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. Wednesday 5 August has no live fixture in the schedule, so the evening runs on a quiz, a film and archive action instead: Beat the Chasers airs at 8pm, RoboCop follows at 9pm and resumes after a short FYI Daily break at 10:05pm, and All Elite Wrestling: Collision closes the night from 11:05pm. Channel numbers for every platform are further down.

ITV4 Schedule: Wednesday 5 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Wednesday 5 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

What’s on ITV4 today

Today opens just after midnight with Dark Side of the Ring at 12am, then Minder at 12:55am 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 9:05am. 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 3:40pm and The Professionals at 4:50pm, and Minder rounds off the archive run at 5:55pm before Aussie Pickers opens the evening at 7pm.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026.

Aussie Pickers — ITV4, 7pm

This Australian spin-off of the American Pickers format sends Lucas Callaghan and Adam McDonald hunting for buried memorabilia. Tonight’s episode takes them to a collection voted the nation’s best.

Beat the Chasers — ITV4, 8pm

Bradley Walsh’s quiz format turns the usual formula on its head, letting contestants gamble on facing multiple Chasers at once for a bigger prize. This episode’s line-up is comedian Nish Kumar, fellow comic Chris McCausland, former England goalkeeper Mary Earps and Alexander Armstrong.

RoboCop (1987) — ITV4, 9pm

Paul Verhoeven’s satirical action film gets its regular outing, with Peter Weller as the fatally wounded Detroit cop rebuilt as a cyborg enforcer and Nancy Allen as his old partner. FYI Daily breaks the film at 10pm for a five-minute entertainment news bulletin before it resumes at 10:05pm.

All Elite Wrestling: Collision — ITV4, 11:05pm

AEW’s Saturday-night US show gets its UK outing here, with Kyle Fletcher, Kazuchika Okada, Megan Bayne, Tommaso Ciampa and Claudio Castagnoli among the names on the card. It’s a taped broadcast rather than a live one, but ITV4 has a habit of running these slots long regardless.

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?

Wednesday 5 August 2026: Aussie Pickers opens the evening at 7pm, followed by Beat the Chasers at 8pm. RoboCop (1987) runs from 9pm, pausing for FYI Daily at 10pm before continuing at 10:05pm, and All Elite Wrestling: Collision closes out the night from 11:05pm.

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 has no live fixture either, so the schedule leans on Beat the Chasers, a rerun of RoboCop and the AEW Collision slot. It’s a lighter line-up than the racing and rugby days, but Beat the Chasers earns its spot and the wrestling still tends to run past its billed finish.

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