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

Published: 16 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. Thursday 17 September 2026 brings the channel’s own live fixture: the World Series of Darts Finals run from 6pm, live from Amsterdam. Benidorm follows at 10pm, then Ligue 1 Highlights at 11pm, before Black Sails closes out the night at 11:35pm.

ITV4 Schedule: Thursday 17 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete ITV4 schedule for Thursday 17 September 2026, on Freeview 26.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Late night

What’s on ITV4 today

Overnight, EFL Carabao Cup Highlights leads into AEW: Collision, then Unwind with ITV and Teleshopping from 3am.

Great Racehorses opens the proper day at 6am, followed by two American Pickers episodes and Minder at 8:25am. The Champions, The Sweeney and The Professionals fill the late morning, then the afternoon repeats much the same rotation — The Champions again, two further American Pickers episodes, The Sweeney and The Professionals — before the World Series of Darts Finals opens tonight’s primetime at 6pm.

ITV4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the ITV4 primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 17 September 2026.

World Series of Darts Finals — ITV4, 6pm

Live coverage of night one from Amsterdam, presented by Gabby Partington with analysis from Glen Durrant and Chris Mason, covering the opening round of matches through to 10pm.

Benidorm — ITV4, 10pm

Relationship tensions surface during a waterfall excursion, with a misunderstanding over one character’s love life adding to the awkwardness (series 3, episode 2).

Ligue 1 Highlights — ITV4, 11pm

A round-up of the latest action from France’s top football division.

Black Sails — ITV4, 11:35pm

A new episode of the pirate drama continues its run of nautical adventure and political scheming (series 2, episode 8).

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, useful for catching something an hour later if you missed the start the first time round — though live sport rights sometimes mean the +1 channel doesn’t carry the same event.

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 its own live sport tonight: the World Series of Darts Finals run from 6pm, live from Amsterdam. Benidorm follows at 10pm, then Ligue 1 Highlights at 11pm, and a new episode of Black Sails closes the night at 11:35pm. See the table above for tonight’s full listings.

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

Daytime is the usual rerun mix — American Pickers, The Sweeney and The Professionals through to early evening, most of it repeating the same rotation twice — but tonight is a live-sport night rather than an archive one.

The World Series of Darts Finals is the reason to tune in from 6pm, running four hours live from Amsterdam. Benidorm, Ligue 1 Highlights and a new episode of Black Sails see out the rest of the evening once the darts wraps up.

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