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

Published: 5 September 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, Sunday 6 September 2026, Tropic of Capricorn with Simon Reeve opens the evening at 6pm, then Guy Martin: Proper Jobs at 7pm and Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake at 8pm — the fourth episode of its weekly run, not a launch. Have I Got a Bit More News for You takes 9pm, QI follows at 10pm, and two episodes of Mock the Week close out the night. Channel numbers are further down the page.

Dave Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Dave schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 19.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Dave today

Sunday’s overnight hours open with Not Going Out at 12:10am, then Have I Got a Bit More News for You, Live at the Apollo and Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish before Teleshopping takes over from 4am to just past 7am.

Top Gear opens the proper broadcast day at 7:25am, then three Yukon Gold episodes fill the late morning and two Red Bull Soapbox Race instalments carry into the early afternoon. Three Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing episodes run back to back from 1:20pm, and four Would I Lie To You? repeats fill the rest of the afternoon before tonight’s line-up begins at 6pm.

Dave tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Dave primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

Tropic of Capricorn with Simon Reeve — Dave, 6pm

Simon Reeve’s travelogue strand opens the evening, tracking along the line of the Tropic of Capricorn rather than sticking to one country. Factual filler ahead of the comedy block, nothing more.

Guy Martin: Proper Jobs — Dave, 7pm

The Isle of Man TT racer turned engineering presenter tries his hand at a trade for the hour, the format’s usual mix of manual labour and Martin’s motormouth commentary.

Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake — Dave, 8pm

The fourth instalment of Pete Wicks’ weekly dog-rescue series, not a launch — the opener aired last night. The TOWIE star turned animal advocate follows another rescue case tonight.

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

The topical-comedy panel show’s late-night sister edition takes the 9pm slot, built from extra footage cut from the main Have I Got News for You recording.

QI — Dave, 10pm

Dave’s strongest nightly booking, and it shows no sign of wearing thin however many times the channel repeats it. Sandi Toksvig’s trivia panel show, Alan Davies still the answer nobody trusts.

Mock the Week — Dave, 10:40pm & 11:20pm

Two episodes of the topical panel show close the night back to back, archive material from a run that ended years ago but still fills Dave’s schedule reliably.

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?

Tropic of Capricorn with Simon Reeve opens the evening at 6pm, then Guy Martin: Proper Jobs at 7pm. Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake takes 8pm with its fourth weekly episode, not a launch. Have I Got a Bit More News for You follows at 9pm, QI at 10pm, and two episodes of Mock the Week close out the night.

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

Sunday’s evening is Dave’s usual factual-into-panel-shows shape: Simon Reeve and Guy Martin’s travel and engineering hours lead into Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake, now four episodes into its run and settled rather than new. Have I Got a Bit More News for You and QI carry the second half of primetime, with QI still the strongest booking of the night whatever the topic.

Two Mock the Week reruns close things out, archive material from a show that stopped making new episodes years ago but keeps earning its slot on Dave regardless.

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