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

Published: 26 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, Thursday 27 August 2026, Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm, Dickinson’s Real Deal takes two straight hours at 7pm and 8pm with fresh episodes, and then Blaze turns to its unexplained-phenomena strand: the feature-length documentary Alien Contact: The Pascagoula UFO Encounter at 9pm, National Park Mysteries at 10:40pm and The Curse Of Oak Island closing out the night at 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Thursday 27 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Thursday’s schedule opens overnight with Mysteries From Above at midnight and We Are Not Alone at 1am, then a new episode of Killer Britain at 2am and a different Junk & Disorderly: Henry’s Wreck-trospective outing at 3am, before three straight episodes of Hardcore Pawn run from 3:45am. Dickinson’s Real Deal takes the 5am and 6am slots, a Pawn Stars double follows from 6:45am, a Storage Wars Canada double runs from 7:30am and a Storage Hunters double follows from 8:25am.

Hardcore Pawn then holds the whole late morning and into lunchtime, with eight episodes running back to back from 9:20am to 12:35pm. The same Pawn Stars pair repeats at 1:05pm and 1:35pm, 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: Henry’s Wreck-trospective opening the evening proper at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 27 August 2026.

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

Henry Cole and the team open the evening putting a stack of automotive junk up for sale (series 1, episode 9), a different outing from the 3am airing of the same strand earlier in the schedule.

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

Dickinson’s Real Deal fills two straight hours with fresh episodes rather than a repeat of the 5am/6am pair: dealers work Stockport at 7pm (series 9, episode 68), then Liverpool at 8pm (series 9, episode 69).

Alien Contact: The Pascagoula UFO Encounter — Blaze, 9pm

The night’s centrepiece is this feature-length documentary, running an hour and forty minutes, revisiting the claimed 1973 alien abduction case from Pascagoula, Mississippi, and the evidence gathered around it since.

National Park Mysteries — Blaze, 10:40pm

A short hop to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, where the episode gathers reports of strange lights and unexplained animal deaths (series 2, episode 9).

The Curse Of Oak Island — Blaze, 11pm

The Lagina brothers’ hunt closes the night, with a new structure turning up under the swamp and the usual competing Viking and Templar theories getting an airing (series 11, episode 18).

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 takes the 6pm slot, then Dickinson’s Real Deal runs two fresh hours in a row at 7pm and 8pm. From 9pm the schedule turns to unexplained phenomena, led by the feature-length Alien Contact: The Pascagoula UFO Encounter, before National Park Mysteries at 10:40pm and The Curse Of Oak Island close the night at 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.

Dickinson’s Real Deal fills the 7pm and 8pm hours with fresh episodes rather than repeats of the 5am/6am pair, and once it wraps, the evening turns properly strange: a feature-length Pascagoula UFO documentary, a run of unexplained lights and animal deaths at a Colorado national park, then Oak Island closing out the night. The daytime still carries the usual variety, with Storage Wars Canada, Storage Hunters, Hardcore Pawn and Ancient Aliens all getting a slot before the schedule settles into its evening groove.

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