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

Published: 27 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, Friday 28 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: 999: Critical Condition at 9pm, A&E After Dark at 10pm and Trauma Room One at 11pm. There’s no film in the line-up tonight.

5Star Schedule: Friday 28 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Friday 28 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Friday’s overnight keeps to 5Star’s usual factual and archive shape: Killer at the Crime Scene opens just after midnight (series 2, episode 9), followed by Cold Case Killers at 1am (series 3, episode 7) and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 2am (series 6, episode 13). Skin A&E follows at 2:45am (series 7, episode 4) and a Friends repeat closes out the small hours at 3:35am (series 10, episode 7), before Teleshopping 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 two editions of Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun run from 8am to 9am (series 14, episodes 79 and 80). Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes the 10am slot (series 6, episode 7), then three episodes of Traffic Cops fill 11am to 1pm (series 12, episodes 11 to 13) and three of Police Interceptors run from 2pm to 4pm (series 9, episodes 8, 9 and 11) — daytime-only strands that don’t return once primetime starts. Car Pound Cops: Give Me My Car Back! closes out the afternoon at 5pm (series 1, episode 7), ending just as Home and Away opens the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

There’s no film tonight, so 5Star builds Friday 28 August around a soap double and a run of hour-long medical and emergency-service strands that carries the channel through to midnight.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm and 6:30pm

5Star opens the evening with back-to-back Home and Away (series 39, episodes 133 and 134), the 6:30pm edition the new instalment while 6pm plays the previous one. The 6pm hour finds Remi pushing back against Beau, Sonny’s lies starting to catch up with him and Levi running out of patience; by 6:30pm Sonny is pleading for a second chance, Remi is backing his mate, and Harper’s own room to manoeuvre is shrinking.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

The 7pm slot goes to GPs: Behind Closed Doors (series 8, episode 40), 5Star’s fly-on-the-wall look at surgery consultations and the diagnoses that follow them.

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

Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts (series 7, episode 1) takes 8pm, following a hospital’s emergency department as extreme heat causes generator trouble on top of the usual caseload.

999: Critical Condition — 5Star, 9pm

At 9pm, 999: Critical Condition (series 2, episode 6) follows paramedics racing to reach a patient with a suspected brain haemorrhage, the kind of case where minutes decide the outcome.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 10pm

A&E After Dark (series 3, episode 5) moves the cameras to Hull Royal Infirmary for 10pm, tracking the overnight shift as it deals with whatever the city sends through the doors.

Trauma Room One — 5Star, 11pm

5Star closes primetime at 11pm with Trauma Room One (series 2, episode 1), set at Liverpool’s Walton Centre, one of the country’s dedicated neurology and neurosurgery units.

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: 999: Critical Condition at 9pm, A&E After Dark at 10pm and Trauma Room One 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

Friday 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: 999: Critical Condition, A&E After Dark and Trauma Room One, 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 late morning and 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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