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

Dave is UKTV’s comedy and entertainment channel, and almost everything it broadcasts belongs to somebody else. The exception is Red Dwarf, which Dave revived in 2009 with the original cast and has been trading on ever since. UKTV became a wholly owned subsidiary of BBC Studios in 2021 and renamed the channel U&Dave in July 2024, when it pushed the whole portfolio under a single “U” brand. Nobody calls it that. Tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026, the line-up runs from Rick Stein’s Cornwall through Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, a Would I Lie To You? double, Have I Got a Bit More News for You, QI XL and Taskmaster. Channel numbers are further down the page.

Dave Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Dave schedule for Tuesday 11 August 2026, on Freeview 19.

What’s on Dave today

Tuesday’s schedule opens just after midnight with an old edition of Mock the Week, then two archive Would I Lie To You? editions at 12:40am and 1:20am: an outtakes compilation from series 7, followed by a Christmas special with Miranda Hart and Stephen Mangan. QI XL’s Landmarks episode airs at 2am, the same edition Dave repeats at 10pm tonight, before Richard Osman’s House of Games, Parks and Recreation and a stretch of teleshopping from 4am see out the night.

Top Gear returns at 7:25am with an amphibious car build, then two episodes of Border Force America’s Gatekeepers from 8:20am. Rick Stein’s Cornwall gets its first outing of the day at 10:20am and 10:50am, ahead of Yukon Gold at 11:20am and a Top Gear double from 12:15pm. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing repeats at 2:20pm, Man and Beast with Martin Clunes follows at 3pm, and Hairy Bikers’ Best of British closes the afternoon at 4pm with a look at British pork dishes, before the evening schedule takes over.

Dave tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Dave primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026.

Rick Stein’s Cornwall — Dave, 6pm & 6:30pm

Rick calls in on Dawn French, who’s made Cornwall her home, at Golitha Falls at 6pm, then boards the world’s busiest chain ferry. The 6:30pm half hour moves inland to the china clay pits, one of the county’s old industries, where Rick prepares an easy sea bass dish before calling in on his niece near Land’s End.

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing — Dave, 7pm

Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer head back to Scotland for another go at salmon, this time on the River Tweed, after an earlier attempt on the Tay came up short.

Would I Lie To You? — Dave, 7:40pm & 8:20pm

Rob Brydon puts Claudia Winkleman, Fiona Bruce, Micky Flanagan and Steve Jones alongside David Mitchell and Lee Mack at 7:40pm. The 8:20pm edition opens with Kirsty Wark and Bruno Tonioli taking their seats opposite the regulars, before Adam Buxton and Rob Beckett complete the guest line-up.

Have I Got a Bit More News for You — Dave, 9pm

Steph McGovern and Phil Wang take the guest seats, sparring with regular team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton while Alexander Armstrong keeps order from the host’s chair.

QI XL — Dave, 10pm

Tonight’s edition is Landmarks, with Jo Brand, David Mitchell and Alan Davies on larceny, the London Underground and loos. It’s a repeat of the episode Dave already showed at 2am this morning.

Taskmaster — Dave, 11pm

Greg Davies sets a camouflage challenge, then the contestants attempt to herd dogs and chickens in the Hollowing Out A Baguette episode.

What kind of shows are on Dave

Panel shows and comedy institutions

This is the channel’s whole personality. Would I Lie to You?, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week when it’s in rotation: two decades of British panel comedy, nearly all of it bought in from the BBC and Channel 4 rather than commissioned here. What Dave adds is the scheduling. Episodes come in blocks you can drop into at any point and leave whenever you like, which is a different way of watching television and, on a weeknight, not the worst one.

Sitcoms: archive and revivals

Red Dwarf is the one thing Dave can properly call its own. The channel brought it back in 2009, a decade after the BBC finished with it, and got Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn all to return. Not Going Out is the other long runner, still in production after more than fifteen years.

Factual entertainment and documentaries

A thinner strand of observational and scripted-reality shows fills the gaps: Highland Cops, Meet the Richardsons and similar, mostly parked in daytime. It’s ballast between the comedy blocks.

How to watch Dave

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Dave across the main UK television platforms:

Dave is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Channel numbers can vary slightly by region and set-top box, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if these don’t match.

Streaming online

Dave streams live and on demand for free on U, UKTV’s streaming service, at u.co.uk and through the U app on smart TVs, iOS, Android and Amazon Fire TV. U was called UKTV Play until the 2024 rebrand. You need a free account, and there are ad breaks, the same ones you’d sit through on a TV set.

Dave ja vu and sister channels

Dave ja vu is the timeshift channel, running the main schedule an hour behind under a pun that has somehow survived since the 2000s. It’s on Freeview 74, and coverage is patchier than the main signal because it shares broadcast capacity with local TV services in parts of the country. Where reception is thin, the U app is the better fallback for anything you’ve missed.

The rest of the family: U&Drama, U&Yesterday and U&W free to air, with U&Gold, U&Alibi and U&Eden behind pay-TV. All of them sit in the same app.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is Dave on Freeview?

Dave is on Freeview channel 19, and Dave ja vu on 74.

What’s on Dave tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026: Rick Stein’s Cornwall runs from 5pm to 6:30pm, Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing follows at 7pm, then Would I Lie To You? twice from 7:40pm, Have I Got a Bit More News for You at 9pm, QI XL at 10pm and Taskmaster at 11pm.

Who hosts QI and Would I Lie to You??

QI is hosted by Sandi Toksvig, with Alan Davies the permanent panellist since 2003. Would I Lie to You? is hosted by Rob Brydon, with David Mitchell and Lee Mack as team captains since the show began in 2007.

Can I watch Dave online for free?

Yes, free on U at u.co.uk or in the U app. You’ll need an account, and it’s ad-supported.

Verdict

None of tonight’s line-up is a premiere, but it isn’t the straight repeat run the overnight schedule suggests either. Rick Stein’s Cornwall doubles up again from 6pm, taking in Golitha Falls and a visit to Dawn French before moving on to the china clay pits and Land’s End. Gone Fishing at 7pm sends Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer back to Scotland for another crack at a salmon on the River Tweed, having come up short on the Tay before.

Both Would I Lie to You? slots carry proper series 8 line-ups, unlike the archive outtakes and Christmas special Dave ran in the small hours. Claudia Winkleman and Micky Flanagan join the regulars at 7:40pm, Bruno Tonioli and Kirsty Wark follow at 8:20pm. Have I Got a Bit More News for You brings Steph McGovern and Phil Wang to Alexander Armstrong’s panel at 9pm. QI XL at 10pm is a straight repeat of the Landmarks edition already shown at 2am. Taskmaster closes the night at 11pm with a camouflage challenge and a stint herding dogs and chickens, an odd note to end on.

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