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, Thursday 20 August 2026, Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm with the pair chasing a spot in the classic tractor market. A Dickinson’s Real Deal double bill follows at 7pm and 8pm, then the two-hour documentary Alien Abductions: Answers takes over from 9pm to 11pm, before The Curse Of Oak Island closes out primetime.

Blaze Schedule: Thursday 20 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Thursday 20 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Thursday’s daytime on Blaze runs the channel’s usual factual-entertainment loop. Mysteries From Above opens the small hours at midnight, Evidence Of The Unexplained follows at 1am, a paired run of Court Cam takes 2am and 2:30am, and an earlier Junk & Disorderly outing airs at 3am (this one has Henry and Sam chasing motorcycle memorabilia rather than tonight’s tractors) 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. Hardcore Pawn then takes over the schedule almost entirely, eight straight episodes running from 9:20am through to 12:35pm with barely a change of format in between. 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 across a pair of episodes, and We Are Not Alone closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective opening the evening at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 20 August 2026.

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

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove open the evening with an attempt to break into the classic tractor market (series 1, episode 4), the second Wreck-trospective outing of the day after an earlier repeat spent chasing motorcycle memorabilia at 3am.

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

David Dickinson runs a back-to-back pair of valuations, with sellers weighing up a dealer’s offer against their chances at auction across episodes 58 and 9pm’s 59. Same format twice over, different collectors each hour.

Alien Abductions: Answers — Blaze, 9pm

This is a two-hour documentary rather than a film, running straight through to 11pm. It gathers first-hand abduction accounts and puts the case to researchers for why contact might still be happening, without the channel’s usual reconstruction-heavy treatment slowing things down.

The Curse Of Oak Island — Blaze, 11pm

Dark and Stormy (series 11, episode 16) closes the night as bad weather forces the Lagina brothers’ team to halt work on the island just as fresh finds are turning up.

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 and Sam’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm, then Dickinson’s Real Deal runs a double bill at 7pm and 8pm. The two-hour documentary Alien Abductions: Answers fills 9pm to 11pm, and The Curse Of Oak Island 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 leans on the channel’s daily strips rather than fresh premieres: Junk & Disorderly opens at 6pm with Henry and Sam eyeing up the tractor trade, Dickinson’s Real Deal fills the 7pm and 8pm hours with a fresh pair of valuations, and the two-hour Alien Abductions: Answers takes the whole 9pm slot through to 11pm. The Curse Of Oak Island rounds off the night at 11pm. It’s a quieter evening than some on the premiere front, but the daytime is the real story today — eight straight episodes of Hardcore Pawn from mid-morning into early afternoon is heavy repetition even by Blaze’s standards.

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