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

Blaze is a free-to-air factual channel with military history at one end, ancient mysteries and the unexplained at the other, and a great many pawn shops and storage lockers in between. It has been on Freeview since September 2016. Tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026, Storage Wars fills the 6pm hour with a double bill before Money For Nothing takes the 7pm slot and Dickinson’s Real Deal follows at 8pm. A new Weird Britain opens the later run at 9pm, a new Britain’s X-Files follows at 10pm, and Secrets In The Dark closes the night at 11pm. Channel numbers are further down.

Blaze Schedule: Wednesday 5 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Wednesday 5 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

What’s on Blaze today

Daytime Blaze is a loop, and the channel doesn’t pretend otherwise. Overnight, History’s Most Shocking and Evidence Of The Unexplained hold the first two hours before a Court Cam double bill at 2am, then Storage Wars runs two episodes back to back from 3am and Hardcore Pawn fills three more from quarter to four. Dickinson’s Real Deal takes a second double bill from 5am, Pawn Stars follows at quarter to seven, and Money For Nothing brings a new episode at half past seven.

Storage Hunters plays a short double bill from 8:25am, then Canadian Pickers runs four episodes back to back into the early afternoon, only breaking for Pawn Stars at 1:05pm and Money For Nothing at 2:05pm. Storage Hunters returns for a second pairing from 3:05pm, and Ancient Aliens and Evidence Of The Unexplained close out the daytime run before the evening schedule takes over at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 5 August 2026.

Storage Wars — Blaze, 6pm

Rosamond throws up a locker full of vintage TV memorabilia in this episode (series 15, episode 5), and for once the women outnumber the men at the auction.

Storage Wars — Blaze, 6:30pm

Lancaster follows straight after (series 15, episode 6), with Lisa favouring instinct over guesswork on which lockers to chase.

Money For Nothing — Blaze, 7pm

A repeat of this morning’s new episode (series 4, episode 17). Three items on their way to landfill get reworked into something worth keeping.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 8pm

David Dickinson presides over another round of sellers weighing up a dealer’s offer against their chances at auction (series 9, episode 39). The format hasn’t changed in years, and it doesn’t need to.

Weird Britain — Blaze, 9pm

A new episode, “Weird Cuts Part 2” (series 3, episode 9), is the pick of the night. It works through haunted museums, poisonous plants, urban legends and old fairy lore, treating each as a genuine strand of British folklore rather than padding between adverts. The mix of the macabre and the local gives it more character than most of the channel’s unexplained output.

Britain’s X-Files — Blaze, 10pm

Another new instalment (series 1, episode 4) follows, digging into four home-grown cases where folklore, secrecy and fear tangle together. It sits comfortably alongside Weird Britain as the second half of a themed hour.

Secrets In The Dark — Blaze, 11pm

The night closes with “Priestess with the Golden Eye” (series 1, episode 4), built around the Burnt City of Shahr-e Sukhteh in Iran, where archaeologists found the oldest known prosthetic eye, fashioned from gold.

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?

Storage Wars holds the 6pm hour with a double bill, then Money For Nothing takes over at 7pm and Dickinson’s Real Deal follows at 8pm. A new Weird Britain opens the later evening at 9pm, a new Britain’s X-Files follows at 10pm, and Secrets In The Dark closes the night 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 whatsoever, which some evenings is the whole appeal.

Tonight leans toward the channel’s unexplained and folklore strand rather than its military history side. Weird Britain at 9pm is the one worth building the evening around, with Britain’s X-Files at 10pm and Secrets In The Dark at 11pm keeping the mysteries running until midnight. A Storage Wars double bill, Money For Nothing and Dickinson’s Real Deal fill the hours before it.

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