Full Channel 4 listings for Tuesday 27 October 2026, with times in London local time.

Channel 4 hands its night to The Great British Bake Off

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The Great British Bake Off gets seventy-five minutes at 8pm, the longest programme in primetime, and everything else on Channel 4 tonight is arranged around it. It is the only reason to be here at that hour, and it is a good one: a baking contest that has run to 90 episodes over 10 series, with Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith in its cast list.

Bake Off, twice

Bake Off turns up again at 10.15pm in a programme listed as New: The Great British Bake, with the rest of the title cut off. That is a second Bake Off-titled slot in one evening, which tells you how much the channel values the franchise. The main show also airs on 4seven at the same time as Channel 4, so anyone choosing between the two is choosing between the same title. It appears on six days in the window, so it is more than a weekly event. Four stars for the main show, three for the 10.15 follow-up, which I can’t say more about because Channel 4 doesn’t.

Tempting Fortune at 9.15

The slot after Bake Off belongs to Tempting Fortune, an hour starting at 9.15pm. There is little to say about it beyond that it is a 2023 British programme. Its rivals are barely there. 4seven has The Equalizer 2 and little else starts nearby, which is an easy run for a programme that doesn’t need to be great. Two stars, the weakest of the night, because there is nothing on the page to recommend it beyond the slot.

Before and after

Channel 4 News fills the 7pm hour, a full sixty minutes, ahead of the main event. Early evening is the usual run of Four in a Bed, Come Dine with Me and A New Life in the Sun. The night closes with 999: On the Front Line at 11.05pm, an hour that suits the late slot. Three stars for staying up.

The day is a comedy-and-property schedule: Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond and The King of Queens in the morning, then American Pickers, Renovation Nation, A Place in the Sun and Help! We Bought a Village through the afternoon. It is a dependable run, and it will not change anyone’s night.


Also on TV tonight at 9pm

  • BBC One: Blue Lights
  • BBC Two: Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
  • ITV1: New: Unbelievable Moments:…
  • Channel 5: Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild
  • BBC Four: The Normans
  • ITV2: Big Brother
  • ITV3: Vera (from 8pm)
  • ITV4: Junk and Disorderly
  • E4: Gogglebox
  • More4: Matt Baker: Our Barn in the Dales

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Frequently asked questions

What’s on Channel 4 tonight?

On Tuesday 27 October 2026, Channel 4 shows Channel 4 News at 7pm, The Great British Bake Off at 8pm, Tempting Fortune at 9.15pm and New: The Great British Bake… at 10.15pm.

Is there a film on Channel 4 tonight?

No. Channel 4 has no films in its evening schedule on Tuesday 27 October 2026.

What’s on Channel 4 late tonight?

After 11pm, Channel 4 has 999: On the Front Line at 11.05pm.

What time does Channel 4’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with A New Life in the Sun: Where… at 6pm.

Two channels in one: American sitcoms by day, Channel 4 by night

Channel 4 has been on air since 1982 as a British public-service channel, and its schedule splits cleanly in two. Until lunchtime it is a repeat service for American sitcoms: Frasier ran 115 times in the five weeks we tracked, Everybody Loves Raymond 102 times, The King of Queens 75. From the afternoon it becomes a property and lifestyle channel, and only after Channel 4 News at 7pm does it look like the broadcaster people mean when they say “Channel 4”: Gogglebox, Grand Designs, Taskmaster and documentary series that change from night to night. Across the whole day, 85% of airtime went to titles that turned up on three or more days.

What a day on Channel 4 looks like

Early morning. Countdown opens most days, often around 5.50am, and comes round twice on the days it airs. Then the sitcoms start: Cheers from about 6.15am, The King of Queens around 6.30am, Everybody Loves Raymond from 7.45am and Frasier from about 9.10am, with The Simpsons slotted in around 9.25am on about two days in five. These run in blocks of back-to-back episodes. Raymond appeared on every one of the 34 days we measured, and Frasier on 30.

