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

Published: 30 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, Monday 31 August 2026, a new run of Junk & Disorderly opens the evening at 6pm, with Henry Cole working autojumbles at Enfield and Stratford-upon-Avon. Dickinson’s Real Deal then holds 7pm and 8pm with back-to-back valuation trips to Ludlow and Gloucester, before the schedule turns to archaeology and the paranormal: Secrets in the Sand at 9pm, Secrets in the Dark at 10pm, and Field of Vampires closing the night at 11pm.

Blaze Schedule: Monday 31 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Blaze schedule for Monday 31 August 2026, on Freeview 64.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Blaze today

Monday’s schedule opens overnight with The UnXplained: Mysteries of the Universe at midnight and an edition of Strange Evidence at 1am. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan revisits the Derrick Bird case at 2am, and three editions of The Great British Dig then carry the small hours through to 6am, when the last instalment of the previous Dickinson’s Real Deal run closes out.

Breakfast pairs two editions of Pawn Stars with two of Storage Wars Canada and two of Storage Hunters. Four consecutive episodes of Junk & Disorderly then take the late morning and early afternoon through to 1:05pm, following Henry and Sam around the country’s autojumbles and car shows. The same Pawn Stars and Storage Wars Canada pairings repeat mid-afternoon, two editions of Ancient Aliens take 3pm and 4pm, and UFOs: The White House Files fills the 5pm hour before the evening’s new run of Junk & Disorderly begins at 6pm.

Blaze tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Blaze primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 31 August 2026.

Junk & Disorderly — Blaze, 6pm

A new run of Junk & Disorderly opens tonight’s schedule at 6pm. Henry Cole is back working the autojumbles, this time at Enfield and Stratford-upon-Avon, alongside restorers Allen Millyard and Guy Willison, hunting parts and profit for the next big restoration.

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

Dickinson’s Real Deal takes both the 7pm and 8pm hours tonight, back-to-back editions that follow straight on from this morning’s showing. The team is in Ludlow at 7pm, where a watch with a Margaret Thatcher connection turns up among the valuations, then moves to Gloucester at 8pm for a heart-shaped pendant, a letter seal and a run of flying-duck wall decor.

Secrets In The Sand — Blaze, 9pm

Secrets In The Sand takes the 9pm slot, flagged as a new episode though it sits mid-run rather than opening a series. Tonight’s edition pairs two very different desert stories: the wreck of the Lady Be Good, a US bomber that vanished into the Libyan sand in 1943, and the calendar carved into the stones at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey.

Secrets In The Dark — Blaze, 10pm

At 10pm, Secrets In The Dark heads to China, where a burial site has produced a child’s remains showing unusual modifications. Another mid-series episode carrying the New: flag, continuing the strand’s run through unexplained archaeological finds.

Field Of Vampires — Blaze, 11pm

Field Of Vampires closes the night at 11pm with the second half of its look at a plot of so-called deviant burials in Poland, including a body found buried with a sickle laid across its neck — a folk practice once believed to stop the dead from rising.

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?

A new run of Junk & Disorderly opens the evening at 6pm, followed by a Dickinson’s Real Deal double bill at 7pm and 8pm. Secrets in the Sand and Secrets in the Dark pair up at 9pm and 10pm, and Field of Vampires closes 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.

Tonight’s shape leans toward archaeology and the unexplained after an opening hour in a car park: a new run of Junk & Disorderly gets first billing at 6pm, then Dickinson’s Real Deal doubles up at 7pm and 8pm before the mood turns properly strange. Secrets in the Sand and Secrets in the Dark make a tidy 9pm-to-10pm pairing, and Field of Vampires closes out an evening that, past the opening hour, has nothing more to do with pawn shops or storage lockers. The daytime works through repeated Pawn Stars, Storage Wars Canada and Ancient Aliens slots either side of four consecutive Junk & Disorderly episodes, before UFOs: The White House Files hands over to the evening at 5pm.

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