GREAT! Movies TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On GREAT! Movies Tonight

GREAT! Movies is a free-to-air film channel, though a fair bit harder to stumble across since a 2025 reshuffle of the Freeview line-up (more on that below). Tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026, the afternoon’s Summer House is still running when the evening window opens, Lindsay Price inheriting a family property with a curse attached to it; it clips just the first couple of minutes past 6pm before Amber Alert takes the slot at 6:02pm. Gone Daughter Gone follows at 7:39pm, a mother’s hunt for her missing teenage daughter after the family moves to a new town. Escape Plan 3 takes the 9:18pm hour, Sylvester Stallone and Dave Bautista pulling off a prison break to rescue a kidnapped tech heiress, and Bruce Willis’s Acts of Violence closes the night at 10:58pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Saturday 29 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Saturday 29 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight run opens with the Ethan Hawke thriller Predestination at 12:29am, followed by Son Of A Gun at 2:10am. The Quick And The Dead — the Sam Raimi western with Sharon Stone, not to be confused by anyone half-remembering the title — runs from 4:05am, with the Rod Cameron western Panhandle closing out the small hours from 5:43am.

Air Rescue then holds breakfast and the start of the morning across seven back-to-back episodes from 7:18am, following the crews of an Australian helicopter rescue service from one emergency to the next. The Quick And The Dead gets a second outing at 10:11am, before Perfect Plan takes the late-morning slot at 11:49am.

The afternoon runs on the same crime-and-thriller strand the channel leans on most days. Live Once, Die Twice opens it at 1:22pm, and A Murderer Upstairs follows at 2:56pm. Summer House then begins the run into the evening at 4:29pm — see tonight’s line-up below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 29 August 2026. The afternoon’s Summer House is still on air as the evening starts, running through to 6:02pm, so the first item below is the one that actually opens the primetime hours.

Amber Alert — GREAT! Movies, 6:02pm

Amber Alert picks up the 6:02pm slot once Summer House ends. The feed doesn’t carry a production year for this one, and more than one film shares the title, so it’s listed here by name only rather than risk pairing it with the wrong plot.

Gone Daughter Gone — GREAT! Movies, 7:39pm

Gone Daughter Gone at 7:39pm follows a mother whose teenage daughter vanishes soon after the family settles into a new town, and her search puts her in the path of the person responsible. It’s the kind of missing-person thriller this channel’s evening slot leans on regularly.

Escape Plan 3 — GREAT! Movies, 9:18pm

The third instalment of the Escape Plan series, Escape Plan: The Extractors, takes the 9:18pm hour. Sylvester Stallone’s security expert Ray Breslin is hired to break a kidnapped tech heiress out of a brutal Latvian prison, with Dave Bautista and 50 Cent back for the ride.

Acts of Violence — GREAT! Movies, 10:58pm

Acts of Violence closes the night at 10:58pm. Bruce Willis plays a detective investigating human trafficking who ends up working alongside a group of ex-military brothers trying to get one of their fiancées back from the gang that took her.

What kind of films are on GREAT! Movies

Classic Hollywood and westerns

The overnight schedule is where the channel’s deepest library lives: 1950s and ’60s Hollywood, John Wayne westerns through to Alan Ladd dramas, accumulated over more than a decade of broadcasting. It’s also the only stretch of the day where the films are genuinely old rather than just cheap, and if you set a recorder for anything here, set it for the small hours.

Lifetime-style crime and thriller movies

Daytime belongs to the made-for-TV thriller that Lifetime and its American equivalents turn out at pace. Missing persons, family secrets, one twist, done inside 90 minutes. Quality swings about a good deal from title to title, and none of it is trying to be more than something to have on.

Contemporary action and thriller premieres

Evenings bring newer titles, generally from the last five to twenty years, mostly domestic-menace thrillers with the occasional proper action picture and a recognisable lead.

How to watch GREAT! Movies

Channel numbers

GREAT! Movies isn’t where it used to be. Here’s where to actually find it now:

Until 4 September 2025 this was an ordinary aerial-only channel on Freeview 50 and Sky 321. GREAT! Mystery has those slots now. Nothing about it costs money, but the broadband requirement is the bit that catches people out, particularly anyone still using an older box.

Streaming online

GREAT! Movies streams free through Great! Player at great-player.com, no account required, with apps for Amazon Fire TV, YouView, and Samsung and LG smart TVs, plus the App Store and Google Play. Alongside the live stream there’s a library of past films, which is how you pick something up after it has aired.

GREAT! sister channels

GREAT! Movies is one of five channels Narrative Entertainment UK Limited runs under the GREAT! banner, all of them part of Sony’s UK line-up before the 2021 sale and rebrand.

All five sit in the same Great! Player app, which is how you reach GREAT! Movies on the platforms that no longer list it.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is GREAT! Movies on Freeview?

Channel 62, a connected Freeview Play slot since 4 September 2025, so it needs broadband as well as an aerial. Older Freeview boxes and standalone recorders without internet access can’t tune in. Freely carries it on 57.

Is GREAT! Movies still on Sky and Virgin Media?

Not under this name. Its old Sky slots (321, HD 318, +1 322) and Virgin Media slot were permanently rebranded to GREAT! Mystery in the same swap. Great! Player is the way to watch it if your TV isn’t set up for Freeview Play or Freely.

What’s on GREAT! Movies tonight?

Summer House, with Lindsay Price, is still running as the evening starts and clips through to 6:02pm, when Amber Alert takes over. Gone Daughter Gone follows at 7:39pm, then Escape Plan 3 with Sylvester Stallone takes the 9:18pm hour, and Bruce Willis’s Acts of Violence closes the night at 10:58pm.

Is GREAT! Movies free to watch, and does it carry adverts?

Free on all three: Freeview Play, Freely and Great! Player. There are ad breaks during films, as on any commercially funded channel, but no subscription and no sign-in required.

Who owns GREAT! Movies?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. It launched on Sky in May 2012 as Sony Movie Channel, reached Freeview in January 2017, became Sony Movies in 2019, and took the GREAT! Movies name in May 2021 after Narrative Capital bought Sony’s UK free-to-air channels.

What are the GREAT! sister channels?

GREAT! Action (Freeview 42), GREAT! TV (Freeview 34), GREAT! Romance (Freeview 52) and GREAT! Mystery (Freeview 50), which took over GREAT! Movies’ old, more prominent Freeview slot. All stream free via Great! Player.

Can I watch GREAT! Movies online for free, and is there catch-up?

Yes. Great! Player at great-player.com, plus apps on Freeview Play, Freely, YouView, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account needed, and the film library works as catch-up.

Verdict

The programming hasn’t got worse. The finding of it has. A channel that used to be a couple of button presses away now wants a broadband connection, a Freeview Play box or the Great! Player app, and some willingness to go looking, which is a genuine cost for something whose whole appeal was being there when you flicked past it.

Whether the effort is worth it depends on the night. Tonight leans on the two big names late on — Sylvester Stallone in Escape Plan 3 at 9:18pm, then Bruce Willis in Acts of Violence from 10:58pm. Summer House runs into the early evening from the afternoon slot, so anyone catching the channel from 6pm walks straight into Amber Alert instead.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week