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

GREAT! Movies is a free-to-air film channel, and a fair bit harder to stumble across than it used to be after a 2025 reshuffle of the Freeview line-up (more on that below). Tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026, the channel runs three thrillers back to back: Web Of Lies at 7:30pm, the modern western No Man’s Land at 9:03pm, and American Heist closing out the night at 10:58pm. No Man’s Land is a repeat, having also screened on the channel two nights ago.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The small hours open with two crime thrillers before the westerns take over. Son Of A Gun airs at 12:36am, Ewan McGregor as a young inmate pulled into a gold heist after falling in with Australia’s most notorious criminal, with Alicia Vikander also in the cast. The Commando follows at 2:31am, Michael Jai White as a DEA agent who comes home from a botched operation to find he has to defend his own family from the gang that has invaded his house.

Two older westerns fill the pre-dawn slot. Bad Man’s River (1971) at 4:10am pairs Lee Van Cleef and James Mason as rival conmen chasing the same stolen fortune from the government, played more for laughs than tension. Panhandle (1948) at 5:52am has Rod Cameron as a former Texas marshal convinced a casino owner had his brother killed.

Air Rescue then fills the whole morning, six instalments back to back from 7:28am to just before 10am. Each follows the pilots and paramedics of an Australian helicopter rescue service responding to a different emergency call-out.

Ride in the Whirlwind, Jack Nicholson’s 1966 western about three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a posse, takes the 9:56am slot. From there the schedule settles into its usual run of Lifetime-style thrillers: Time Of Death at 11:24am, an FBI agent chasing a killer who murders executives at the same time each night; Crisis Point at 1:03pm, a psychologist forced back into action when her sister is taken hostage; Flirting with Danger at 2:39pm, a lawyer drawn into danger while investigating a friend’s death; Second Chances at 4:19pm, a journalist stalked after wrongly vouching for a serial killer; and Abducted at 5:55pm, a warden’s wife who helps an inmate escape only to learn his real motive. That run carries the day through to the evening handover at 7:30pm.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

Web Of Lies — GREAT! Movies, 7:30pm

Web Of Lies (2009) opens the evening. Majandra Delfino plays a computer security specialist framed for bank fraud, teaming up with the FBI to clear her name before the real culprits close in.

No Man’s Land — GREAT! Movies, 9:03pm

No Man’s Land (2020) takes the 9:03pm slot, Jake Allyn as a Texas rancher’s son trying to find some kind of redemption after accidentally killing a Mexican boy near the border, with Andie MacDowell co-starring. It’s a repeat, having already had an outing on this channel two nights ago.

American Heist — GREAT! Movies, 10:58pm

American Heist (2014) closes the night. Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody play brothers who served time for a crime they committed together, one of them determined to go straight while the other keeps pulling him back in.

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?

Web Of Lies at 7:30pm, No Man’s Land at 9:03pm and American Heist at 10:58pm. No Man’s Land, with Jake Allyn and Andie MacDowell, is a repeat rather than a first showing on this channel, having also screened here two nights ago.

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 nothing to subscribe to and nothing to sign in to.

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 the closing slot, American Heist, is probably the most recognisable name on the schedule, with Web Of Lies opening and a repeat of No Man’s Land in between, decent enough thrillers but not reason enough on their own to go hunting for a Freeview Play signal.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide