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

Published: 1 September 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, Wednesday 2 September 2026, Home and Away’s weekday double bill at 6pm and 6:30pm leads into GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 7pm and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm, before The Da Vinci Code takes over the whole of the late evening from 9pm to midnight.

5Star Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Wednesday 2 September 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Wednesday’s overnight is true crime and reality: Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death opens at midnight (series 2, episode 5), followed by Murdered at First Sight at 1am (series 3, episode 2) and a Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts repeat at 2am (series 6, episode 16). Skin A&E follows at 2:50am (series 7, episode 7) and a single Friends repeat closes out the night at 3:35am (series 10, episode 15), before Teleshopping holds the schedule through to 7am.

Shop: Thane Offers and more Teleshopping fill the 7am hour, then Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun runs back-to-back at 8am and 9am (series 14, episodes 5 and 6). Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords takes the 10am slot (series 6, episode 11), and Traffic Cops then runs three genuinely consecutive episodes from 11am to 1pm (series 13, episodes 1 to 3). Police Interceptors follows with three more in order from 2pm to 4pm (series 10, episodes 7, 9 and 10), and Rogue Claimers takes the 5pm handover slot (series 1, episode 3) ahead of the Home and Away double bill below.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 2 September 2026.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm and 6:30pm

5Star’s weekday double bill runs at 6pm and 6:30pm tonight. In the first half, David makes a bold move and Amelia is toasted as guest of honour, while Marilyn hunts for a missing Zane and Levi carries an unspoken worry (series 39, episode 136). The new episode straight after picks up with Zane keeping out of sight to dodge trouble, David laying on the charm elsewhere, and an injury to Levi’s hand causing him more grief than expected (episode 137).

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

The 7pm hour belongs to GPs: Behind Closed Doors (series 9, episode 3).

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

At 8pm, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts heads to Barnsley A&E, where staff are stretched by a run of drink- and drug-related admissions (series 6, episode 4). The strand also has a 2am repeat tonight, but that’s a different instalment: series 6, episode 16, twelve episodes further into the same run.

The Da Vinci Code — 5Star, 9pm

The Da Vinci Code (2006, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou) fills the rest of the evening from 9pm to midnight, following a Harvard symbologist’s chase through the Louvre and beyond in search of a secret the Church wants buried. It pauses once, for a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 at 10pm, before picking back up at 10:05pm.

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 runs its regular weekday double bill at 6pm and 6:30pm (series 39, episodes 136 and 137), the second a new episode. GPs: Behind Closed Doors continues at 7pm, then Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm, before The Da Vinci Code (2006, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou) takes over from 9pm to midnight, briefly interrupted by a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 at 10pm. 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

Wednesday opens with the regular Home and Away double bill at 6pm and 6:30pm, then hands the early evening to GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 7pm and Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm, before The Da Vinci Code takes over the rest of the night from 9pm to midnight, briefly paused for a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 at 10pm. It’s the channel’s whole late evening handed to one film.

Daytime runs the channel’s regular factual mix: Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun at 8am and 9am, Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords at 10am, then three consecutive Traffic Cops from 11am to 1pm. Three more consecutive Police Interceptors run from 2pm to 4pm, and Rogue Claimers takes the 5pm handover slot ahead of the soap.

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