The Best TV Shows on More4

Every More4 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of June 2025, showcases over 20 of More4’s highest-rated series. Leading the pack on More4 are Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and Time Team, with their initial broadcasts in 1966 and 1994. Across the timeline from 1966 to 2024, More4 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Inside the Spitfire Factory
    Inside the Spitfire Factory (2020)8.0

    A team of dedicated engineers and enthusiasts turn the 1943 Mark IX Spitfire from rusty remains into flying legend.

  • Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales
    Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales (2021)8.0

    Television presenter Matt Baker receives a call that leads him to move his wife and two children north to run his family's sheep farm in the Durham hills after his mum had a serious accident.

  • PopMaster TV
    PopMaster TV (2023)8.0

    Ken Bruce brings the formidable quiz to our tellies, as he challenges music fans to recall chart-topping facts and stats in a battle to become PopMaster TV champion

  • The Great Pottery Throw Down
    The Great Pottery Throw Down (2015)7.5

    Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.

  • Time Team
    Time Team (1994)7.1

    Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.

  • Shrink Rap
    Shrink Rap (2007)7.0

    Actress and writer Pamela Stephenson is now a successful therapist – Dr Pamela Connolly – with a private practice in Los Angeles. She draws upon her professional training when interviewing A-list celebrities.

  • Homes By the Sea
    Homes By the Sea (2014)7.0

    Architectural designer Charlie Luxton embarks on a nationwide journey to visit some of Britain's best homes by the sea and find out what makes the perfect coastal property.

  • Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey
    Perfect Pub Walks with Bill Bailey (2024)7.0

    The comedian, musician and nature lover takes fellow comedian Alan Davies to the Peak District National Park, walking the Monsal Trail to Derbyshire's highest pub, Abney Moor and Mam Tor. These two have been friends for 30 years and Bill was Alan's best man. As they walk, they chat about the perils of ageing, the stresses of modern life and the loss of their friend Sean Lock

  • 999: On the Front Line
    999: On the Front Line (2017)6.2

    Filmed simultaneously with ambulance crews across the West Midlands, this series shows in real time the range of cases paramedics attend to.

  • Hitler: The Rise and Fall
    Hitler: The Rise and Fall (2016)5.8

    Using the latest research across the course of Hitler’s life, world-renowned experts investigate the man behind the monster and pinpoint the key moments in his meteoric rise and ultimate downfall.

  • The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge
    The Great Big Tiny Design Challenge (2022)5.5

    Sandi Toksvig presents a brand-new competition series that puts the miniature making skills of 10 amateur crafters from across Britain to the test. Over eight episodes, the crafters must transform a derelict mini mansion into the ultimate fantasy house.

  • Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
    Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (1966)5.1

    The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all.

  • Matt Baker: Travels With Mum and Dad
    Matt Baker: Travels With Mum and Dad (2022)5.0

    Matt Baker: Travels with Mum and Dad will take viewers on a breathtaking trip around the North East, where the Bakers are lucky enough to have some of the country’s most beautiful sites on their doorstep. They’ll be reliving old memories, making new ones, and most importantly, making time for each other. With the demands of rural life and their animals, Janice and Mike have barely spent a night away from the farm so Matt’s keen to give them day trips to remember within easy reach of the home.

  • World's Most Extreme
    World's Most Extreme (2014)4.0

    World's Most Extreme takes you to the most jaw-dropping and extreme places anywhere in the world.

  • The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes
    The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes (2017)N/A

    A look at life in the protected countryside of the national parks of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.

  • The Great British Dig: History In Your Garden
    The Great British Dig: History In Your Garden (2021)N/A

    Hugh Dennis and a team of expert archaeologists excavate back gardens around Britain, in an attempt to uncover the lost history buried beneath our lawns and flower beds

  • True Stories
    True Stories (N/A)N/A

    Showcasing the best of international feature documentaries.

  • David Jason's Great British Inventions
    David Jason's Great British Inventions (2020)N/A

    Sir David Jason explores his favourite great British inventions and discovers how and why they were first thought up

  • Cleaning Britain's Greatest Treasures
    Cleaning Britain's Greatest Treasures (2022)N/A

    Follow the dedicated conservation cleaners looking after our national treasures, as they show us the special tools, techniques and tricks of the trade to clean and preserve historical artefacts

  • Jonathan Ross' Myths and Legends
    Jonathan Ross' Myths and Legends (2023)N/A

    Jonathan Ross goes in search of Britain's fantastical forgotten fables, mythical mysteries and lost local legends