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.

It’s a full weekday run on Monday 17 August, with Channel 4 News back in its usual 7pm slot. Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip continues at 8pm, followed by a new Celebrity Hunted at 9pm and a new Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 10pm. Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich rounds off the night at 11:05pm.

Channel 4 Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Channel 4 schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 4.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Channel 4 today: the daytime schedule

The overnight run opens with a repeat of Ramsay’s Hotel Hell at 12:45am, followed by Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 1:35am and Couples Come Dine with Me at 2:25am. Levison Wood’s Walking with Lions airs at 3:20am, Fur Babies at 4:15am, and The Dog House takes the 5:10am slot before Countdown opens proper daytime viewing at 5:50am.

Breakfast belongs to sitcom reruns: three episodes of The King of Queens from 6:30am, then three of Everybody Loves Raymond from 7:45am, then four of Frasier carrying the schedule through to 11:10am, when Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA takes over. A Channel 4 News Summary lands at 12:05pm, ahead of Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 12:10pm and The Great House Giveaway at 1:10pm. Countdown returns for its afternoon edition at 2:10pm, A Place in the Sun follows at 3pm, and The Great B&B Challenge runs from 4pm. Chateau DIY closes out the afternoon at 5pm before American Pickers opens the evening at 6pm and Channel 4 News at 7pm.

Channel 4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Channel 4 primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

American Pickers — Channel 4, 6pm

Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are back rummaging through barns and lock-ups in search of forgotten Americana, talking sellers down and occasionally getting talked up themselves.

Channel 4 News — Channel 4, 7pm

The main evening bulletin, running its usual hour with the day’s headlines and the longer interviews the programme is known for.

Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip: Crossing Meath and Dublin — Channel 4, 8pm

Martin Kemp and his son Roman pick the road trip up on Ireland’s east coast for episode two, trading Cork’s coastline for County Meath and Dublin. Along the way they turn up one of the earliest known carvings of a human face, wander a ruin with a reputation for being haunted, and stop off at a whiskey distillery with its own folklore about faeries. It’s a gentler, more reflective hour than the format’s premise suggests, built around the odd-couple warmth between father and son rather than any real jeopardy.

Celebrity Hunted — Channel 4, 9pm

A new pair of famous fugitives goes on the run tonight as the series continues its run in aid of Stand Up To Cancer, with six celebrity duos attempting to stay hidden across mainland Britain for fourteen days while a team of ex-police, military and intelligence Hunters close in using CCTV, drones and facial recognition. The show has settled into a reliable twice-weekly rhythm this series, and tonight’s episode keeps the chase moving rather than resetting it.

Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives — Channel 4, 10pm

TikTok star Trewley Precious returns for a new instalment, this time juggling a misfired Christmas present for her mum with a stab at speed dating. The series has built its following on Trewley’s attempts to square a modern social-media career with the expectations of her traditional Traveller family, and this episode leans into the domestic comedy of that clash rather than anything heavier.

Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich — Channel 4, 11:05pm

A repeat outing for the fifth episode, first shown on Channel 4 the previous Friday, going behind the doors of clinics in London and Manchester that cater to clients who don’t ask the price before booking in.

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, Monday 17 August 2026: Channel 4 News is at 7pm as usual, followed by a new episode of Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip at 8pm, a new Celebrity Hunted at 9pm and a new Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives at 10pm. Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich closes out the night 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

Monday’s line-up is Channel 4 running three of its current returning formats back to back rather than reaching for anything new. Martin & Roman’s Irish Road Trip is the gentlest of the three, and worth staying with for the father-son dynamic as much as the Irish scenery. Celebrity Hunted and Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives keep the energy up either side of the 10pm watershed shift, both mid-run rather than freshly launched.

It’s a solid rather than spectacular Monday: nothing here is an event-television premiere, but all three shows know what they’re doing by this point in their runs.

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