5Star TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On 5Star Tonight

Updated: 14 July 2026

5Star is Channel 5’s reality and factual-entertainment channel, home to the landlord, tenant and bailiff documentaries the network built its daytime reputation on, alongside imported true-story series and Piers Morgan’s nightly opinion slot. It’s part of the Channel 5 stable owned by Paramount, and it’s free to watch on Freeview 32. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, a Home and Away double bill opens the evening at 6pm, before GPs: Behind Closed Doors takes the 7pm hour and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts follows at 8pm. A new episode of 999: Killer On The Line holds the 9pm slot, with 999: Critical Condition and Skin A&E carrying the schedule through to midnight. Channel numbers for every platform are in the table further down.

5Star Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 32.

What’s on 5Star today

Tuesday’s overnight schedule opens with 999: Killer On The Line at midnight, followed by GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 1am, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 2am and Skin A&E at 2:50am, before an early Home and Away repeat at 3:35am. A three-hour teleshopping block runs from 4am to 7am, bridged into the daytime schedule by Shop: Must Have Ideas and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters. Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun holds the late morning with two episodes from 8am, before Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes 10am. Traffic Cops fills three hours from 11am, running into Police Interceptors from 2pm and Fare Dodgers: At War with the Law at 5pm, which leads straight into tonight’s evening line-up.

5Star Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm

The Aussie soap opens the evening with a straight rerun, the first half of tonight’s double bill (series 39, episode 102).

Home and Away — 5Star, 6:30pm

A new instalment follows half an hour later (series 39, episode 103), with David pushing to head home, Richie’s plans unravelling, and Mali’s surf lesson taking a turn nobody saw coming.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

Dr Amir Khan’s Bradford surgery strand takes the 7pm hour (series 8, episode 7). One patient, James, speaks candidly about a heart failure diagnosis and two earlier heart attacks, the kind of frank consultation the series has built its reputation on.

Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts — 5Star, 8pm

Paramedics are called to a teenager mid-seizure and a 76-year-old badly hurt in a fall at home (series 4, episode 4), two call-outs that show how differently a single shift can turn.

999: Killer On The Line — 5Star, 9pm

Tonight’s headline slot brings a new episode (series 2, episode 2), rebuilding the case of Christopher Strettle, a Merseyside man who tried to talk his way out of killing an old friend. He told police the shooting was an accident born of a struggle; the format’s strength has always been showing how forensics slowly took that story apart. It’s the one hour in tonight’s schedule worth clearing time for.

999: Critical Condition — 5Star, 10pm

Series 6, episode 2 follows a stabbing victim fighting for her life and a farmer left with serious head injuries after a quad bike accident.

Skin A&E — 5Star, 11pm

The dermatology strand closes the night (series 5, episode 4) with one of Dr Natalia Spierings’ largest lipoma removals and a bride getting a last-minute procedure weeks before her wedding.

What kind of shows are on 5Star

Landlord, tenant and bailiff documentaries

This is where 5Star has carved out real territory. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords and its spin-off Extreme Nightmare Tenants follow both sides of Britain’s rental disputes, eviction specialists and rogue-landlord investigations alike, while Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up! turns the same doorstep tension towards unpaid debt. No other British free-to-air channel commits this much schedule space to the subject, and it shows in how naturally the channel reaches for a multi-hour block of it most evenings.

Reality, true-story and consumer documentary

Skin A&E, Dirty Home Rescue and Scam City: Don’t Get Caught Out! round out the channel’s factual output with medical, domestic and consumer-protection angles, while imports like Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Australia bring in international takes on formats British viewers already recognise. None of it is ambitious television, but it’s dependable, low-stakes viewing that asks little of its audience.

Opinion, news and chat

Piers Morgan Uncensored gives 5Star a nightly dose of studio argument, a YouTube-native format repurposed for a terrestrial evening slot. It sits apart from the rest of the schedule tonally, but it’s become one of the channel’s most talked-about bookings since the 2025 deal.

Sitcom reruns

Friends remains the channel’s daytime backbone, with multiple episodes most mornings. It’s cheap, reliable scheduling that asks nothing of the viewer and rarely gets moved.

How to watch 5Star

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find 5Star across the main UK television platforms:

5Star is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Virgin Media and Freesat channel numbers may vary slightly depending on your box and region, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if these don’t match.

Streaming online

5Star streams live and free at channel5.com and via the 5 app (formerly known as My5, before Channel 5’s 2025 rebrand unified its linear and streaming services under one name) on smart TVs, iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire TV. You’ll need a free account, which costs nothing to set up. Many 5Star programmes also turn up on demand, though not every title stays available indefinitely.

5Star +1 and sister channels

5Star+1 plays the same schedule an hour behind, so if the Call the Bailiffs marathon starts at 6pm on 5Star, it starts at 7pm on 5Star+1. It’s available on Sky (228), Virgin Media (326) and Freesat (141), but there’s currently no +1 timeshift slot for 5Star on Freeview, so Freeview viewers who miss the start of a programme will need to catch it on demand instead.

5Star sits alongside two other channels in the Paramount-owned Channel 5 family. 5USA, on Freeview 33, carries US crime dramas and imported procedurals. 5Action, on Freeview 21, focuses on action films and adventure series. All three, plus the main Channel 5, stream together through the 5 app.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is 5Star on Freeview?

5Star is on Freeview channel 32. It’s also on Sky (128), Virgin Media (126) and Freesat (131), all free with no subscription.

What’s on 5Star tonight?

A Home and Away double bill opens the evening at 6pm, then it’s GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 7pm and Casualty 24/7 at 8pm. A new episode of 999: Killer On The Line takes the 9pm slot, with 999: Critical Condition and Skin A&E carrying the schedule through to midnight. The full day’s listings are in the schedule table above.

Can I watch 5Star online for free?

Yes. It streams live at channel5.com and through the 5 app (formerly My5); you’ll need a free account. Many programmes also appear on demand afterwards.

Verdict

5Star’s Tuesday leans on its true-crime hour, and the new 999: Killer On The Line at 9pm is the pick of it. The Christopher Strettle case gives the series something meatier than its usual accident-or-murder set-up: a man who nearly talked his way past the evidence.

999: Critical Condition earns its place at 10pm, swapping police interviews for hospital drama, while Casualty 24/7 at 8pm and Skin A&E at 11pm keep the channel’s blue-light and dermatology strands ticking over either side. Add the Home and Away double bill that opens the night, and it’s a solid evening of free-on-Freeview-32 factual telly built around one genuinely gripping true-crime hour.

Related: What’s On TV Tonight | Channel 5 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide