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

Published: 5 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, Sunday 6 September 2026, is a police-and-medical evening: three Police Interceptors episodes run from 6pm to 8pm, then a run of hospital documentaries takes over — Trauma Room One at 9pm, Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death at 10pm and A&E After Dark closing the night at 11pm. No Piers Morgan Uncensored and no soap tonight.

5Star Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Sunday’s overnight opens with The TV Rich List 2026: Who Earns the Most? at 1:50am, a look at British television’s highest earners, then Friends closes the small hours at 3:30am (series 10, episode 18), before Teleshopping holds the schedule 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. Rogue Claimers then runs three episodes from 10am to noon, and Traffic Cops takes over the afternoon with four episodes from 1pm to 4pm, before Police Interceptors carries the schedule into this evening’s primetime.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

Police Interceptors — 5Star, 6pm-8pm

Three episodes run back to back, series 10 continuing its usual mix of dashcam pursuits and roadside stops. It’s the fourth Police Interceptors of the day counting the 5pm episode, and the format hasn’t changed in years: real footage, a narrator filling in what happened next.

Trauma Room One — 5Star, 9pm

Series 2, episode 3 takes the schedule into hospital-documentary territory for the rest of the night.

Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death — 5Star, 10pm

Series 2, episode 6 follows straight after.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 11pm

Series 4, episode 2 closes out the night.

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 21, carries US crime dramas and imported procedurals. 5Action, on Freeview 33, 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 Police Interceptors episodes run from 6pm to 8pm, then Trauma Room One, Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death and A&E After Dark take the hospital-documentary slots from 9pm to 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

Sunday sticks to the channel’s core strengths without a film or the usual Piers Morgan slot: Police Interceptors carries the evening’s first three hours, then a run of medical documentaries takes it home. Trauma Room One at 9pm is the pick of the three, ahead of Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death and A&E After Dark.

Daytime runs the channel’s regular factual mix: The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea at 8am and 9am, Rogue Claimers through the late morning, then Traffic Cops taking the afternoon before Police Interceptors settles in for the evening.

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