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, running everything from live racing to reruns of Magnum, P.I. and Minder. Wednesday 12 August has no live fixture, but the evening still has plenty to it: Aussie Pickers at 6:55pm, King of the Roads at 8pm, then RoboCop 2 from 9pm and AEW: Collision closing out the night at 11:15pm.

ITV4 Schedule: Wednesday 12 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

What’s on ITV4 today

Today opens at midnight with Dark Side of the Ring’s profile of the wrestler New Jack, then The Professionals at 12:55am and the closing fights of BattleBots’ Round of 16 from 1:55am. Unwind with ITV closes out the small hours from 2:50am and teleshopping fills the gap from 3am to 6am. Magnum, P.I. runs back to back at 6am and 7am, then Robin of Sherwood’s two-part Swords of Wayland story splits across 8am and 11:20am around Boon at 9:10am and The Professionals at 10:15am. Magnum, P.I. returns twice more at 12:30pm and 1:35pm, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes sends Watson to the Lake District at 2:35pm, Boon repeats at 3:45pm, The Professionals at 4:50pm, and Minder rounds off the archive run at 5:50pm before Aussie Pickers opens the evening at 6:55pm.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 12 August 2026.

Aussie Pickers — ITV4, 6:55pm

Lucas Callaghan and Adam McDonald cross to Tasmania this week, working the island’s backroads for salvageable finds most owners had given up on. It’s the same low-key haggling format the show has run on since splitting off from the American original.

King of the Roads — ITV4, 8pm

Tonight’s edition heads to County Antrim for the Armoy Race of Legends, the closed-roads meeting that grew out of the old Armoy Armada. Decades of local racing history sit behind a fairly short highlights package.

RoboCop 2 — ITV4, 9pm

Peter Weller is back as the cyborg cop for this 1990 sequel, squaring up against a corporate plot to bankrupt Detroit and buy up what’s left. Nancy Allen returns alongside him. ITV4 breaks the film for a five-minute FYI Daily entertainment bulletin at 10:05pm, picking the story back up at 10:10pm through to 11:15pm.

AEW: Collision — ITV4, 11:15pm

Tommaso Ciampa, Claudio Castagnoli, Kazuchika Okada and Kyle Fletcher headline a two-hour card that closes out the night. Series four, episode thirty.

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 12 August 2026: no live sport. Aussie Pickers opens the evening at 6:55pm and King of the Roads follows at 8pm, then RoboCop 2 runs from 9pm, breaking for FYI Daily at 10:05pm and resuming at 10:10pm, before AEW: Collision closes the night from 11:15pm.

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 archive and film programming carries the schedule instead: Aussie Pickers, road racing from Armoy in King of the Roads, then RoboCop 2 and AEW: Collision back to back. It’s a lighter line-up than the racing and rugby days, but a 1990 action sequel followed by a live-feel wrestling card still gives the night two reasons to stay past 9pm.

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