ITV4 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On ITV4 Tonight

ITV4 launched on 1 November 2005, taking over ITV’s off-peak Freeview slot from the ITV News Channel before absorbing what was left of the old Men and Motors the following spring. Two decades on, it’s ITV plc’s channel for live sport and archive action, with a streak of irreverence the main channel has never gone in for. Tuesday 4 August again has no live fixture in the schedule, so the evening runs on recorded highlights and archive action instead: World Rally Championship Highlights covers Round 10 in Finland at 8pm, a new episode of Ice Road Truckers follows at 9pm, and All Elite Wrestling: Collision closes the night from 10pm. Wrestling broadcasts like that one routinely run past their advertised finish, so treat the closing slot as a guide rather than a fixed point. Channel numbers for every platform are further down.

ITV4 Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

What’s on ITV4 today

Today opens just after midnight with Lost at 12:05am, then Motorsport UK at 1am and BattleBots at 1:55am, before Unwind with ITV closes the overnight strand at 2:45am and teleshopping fills the gap from 3am to 6am. Magnum, P.I. runs back to back at 6am and 7am, Dempsey and Makepeace follows at 8:05am, and Boon at 9:10am. The Professionals returns at 10:15am and Robin of Sherwood at 11:25am, then Magnum, P.I. fills the middle of the day with two more episodes at 12:30pm and 1:35pm. Dempsey and Makepeace repeats at 2:35pm, Boon at 3:45pm and The Professionals at 4:50pm, and Minder rounds off the archive run at 5:55pm before The Motorbike Show opens the evening at 7pm.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

The Motorbike Show — ITV4, 7pm

Henry Cole opens a new series riding with the Harley Owners Group, then switches gears for 1000cc sidecar speedway and a moped endurance race at the BMF rally in Peterborough. It’s a broader mix than the show’s cruiser-heavy reputation suggests.

World Rally Championship Highlights — ITV4, 8pm

This edition covers Round 10 of the season, the Rally of Finland, where crews average speeds above 120kph through crests and blind bends with no room for hesitation. No studio analysis, just the stage action cut down to the hour.

Ice Road Truckers — ITV4, 9pm

A new episode, Under the Hammer, sends Lisa and Scott Swanson to help push Carey Hall’s 120-ton load up one of the Dalton Highway’s steepest inclines, while further along the route Alex Debogorski’s trailer comes loose from his rig.

All Elite Wrestling: Collision — ITV4, 10pm

Kyle Fletcher, Kazuchika Okada, Megan Bayne, Tommaso Ciampa and Claudio Castagnoli are among the names on the card for this week’s Collision. The listed slot runs two hours to midnight, but wrestling broadcasts of this kind often overrun, so anything scheduled straight after could slip.

What kind of shows are on ITV4

Live sport: racing, rugby and darts

ITV4 carries the bulk of ITV’s live sport rights outside of ITV1’s biggest occasions. ITV Racing has been the channel’s anchor since horse racing moved to ITV from Channel 4 in 2017, running near-daily meetings alongside the showpiece Saturdays. The Nations Championship, rugby’s new global competition launched in July 2026, means ITV4 now shows live rugby through the summer months, when British fans wouldn’t normally get much international action on terrestrial TV. The channel has also carried live darts in recent seasons, including instalments of the World Series of Darts.

Motorsport, rally and archive sport

Beyond the live fixtures, ITV4 fills its schedule with motorsport digest shows. World Rally Championship Highlights and Motorsport Mundial both round up international series that rarely get UK coverage elsewhere, and the channel runs nightly highlights through Isle of Man TT race week each spring. Archive strands such as The Big Match Revisited and Goals of the 1990s dig into old football footage.

American reruns, action and wrestling

The rest of the schedule fills out with imported American comedy and reality (Two and a Half Men, American Pickers) and classic British crime drama reruns such as Minder. None of it demands your full attention. All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite airs weekly in the late-night slot, with a repeat the following Saturday.

How to watch ITV4

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find ITV4 across the main UK television platforms:

ITV4 is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Virgin Media and Freesat’s +1 position can move about more than Freeview and Sky, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if it doesn’t line up exactly.

Streaming online

ITV4 streams live and free through ITVX at itv.com/watch and via the ITVX app on smart TVs, mobiles, tablets and streaming devices including Amazon Fire TV and Roku. You need a free account. Most of the archive and clip-show programming sits in the ITVX library afterwards, though racing and rugby rights usually mean shorter catch-up windows on the live sport.

ITV4 +1 and sister channels

ITV4+1 runs the same schedule an hour behind. Switch on to find Formula E Highlights already under way and +1 will start it again from the top an hour later.

ITV4 sits alongside ITV1, ITV2, ITV3 and ITVBe in ITV plc’s channel family, all streaming through ITVX. ITV1 carries the network’s biggest live sport occasions, ITV3 leans into drama and period pieces, and ITV4 gets the more male-skewing sport and action mix.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is ITV4 on Freeview?

ITV4 is on Freeview channel 26. ITV4+1 is on Freeview channel 59. Both are free with no subscription needed.

What channel is ITV4 on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat?

Channel 120 on Sky, channel 118 on Virgin Media, and channel 117 on Freesat. ITV4+1 is on channel 220 on Sky; check your on-screen guide for the exact +1 position on Virgin Media and Freesat.

What’s on ITV4 tonight?

Tuesday 4 August 2026: The Motorbike Show opens the evening at 7pm, followed by World Rally Championship Highlights at 8pm covering the Rally of Finland. A new episode of Ice Road Truckers follows at 9pm, and All Elite Wrestling: Collision closes out the night from 10pm, wrestling coverage that can run over its scheduled two hours.

What is ITV4+1?

A timeshift channel showing the ITV4 schedule exactly one hour later, on Freeview 59 and Sky 220.

Is ITV4 free to watch, and does it have adverts?

Yes, entirely free to air with no subscription fee on any platform. As a commercial ITV channel it carries advertising breaks, the same as ITV1.

Can I watch ITV4 online for free?

Yes, live and free through ITVX at itv.com/watch and via the ITVX app. A free account is required.

Verdict

ITV4 does one thing very well: live racing and rugby, without a subscription in sight, from a broadcaster that’s covered sport for decades. Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani’s racing coverage is the strongest thing on it. The archive filler and American reruns are functional rather than exciting, and wrestling fans get AEW once a week while everyone else skips the slot.

Tonight again has no live fixture, so the schedule runs on recorded highlights, a new instalment of Ice Road Truckers and the weekly AEW show. It’s a solid enough archive-and-action line-up for a quiet Tuesday, closing with wrestling that has a habit of overrunning its slot rather than sticking to schedule.

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