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

Published: 12 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 13 September 2026, Police Interceptors runs four episodes from 5pm to 8pm, the last three of them filling early primetime, before Trauma Room One takes the 9pm slot, 999: Emergency Call Out follows at 10pm, and A&E After Dark closes out the night at 11pm.

5Star Schedule: Sunday 13 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete 5Star schedule for Sunday 13 September 2026, on Freeview 32.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on 5Star today

Sunday’s overnight run opens with Britain’s Worst Weather Disasters at 1:05am, then Britain’s Hotel Murders at 2:25am and a single Police Interceptors episode at 3:10am, before three hours of Teleshopping from 4am.

Shop: Thane Offers and more Teleshopping fill the 7am half-hour, then The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea runs two episodes at 8am and 9am. Rogue Claimers settles in for a three-episode run from 10am to midday, and Traffic Cops takes over for four episodes through the early afternoon, before Police Interceptors returns at 5pm and carries straight into this evening’s schedule.

5Star tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the 5Star primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 13 September 2026.

Police Interceptors — 5Star, 6pm–8pm

Three episodes close out a four-strong run that began at 5pm, each one built from real dashcam and helicopter pursuit footage as officers chase down stolen cars and dangerous drivers. The format hasn’t changed much over thirteen series because it doesn’t need to.

Trauma Room One — 5Star, 9pm

A fly-on-the-wall look inside a major trauma unit, following clinicians through the kind of emergency admissions that decide whether a patient walks out or doesn’t. It’s a more serious tone than the cop-show hours either side of it.

999: Emergency Call Out — 5Star, 10pm

Frontline footage from paramedics and call handlers dealing with whatever the shift throws at them, edited down to the calls that end up mattering most. It follows Trauma Room One without repeating its exact angle.

A&E After Dark — 5Star, 11pm

The night winds down with another hospital-set strand, this one covering the hours after visiting time when emergency departments tend to fill with cases daytime television is less keen to show. A later-series episode closes an evening that has stayed close to the channel’s usual mix of blue lights and clinical drama.

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?

There’s no soap tonight. Police Interceptors carries on through early primetime at 6pm, 7pm and 8pm, then Trauma Room One takes over at 9pm. 999: Emergency Call Out follows at 10pm and A&E After Dark closes the night at 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

There’s no soap on a Sunday either, so tonight is built around the channel’s cop-show and medical strands instead. Police Interceptors runs four episodes from 5pm through to 8pm without a break, then Trauma Room One takes the 9pm slot, followed by 999: Emergency Call Out at 10pm and A&E After Dark closing the night at 11pm.

Daytime runs a lighter factual mix than usual: Britain’s Worst Weather Disasters and Britain’s Hotel Murders overnight, then The Cruise: Fun-Loving Brits at Sea through mid-morning and a three-episode Rogue Claimers run before Traffic Cops takes over the early afternoon and Police Interceptors returns at 5pm to carry the schedule into the evening.

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