Late morning and afternoon. American Pickers sits at 11.10am on most weekdays, a short Channel 4 News Summary at 12.05pm, then Renovation Nation or Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 12.10pm. The Great House Giveaway holds 1.10pm. A Place in the Sun takes 3pm, Help! We Bought a Village 4pm. Every one of those held the same slot on most days.

Teatime. Four in a Bed at 5pm and Come Dine with Me at 5.30pm are the channel’s two most dependable early-evening fixtures, on 29 and 27 days respectively. A New Life in the Sun follows at 6pm.

The evening, 6pm to 10.30pm. Channel 4 News at 7pm is the hinge of the whole schedule, on every day we measured. After it the channel stops repeating itself. No single title filled the same primetime slot on more than five days in the window. At 8pm we saw Location, Location, Location, Our Tiny Islands and, in the autumn, The Great British Bake Off. The 9pm slot rotated between Grand Designs, Taskmaster, Gogglebox and the documentary series Apocalypse, with Tempting Fortune at 9.30pm on some nights. At 10pm the channel puts its sharper factual titles, Geordie Coppers and Martin Compston: Living Las Vegas among them.

Late night. Three Women around 11pm on some nights, then Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA and Taskmaster repeats after 1am, with Couples Come Dine with Me filling the small hours.

Films hardly feature at all; we counted close to none in an average week.

Popular shows on Channel 4

Gogglebox is a British reality series that began on Channel 4 in 2013. It appeared on 14 days in our window, usually at 9pm or 10pm.

Grand Designs is a British documentary series about building homes, first broadcast in 1999, which has run to 20 series and 160 episodes. On Channel 4 it usually takes the 9pm slot.

Location, Location, Location is a property series that began in 2000, with Phil Spencer among its presenters. It ran on 13 days in the five weeks, mostly at 8pm.

Taskmaster is a British comedy panel game that began in 2015. On Channel 4 it shows up both at 9pm and as late-night repeats.

The Great British Bake Off is a cooking competition with Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith among its cast. It is an autumn fixture, at 8pm when it runs, and not a year-round one.

Channel 4 News has been the channel’s evening bulletin since 1982, a current affairs programme that ran at 7pm on every day we measured.

How to watch Channel 4

Channel 4 is free-to-air on channel 4 on Freeview (HD on 104), and on 104 on Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. On Freely it is channel 4. In Wales, S4C takes the number 4, so Channel 4 moves to Freeview 7 (HD on 110), Sky 108 and Virgin Media 108. Channel 4+1 is on Freeview 15.

Online, the Channel 4 streaming service (the app is simply called Channel 4, formerly All 4) shows the channel live and on demand, free. As with any UK channel, watching live television needs a TV Licence.

Channel 4 and its sister channels

The family is Channel 4, E4, E4 Extra, More4, Film4 and 4seven. E4 is the young-adult arm, with Hollyoaks, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and late Gogglebox repeats. More4 takes Channel 4’s factual back catalogue, with 24 Hours in A&E most nights at 10pm. Film4 is films all day. 4seven replays recent Channel 4 programmes, so A Place in the Sun, Grand Designs and Bake Off turn up there in the evening.

Outside the family, BBC Two is the nearest match for the documentary-led evenings, and Channel 5 for the property and lifestyle daytime.

Who it’s for

Channel 4 by day is for people who want a familiar sitcom on in the background, followed by an afternoon of houses abroad and B&B owners judging each other. By night it is a different, less predictable channel, and the better reason to come. If you want a film, try Film4 instead.

What channel is Channel 4 on Freeview?

Channel 4 is on Freeview channel 4, with HD on 104. In Wales it is on 7 (HD on 110).

Can I watch Channel 4 online?

Yes. The free Channel 4 streaming service carries it live and on demand.

What’s on Channel 4 most evenings?

Channel 4 News at 7pm, then a rotating line-up of factual and entertainment series such as Gogglebox, Grand Designs, Location, Location, Location and Taskmaster.

Why is Frasier always on Channel 4?

Because the mornings are built from back-to-back American sitcoms. Frasier aired 115 times on 30 of the 34 days we tracked, and Everybody Loves Raymond on all 34.