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

Published: 31 August 2026

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 1 September 2026, Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico closes its evening double bill at 6pm before Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing heads for the Highlands near Loch Ness at 7pm, three episodes ahead of the same run’s finale, which BBC Two airs at 10pm the same night. Would I Lie to You? runs two editions back to back at 7:40pm and 8:20pm — a 2016 Christmas special handing over to a genuine series 11 opener — then Roy Wood Jr hosts Dave’s own extended edition of Have I Got a Bit More News for You at 9pm, a different programme from BBC One’s version. QI XL replays Sandi Toksvig’s first outing as host at 10pm, and Taskmaster closes the night at 11pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

Dave Schedule: Tuesday 1 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Dave schedule for Tuesday 1 September 2026, on Freeview 19.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Dave today

Tuesday’s overnight hours open with Mock the Week at midnight (series 16, episode 12), then two Would I Lie to You? repeats before QI XL’s Sandi Toksvig debut gets an early outing at 2am, hours ahead of tonight’s primetime replay. Richard Osman’s House of Games and Parks and Recreation carry the schedule to 4am, when teleshopping takes over until Top Gear opens the proper broadcast day at 7:25am, followed by two episodes of Border Force: America’s Gatekeepers.

Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico gets an early daytime showing at 10:20am, then Yukon Gold and two Top Gear repeats fill the late morning and early afternoon. Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has its own daytime showing at 2:20pm — the same episode that returns at 7pm — before Speed with Guy Martin and Hairy Bikers’ Best of British see out the afternoon. Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico then opens the early evening properly with back-to-back episodes at 5pm and 6pm, leading into tonight’s line-up.

Dave tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Dave primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 1 September 2026.

Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico — Dave, 6pm

The second half of tonight’s back-to-back double bill (series 1, episode 4), picking up straight after the 5pm episode as Stein continues his route through the country.

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing — Dave, 7pm

Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse head for the Highlands near Loch Ness (series 5, episode 3) — three episodes behind where the same run finishes up. BBC Two carries the series 5 finale at 10pm the very same night, so anyone following the whole series has both ends of it on offer this evening.

Would I Lie To You? — Dave, 7:40pm

An out-of-season repeat of a Christmas special first broadcast in 2016, Rob Brydon’s panel joined by Richard Osman, Tom Courtenay, Sara Pascoe and Chris Kamara for a round of festive tall tales in the first week of September.

Would I Lie To You? — Dave, 8:20pm

Straight after, series 11 gets under way with its opening episode — a proper handover from the special that just finished, both editions run back to back inside forty minutes.

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

Dave’s own extended edition of the satirical news quiz (series 68, episode 6) has Roy Wood Jr in the host’s chair, with Richard Osman and Roisin Conaty joining regulars Paul Merton and Ian Hislop on the panel. It’s a separate production from BBC One’s Have I Got News for You, not a rerun of it.

QI XL — Dave, 10pm

The extended cut of series 14, episode 1, “Naming Names” — the edition that put Sandi Toksvig in the QI chair for the first time after Stephen Fry stepped down. It had an earlier outing at 2am; this is the primetime replay, and it’s an archive milestone rather than new material.

Taskmaster — Dave, 11pm

Series 5, episode 7, “Boing Boing”, closes out the night.

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, Taskmaster: 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. Dave’s daytime sitcom rotation runs deep too, with long-running BBC and Channel 4 comedies filling the hours between panel shows.

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?

Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico closes its evening double bill at 6pm, then Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing takes the 7pm slot with a trip near Loch Ness. Would I Lie to You? runs two editions back to back at 7:40pm and 8:20pm — a 2016 Christmas special followed by the series 11 opener — before Roy Wood Jr hosts Have I Got a Bit More News for You at 9pm. QI XL replays Sandi Toksvig’s debut as host at 10pm, and Taskmaster rounds off the night 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

Tuesday’s daytime leans on repeats too: two showings apiece of Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico and Gone Fishing before they resurface in the evening, plus a QI XL that gets its primetime slot after an overnight airing.

Primetime has more going on than it looks at first glance. Would I Lie to You? does a genuine series handover in forty minutes flat, closing out series 10 with an old Christmas special before opening series 11 straight after. QI XL is an archive episode rather than new material, but Sandi Toksvig’s first night in the host’s chair is a decent piece of trivia if nothing else. The one to actually set a reminder for is Have I Got a Bit More News for You, where Roy Wood Jr’s edition of the panel earns its own space against BBC One’s version later on. A comfortable, familiar Tuesday rather than an eventful one.

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