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. Monday 17 August is a quieter night on the sport front, with no live fixture in the schedule, so the evening leans on the channel’s other strength instead: a proper film night. Apollo 13 anchors primetime from 9pm, sandwiched between Formula E Highlights and The Motorbike Show earlier in the evening, and a new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closes things out just before midnight. By day, classic drama reruns carry the schedule, with two-episode runs of Magnum, P.I. and Robin of Sherwood either side of Boon and The Professionals.

ITV4 Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV4 today

Monday’s overnight hours open with The Summit Australia at 12:05am (series 1, episode 7), before two episodes of Two and a Half Men run back to back from 1:20am, Unwind with ITV’s mindfulness strand takes the 2:10am slot, and teleshopping fills the small hours from 3am. Magnum, P.I. gets the day properly under way at 6am (series 7, episode 1), with Robin of Sherwood following at 8:05am. The late morning brings Boon at 9:10am and The Professionals at 10:10am, before Robin of Sherwood returns with its second episode at 11:20am. Magnum, P.I. comes back for a two-episode run from 12:25pm, running through to 2:35pm, when The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes takes over. Boon’s second episode airs at 3:45pm, The Professionals returns at 4:50pm, and Minder closes out the afternoon at 5:55pm, ahead of Formula E Highlights opening the evening.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

Formula E Highlights — ITV4, 7pm

Primetime opens with a round-up of the latest race from the all-electric series, condensing the overtakes and pit strategy into an hour for anyone who missed the live stream.

The Motorbike Show — ITV4, 8pm

The channel switches to two wheels for the hour before the film, mixing restoration projects and road trips in the format that’s carried this series through several runs now (series 5, episode 6).

Apollo 13 — ITV4, 9pm

Ron Howard’s account of NASA’s near-disastrous 1970 mission takes up the rest of the evening, with Tom Hanks leading the crew trying to get their crippled spacecraft home. FYI Daily breaks in briefly at 10pm with a short entertainment bulletin before the film picks back up at 10:05pm to see out its final stretch.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — ITV4, 11:50pm

The night’s one premiere lands just before midnight: a new outing for the Enterprise crew, ‘A Quality of Mercy’, which closes out the show’s first series (series 1, episode 10). It’s a late slot, but a reliable one for the channel’s small but committed Star Trek following.

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?

Monday 17 August 2026: Formula E Highlights opens primetime at 7pm, followed by The Motorbike Show at 8pm. Apollo 13 takes the 9pm slot, pausing for a short FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm before picking back up at 10:05pm through to its close, and a new episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows at 11:50pm.

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 darts for years. There’s none of that tonight, though. Monday 17 August is one of the channel’s quieter evenings, built around a well-worn Hollywood favourite rather than a live fixture. Apollo 13 still holds up three decades on, and pairing it with a new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode gives the night a genre-fan pull it wouldn’t otherwise have.

The early evening is functional rather than must-see, with Formula E Highlights and The Motorbike Show filling their usual hours either side of 7pm and 8pm. It’s Apollo 13 from 9pm, broken only by a short FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm, that gives tonight its shape, and the Star Trek finale is a decent reason to stay up past 11:30pm rather than switch off once the film ends.

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