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

5Star is Channel 5’s reality and factual-entertainment channel, built on the landlord, tenant and bailiff documentaries that made its daytime reputation, plus imported true-story series and Piers Morgan’s nightly opinion slot. It’s part of the Paramount-owned Channel 5 stable and free to watch on Freeview 32. Tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026, there’s no Home and Away — the soap is a weekday fixture and takes Saturdays off. In its place, 5Star runs five straight episodes of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords from 3pm to 7pm, then hands over to Extreme Nightmare Tenants at 8pm, Trauma Room One at 9pm and Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death at 10pm. The night closes with a 90-minute documentary, The Beckhams’ Billions: How Did They Get So Rich?, at 11pm. There’s no film in the line-up tonight.

5Star Schedule: Saturday 29 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Saturday 29 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Saturday’s overnight keeps to 5Star’s usual factual and archive shape: Skin A&E opens just after midnight (series 7, episode 8), followed by Cold Case Killers at 1am (series 3, episode 8) and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 2am (series 6, episode 14). Scam City: Don’t Get Caught Out! follows at 2:45am and a Friends repeat closes out the small hours at 3:35am (series 10, episode 8), before Teleshopping holds the schedule for three hours from 4am.

Saturday’s daytime shape is different from the rest of the week. Two shopping strands, Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am, lead into four episodes of Friends from 8am to 9:30am (series 10, episodes 12 to 15) rather than the weekday Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun slot. Three episodes of Car Pound Cops run from 10am to midday (series 2, episodes 6 to 8), then Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! takes the 1pm and 2pm hours (series 1, episodes 6 and 7). None of the weekday daytime strands — Traffic Cops, Police Interceptors, GPs: Behind Closed Doors — are on today. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords opens at 3pm and runs straight through to 7pm, carrying the schedule into the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026. One thing it doesn’t include is Home and Away: the soap runs Monday to Friday, so Saturday’s slot goes to the channel’s own factual staples instead.

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords — 5Star, 3pm to 7pm

Five episodes of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords run back to back this afternoon and evening, series 6, episodes 8 through 12, in order. The 5pm case sits right on the edge of primetime, while the 6pm and 7pm editions sit squarely inside it — five hours of the same eviction-and-rogue-landlord format without a break, which is about as much of one series as 5Star gives any strand in a single day.

Extreme Nightmare Tenants — 5Star, 8pm

The Nightmare Tenants run hands over at 8pm to Extreme Nightmare Tenants (series 1, episode 3), a separate, more confrontational spin-off rather than a sixth instalment of the 3pm-to-7pm run.

Trauma Room One — 5Star, 9pm

Trauma Room One (series 2, episode 2) takes the 9pm hour, following frontline medics as emergencies arrive with little warning.

Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death — 5Star, 10pm

At 10pm, Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death (series 2, episode 5) goes inside the operating theatre for cases where the outcome isn’t guaranteed.

The Beckhams’ Billions: How Did They Get So Rich? — 5Star, 11pm

5Star closes the night with a 90-minute documentary, The Beckhams’ Billions: How Did They Get So Rich?, tracing how David and Victoria Beckham built their business empire well beyond football and pop. It’s the longest single item in tonight’s schedule and the closest thing the evening has to a headline booking.

What kind of shows are on 5Star

Landlord, tenant and bailiff documentaries

This is where 5Star has its own patch. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords and its spin-off Extreme Nightmare Tenants follow eviction specialists and rogue-landlord investigations, while Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up! turns the same doorstep tension towards unpaid debt. No other British free-to-air channel gives this much schedule space to the subject.

Reality, true-story and consumer documentary

Skin A&E, Dirty Home Rescue and Scam City: Don’t Get Caught Out! cover the rest of the factual output, and imports such as Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly Australia bring in versions of formats British viewers already know from the domestic originals.

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 since the 2025 deal.

Sitcom reruns

Friends is the channel’s long-serving gap-filler, though these days it tends to surface in the small hours rather than in the morning blocks it once held.

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, which is useful on a channel that so often runs three episodes of the same series in a row. It’s on Sky (228), Virgin Media (326) and Freesat (141). There’s no +1 slot for 5Star on Freeview, so Freeview viewers who miss the start of something have to pick it up on demand.

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?

Home and Away is off tonight — it’s a weekday-only soap, and Saturday isn’t one of its days. Instead, 5Star runs five straight episodes of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords from 3pm to 7pm, then Extreme Nightmare Tenants at 8pm, Trauma Room One at 9pm and Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death at 10pm, closing with the 90-minute documentary The Beckhams’ Billions: How Did They Get So Rich? at 11pm. There’s no film on 5Star tonight. The schedule table above has the exact times for each.

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

Saturday has no film at all, and no Home and Away either — the soap doesn’t air on Saturdays, so 5Star fills the gap with its own factual library instead. Five episodes of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords carry the schedule from 3pm to 7pm before Extreme Nightmare Tenants, Trauma Room One and Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death take an hour each through to 11pm, when the 90-minute Beckhams’ Billions documentary closes the night.

There’s no new episode flagged anywhere in tonight’s primetime — every strand is a returning one. Daytime is built around Friends and the channel’s own crime-and-recovery formats rather than the weekday soap-adjacent line-up: four episodes of Friends, three of Car Pound Cops and two of Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! fill the late morning and early afternoon before Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords opens at 3pm. None of the weekday daytime strands — Traffic Cops, Police Interceptors, GPs: Behind Closed Doors — appear today.

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