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

Published: 22 August 2026

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.

Sunday 23 August is built around motor racing and a music finale rather than films. Channel 4 News opens the evening at 6pm, then F1: Dutch GP Highlights takes a two-and-a-half-hour slot from 6:30pm, covering the race itself from Zandvoort rather than Saturday’s sprint and qualifying session. The Piano wraps up its run at 9pm with the series final from Birmingham Symphony Hall, before Gogglebox and a late film close out the night.

Channel 4 Schedule: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Channel 4 schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 4.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Channel 4 today: the daytime schedule

Sunday’s overnight run opens with a repeat outing for Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA at 12:50am, followed by all three parts of the documentary series Love You to Death from 1:40am, tracing the Lisa Hayden-Johnson case through to 4:25am. Grand Designs and A Place in the Sun fill the small hours either side of 5am, and Find It, Fix It, Flog It closes the overnight run at 5:45am.

Breakfast is sitcom territory: three episodes of Cheers run from 6am, followed by two of Everybody Loves Raymond from 7:20am. The animated film Tad the Lost Explorer and the Curse of the Mummy takes most of the rest of the morning from 8:15am, ahead of three hours of Live: Sunday Brunch from 10am with Chris Ramsey, Tamzin Outhwaite and Kevin Bishop among the guests. The afternoon runs The Dog House at 1pm, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids at 2pm, Worst House on the Street at 3:05pm, Location, Location, Location at 4:10pm and Devon and Cornwall at 5:15pm, before Channel 4 News opens the evening at 6pm.

Channel 4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Channel 4 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026. Motor racing and a music finale carry the early evening, with a true-crime film to close out the night.

Channel 4 News — Channel 4, 6pm

The evening bulletin at 6pm.

F1 Dutch GP Highlights — Channel 4, 6:30pm

Steve Jones presents extended coverage of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, a two-and-a-half-hour block running to 9pm. This is the race itself, not the sprint and qualifying package that filled the same slot the night before, so expect a full account of how Max Verstappen’s home race played out against Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren.

The Piano: The Final — Channel 4, 9pm

The Piano reaches its series finale at Birmingham Symphony Hall. Six pianists who impressed judges Mika and Alice Sara Ott across the run compete for the Performance of the Night award in a sold-out final concert. The “New” flag on this episode marks a fresh instalment, not a new series — this closes the run, and it’s Channel 4’s biggest item of the night.

Gogglebox — Channel 4, 10:15pm

The Gogglebox households return at 10:15pm for their usual mixed bag of the week’s telly, from returning dramas to Sunday-night staples, with the reactions doing most of the work as always.

Boston Strangler — Channel 4, 11:15pm

Matt Ruskin’s 2023 true-crime drama closes the night. Keira Knightley plays reporter Loretta McLaughlin, who broke the story of the Boston Strangler killings while pushing back against a newsroom that didn’t take her seriously.

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’s home slot is Fridays at 9pm on Channel 4, with episodes available on the Channel 4 streaming service shortly after broadcast. It also gets a Sunday-night rerun; tonight’s 10:15pm airing is a repeat of Friday’s episode rather than a fresh one.

What’s on Channel 4 tonight?

Tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026, it’s motorsport and music rather than films. Channel 4 News opens at 6pm, then F1: Dutch GP Highlights covers the Zandvoort race from 6:30pm to 9pm. The Piano’s series final follows at 9pm, Gogglebox repeats Friday’s episode at 10:15pm, and the true-crime drama Boston Strangler closes the night at 11:15pm.

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

Sunday’s schedule leans on sport and a big finish rather than a double bill of films. The F1 Dutch GP Highlights at 6:30pm are worth setting aside two and a half hours for if you avoided the race result during the day, and it’s the full Grand Prix rather than a taster of Saturday’s sprint and qualifying session.

The Piano’s series final at 9pm is the night’s real event, closing out the run with a live audience at Birmingham Symphony Hall rather than the usual studio setting. Gogglebox at 10:15pm is a straight repeat of Friday’s episode, so anyone who caught it already can skip ahead to Boston Strangler at 11:15pm for a solid, well-acted true-crime drama to end the night.

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