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

Published: 29 August 2026

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. Sunday 30 August is quiet for live sport on ITV4 itself — today’s racing and rugby fixtures sit elsewhere in the ITV portfolio — and the schedule leans on archive drama and film instead. Cadfael and a Sherlock Holmes adaptation hold the late morning and early afternoon, two Hornblower instalments run back to back into the evening, and primetime is built around two feature films, Waterloo and 6 Bullets, before The Summit Australia closes out the night.

ITV4 Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Sunday 30 August 2026, on Freeview 26.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV4 today

The small hours run through Unwind with ITV at 3:20am before Teleshopping takes over for two and a half hours from 3:30am.

Sunday’s daytime carries no live sport at all, just highlights and magazine strands. Made in Britain opens the day at 6am, then two motoring slots — Auto Mundial at 6:30am and Motorsport Mundial at 7am — run into British Touring Car Championship Highlights at 7:30am. English Football League Highlights takes the 9am hour and a half, Made in Britain repeats at 10:35am, and Cadfael runs from 11:05am. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes fills 12:45pm, then two episodes of Hornblower — the second of them, Loyalty, ending at 6:20pm — carry the schedule to the edge of primetime.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 30 August 2026. Hornblower runs on into the start of the evening before the channel settles into two feature films and a reality closer.

Waterloo — ITV4, 6:20pm

Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 telling of Napoleon’s last campaign opens the evening, with Rod Steiger as the exiled emperor and Christopher Plummer as the Duke of Wellington facing him down at the battle itself. ITV4 splits the film in two, breaking for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 7:25pm before picking the story back up at 7:30pm through to 9pm.

6 Bullets — ITV4, 9pm

Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a retired mercenary dragged back into the fight to track down a kidnapped child in this 2012 actioner, co-starring Joe Flanigan as the father searching alongside him. Another FYI Daily bulletin splits the film at 10pm, with the second half running to 11:20pm.

The Summit Australia — ITV4, 11:20pm

The reality format that strands a group of contestants on a mountain trek, splitting a shared prize pot as the field thins out, closes the night with a new episode nine episodes into its run.

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 action drama reruns such as The Professionals and Robin of Sherwood. 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. Tonight’s 11:20pm The Summit Australia turns up on the +1 feed at 12:20am instead, so anyone who misses ITV4’s showing gets a second chance 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?

Sunday 30 August 2026 opens its evening with Waterloo at 6:20pm, then 6 Bullets at 9pm and The Summit Australia from 11:20pm. Both films are split by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin. There’s no live sport on ITV4 today; English Football League Highlights and British Touring Car Championship Highlights fill the daytime instead.

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 goes without live sport on Sunday 30 August. The day’s sporting content is all highlights — English Football League action at 9am and British Touring Car Championship coverage at 7:30am — and the evening turns to archive drama and film instead.

Two Hornblower instalments carry the schedule into the evening before Waterloo takes over at 6:20pm, Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1970 epic with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer restaging Napoleon’s last battle. 6 Bullets follows at 9pm, a Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner about a retired mercenary hunting down a kidnapped child, and The Summit Australia closes the night from 11:20pm. Both films are broken by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin. Anyone after live sport will need to look elsewhere in the ITV lineup today; anyone happy with a war epic, a Van Damme thriller and a reality closer is well served.

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