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

Published: 6 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, Monday 7 September 2026, Home and Away is back for the working week with two episodes at 6pm and 6:30pm, then a run of medical and emergency documentaries takes over the rest of primetime — GPs: Behind Closed Doors at 7pm, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts at 8pm, Ambulance: Code Red at 9pm, A&E After Dark at 10pm and Skin A&E closing the night at 11pm.

5Star Schedule: Monday 7 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Monday 7 September 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Monday’s overnight opens with Killer on the Run at midnight and Sleeping with My Murderer at 1am, then two true-crime and medical strands, Skin A&E and GPs: Behind Closed Doors, run either side of 2am. Car Pound Cops has a short slot at 3:35am before Teleshopping takes over from 4am to 7am.

Shop: Thane Offers and more Teleshopping fill the 7am half-hour, then Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun runs two different episodes at 8am and 9am, followed by Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up at 10am. Traffic Cops runs three episodes from 11am to 2pm, Police Interceptors takes over for three more from 2pm to 5pm, and Rogue Claimers has the 5pm slot before this evening’s schedule begins.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 7 September 2026.

Home and Away — 5Star, 6pm and 6:30pm

The Australian soap returns for the working week with an earlier repeat episode at 6pm (series 39, episode 139) followed directly by the day’s new instalment at 6:30pm (episode 140). That’s the channel’s standard pattern rather than a double-length special: one episode already broadcast, then the fresh one straight after.

GPs: Behind Closed Doors — 5Star, 7pm

Fixed-camera observational footage from GP surgeries around the country, now well into series 9 (episode 6). It’s the quieter cousin of the ambulance and A&E strands that follow, built around consultations rather than 999 call-outs.

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

Series 6 continues inside a working NHS emergency department (episode 7), cameras following clinicians through whatever the shift brings in. Unrelated to the BBC drama despite the near-identical name.

Ambulance: Code Red — 5Star, 9pm

Series 3 rides out with paramedics on the busiest, highest-priority calls (episode 3), the sharper-edged sibling to the channel’s other medical documentaries.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 10pm

A later-slot companion piece, now in series 5 (episode 10), trading daytime consultations for whatever a hospital’s night shift brings through the doors.

Skin A&E — 5Star, 11pm

Series 2 closes the night with dermatology cases rather than general emergencies (episode 1), a narrower focus than the rest of the evening’s medical run.

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?

Home and Away is back, with an earlier episode at 6pm followed by the day’s new instalment at 6:30pm. GPs: Behind Closed Doors, Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts, Ambulance: Code Red, A&E After Dark and Skin A&E fill the rest of the evening from 7pm 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

Monday brings the soap back for the working week, with the standard repeat-then-new pairing at 6pm and 6:30pm rather than anything unusual. From 7pm the evening settles into 5Star’s other core strength, a run of medical and emergency documentaries: Ambulance: Code Red at 9pm is the pick of the run, ahead of A&E After Dark and Skin A&E closing out the night.

Daytime runs the channel’s regular factual mix: Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun through the morning, Call the Bailiffs: Time to Pay Up at 10am, then Traffic Cops and Police Interceptors sharing the afternoon before Home and Away opens the evening.

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