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). The Freeview feed for Thursday 15 October 2026 names four evening films: Live Once, Die Twice at 6:10pm, Island Of Shadows at 7:44pm, The Wild Geese at 9:17pm and Big Lift at 11:41pm. The live listings sources we can reach still show sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime series under this channel’s web address, so we could not confirm any of it independently. Treat the line-up as UNVERIFIED and check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 15 October 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 15 October 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

Also on TV tonight at 9pm

• BBC One: The Celebrity Traitors (from 8pm)
• ITV1: Long Lost Family
• BBC Two: Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
• Channel 4: Our Tiny Islands (from 8pm)
• Channel 5: Love Nature
• Film4: Wrath of Man
• E4: Gogglebox
• ITV2: Big Brother
• ITV3: Vera (from 8pm)
• ITV4: Benidorm

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What’s on GREAT! Movies today

For Thursday the feed is back to naming films. Overnight it runs Operation Cross Eagles at 12:27am, Gung Ho at 1:55am, Rage at Dawn at 3:32am and Panhandle at 5:10am, then a morning of westerns and thrillers that starts with Four Fast Guns at 6:46am and Angel and the Badman at 8:04am. Johnson County War – Part 2 is on at 9:55am, with Air Rescue and An Organized Killer either side of midday. The afternoon is Death By Friendship at 1:23pm, You Belong To Me at 2:56pm and Burning Lies at 4:30pm. None of this could be cross-checked against a second listing, so times are the feed’s own.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Four films fill tonight’s evening, according to the Freeview feed. We could not confirm them elsewhere, so the notes below stick to what the feed itself supports.

Live Once, Die Twice — GREAT! Movies, 6:10pm

The evening opens with this one, in a slot that runs about an hour and a half. The feed gives nothing beyond the title, and we won’t guess at a plot or cast for a film we cannot identify with confidence.

Island Of Shadows — GREAT! Movies, 7:44pm

Another film listed by title only, running to roughly 9:17pm. It is the lead-in to the night’s best-known name.

The Wild Geese — GREAT! Movies, 9:17pm

The evening’s one recognisable title, assuming the listing is right: a 1978 film about hired soldiers sent into Africa, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, with Burton, Moore and Harris (Richard, Roger and Richard) leading the cast. It is the longest slot of the night at 2 hours 24 minutes, which is ad breaks included.

Big Lift — GREAT! Movies, 11:41pm

Listed without its article, so this is probably The Big Lift, the 1950 drama set around the Berlin Airlift and starring Montgomery Clift. That identification is our inference, not something the feed states. The slot runs to about 1:53am.

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?

Tonight, Thursday 15 October 2026, the Freeview feed lists Live Once, Die Twice (6:10pm), Island Of Shadows (7:44pm), The Wild Geese (9:17pm) and Big Lift (11:41pm). Live listings sources are showing sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime series under the same web address, so the running order is UNVERIFIED. Check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

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.

Thursday’s line-up carries the same caveat as ever: the sources normally used to confirm a schedule like this keep showing sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime series under the GREAT! Movies web address. The Freeview feed does name four films this time, with The Wild Geese the obvious pick if the listing holds, but treat it as UNVERIFIED and check the on-screen guide before settling in.

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