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, Monday 10 August 2026, the evening opens with Second Chances, followed by a repeat showing of the afternoon’s Abducted, then Escape Plan 3 and No Man’s Land.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Monday 10 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The small hours open with two contemporary thrillers before the westerns take over. Dangerous Bestie airs at 12:32am, a 2018 film with Rosslyn Luke as a woman whose reunion with an old best friend turns into a hostage ordeal once the friend’s real plans surface. American Siege follows at 2:11am, Bruce Willis as a troubled small-town sheriff drawn in when local thugs take a doctor hostage over a teenager’s decade-old disappearance.

Two vintage westerns fill the pre-dawn slot. Panhandle (1948) at 3:47am has Rod Cameron as a former Texas marshal convinced a powerful casino owner is behind his brother’s murder. The Proud Rebel (1958) follows at 5:22am, Alan Ladd as a soldier who returns from the Civil War to find his wife dead and his son shocked into silence, and rides out to find both a cure and justice.

Air Rescue then fills the whole morning, seven instalments back to back from 7:12am to 10:17am, following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service on a different emergency each time.

From there the schedule settles into its usual run of thrillers. The Pledge, a 2008 western with Luke Perry, C. Thomas Howell and Kim Coates, takes the 10:17am slot: an ex-lawman who has just killed an innocent man sets out on a revenge mission. Staged Killer follows at 11:52am, Chrishell Stause as TV host Naomi Spencer, whose ratings climb once a former co-host works his way back into her life. Dead Lines takes the 1:30pm slot, a 2010 mystery with Jeri Ryan as an eco-fashion designer whose big launch is thrown into chaos when an employee turns up dead. Living With The Enemy follows at 3:03pm, Sarah Lancaster as a bride whose dream home turns sour once her tech-billionaire husband’s past catches up with them. Abducted then opens its first of two showings at 4:38pm, Sarah Wynter as the lonely wife of a prison warden who falls for an inmate she believes is innocent and helps him escape. That run carries the day through to the evening handover.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 10 August 2026.

Second Chances — GREAT! Movies, 6:13pm

Melissa George plays journalist Kate Fisher, rebuilding her career after wrongly backing a man later exposed as a serial killer. In this 2010 thriller, someone from her past starts stalking her just as she thinks it’s behind her.

Abducted — GREAT! Movies, 7:49pm

A repeat of the 4:38pm showing: Sarah Wynter plays the wife of a prison warden who falls for an inmate she’s convinced is innocent, helps him escape, and then finds out who he really is.

Escape Plan 3 — GREAT! Movies, 9:24pm

Sylvester Stallone returns as Ray Breslin in this 2019 sequel, his third outing as the prison-security expert after Escape Plan (2013) and Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018). This time he’s broken into a Latvian prison to rescue a billionaire’s daughter. It’s the only title in tonight’s line-up most viewers will recognise on sight.

No Man’s Land — GREAT! Movies, 11:04pm

Jake Allyn and Andie MacDowell star in this 2020 modern western, in which a Texas rancher’s son searches for redemption after accidentally killing a boy near the Mexican border.

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?

Second Chances at 6:13pm, a repeat of the afternoon’s Abducted at 7:49pm, Escape Plan 3 at 9:24pm and No Man’s Land at 11:04pm. Escape Plan 3, with Sylvester Stallone, is the only really recognisable name on tonight’s schedule.

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’s line-up leans harder on recognisable names than usual: Sylvester Stallone in Escape Plan 3, Andie MacDowell in No Man’s Land, and a repeat outing for Abducted sandwiched between them. Worth the extra step tonight if Stallone or a modern western is what you’re after.

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