ITV4 have released details of their planned coverage of this year's Isle of Man TT which includes an extra 1-hour show versus last year bringing the total up to 15 x 1-hour shows over the 14 days.

So get your favourite chair plumped, TV planners fired up and attack that Series Link button with the following:

DATE TIME PROGRAMME Mon 26th May 21:00 TT 2014: The Michael Dunlop Story Tues 27th May 21:00 TT 2014: A Very British Challenge Wed 28th May 21:00 TT: Class of 2014 Thurs 29th May 21:00 Preview Show Fri 30th May 22:00 Qualifying (Scheduled to avoid Eng v Peru on ITV) Sat 31st May 21:00 Dainese Superbike TT Race Sun 1st June 21:00 Sure Sidecar TT Race (1) Mon 2nd June 21:00 Monster Energy Supersport TT Race (1) Tues 3rd June 21:00 RL360 Superstock TT Race Wed 4th June 22:00 Monster Energy Supersport TT Race (2) (Scheduled to avoid Eng v. Equador on ITV) Thurs 5th June 21:00 Sure Sidecar TT Race (2) Fri 6th June 21:00 Pokerstars Senior TT Sat 7th June 21:00 Bikenation Lightweight TT Mon 9th June 18:00 Review Show 1 Mon 9th June 19:00 Review Show 2

The presenting and commentary team of Craig Doyle, Steve Parrish, Steve Plater and Jamie Whittam remains unchanged whilst this schedule announcement comes off the back of a recent and brand new 5-year deal between ITV and the producers of the TT shows, North One Television.





North One were appointed ahead of the 2009 TT and figures from last year's event show an increase in TV audiences throughout the 130 countries where the TT can be seen of 24.4 million which is up from 8.1 million in 2010.