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, Friday 14 August 2026, is a factual evening from start to finish: two Home and Away episodes open proceedings, the 6:30pm one new, then GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7 and a run of emergency-service documentaries carry the channel through to close. Those two episodes make up half of Freeview’s four soap instalments tonight, with Emmerdale and Coronation Street covering the other two on ITV1 from 8pm.

5Star Schedule: Friday 14 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Friday 14 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

The overnight run opens with Killer at the Crime Scene at midnight, then Cold Case Killers at 1am revisits the wrongful conviction of Stefan Kiszko for the murder of schoolgirl Lesley Molseed on the Yorkshire Moors, and the case that was eventually overturned sixteen years later. Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts follows at 2am and Skin A&E at 2:45am, before an episode of Friends at 3:35am closes out the small hours. Teleshopping then holds the schedule from 4am until 7am.

Friday daytime follows the standard weekday pattern. Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am lead into two back-to-back episodes of Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun at 8am and 9am, then Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords at 10am. Three episodes of Traffic Cops run 11am to 2pm, followed by three of Police Interceptors through to 5pm, and Shoplifters: Caught Red Handed closes out the afternoon before the evening schedule takes over at 6pm.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

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

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm

Series 39 reaches episode 124 at 6pm, with Harper starting to see through Beau while Remi has words with Sonny and Cash and Levi join forces on a separate problem. It’s a scene-setting half hour ahead of the second instalment straight after.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6:30pm

The 6:30pm slot is flagged new, the only fresh Home and Away outing on British terrestrial television tonight. Beau pleads his case again, Dana has a scheme in motion, and Remi’s storyline reaches an exit point as the boys head off on a bush trip.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

Tonight’s Birmingham surgery includes a case of thinning hair patches that has a patient fearing alopecia, alongside a separate consultation for facial swelling that turns out not to be the allergic reaction first suspected.

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

A computer failure knocks out the hospital’s systems just as staff are dealing with a motorcyclist hurt in a head-on smash and a second patient doubled over with abdominal pain, so the IT chaos runs alongside the medical kind.

999: Critical Condition — 5Star, 9pm

Inside a major trauma unit, a cardiac arrest and an airlift arrive within the same hour: one man collapses with heart failure, another needs a helicopter transfer after a rooftop fall onto a skip below.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 10pm

Late-shift casualty cases span an air-ambulance transfer after a mobility scooter accident, an eye injury from a tent peg, and a more routine ankle case that rounds out the hour.

Trauma Room One — 5Star, 11pm

Three procedures close out the schedule: a brain mass removal, a spinal tumour operation aimed at preventing paralysis, and a keyhole spinal procedure on a third patient.

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?

Friday’s line-up opens with two episodes of Home and Away, the 6:30pm one new to UK screens, then hands the evening to GPs: Behind Closed Doors and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts. 999: Critical Condition takes over at 9pm, and A&E After Dark and Trauma Room One carry the channel through to midnight. There’s no film in the line-up 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

Friday is a straight run of factual programming after 6pm, with no film to break it up. Home and Away opens the evening as usual, and the 6:30pm episode is new, one of two soap episodes 5Star carries tonight, alongside Emmerdale and Coronation Street on ITV1.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts hold the 7pm and 8pm hours, then 999: Critical Condition, A&E After Dark and Trauma Room One take the channel from 9pm through to midnight. It’s a heavier documentary night than 5Star sometimes runs, with the usual film slot given over to more of the same emergency-service format.

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