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

Published: 4 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, Saturday 5 September 2026, is a change of pace: three Motorway Cops episodes run from 6pm to 8pm, then the film Angels & Demons takes over at 9pm, broken briefly by an Entertainment News bulletin at 10:05pm before resuming at 10:10pm. Piers Morgan: Uncensored closes the night at 11:50pm. No soap tonight — Home and Away is a weekday fixture and doesn’t air on Saturdays.

5Star Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Saturday’s overnight opens with true crime: Skin A&E at midnight (series 7, episode 12), followed by Murdered at First Sight at 1am (series 3, episode 5). Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts and Killer on the Run follow at 2am and 2:45am, then Friends closes the small hours at 3:35am (series 10, episode 17), before Teleshopping holds the schedule from 4am to 7am.

Shop: Thane Offers and more Teleshopping fill the 7am half-hour, then The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea runs back-to-back at 8am and 9am. Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly takes the 10am slot, and Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up then runs five episodes back to back from 11am to 3pm. Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders takes over from 4pm, running three consecutive daytime episodes before the same strand carries straight into this evening’s primetime.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

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

Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders — 5Star, 6pm, 7pm & 8pm

Three episodes close out a five-hour daytime run that started at 4pm. A child rescue on the M6 opens the evening at 6pm, Inspector Anton Sullivan tails an erratic van driver at 7pm, and officers chase two assault suspects across a field on foot at 8pm.

Angels & Demons — 5Star, 9pm

Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon in this 2009 thriller, with Ewan McGregor as a Vatican camerlengo during the hunt for kidnapped cardinals. A five-minute Entertainment News on 5 bulletin splits the film at 10:05pm, before it resumes at 10:10pm and runs through to nearly midnight.

Piers Morgan: Uncensored — 5Star, 11:50pm

The nightly opinion show pulls its best bits from Morgan’s YouTube channel. Late slot, one line’s enough.

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?

No Home and Away tonight — it’s a weekday-only soap. Three Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders episodes run from 6pm to 8pm, then Angels & Demons (2009), starring Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor, takes the film slot at 9pm, split by a five-minute Entertainment News on 5 bulletin at 10:05pm before resuming at 10:10pm. Piers Morgan: Uncensored closes the night at 11:50pm. 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

Saturday drops the soap entirely and leans on the channel’s two biggest strengths instead: Motorway Cops carries the evening’s first three hours, then Angels & Demons gives 5Star a genuine primetime film for once, Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor’s Vatican thriller interrupted only briefly by the news bulletin. Piers Morgan: Uncensored closes it out as usual.

Daytime runs the channel’s regular factual mix: The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea at 8am and 9am, Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly at 10am, then five Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up episodes back to back from 11am to 3pm before Motorway Cops takes over for the rest of the afternoon.

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