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, Thursday 6 August 2026, the channel runs four thrillers back to back: Crisis Point at 6:08pm, Cruel Fixation at 7:43pm, Beyond The Law at 9:17pm, and Mercenary: Absolution closing out the night at 10:46pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 6 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 6 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The small hours open with a run of crime thrillers before the westerns take over. The Trust airs at 12:22am, a 2016 caper with Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as two crooked cops who stumble onto a stash of cash and go looking for where it came from. Mercenary for Justice follows at 2:01am, a 2006 film with Steven Seagal hired by a drug lord to spring his son from a maximum-security prison.

Two older westerns fill the pre-dawn slot. Ride in The Whirlwind (1966) at 3:43am has Jack Nicholson among three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and chased by a posse looking for blood. Four Fast Guns (1960) follows at 5:11am, James Craig as a former gunslinger trying to tame a lawless town against a saloon owner who hides behind his own disability.

Air Rescue then fills the whole morning, nine instalments back to back from 6:29am to just before 10am, following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service on a different emergency each time.

Four Fast Guns repeats at 10:24am for anyone who missed the small-hours showing. From there the schedule settles into its usual run of Lifetime-style thrillers: Another Mother at 11:42am, a 2020 film with Alex McKenna as a woman whose engagement is threatened by her fiancé’s daughter’s biological mother; Mistaken at 1:22pm, Lana Parrilla as a divorcee whose stolen identity leads her back to the thief responsible; Living With The Enemy at 2:53pm, Sarah Lancaster discovering her tech-billionaire husband’s past won’t stay buried; and Time Of Death at 4:28pm, Kathleen Robertson as an FBI agent racing to stop a killer who strikes at the same hour each time. That run carries the day through to the evening handover at 6:08pm.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 6 August 2026.

Crisis Point — GREAT! Movies, 6:08pm

Rhona Mitra leads this 2012 thriller as a negotiator still shaken by a hostage case that went wrong, dragged back into the field when her own sister is the one taken. It opens the evening in familiar territory for the channel: a professional whose old failure turns personal.

Cruel Fixation — GREAT! Movies, 7:43pm

Kristina Klebe stars in this 2019 thriller as a recently widowed mother who grows wary of her son’s new friend. The film builds its tension around exactly how far that friendship really goes.

Beyond The Law — GREAT! Movies, 9:17pm

Steven Seagal headlines alongside Johnny Messner and DMX in this 2019 revenge thriller, playing a retired detective who goes after the mob he blames for his estranged son’s death. It’s the pick of tonight’s four, and the closest thing on the schedule to a recognisable name.

Mercenary: Absolution — GREAT! Movies, 10:46pm

Seagal turns up again to close the night, alongside Vinnie Jones this time, in a 2015 film about a mercenary who stumbles on a human trafficking ring while trying to make peace with his own past. Two Seagal films on one GREAT! Movies evening is not unusual.

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?

Crisis Point at 6:08pm, Cruel Fixation at 7:43pm, Beyond The Law at 9:17pm and Mercenary: Absolution at 10:46pm. Beyond The Law, with Steven Seagal and DMX, is the pick of the four.

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 brings four B-movie thrillers, two of them carrying Steven Seagal’s name, with Beyond The Law’s supporting turn from DMX the closest thing to a genuine draw. Fine for background viewing, but not reason enough on its own to go hunting for a Freeview Play signal.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide