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, Monday 17 August 2026, Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm, followed by a Dickinson’s Real Deal double bill at 7pm and 8pm. Secrets In The Sand brings a genuinely new episode at 9pm, Secrets In The Dark follows with another new episode at 10pm, and Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo closes out primetime from 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Monday’s daytime on Blaze runs the channel’s usual factual-entertainment loop. What On Earth? and Strange Evidence open the small hours from midnight, then a paired run of Court Cam and another of River Hunters carry the graveyard shift through to 5am, when a one-off Wars of the Roses River Hunters special takes over for the hour before breakfast.

Breakfast belongs to the pawn shop and auction crowd: Dickinson’s Real Deal at 6am, Pawn Stars Do America at 6:45am, a new episode of Money For Nothing at 7:30am, and two editions of Storage Hunters from 8:25am. Junk & Disorderly then holds the late morning almost on its own, four episodes running from 9:20am into the early afternoon, before Pawn Stars Do America and Money For Nothing repeat their earlier slots from 1:05pm.

Ancient Aliens takes two hours from 3:05pm, and Evidence Of The Unexplained closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective opening the evening at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

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

Motoring restorer Henry Cole opens the evening by digging back through his own archive of barn finds, breakdowns and rebuilds. It’s a look-back compilation rather than a fresh build, which is how this strand usually fills its slot.

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

David Dickinson’s valuation show runs two editions back to back tonight, an art deco tea set in Carlisle first, then a Loughborough haul that includes a Georg Jensen bowl and a Moorcroft vase. Comfortable, familiar territory for two hours.

Secrets In The Sand — Blaze, 9pm

A genuinely new episode opens the night’s headline pairing, moving from a mass grave uncovered in Mongolia to a tavern dug up in Iraq that predates most of recorded history. It’s the wider-ranging of tonight’s two archaeology premieres, jumping continents inside a single hour.

Secrets In The Dark — Blaze, 10pm

The second new episode of the night stays closer to home, revisiting the 2012 dig under a Leicester car park that turned up the remains of Richard III and what it told historians about the end of his reign. Two back-to-back premieres is unusual for a Monday on this channel, and this is the one worth prioritising if British history is more your interest than the wider world.

Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo — Blaze, 11pm

Danny Trejo closes primetime with an older instalment built around an unrelated pair of stories, a curse that has outlasted the people who first spread it and remains turned up in a Founding Father’s basement. Late-slot filler rather than appointment viewing.

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?

Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm, then Dickinson’s Real Deal runs a double bill at 7pm and 8pm. Secrets In The Sand and Secrets In The Dark each bring a new episode at 9pm and 10pm, and Mysteries Unearthed With Danny Trejo closes out primetime 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 is busier on the premiere front than usual for this channel: two genuinely new episodes back to back, Secrets In The Sand at 9pm and Secrets In The Dark at 10pm, after a motoring compilation and a Dickinson’s Real Deal double bill earlier in the evening. Danny Trejo closes things out from 11pm with an older instalment rather than a new one. It’s more first-run material than a typical Blaze Monday offers.

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