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 15 August 2026, the channel drops its usual factual run for a double bill instead: no soap gets an outing anywhere on Freeview at the weekend, so Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief opens proceedings at 6:45pm, Transporter 2 takes over at 9pm, and Piers Morgan: Uncensored closes the schedule at 10:50pm.

5Star Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

The overnight run opens with Skin A&E at midnight, where a bodybuilder with a lump on his shin and a golfer with a skin condition affecting her swing get treated. Cold Case Killers at 1am reopens the ten-year-old murder of Vikki Thompson in the Thames Valley after a new lead surfaces, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts follows at 2am from Barnsley, and Scam City: Don’t Get Caught Out! investigates Mexico City’s crime networks at 2:45am. An episode of Friends at 3:35am closes out the small hours, then Teleshopping holds the schedule from 4am until 7am.

Saturday’s daytime leans heavily on reruns rather than the weekday factual strands. Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am lead into four back-to-back episodes of Friends between 8am and 10am, then three editions of Shoplifters: Caught Red Handed carry the channel through to 1pm. The afternoon belongs to Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords: six episodes run back to back from 1pm to 5:50pm, taking the schedule right up to the evening film.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief — 5Star, 6:45pm

Logan Lerman plays the New York teenager who discovers his father is the Greek sea god Poseidon and gets dragged into recovering Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt before the gods start a war among themselves. Pierce Brosnan shows up as a wheelchair-bound centaur, which sets the tone for how seriously the 2010 adaptation takes itself. 5Star breaks the film for Entertainment News on 5 at 7:45pm and picks it back up five minutes later.

Transporter 2 — 5Star, 9pm

Jason Statham returns as Frank Martin, now working as a driver and part-time bodyguard in Miami rather than running contraband across Europe. A kidnapping plot escalates into a bio-weapon threat, but the draw is the same as ever: car stunts performed with a completely straight face. Another Entertainment News bulletin splits the film at 10:05pm before it wraps up shortly before 11pm.

Piers Morgan: Uncensored — 5Star, 10:50pm

The channel’s late-night regular closes out Saturday with its usual run of interviews and studio arguments, the format Morgan built on YouTube before Channel 5 brought it onto terrestrial television. This is the thirtieth edition of its second series on 5Star.

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?

Saturday’s line-up is a change from the weeknight pattern: there’s no Home and Away, since 5Star doesn’t schedule the soap at weekends. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief opens the evening at 6:45pm, briefly interrupted by Entertainment News on 5, then Transporter 2 takes the 9pm slot. Piers Morgan: Uncensored closes the night at 10:50pm. 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 breaks from 5Star’s usual factual run: instead of back-to-back documentary strands, the evening goes to two films. There’s no soap anywhere on the schedule, since none of Freeview’s terrestrial channels carry one at the weekend.

The two films carry the evening without much else getting in the way, bar the usual short Entertainment News breaks, and Piers Morgan: Uncensored runs things on into the early hours. The afternoon still plays to 5Star’s core strength: back-to-back Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, six episodes deep.

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