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, Monday 17 August 2026, Home and Away is on 5Star rather than the main Channel 5 channel: a repeat opens the evening at 6pm, followed by the new episode at 6:30pm. From 7pm the channel moves into its regular medical-documentary run — GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts, Ambulance: Code Red, A&E After Dark and Skin A&E — carrying the schedule through to midnight.

5Star Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Monday’s overnight run opens with Killer on the Run (series 1, episode 3) at midnight, before the new episode of #Text Me When You Get Home (series 1, episode 10) follows at 1am. Skin A&E (series 6, episode 9) takes the 1:55am slot, GPs: Behind Closed Doors (series 8, episode 26) follows at 2:45am, and a single episode of Friends (series 9, episode 20) closes out the small hours at 3:35am. Teleshopping then holds the schedule from 4am through to 7am.

Daytime opens with two shopping strands, Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am, before two back-to-back episodes of Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun run from 8am (series 14, episodes 61 and 62). Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes the 10am hour (series 5, episode 5), then three episodes of Traffic Cops fill 11am to 2pm and three of Police Interceptors follow from 2pm to 5pm. Car Pound Cops (series 2, episode 1) closes out the afternoon at 5pm, before Home and Away opens the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm

Primetime opens with a repeat, series 39 episode 124, catching latecomers up before the day’s genuine new instalment half an hour later. 5Star has become the weekday home for the Australian soap rather than the main Channel 5 channel, which is worth knowing if you’ve gone looking for it in its old slot.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6:30pm

The new episode, series 39 episode 125, follows straight after at 6:30pm. This is the one to catch live if you want to stay current with the storylines rather than watch the previous day’s business again.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors (series 8, episode 31) bridges the soap and the heavier medical documentaries that follow, tracking a working day’s queue of patients through the surgery door.

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

Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts (series 6, episode 9) takes the 8pm hour, one of several fly-on-the-wall hospital formats 5Star leans on through the week.

Ambulance: Code Red — 5Star, 9pm

Ambulance: Code Red (series 2, episode 20) follows at 9pm, sticking to the most serious paramedic call-outs rather than a full shift, which tends to give it a sharper edge than its stablemates.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 10pm

A&E After Dark (series 5, episode 7) moves to the overnight shift at 10pm, when emergency departments see a different mix of cases to the daytime crews.

Skin A&E — 5Star, 11pm

Skin A&E (series 7, episode 1) opens a new series to close out primetime at 11pm, staying with 5Star’s dermatology-focused entry in the same documentary family.

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?

It’s Monday, so the evening opens with Home and Away — a repeat at 6pm, then the new episode at 6:30pm, both on 5Star rather than the main Channel 5 channel. From 7pm the schedule settles into 5Star’s usual medical-documentary run: GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts, Ambulance: Code Red, A&E After Dark and Skin A&E, closing out the night at 11pm. 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

Monday adds Home and Away to 5Star’s usual medical-documentary run. The soap is on 5Star rather than the main Channel 5 channel tonight, with a repeat at 6pm and the new episode at 6:30pm, before GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts, Ambulance: Code Red, A&E After Dark and Skin A&E carry the schedule through to midnight in the channel’s usual factual style.

It’s a soap-then-documentaries structure typical of a 5Star weeknight: no films tonight, just one hospital or roads strand handing over to the next. The daytime schedule backs it up with the channel’s landlord and traffic-cop staples — Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun, Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords, Traffic Cops and Police Interceptors — filling the hours before Home and Away opens the evening.

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