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

Blaze is a free-to-air factual channel that has run on Freeview since September 2016. Its schedule runs from military history documentaries to ancient-mystery programming, and factual entertainment formats set in pawn shops and storage units fill much of the rest of the day. Tonight, Thursday 15 October 2026, is antiques into the unexplained: a car-restoration compilation at 6pm, two Dickinson’s Real Deal episodes, then Ancient Aliens UK at 9pm, a pair of UFO Chronicles and Dan Aykroyd’s The UnBelievable at 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Thursday 15 October 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Thursday 15 October 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

Also on TV tonight at 9pm

• BBC One: The Celebrity Traitors (from 8pm)
• ITV1: Long Lost Family
• BBC Two: Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
• Channel 4: Our Tiny Islands (from 8pm)
• Channel 5: Love Nature
• Film4: Wrath of Man
• E4: Gogglebox
• ITV2: Big Brother
• ITV3: Vera (from 8pm)
• ITV4: Benidorm

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What’s on Blaze today

The small hours open with Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo at midnight, then UFO POV at 1am and Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan at 2am. A Junk & Disorderly repeat follows at 3am, then three Hardcore Pawn episodes from 3:45am.

Dickinson’s Real Deal, Pawn Stars, Canadian Pickers and Money For Nothing take the early morning, and four episodes of We Are Not Alone run from 9:20am. The afternoon is Pawn Stars, a pair each of Storage Wars Texas and Storage Wars, then Ancient Aliens at 4:05pm and UFO POV at 5pm. Nothing live is scheduled.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 15 October 2026.

Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective — Blaze, 6pm

A clip-show hour built from the car-restoration series, with Henry Cole and the other restorers buying wrecks, patching them up and selling them on. It is a compilation rather than a fresh episode, so it works as a warm-up rather than an event.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 7pm and 8pm

Two episodes back to back, both filmed in Lymm, Cheshire. The first has a haul of Doulton character figures, horse brasses and vintage toy cars on the table; the second turns on a gold necklace and bracelet. David Dickinson fronts it, with Alison Chapman and the rest of the dealers circling.

Ancient Aliens UK — Blaze, 9pm

The listing marks this as a new episode, series 21, episode 15, and its subject is Britain: Stonehenge, crop circles and the Rendlesham Forest sightings. The ancient-astronaut theory is argued as theory rather than demonstrated, so treat it as entertainment. It is not the opener of a run.

UFO Chronicles — Blaze, 10pm and 10:30pm

Two half-hour episodes of the sightings series, one after the other. The first goes back to the lights that dropped into the sea off Shag Harbour in Nova Scotia, one of Canada’s best-known cases. The second covers the 1997 lights over Phoenix and asks whether they were a flare drop or something else.

The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd — Blaze, 11pm

Aykroyd’s tour of the oddities of the unexplained turns this week to battlefield improvisation: a plan to strap tiny bombs to bats, inflatable decoy tanks, robot assassins and even war dolphins. Episode 4 of the series.

What kind of shows are on Blaze

Military and world history documentaries

This is the strand worth setting a reminder for, and it rewards anyone who has already worked through the more familiar documentaries elsewhere. Hitler’s Engineers and U-Boat Wargamers go after corners of the Second World War that don’t get the rotation the D-Day landings and the Battle of Britain do, and both are made with more care than the channel’s reputation would lead you to expect.

Ancient mysteries and the unexplained

Ancient Aliens, The UnXplained with William Shatner, Weird Britain and MonsterQuest account for more hours than anything else on Blaze. The evidence base is viral footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness account rather than anything that has been through review. Watch accordingly.

Factual entertainment and reality

Storage Wars Canada, Pawn Stars and Dickinson’s Real Deal hold the daytime. Ordinary people, real money, modest budgets, and nobody involved pretending it is anything more than that.

How to watch Blaze

Channel numbers

Blaze 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

Blaze streams live and free at watch.blaze.tv and via the free BLAZE app on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV and select smart TVs. No account, subscription or payment card is needed to watch the live stream.

Blaze streaming and catch-up

Blaze runs a Freeview +1 timeshift channel on 92, which is useful when you land on the 9pm show twenty minutes in and would rather start it properly. There is no +1 on Sky, Virgin or Freesat, so Freeview is the only route to a delayed watch.

The BLAZE app and website also carry a real catch-up library rather than a token one. New episodes are typically added daily and stay on demand for around 30 days.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is Blaze on Freeview?

Freeview channel 64, with Blaze +1 on channel 92.

What’s on Blaze tonight?

Tonight, Thursday 15 October, Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective is on at 6pm and Dickinson’s Real Deal at 7pm and 8pm, then Ancient Aliens UK at 9pm, UFO Chronicles at 10pm and 10:30pm and The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd at 11pm.

Is Blaze free to watch?

Yes, entirely free to air on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat, with no subscription fee. It carries advertising like any other commercial channel.

Who owns Blaze?

Blaze launched under A+E Networks UK in September 2016 and is now run by Hearst Networks UK, a joint venture between Hearst and Sky Group, following A+E Networks EMEA’s 2024 rebrand to Hearst Networks EMEA.

Verdict

Blaze knows what it is and doesn’t oversell it, which on most nights is enough. The military history slot is the reason to keep the channel in mind at all: Hitler’s Engineers would hold its own two hundred channel numbers lower down. The unexplained material is lighter, fine as entertainment provided you don’t go to it for evidence. The pawn shops and storage lockers ask nothing of you, which some evenings is the whole appeal.

Tonight’s one new episode is Ancient Aliens UK at 9pm. Before it come a car-restoration compilation and a pair of Dickinson’s Real Deal episodes, and two UFO Chronicles halves and Dan Aykroyd’s The UnBelievable follow. Nothing live is scheduled.

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