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, Wednesday 19 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. What On Earth? then runs two new episodes back to back at 9pm and 10pm, before Secrets In The Dark closes out primetime from 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Wednesday 19 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Wednesday 19 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Wednesday’s daytime on Blaze runs the channel’s usual factual-entertainment loop. History’s Most Shocking and Evidence Of The Unexplained open the small hours from midnight, a paired run of Court Cam follows at 2am, and Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective airs an earlier instalment at 3am before three editions of Hardcore Pawn carry the graveyard shift through to 5am.

Breakfast belongs to the pawn shop and auction crowd: Dickinson’s Real Deal runs at 5am and 6am, Pawn Stars Do America takes 6:45am, and two editions each of Storage Wars Canada and Storage Hunters fill the run up to 9:20am. Canadian Pickers then holds the late morning almost on its own, four back-to-back episodes running from 9:20am to 12:10pm, before Pawn Stars Do America repeats at 1:05pm and Storage Wars Canada returns for a further two episodes from 2:05pm.

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, Wednesday 19 August 2026.

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

Henry Cole and his restorers open the evening with a look back at motorcycle memorabilia they’ve bought, fixed and sold along the way, part of the Wreck-trospective run that’s become a regular fixture in Blaze’s early evening slot (series 1, episode 3).

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 7pm

David Dickinson takes the antiques trail to Oldham, where the team appraises items brought in by the Greater Manchester public, among them a Victorian cross and a 1950s ashtray (series 9, episode 56).

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 8pm

The valuers move on to Coalville in Leicestershire for a second helping, this time working through a Victorian veterinary kit and a watch bracelet once owned by Diana Dors (series 9, episode 57).

What On Earth? — Blaze, 9pm

A new run of What On Earth? begins with investigators poring over structures found deep in a remote forest, weighing up whether the site has any real connection to a long-rumoured, top-secret Nazi project (series 7, episode 1).

What On Earth? — Blaze, 10pm

The second new episode turns to the International Space Station, where a string of equipment malfunctions has analysts asking whether something more than bad luck is behind them (series 7, episode 2).

Secrets In The Dark: Coins, Curses and Kings — Blaze, 11pm

Primetime closes with a return to the 2012 discovery of Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park, revisiting how the find was confirmed and what it settled about the last Plantagenet king (series 1, episode 6).

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. What On Earth? follows with two new episodes back to back at 9pm and 10pm, and Secrets In The Dark 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 than most on the premiere front: Junk & Disorderly opens at 6pm, Dickinson’s Real Deal fills the 7pm and 8pm hours with a fresh pair of valuations, and then What On Earth? returns with two new episodes back to back from 9pm, its Nazi-project forest mystery followed by the ISS malfunction story. Secrets In The Dark rounds off the night at 11pm with Richard III. None of it is appointment viewing exactly, but it’s a stronger-than-usual spread of new material for a Wednesday on Blaze.

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