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, Friday 21 August 2026, Junk & Disorderly opens the evening at 6pm under its Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective sub-title (series 1, episode 5), a different instalment from the one shown under the same banner the night before. A Dickinson’s Real Deal double bill follows at 7pm and 8pm, then History’s Most Shocking runs two brand new episodes back to back at 9pm and 10pm, before What On Earth? closes out primetime at 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Friday 21 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Friday 21 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Friday’s daytime on Blaze opens with The Curse Of Oak Island at midnight (series 11, episode 17), then We Are Not Alone at 1am and a Court Cam pair at 2am and 2:30am. An earlier Junk & Disorderly airs at 3am, a different episode from tonight’s Wreck-trospective, before three editions of Hardcore Pawn carry the small hours through to 5am.

Breakfast belongs to the pawn shop and auction crowd again: Dickinson’s Real Deal runs at 5am and 6am, Pawn Stars Do America takes 6:45am, and Storage Wars Canada and Storage Hunters each get a pair of episodes through to 9:20am. Storage Wars Texas then takes over the schedule almost entirely, eight straight episodes running from 9:20am through to 12:35pm. Pawn Stars Do America repeats at 1:05pm and Storage Wars Canada returns for two more 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 opening the evening at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for Friday 21 August 2026.

Junk & Disorderly — Blaze, 6pm

This Junk & Disorderly carries the Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective sub-title (series 1, episode 5), a different edition from the one Blaze aired under the same banner the previous night despite the shared title. Henry and Sam are back out chasing their next restoration find.

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

David Dickinson’s valuation format runs two fresh episodes back to back this evening, series 9 episodes 59 and 61, taking the 7pm and 8pm hours between them.

History’s Most Shocking — Blaze, 9pm and 10pm

Both hours are new tonight, series 1 episodes 7 and 8. It’s the biggest item on Blaze’s Friday grid: a genuine two-hour run of fresh material rather than the repeats that fill most of the rest of the schedule.

What On Earth? — Blaze, 11pm

Blaze closes primetime with What On Earth? (series 7, episode 1), which turns to mysterious structures found deep in a remote forest and asks whether the site could be a lost Nazi installation.

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 opens the evening at 6pm under its Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective sub-title, a different episode from the one shown under the same banner the previous night. Dickinson’s Real Deal runs a fresh double bill at 7pm and 8pm, then History’s Most Shocking airs two brand new episodes at 9pm and 10pm. What On Earth? 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 bucks the channel’s usual repeats-heavy pattern: Junk & Disorderly opens at 6pm under its Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective banner, a different episode from the one shown under the same title the previous night, and Dickinson’s Real Deal fills the 7pm and 8pm hours with a fresh pair of valuations. The real event is History’s Most Shocking’s 9pm and 10pm double, both genuinely new, before What On Earth? closes the night investigating a possible lost Nazi site inside a remote forest. It’s a heavier premiere night than most for Blaze, even if the daytime tells the usual story: eight straight episodes of Storage Wars Texas from mid-morning into early afternoon.

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