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

Published: 1 September 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. Wednesday 2 September is a Tour of Britain day: ITV4 carries live coverage of stage one from Lincoln, 10:20am to 4pm, then an hour of highlights at 8pm, before the evening settles into a film. Daytime is otherwise the usual run of vintage series: Magnum, P.I., Robin of Sherwood, Boon and The Professionals carry the schedule up to the cycling and on into early evening, when Minder restarts its archive run from the first episode.

ITV4 Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Wednesday 2 September 2026, on Freeview 26.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on ITV4 today

Overnight, BattleBots runs from 12:40am, then American Pickers at 1:30am and a round-up of motoring news on Auto Mundial at 2:30am, before three hours of Teleshopping from 3am.

Daytime opens with two Magnum, P.I. episodes at 6am and 7am, then Robin of Sherwood at 8am and Boon at 9:05am. A quarter-hour of World of Sport at 10:15am leads straight into the day’s main event: live coverage of the Tour of Britain’s opening stage from Lincoln, on air from 10:20am to 4pm. The Best of the 80s fills the quarter-hour afterwards, then River Monsters at 4:15pm and The Professionals at 4:45pm carry the schedule to Minder at 5:55pm, restarting the archive run from its first episode ahead of primetime.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

ITV4 is the Tour of Britain today, and everything else in the evening sits around it.

Aussie Pickers — ITV4, 7pm

Aussie Pickers opens primetime at 7pm (series 1, episode 8), an Australian spin-off in which Lucas Callaghan and Adam McDonald tour a sprawling stash of ex-forces kit and vehicles outside Melbourne.

Cycling: Tour of Britain Highlights — ITV4, 8pm

Live coverage of stage one ran nearly six hours from 10:20am this morning: a circular route out of Lincoln and back into the city for five laps of the cobbled Michaelgate climb, at an 11.3% average gradient, to finish. The 8pm hour recaps that same stage for anyone who missed the day’s racing.

London Has Fallen — ITV4, 9pm

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart lead London Has Fallen (2016), the action sequel in which bodyguard Mike Banning finds himself defending world leaders from a coordinated attack during a state visit to the capital. It runs 9pm to 11:05pm, paused for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm before resuming at 10:05pm.

River Monsters — ITV4, 11:05pm

Jeremy Wade heads into the Himalayas to investigate a spate of river attacks (series 2, episode 6).

English Football League Highlights — ITV4, 11:35pm

Midweek Championship action closes the night.

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 rounds up a series that rarely gets 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 9pm start for London Has Fallen turns up on the +1 feed at 10pm 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?

ITV4 carries live coverage of the Tour of Britain’s opening stage from Lincoln, 10:20am to 4pm, then an hour of highlights at 8pm. Primetime opens with Aussie Pickers at 7pm, then London Has Fallen (2016) runs 9pm to 11:05pm, split by a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm. River Monsters and midweek Championship highlights close the night.

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 is the Tour of Britain channel today. Stage one starts and finishes in Lincoln, out into the Wolds and back for five laps of the cobbled Michaelgate climb at an 11.3% average gradient, live from 10:20am to 4pm and then recapped in an hour of highlights at 8pm.

Vintage drama fills the rest of daytime: two Magnum, P.I. episodes at 6am and 7am, Robin of Sherwood at 8am, Boon at 9:05am, then River Monsters and The Professionals either side of the cycling before Minder restarts its archive run at 5:55pm. Primetime opens with Aussie Pickers at 7pm ahead of the cycling highlights, then London Has Fallen (2016) takes over from 9pm, Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart’s action sequel, paused for a five-minute FYI Daily bulletin at 10pm. River Monsters and midweek Championship highlights round out the night. Anyone after the Tour of Britain’s opening stage has no reason to look elsewhere today; anyone after the evening’s action gets a straightforward thriller and a wildlife hunt either side of the football.

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