The Best TV Shows on More4

Every More4 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Premiering in 1966 and 1994, Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and Time Team are among More4’s most celebrated shows. As of February 2026, we’ve curated over 20 of More4’s premier shows for your viewing pleasure. Across the timeline from 1966 to 2026, More4 has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • Find It, Fix It, Drive It
    Find It, Fix It, Drive It (2019)8.0

    Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove track down neglected vintage vehicles and give them a new lease of life.

  • 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
    Perfect Pub Walks (2024)7.0

    Comedian, musician and nature lover Bill Bailey takes some famous faces for an amble and a ramble on some of the UK's most spectacular pub walks.

  • 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)6.1

    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.

  • Sex Change Hospital
    Sex Change Hospital (2007)4.0

    Sex Change Hospital is an American six-part documentary series following trans men and women having genital reassignment surgeries. Dr. Marci Bowers performs the surgeries and calls upon her own experiences as a transgender woman to guide her patients as they go through the ultimate life changing procedure.

  • Impossible Builds
    Impossible Builds (2018)N/A

    Charlie Luxton and Aidan Keane meet ambitious families who are building innovative bespoke homes in some of the UK's most remote and challenging locations

  • Great British Home Restoration
    Great British Home Restoration (2021)N/A

    Great British Home Restoration is an eight part series charting couples and families as they take on the unique challenge of transforming some of the world’s most unusual and historic buildings – never originally built to be lived in - into the ultimate dream homes. In each episode, architectural designer Charlie Luxton explores the mix of master crafts and innovative 21st century engineering it takes to convert a historic structure into a unique show-stopping house - from the challenge of re-configuring an abandoned church into a practical family home to the task of transforming a historic windmill into a futuristic house. The series explores the unique design challenges of reconfiguring each unusually shaped structure into practical living spaces - from curved kitchen units that can hug the walls of a circular Oast House to restoring the fragile timber features of a historic barn.

  • 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

  • Britain's Favourite Railway Stations with Si King
    Britain's Favourite Railway Stations with Si King (2026)N/A

    Si King, Siddy Holloway and Damion Burrows explore the extraordinary spaces that take us beyond catching a train to the hidden worlds where heritage, technology and community converge.

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

    Showcasing the best of international feature documentaries.

  • Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders
    Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders (2025)N/A

    Sandi Toksvig and Raksha Dave join some of the nation’s most extraordinary digs, as they explore remarkable sites on the brink of great discoveries and unearth hidden secrets from Britain's past.

  • Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith
    Saving Country Houses with Penelope Keith (2026)N/A

    From cafes to craft fairs, glamping to ghosts, join Dame Penelope Keith as she meets the owners of Britain’s historic country houses struggling to keep their homes intact. Featured properties include Ashby Manor in Northamptonshire, Chillingham Castle in Northumberland, and Mapperton House in Dorset. As these estates turn to innovative ventures to stay afloat, Keith offers insight into the challenges of maintaining these grand homes in 2025. Will their creative solutions be enough to save their history?