More4 TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On More4 Tonight

More4 is Channel 4’s factual and lifestyle channel: property shows, food formats and the fly-on-the-wall documentaries that would crowd out the main channel’s schedule. It launched on 10 October 2005 and has been free to air since 6 May 2008, when it dropped the subscription requirement it had briefly carried on satellite. Wednesday’s full listings are below, with channel numbers further down the page.

More4 Schedule: Wednesday 12 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete More4 schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2026, on Freeview 18.

What’s on More4 today

Wednesday’s daytime is a standard weekday for More4: a teleshopping block runs until 8:55am, when Find It, Fix It, Flog It takes over for an hour. Four in a Bed then anchors the schedule from 10am to 5:20pm across ten episodes, broken up by five Come Dine with Me editions between 12:40pm and 2:50pm. Two Car S.O.S restorations open the evening from 5:50pm.

Before any of that, the small hours carry 999: On the Front Line just after midnight and two more 24 Hours in A&E repeats, followed by an early A Place in the Sun repeat and the same long teleshopping block that runs until Find It, Fix It, Flog It restarts the daytime schedule at 8:55am.

More4 tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the More4 primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 12 August 2026.

Car S.O.S — More4, 5:50pm & 6:50pm

Two rebuilds back to back this evening. First, at 5:50pm, Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend head north to collect a 1968 Lancia Fulvia owned by a former hairdresser, a car the team rate as one of Italy’s better-looking exports (series 8, episode 5). The 6:50pm job is stranger still: a rare Cannon, a British-built trials car few viewers will have come across before (series 8, episode 6).

Grand Designs — More4, 7:55pm

Kevin McCloud checks in on Paul and Amy, who are attempting something unusual beside a Lincolnshire lake: five separate circular timber buildings connected by raised walkways. The ambition of the design starts to weigh on Paul long before the year-long build is finished (series 20, episode 2).

Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts — More4, 9pm

Alice Roberts’s rail journey through Italy reaches Herculaneum, buried by the same eruption that destroyed Pompeii, where she goes looking for scrolls that survived Vesuvius. From there the trail leads to Capua and evidence of a secretive ancient cult (series 1, episode 2).

24 Hours in Police Custody: The Devil’s Chain — More4, 10pm

This feature-length case turns on a single piece of evidence: a gold chain recovered after a machete and gun attack. Detectives use it to work backwards from the crime scene to the identities of the men responsible (series 2024, episode 3).

24 Hours in A&E — More4, 11:05pm

A gentler set of cases closes the night, among them Henry and Audrey, married for close to seventy years, who still talk about their first meeting as though it happened yesterday (series 9, episode 2).

What kind of shows are on More4

Fly-on-the-wall documentary

This is the strand More4 is known for. 24 Hours in A&E and 999: On the Front Line both use the same method: fixed cameras, real emergencies, no reconstructions. Neither has changed that formula in over a decade of running.

Property and food formats

A Place in the Sun and Come Dine with Me anchor the daytime and early-evening schedule. One is about the fantasy of starting again somewhere warmer; the other is about strangers cooking for each other and being far too honest about the results. Four in a Bed does the same job for the B&B trade. Between them they account for most of what More4 broadcasts before 6pm.

Imported drama and classic comedy

More4 also fills gaps with imported crime drama, a fair amount of Nordic noir, and repeats from Channel 4’s own sitcom back-catalogue. It’s schedule filler between the factual strands rather than anything the channel commissions for itself.

How to watch More4

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find More4 across the main UK television platforms:

More4 is free on all of the above, with no subscription required.

Streaming online

More4 streams live and free at channel4.com/now/m4 and via the Channel 4 app on smart TVs, iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Roku and PlayStation. You’ll need a free Channel 4 account, which costs nothing to set up. Recent episodes of most More4 shows are also available to watch on demand through Channel 4’s streaming platform shortly after broadcast.

More4 +1 and sister channels

More4 +1 runs the schedule an hour behind on Virgin Media, channel 347, but was withdrawn from Freeview back in June 2022. If you miss the start of something on Freeview, the Channel 4 on-demand service is the more reliable way to catch up.

More4 sits alongside Channel 4’s other free channels: the main Channel 4 service, E4 (entertainment and US imports), Film4 (movies) and 4seven (catch-up repeats).

Frequently asked questions

What’s on More4 tonight?

Tonight, Wednesday 12 August 2026, the evening runs from two Car S.O.S restorations into Grand Designs, then Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts at 9pm and 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Devil’s Chain at 10pm, before 24 Hours in A&E closes out the night at 11:05pm. Full times are in the schedule table above.

What time do the main documentaries start on More4?

More4’s documentary strands usually sit between 9pm and 11pm, after the property shows have had the earlier part of the evening. A new series launch or a one-off special can push that earlier, so check the on-screen guide if the evening looks different from usual.

Is More4 free to watch?

Yes, completely free on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat, with advertising breaks but no subscription fee.

Can I watch More4 online for free?

Yes. It streams live at channel4.com/now/m4 and through the Channel 4 app; you’ll need a free Channel 4 account. Most recent episodes also appear on demand shortly after broadcast.

Verdict

More4 doesn’t try to be flashy, and that’s the point. It’s where Channel 4 parks programming that works without gimmicks: a B&B owner docking marks over a soggy fry-up, or a couple weighing up whether 40 minutes from a decent school is too far. The daytime schedule leans on four recycled formats, and the repetition shows if you watch it start to finish.

Tonight that’s two Car S.O.S rebuilds carrying the early evening into Grand Designs, then Alice Roberts’s Roman rail trip and a feature-length Police Custody case before 24 Hours in A&E closes out the schedule at 11:05pm. None of it is a new format, but the documentary run at the back end of the night is as solid as More4 gets.

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