry the schedule to 9am, then Frasier runs across four episodes from 9:10am, before Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA and the lunchtime news summary. Find It, Fix It, Flog It and The Great House Giveaway fill the early afternoon, Countdown returns at 2:10pm, and A Place in the Sun, Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith and Chateau DIY run through to 6pm, ahead of American Pickers and the 7pm news.

Channel 4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Channel 4 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026.

American Pickers — Channel 4, 6pm

Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz go picking around California in this rerun (series 18, episode 1), chasing down anything with a story attached to it before the evening proper gets going.

Channel 4 News — Channel 4, 7pm

The 7pm bulletin runs through the day’s national and international stories, with the weather to follow.

Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port — Channel 4, 8pm

A new episode opens the evening at 8pm (series 2, episode 8). The cargo team race to clear 3,000 tonnes of steel, Border Force flag a suspicious package, and the port marks Remembrance for both World Wars.

Celebrity Hunted — Channel 4, 9pm

Also new tonight, at 9pm (series 7, episode 4): two celebrities are cornered at a country hotel, while two fugitives dodge exposure at a birthday bash and a hospital appointment.

Gogglebox — Channel 4, 10pm

The sofa critics take on a mixed week at 10pm, reacting to Celebrity Race Across the World, The 1% Club, Squid Game: The Challenge and Police Interceptors among others (series 26, episode 11).

Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives — Channel 4, 11:05pm

Trewley pushes back against her sisters’ strict curfews for a night out at 11:05pm, and the launch of her own make-up range earns her enough for a family trip to Morocco (series 1, episode 4).

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. Series 21 began in April 2026 with Amy Gledhill, Armando Iannucci, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani.

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 weeknights 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: 6pm on Saturday and Sunday, running around thirty minutes.

What time is Gogglebox on Channel 4?

Gogglebox airs on Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4. Episodes are one hour long and are available on the Channel 4 streaming service shortly after broadcast.

What’s on Channel 4 tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026: Channel 4 News leads at 7pm, followed by a new episode of Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port at 8pm. A new Celebrity Hunted follows at 9pm, Gogglebox airs at 10pm, and Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives closes primetime at 11:05pm.

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

Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port is worth building the evening around. A new episode covering the cargo team, Border Force and a Remembrance service gives the strand plenty to work with, and it heads into an evening built on genuine premieres rather than reruns.

Celebrity Hunted keeps the tension high at 9pm, with two fugitives dodging capture at a birthday party and a hospital appointment. Gogglebox brings its usual mix of families and reaction shots at 10pm, and Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives closes the night at 11:05pm as Trewley pushes back against her family’s rules.

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