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, Saturday 29 August 2026, three consecutive editions of History’s Greatest Mysteries hold the whole 6pm to 9pm block, before a genuine same-night double of new episodes: World War Weird at 9pm and Secret Wars Uncovered at 10pm. Two editions of National Park Mysteries close the night at 11pm and 11:30pm.

Blaze Schedule: Saturday 29 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Saturday 29 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Saturday’s schedule opens overnight with Paranormal Survivor at midnight and We Are Not Alone at 1am, then the series finale of Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan at 2am, closing out the Levi Bellfield case, and Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective at 3am, with the pair at the Classic Motor Show in Birmingham. Three episodes of Hardcore Pawn run from 3:45am, Dickinson’s Real Deal takes the 5am slot, and six straight editions of Storage Wars fill breakfast from 6am to 8:20am.

The Unxplained With William Shatner runs two hours from 8:20am, then Strange Evidence takes the late morning with two editions from 10:10am. Three episodes of Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries carry the early afternoon from 12:05pm, and three of What On Earth? follow from 3:05pm, running through to 6pm when the evening’s History’s Greatest Mysteries run begins.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026.

History’s Greatest Mysteries — Blaze, 6pm to 9pm

Three editions of History’s Greatest Mysteries (series 4, episodes 5 to 7) run back to back and account for the whole of Blaze’s early evening. The 6pm hour covers the wave of UFO sightings over Phoenix in 1997, 7pm turns to the long hunt for the Ark of the Covenant, and 8pm closes the run with a vanishing that was never solved: Joseph Force Crater, a judge on the New York Supreme Court, walked away from a Manhattan street in 1930 and was not seen again.

World War Weird — Blaze, 9pm

World War Weird (series 3, episode 3) is flagged as a new episode and looks at an early Russian all-terrain armoured vehicle built for trench warfare.

Secret Wars Uncovered — Blaze, 10pm

Secret Wars Uncovered (series 2, episode 5) follows straight after with another new instalment, covering the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira. Two fresh episodes back to back is a rare thing on Blaze’s usual schedule of repeats.

National Park Mysteries — Blaze, 11pm and 11:30pm

Two editions of National Park Mysteries (series 2, episodes 9 and 10) close the night, moving from Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado at 11pm to Lassen Volcanic National Park in California at 11:30pm.

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?

Three consecutive editions of History’s Greatest Mysteries run from 6pm to 9pm, followed by new episodes of World War Weird at 9pm and Secret Wars Uncovered at 10pm. National Park Mysteries closes the night with two editions at 11pm and 11:30pm.

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.

Three editions of History’s Greatest Mysteries carrying the whole of the 6pm to 9pm block is a lot of one show in a row, but the case files are different enough each hour to justify it. What follows is the more interesting choice: World War Weird and Secret Wars Uncovered both land genuine new episodes back to back at 9pm and 10pm, a rare same-night pairing by Blaze’s usual standards, where most evenings lean on repeats. National Park Mysteries rounds off the night with two shorter, quieter half-hours. The daytime runs through Storage Wars, The Unxplained With William Shatner, Strange Evidence and the military-mystery strand before the evening settles into its groove.

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