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

Published: 26 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, Thursday 27 August 2026, the evening opens on a soap double, Home and Away at 6pm and 6:30pm, with the 6:30pm edition the new one. GPs: Behind Closed Doors takes the 7pm slot and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts follows at 8pm, before three medical and emergency-service documentaries run back to back: A&E After Dark at 9pm, Ambulance: Code Red at 10pm and Skin A&E at 11pm. There’s no film in the line-up tonight.

5Star Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Thursday’s overnight keeps to 5Star’s usual true-crime shape: Scam City: Don’t Get Caught Out! opens just after midnight at 12:20am, followed by Cold Case Killers at 1:25am (series 3, episode 6) and two back-to-back editions of Police Interceptors from 2:20am (series 5, episodes 7 and 8). Teleshopping then holds the schedule for three hours from 4am.

Daytime opens with two shopping strands, Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am, before Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun runs across 8am and 9am (series 14, episodes 77 and 78). Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes the 10am slot (series 6, episode 6), then three episodes of Traffic Cops fill 11am to 2pm (series 12, episodes 6 to 8) and three of Police Interceptors run from 2pm to 5pm (series 9, episodes 5, 7 and 6) — daytime only again; the strand doesn’t return once primetime starts. Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! closes out the afternoon at 5pm (series 1, episode 6) before Home and Away opens the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 27 August 2026. There’s no film in the schedule; the whole evening is soap plus factual.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm and 6:30pm

5Star opens the evening with a Home and Away double rather than a single episode. The 6pm edition (series 39, episode 132) is a repeat of the previous instalment, and the 6:30pm follow-up (series 39, episode 133) is the new one, so viewers catching up get the recap built in before the current storylines move on.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors (series 8, episode 39) takes the 7pm slot, following practices in Chester as GPs work through a day of patient consultations.

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

At 8pm, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts (series 6, episode 17) moves into A&E, tracking staff and patients through another shift.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 9pm

A&E After Dark (series 5, episode 9) takes the 9pm hour, with cameras following overnight emergency admissions.

Ambulance: Code Red — 5Star, 10pm

Ambulance: Code Red (series 3, episode 1) rides with paramedics responding to the most urgent 999 calls at 10pm.

Skin A&E — 5Star, 11pm

Skin A&E (series 7, episode 7) closes primetime at 11pm with a run of dermatology cases from clinics around the country.

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 on 5Star tonight. 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 and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm hand over to three medical and emergency-service documentaries in a row: A&E After Dark at 9pm, Ambulance: Code Red at 10pm and Skin A&E 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

Thursday has no film at all, and the evening is built entirely from the soap and the channel’s factual staples instead. Home and Away opens with a doubled-up slot before GPs: Behind Closed Doors and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts hand over to a run of three medical and emergency-service documentaries: A&E After Dark, Ambulance: Code Red and Skin A&E, one an hour through to midnight.

The only new episode in primetime is the 6:30pm Home and Away; everything else is a returning strand. Daytime keeps to the channel’s usual factual staples: two 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 Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! and Home and Away open the evening. Police Interceptors is a daytime fixture only today — it doesn’t return once primetime starts.

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