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 15 August 2026, three episodes of History’s Greatest Mysteries fill the 6pm hour onwards, working through the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Chicago Tylenol murders and the Loch Ness Monster. World War Weird premieres a new episode at 9pm, Secret Wars Uncovered follows with a new instalment at 10pm, and two episodes of National Park Mysteries close out the night from 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Daytime Blaze is a loop, and the channel doesn’t pretend otherwise. Britain’s X-Files opens the day at midnight, tracing vanished pilots and Cold War experiments, and Mission Unexplained follows at 1am. Court Cam then holds 2am and 2:30am with a back-to-back half-hour pairing, before Storage Wars runs two more episodes from 3am and Hardcore Pawn takes three from 3:45am, with shop owner Les fielding an acid test on a jar of what might be gold dust or might just be eyeshadow.

Dickinson’s Real Deal has a single hour at 5am, then Storage Wars carries breakfast with six episodes back to back from 6am to 8:20am. The UnXplained holds two hours from 8:20am, and Strange Evidence takes over from 10:10am with two reports of unexplained sightings in the Canadian wilderness. The Proof Is Out There: Bermuda Triangle Edition then runs three linked episodes from 12:05pm to 3:05pm, working through UFO sightings, sea creature reports and wormhole theories in turn, before What On Earth? closes the afternoon with three more episodes to 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

History’s Greatest Mysteries — Blaze, 6pm-8pm

Three back-to-back cases open the night. The 6pm hour returns to the 1932 kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s infant son, a case that gripped America and ended with a conviction still argued over today. At 7pm the focus shifts to the 1982 Chicago Tylenol poisonings, where cyanide-laced capsules killed seven people and reshaped how medicine is packaged, an investigation the FBI has never formally closed. The 8pm episode turns to Loch Ness, weighing sonar sweeps and decades of sightings against the simplest explanations.

World War Weird — Blaze, 9pm

A new series of World War Weird begins at 9pm with a story that sounds more like pulp fiction than history: a secret site near the German-Czech border, codenamed The Giant, built around a device known as The Bell. The episode follows claims that a substance called Serum 525 was tested there, with grim effects on anyone who came near it. It’s the kind of fringe wartime tale the channel does best, half documented fact and half rumour that refuses to die.

Secret Wars Uncovered — Blaze, 10pm

Secret Wars Uncovered also returns with a new run at 10pm, opening on the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008. Close to 850 people died after Georgian forces struck the breakaway region of South Ossetia and Russian troops moved in behind it. The episode traces how a regional flashpoint escalated into a war that still shapes the two countries’ relationship.

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

Two half-hours close the schedule. Big Bend National Park in Texas gets the 11pm slot, with investigators weighing a run of odd incidents against claims of alien activity, and Death Valley follows at 11:30pm, looking at disappearances linked to the park’s underground network.

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 episodes of History’s Greatest Mysteries fill 6pm to 9pm, covering the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Chicago Tylenol murders and Loch Ness. A new episode of World War Weird premieres at 9pm, Secret Wars Uncovered follows with a new episode at 10pm, and two episodes of National Park Mysteries close the night from 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 leans on the history strand early, then hands the back half to two new series openers, World War Weird and Secret Wars Uncovered, both starting fresh runs rather than continuing an existing one. Three episodes of History’s Greatest Mysteries open the evening; two National Park Mysteries half-hours close it. Same shape as most nights here, just with two premieres instead of none.

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