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

Published: 24 August 2026

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, Tuesday 25 August 2026, there’s no film in the schedule either — the evening opens instead on a soap double, Home and Away at 6pm and 6:30pm, with the 6:30pm edition the new episode. GPs: Behind Closed Doors takes the 7pm slot, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts follows at 8pm and a new 999: Killer On The Line holds 9pm, before 999: Critical Condition at 10pm and Skin A&E at 11pm close out the night.

5Star Schedule: Tuesday 25 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Tuesday 25 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Tuesday’s overnight run keeps to 5Star’s usual true-crime and medical mix: 999: Killer On The Line opens at midnight (series 2, episode 7), followed by Cold Case Killers at 1am (series 3, episode 5) and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 2am (series 6, episode 10). Skin A&E follows at 2:45am (series 7, episode 2), a single episode of Friends airs at 3:35am (series 10, episode 5), and Teleshopping then holds the schedule from 4am to 7am.

Daytime opens with two shopping strands, Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am, before two more episodes of Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun run from 8am to 10am (series 14, episodes 73 and 74). Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes the 10am slot (series 6, episode 4), then three episodes of Traffic Cops fill 11am to 2pm (series 11, episodes 6 to 8) and three of Police Interceptors run from 2pm to 5pm (series 8, episodes 9 and 10, then series 9, episode 1) — daytime only again; the strand doesn’t return once primetime starts. Car Pound Cops closes out the afternoon at 5pm (series 2, episode 7) before Home and Away opens the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 25 August 2026.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm

5Star opens its whole evening on Summer Bay tonight rather than a single half-hour. This first instalment is really the closing chapter of an older thread: Sonny’s web of lies is close to coming apart, and Tane can’t shake his worry about what Beau is hiding (series 39, episode 130).

Home and Away — 5Star, 6:30pm

The new episode follows straight on at 6:30pm (series 39, episode 131). Zane’s history still weighs on Alf, and Leah struggles to stop hovering over the newest member of staff.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

A GP works through a case built around a suspected kidney infection, the kind of single-patient study the observational strand has run on for years (series 8, episode 37).

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

The summer’s first real heatwave lands on Barnsley in this episode, adding extra strain to an emergency department that’s already stretched (series 6, episode 15).

999: Killer On The Line — 5Star, 9pm

A new episode turns on a woman whose financial troubles sit at the centre of the case — the strand’s usual approach of building an hour around one call rather than several (series 2, episode 8).

999: Critical Condition — 5Star, 10pm

A cardiac arrest is among the emergencies keeping call handlers busy through the hour (series 2, episode 4).

Skin A&E — 5Star, 11pm

Dr Natalia and Dr Dev see out the night with a run of dermatological cases, a quietly dependable format for 5Star’s late slot (series 7, episode 6).

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?

There’s no film at all in tonight’s schedule. The evening opens with a Home and Away double at 6pm and 6:30pm, the second one new, before GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 7pm, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm and a new 999: Killer On The Line at 9pm carry the schedule through primetime. 999: Critical Condition at 10pm and Skin A&E at 11pm close out the night. 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

Tuesday drops the film library altogether and opens the evening on a soap double instead, with Home and Away running twice back to back before 5Star’s usual documentary run takes over. GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts and 999: Killer On The Line carry primetime from 7pm to 10pm, then 999: Critical Condition and Skin A&E close the night with two more medical strands.

The night’s new episodes are the 6:30pm Home and Away and the 9pm 999: Killer On The Line — the rest of the evening runs on returning series. Daytime is built around the channel’s usual factual staples: two more editions of Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun, a single Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords case, then three editions each of Traffic Cops and Police Interceptors fill the afternoon before Home and Away opens the evening. Note that Police Interceptors is a daytime fixture only today — it doesn’t return once primetime starts.

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