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

Published: 18 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, Saturday 19 September 2026, the last of an afternoon-long Would I Lie to You? run opens primetime at 6:20pm, then three Ghosts episodes take the evening from 7pm. Two Not Going Out episodes and a Halloween-branded special follow from 9pm, before two more Would I Lie to You? episodes close out the night from 11:10pm. Channel numbers are further down the page.

Dave Schedule: Saturday 19 September 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Dave today

Overnight opens with Mock the Week just after midnight, then two Would I Lie to You? episodes from 12:40am, QI XL at 2am and Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish at 3am, before Teleshopping fills the small hours from 4am until ten past seven.

Pointless opens the broadcast day at 7:10am, then two new episodes of East Harbour Heroes take 8am and 9am. A long run of Would I Lie to You? repeats fills the rest of the morning and into the afternoon, interrupted only by Wagging Rights at 3:15pm, before the last instalment of that run opens tonight’s line-up at 6:20pm.

Dave tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Dave primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 19 September 2026.

Would I Lie To You? — Dave, 6:20pm

The last instalment of an afternoon-long run opens primetime, Rob Brydon still refereeing as David Mitchell and Lee Mack pick apart each other’s stories (series 13, episode 2).

Ghosts — Dave, 7pm

Three episodes run back to back from 7pm to 8:15pm, following the Button House regulars through an early run of the sitcom (series 1, episodes 1 to 3).

Not Going Out — Dave, 9pm

Two episodes air from 9pm, Lee Mack’s long-running sitcom continuing its usual mix of misunderstandings and rapid-fire lines (series 10, episodes 6 and 7).

Not Going Out: Halloween Special — Dave, 10:15pm

A trick-or-treating special follows at 10:15pm, with Lee and Lucy’s evening going wrong at a spooky Victorian house. It’s a themed rerun rather than a new production, and its slot in mid-September has nothing to do with the calendar; Dave’s schedule simply pulls it back into rotation.

Would I Lie To You? — Dave, 11:10pm

Two further episodes close out the night from 11:10pm, Brydon, Mitchell and Mack still working through each other’s improbable claims (series 13, episodes 3 and 4).

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?

The last of an afternoon Would I Lie to You? run opens primetime at 6:20pm, then three Ghosts episodes take over from 7pm. Two Not Going Out episodes and a Halloween-branded special follow from 9pm, and two more Would I Lie to You? episodes close out the night from 11:10pm.

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

There’s no new format launching tonight, just Dave doing what it does best: three Ghosts episodes running from 7pm into a Not Going Out double bill and its Halloween-branded special from 9pm, before two more Would I Lie to You? episodes close things out from 11:10pm.

Earlier on, an afternoon-long Would I Lie to You? run carries the day in before primetime proper gets going — panel comedy and Button House sitcom reruns in reliable rotation.

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