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. Thursday’s full listings are below, with channel numbers further down the page.

More4 Schedule: Thursday 13 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete More4 schedule for Thursday 13 August 2026, on Freeview 18.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on More4 today

Thursday’s daytime is a standard weekday for More4: a Discover Must Have Ideas shopping 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 in two five-episode runs either side of lunch, 10am to 12:10pm and again 3:20pm to 5:20pm, with five Come Dine with Me editions filling the gap 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 open with Emergency Helicopter Medics at 12:10am, then a feature-length 24 Hours in Police Custody case at 1:15am and a single 24 Hours in A&E repeat at 2:15am. An early A Place in the Sun repeat at 3:20am leads into the same shopping 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, Thursday 13 August 2026.

Car S.O.S — More4, 5:50pm & 6:50pm

Two rebuilds back to back. At 5:50pm, Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend take on a tired 1997 Mitsubishi Evo 4, once a match for cars several times its price on the rally stage. The 6:50pm job is a first for the show: a 1953 Ferguson tractor that’s sat idle in South Yorkshire for years.

Grand Designs — More4, 7:55pm

Kevin McCloud follows Joe and Lina, priced out of buying a home, as they build a tight two-bedroom house on a small east London plot for £160,000 (series 18, episode 8).

The Reclaimers: Made in Suffolk — More4, 9pm

This new reclamation strand airs its fifth episode tonight as the crew reach Suffolk, turning Tinkers Barn into a revamped tourist stop and digging out retro finds at Great Yarmouth’s Joyland.

24 Hours in A&E — More4, 10pm & 11:05pm

Two more cases from St George’s. The 10pm hour follows ten-month-old Amy after she stops breathing, alongside a motocross rider’s father who survives a 30-foot fall largely unhurt. At 11:05pm it’s three patients across three decades of life: an 84-year-old needing urgent care, a suspected stroke in someone in their seventies, and a man of 31 with a suspected throat abscess.

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, Thursday 13 August 2026, the evening runs from two Car S.O.S restorations into Grand Designs, then The Reclaimers: Made in Suffolk opens a brand new series at 9pm, before two 24 Hours in A&E episodes close out the night at 10pm and 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 a new series opener for The Reclaimers before two more real cases from 24 Hours in A&E close out the schedule at 11:05pm. Aside from that launch, 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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