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

Published: 27 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, Friday 28 August 2026, Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’s Wreck-trospective opens the evening at 6pm and Dickinson’s Real Deal takes two straight hours at 7pm and 8pm with fresh episodes, before Blaze launches series two of My Strange Arrest at 9pm with a same-night double bill, then closes out the night with two editions of What On Earth? at 10pm and 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Friday 28 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Friday 28 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Friday’s schedule opens overnight with The Curse Of Oak Island at midnight and We Are Not Alone at 1am, then a new episode of Killer Britain at 2am and an earlier Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’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.

Storage Wars Texas 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 from earlier 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 the documentary UFOs: Secret Missions Exposed closes out the afternoon at 5pm, ahead of Junk & Disorderly: Henry and Sam’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, Friday 28 August 2026.

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

Henry Cole and Sam Lovegrove open the evening at the Classic Motor Show in Birmingham, hunting through stalls of automobilia for the pieces worth taking home. It’s the tenth outing for the strand, and the pairing of Cole’s motoring know-how with Lovegrove’s eye for a bargain is what carries it.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 7pm

David Dickinson opens a fresh hour of dealing at 7pm, sellers weighing up a dealer’s offer against the gamble of the saleroom.

Dickinson’s Real Deal — Blaze, 8pm

A second fresh episode follows straight after at 8pm — not a repeat of the earlier 5am and 6am pair, a different set of sellers and items entirely.

My Strange Arrest — Blaze, 9pm

Series two of My Strange Arrest lands at 9pm with Ride Or Die, the first of a same-night opening double bill. The format hasn’t changed — real arrests told with a knowing, slightly incredulous tone — but a second series getting a proper launch is rare enough on Blaze to be worth flagging. This is the channel’s only genuine premiere tonight alongside ITV1’s headline drama.

My Strange Arrest — Blaze, 9:30pm

The second half of the launch follows immediately at 9:30pm with I Have to Poop!, keeping the run-up momentum from the opener rather than making viewers wait a week for the follow-up.

What On Earth? — Blaze, 10pm

At 10pm, investigators look into circles of flattened ground appearing in remote Swedish tundra, weighing a theory that ties the pattern back to fallout from Chernobyl.

What On Earth? — Blaze, 11pm

The night closes at 11pm with a different puzzle: an island off the Mexican coast vanishes, and officials try to work out where it went.

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 takes the 6pm slot, then Dickinson’s Real Deal runs two fresh hours in a row at 7pm and 8pm. At 9pm Blaze launches series two of My Strange Arrest with a same-night double bill, Ride Or Die and I Have to Poop!, before two editions of What On Earth? close the night at 10pm and 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, series two of My Strange Arrest gets a proper same-night launch at 9pm — a genuine event by Blaze’s usual standards, where most of the schedule is repeats and daytime strands. What On Earth? closes the night with a Swedish tundra mystery and a vanishing Mexican island. The daytime still carries the usual variety, with Storage Wars Canada, Storage Hunters, Storage Wars Texas and Ancient Aliens all getting a slot before the schedule settles into its evening groove.

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