Blaze TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Blaze Tonight

Published: 24 August 2026

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, Tuesday 25 August 2026, the archaeology strand takes a night off and the channel runs an organised-crime block instead. Junk & Disorderly opens the evening at 6pm, Dickinson’s Real Deal takes two straight hours at 7pm and 8pm, then a genuine series opener in Hells Angels: Kingdom Come leads two Gangland Chronicles films and Mega Disasters through to midnight.

Blaze Schedule: Tuesday 25 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Tuesday 25 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Tuesday’s schedule opens overnight with The Curse of Civil War Gold at midnight and We Are Not Alone at 1am, then a new episode of Killer Britain at 2am and an episode of Junk & Disorderly at 3am, before three straight episodes of Hardcore Pawn run from 3:45am. Dickinson’s Real Deal takes the 5am and 6am slots, Pawn Stars Do America follows at 6:45am, and a Storage Wars Canada double from 7:30am leads into a Storage Hunters double from 8:25am.

Storage Wars then holds the whole late morning, running eight episodes back to back from 9:20am to 12:35pm, before Pawn Stars Do America repeats at 1:05pm. Storage Wars Canada returns for a second double bill at 2:05pm and 2:35pm, Ancient Aliens takes two episodes from 3:05pm to 5pm, and We Are Not Alone closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of Junk & Disorderly opening the evening proper at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Blaze puts its archaeology strand on hold for one night and runs an organised-crime block instead, from a Hells Angels launch through two true-crime films to a natural-disasters hour.

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

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove compare notes on a mixed day of motorcycle-junk trading at the Stafford Show, the country’s biggest classic-bike autojumble, in this series 1 instalment.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 7pm

David Dickinson takes the valuation trail to Skipton in North Yorkshire, the first half of tonight’s double dose of antiques dealing.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 8pm

The second episode moves the team to Ludlow in Shropshire, closing out the antiques hour before Blaze turns to crime for the rest of the night.

Hells Angels: Kingdom Come — Blaze, 9pm

This is a real series launch rather than the recycled “new” flag Blaze often carries, and it heads the whole crime block. Subtitled Crimson Crown, the opening episode traces how the Hells Angels built their outlaw reputation from a single Californian chapter into a sprawling international network, setting up the power struggles the rest of the series will follow. It’s the one programme on Blaze tonight worth clearing the evening for.

Gangland Chronicles: The Sinaloa Cartel — Blaze, 10pm

The first of two half-hour crime films charts the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel under Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, from small-time trafficking to one of the most powerful drug operations the Americas have produced.

Gangland Chronicles: The Gambino Family — Blaze, 10:30pm

Straight after, the strand switches coast and era for John Gotti and the Gambino family’s hold on New York’s underworld. Blaze’s own listings data disagrees with itself on how these two films are numbered, so treat them as a matched pair rather than a numbered sequence.

Mega Disasters — Blaze, 11pm

The night changes subject for its final hour: a volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the scale of damage a single mountain can do.

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 takes the 6pm slot, then Dickinson’s Real Deal runs two hours in a row at 7pm and 8pm. From 9pm the schedule turns to crime for the rest of the night, with the series opener Hells Angels: Kingdom Come, two Gangland Chronicles films and Mega Disasters running through to midnight.

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 swaps that ancient-history strand for crime: once Dickinson’s Real Deal wraps at 9pm, Hells Angels: Kingdom Come opens as a genuine new series rather than the recycled premiere flag the channel often runs, and the two Gangland Chronicles films that follow keep the tone consistent through to Mega Disasters at 11pm. It’s a more focused evening than Blaze often runs, with the daytime doing the work on variety instead — Storage Wars, Storage Wars Canada, Storage Hunters and Ancient Aliens all get a slot before the schedule narrows in for the night.

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