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

Published: 29 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, Sunday 30 August 2026, there’s no Home and Away — the soap is a weekday fixture and doesn’t air at weekends. Instead, four straight episodes of Police Interceptors hold the late afternoon and evening from 5pm to 9pm, following on from four episodes of Traffic Cops earlier in the afternoon. Primetime’s film is The Da Vinci Code at 9pm, split around a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 bulletin at 10pm, before A&E After Dark takes the schedule past midnight at 11:55pm.

5Star Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Sunday 30 August 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Sunday’s overnight runs true crime rather than the medical and scam strands that filled the small hours yesterday: Killer on the Run opens at 12:30am (series 1, episode 5), followed by Sleeping with My Murderer at 1:25am (series 1, episode 1) and Killer at the Crime Scene at 2:20am (series 4, episode 9). Two Friends repeats close out the night at 3:10am and 3:35am (series 10, episodes 9 and 10), before Teleshopping holds the schedule for three hours from 4am.

The same two shopping strands open the day, Shop: Must Have Ideas at 7am and eFOLDi Mobility Scooters at 7:30am, before Car Pound Cops opens the factual schedule proper at 8am (series 1, episode 1). Three Friends repeats follow from 8:30am to 9:30am (series 10, episodes 16 to 18), then 100 Funniest Cats Caught on Camera takes the whole 10am-to-midday slot. A single episode of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords airs at midday (series 6, episode 8), and four episodes of Traffic Cops carry the afternoon from 1pm to 4pm (series 11, episodes 2, 3, 4 and 6) before Police Interceptors takes over at 5pm, running into the evening below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 30 August 2026.

Police Interceptors — 5Star, 5pm–9pm

Four consecutive editions of Police Interceptors carry 5Star from late afternoon into the heart of primetime, series 8 episodes 6 to 9 in order, the last three of them after 6pm. A cannabis find during officer training near RAF Scampton opens the run at 5pm, followed by a stop on an uninsured driver with a history of violence, a burglary inquiry that takes an unexpected turn, and a suspected drink-driver whose stop very nearly ends in a three-car collision. Four hours, four separate call-outs, nothing carries over between them.

The Da Vinci Code — 5Star, 9pm

Ron Howard’s 2006 adaptation of Dan Brown’s thriller, with Tom Hanks as symbologist Robert Langdon and Audrey Tautou as the cryptologist drawn into a Louvre murder inquiry rooted in centuries of religious secrecy. 5Star splits the film around a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 bulletin at 10pm, picking back up at 10:05pm and running through to 11:55pm.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 11:55pm

Series 3, episode 5 closes the night with more front-line footage from the emergency department, 5Star’s usual sign-off slot on a Sunday.

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?

Home and Away is off tonight — it’s a weekday-only soap and doesn’t air at the weekend. Instead, four straight episodes of Police Interceptors run from 5pm to 9pm (series 8, episodes 6 to 9), following four episodes of Traffic Cops earlier in the afternoon. The Da Vinci Code takes the film slot at 9pm, split around a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 bulletin at 10pm and running through to 11:55pm, when A&E After Dark closes 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

Sunday runs a single film, The Da Vinci Code at 9pm, and no Home and Away — the soap doesn’t air at weekends, so 5Star fills the gap with four straight hours of Police Interceptors instead, series 8 episodes 6 to 9, three of them in primetime. Four episodes of Traffic Cops hold the afternoon beforehand, from 1pm to 4pm.

There’s no new episode flagged anywhere in tonight’s primetime — every strand is a returning one, and the film is a repeat showing rather than a premiere. Daytime is built around Friends, Car Pound Cops and 100 Funniest Cats Caught on Camera rather than the weekday soap-adjacent line-up, with a single edition of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords at midday standing in for what is normally a much longer afternoon run.

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