Film4 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Film4 Tonight
Film4 is the UK’s free-to-air film channel, on Freeview 14. It dropped its subscription fee on 23 July 2006 and has run on advertising ever since. Tonight, Saturday 24 October 2026, the evening opens with a short All of Us Strangers interview special at 6:45pm and My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) at 6:55pm, then Shaun of the Dead (2004) at 9pm and Last Night in Soho (2021) at 10:55pm.
Film4 Schedule: Saturday 24 October 2026 (Full Listings)
Here is the complete Film4 schedule for Saturday 24 October 2026, on Freeview 14.
Overnight
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1:15am | Housebound | |
| 3:30am | Teleshopping |
Morning
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 11am | Cleopatra |
Afternoon
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 3:45pm | All of Us Strangers Interview Special | |
| 3:55pm | Tora! Tora! Tora! |
Early evening
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 6:45pm | All of Us Strangers Interview Special | |
| 6:55pm | My Stepmother Is An Alien |
Primetime
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9pm | Shaun of the Dead |
Late night
| Time | Programme | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 10:55pm | Last Night in Soho |
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 4: The Equalizer 2
- Channel 5: Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More (from 8.35pm)
- 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 Film4 today
The overnight film is Housebound at 1:15am, then teleshopping from 3:30am. Cleopatra is the long late-morning epic at 11am, and the afternoon has the interview special at 3:45pm followed by the war film Tora! Tora! Tora! at 3:55pm. The evening line-up starts at 6:45pm.
Here’s the Film4 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 24 October 2026.
All of Us Strangers Interview Special — Film4, 6:45pm
A ten-minute filler in which director Andrew Haigh and cast members including Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal talk about their film. It also ran at 3:45pm.
My Stepmother Is An Alien — Film4, 6:55pm
A 1988 science-fiction comedy with Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger, about a scientist whose experiment brings an extraterrestrial into his family. Light, silly and a long way from the rest of the evening.
Shaun of the Dead — Film4, 9pm
Edgar Wright’s 2004 zombie comedy, with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost trying to wait out an outbreak in a pub. It is the main event and the one to settle in for; the slot allows roughly two hours.
Last Night in Soho — Film4, 10:55pm
Wright again, this time with a 2021 psychological horror. Thomasin McKenzie plays a student in London pulled into the 1960s life of Anya Taylor-Joy’s singer. It runs past 1am, so record it if you are not a night owl.
What kind of films are on Film4?
Hollywood and recent theatrical releases
A good chunk of the schedule is mainstream Hollywood: films that played UK multiplexes and reached television a couple of years later. The bigger, more recent titles go in the 9pm and 6.30pm slots, where the audience is widest.
British cinema and Film4 Productions
Film4 Productions, the channel’s film-funding arm, has backed British cinema since 1982, originally trading as Channel Four Films. Four Weddings and a Funeral, Trainspotting, This Is England, 12 Years a Slave, Poor Things. Four decades of co-productions, and the reason the channel gets more benefit of the doubt than its commercial rivals.
World cinema, independent and cult film
Film4 shows more subtitled film than any other British free-to-air channel, mostly after 11pm, alongside cult American independents and things that never got a proper UK release. That late shift is the best thing about it.
Film4 is the least repetitive channel on Freeview by a wide margin. When we logged 48 days of schedules across all 32 main channels, only 36.3 per cent of Film4’s slots were a title it had already shown, against 87.9 per cent across Freeview as a whole — the difference being that films are scheduled once or twice rather than stripped across the week. The full comparison is in our study of repeats on UK television.
How to watch Film4
Channel numbers
Where to find Film4 on the main UK platforms:
| Platform | Channel |
|---|---|
| Freeview | 14 |
| Sky (Q, Stream, Glass) | 313 |
| Sky HD | 855 |
| Film4 +1 on Freeview | 47 |
| Film4 +1 on Sky | 314 |
| Virgin Media | 428 |
| Freesat | 300 |
Film4 is free on all of the above, with no subscription required. Virgin Media and Freesat numbers can vary by box and region, so check your on-screen guide if these don’t match.
Streaming online
Film4 streams live and free at channel4.com/now/f4 and via the Channel 4 app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire TV. You’ll need a free Channel 4 account, which takes a couple of minutes to set up. Films that have aired often turn up on demand in the Film4 collection afterwards, but licensing means plenty of them never do, and the ones that make it don’t stay long.
Film4 +1 and catching a film you missed
Film4 +1 runs the same schedule an hour behind, on Freeview 47 and Sky 314. Sit down at 10:15pm with the 9pm premiere already 75 minutes gone and +1 lets you start it near the beginning instead of writing the evening off.
If you miss a film outright and it never appears on demand, wait. Film4 reruns titles fairly regularly, usually in themed seasons or when a director or actor is back in the news, so searching a week or two ahead in your on-screen guide often turns one up.
Frequently asked questions
What’s on Film4 tonight?
Saturday 24 October 2026 has the All of Us Strangers interview special at 6:45pm and My Stepmother Is an Alien at 6:55pm, then Shaun of the Dead at 9pm and Last Night in Soho at 10:55pm. Full times for the rest of the day are in the schedule table above.
What time do films start on Film4?
Typically around 11am, 2pm, 4pm, 6.30pm, 9pm, and 11pm to midnight. Running lengths shift the exact times day to day, so your on-screen guide has the most accurate information.
Is Film4 free to watch?
Yes, and it has been since it left subscription in July 2006. Expect ad breaks during films, but no fee on any platform.
Can I watch Film4 online for free?
Yes, live at channel4.com or through the Channel 4 app, with a free account.
Verdict
I rate Film4, with reservations. The 9pm slot and the run after 11pm are what keep me coming back: recent releases, the odd Productions title, and foreign-language cinema you’d rarely stumble across on any other free channel. Daytime is mostly the same forty-odd Hollywood titles on rotation, and the ad breaks mid-film wear thin some nights.
Saturday goes from a family-friendly sci-fi comedy to two Edgar Wright films. Shaun of the Dead at 9pm is the crowd-pleaser, Last Night in Soho at 10:55pm is the darker late option, and My Stepmother Is an Alien at 6:55pm is the easy opener. Expect ad breaks in the films, and Film4 +1 is handy if you start behind.
Related: What’s On TV Tonight | BBC One TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | What Films Are on Tonight | Films on Sky Cinema Tonight
