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 classic drama and American sitcoms. Saturday 15 August brings the channel’s biggest fixture of the summer: the 2026 Speedway British Final goes out live from Manchester’s National Speedway Stadium at 7pm, with Robert Lambert defending the title he won at the same track a year ago. World Series of Darts fills the morning, Formula E’s penultimate race of the season the early afternoon, and two runs of Aussie Pickers lead into the speedway before football highlights and a fresh All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite close out the night.

ITV4 Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

Overnight

Breakfast

Afternoon

Early evening

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Late night

What’s on ITV4 today

Saturday opens with a Dark Side of the Ring look back at the ill-fated Brawl for All boxing tournament at 1:15am, then two overnight episodes of Two and a Half Men run to 3am, when teleshopping takes over through to 6am. World of Sport digs into the ITV Sport archive at 6am with a segment on James Hunt, Barry Sheene and a memorable Kelvin Burt crash, The Protectors opens at 6:20am, and The Professionals follows at 6:55am with Doyle stalked by a vengeful old rival. The World Series of Darts heads to Auckland for the New Zealand Masters at 8am, running the quarter-finals through to the final across four hours. Jeremy Wade’s search for the Loch Ness monster gets a two-part outing from midday, first tracing the legend from Scotland to Iceland and then into the Arctic Circle, before The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes tackles the Thor Bridge case at 1pm. Formula E Live brings round 16 of the season from London at 2pm, the penultimate race before the championship wraps up, and Great Racehorses looks back at Nijinsky, Shergar and Best Mate at 4:35pm. Two runs of Aussie Pickers close out the afternoon, at 5pm and 6pm, before the Speedway Final takes over from 7pm.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

Aussie Pickers — ITV4, 6pm

Lucas Callaghan and Adam McDonald wrap up a Tasmania trip in the second of two Aussie Pickers episodes tonight, sizing up whatever the island has to offer before the speedway takes over the schedule.

2026 Speedway British Final Live — ITV4, 7pm

ITV4 clears the evening for live speedway from Manchester’s National Speedway Stadium, where Robert Lambert defends the British crown he won at the same track twelve months ago in a decider still talked about as one of the closest the meeting has produced. Emma Louise Jones presents, with double British champion Kelvin Tatum and current GB team manager Olly Allen alongside her on commentary. The field mixes past winners Chris Harris, Charles Wright, Danny King and Craig Cook with three teenage debutants, Will Cairns, Cooper Rushen and Jody Scott. Coverage runs three hours from the 7pm parade.

Goals of the 1990s — ITV4, 10pm

A quarter-hour trawl through the decade’s best strikes, taking in World Cup goals from David Platt and Michael Owen and European Championship moments involving Paul Gascoigne and Davor Šuker.

English Football League Highlights — ITV4, 10:15pm

Round-up from the opening weekend of the football league season, including Wolves against Blackburn and Norwich against West Brom among the results covered.

All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite — ITV4, 11:45pm

The weekly AEW show closes out the night, with Jon Moxley and MJF among the names on a roster that stretches into the early hours.

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?

Saturday 15 August 2026: live speedway is the headline act, with the 2026 Speedway British Final from Manchester’s National Speedway Stadium from 7pm. Two runs of Aussie Pickers lead in at 5pm and 6pm, Goals of the 1990s and English Football League Highlights fill the 10pm hour, and a new All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite closes the night from 11:45pm.

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 sport, without a subscription in sight, from a broadcaster that’s covered racing, rugby and now speedway for years. Ed Chamberlin and Francesca Cumani’s racing coverage is usually the strongest thing on the channel, but tonight that title passes to something rarer on terrestrial TV: a British title decider live from the track. The archive filler and American reruns around it are functional rather than exciting, and wrestling fans get AEW once a week while everyone else skips the slot.

Saturday’s evening leans on that one live event rather than a run of shows. Two more episodes of Aussie Pickers lead in from 5pm, the Speedway British Final runs from 7pm to 10pm with Robert Lambert defending his title, and football highlights followed by a fresh All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite close out the night. It’s a heavier sport night than most and reason enough on its own to tune in before 7pm.

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