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, Wednesday 12 August 2026, the evening opens with Crisis Point, followed by Eye For An Eye, then Mercenary: Absolution closes the night.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Wednesday 12 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Wednesday 12 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight run opens with two contemporary titles. Supercell, a 2023 adventure with Alec Baldwin, plays at 12:13am, following a boy who sets off after his storm-chasing father and finds nature considerably more dangerous than he bargained for. The Trust follows at 1:59am, Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood from 2016 as two dishonest cops who stumble on a bail-bond receipt and go chasing after the money behind it.

Two westerns fill the pre-dawn slot. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James takes the 3:37am hour, a dramatisation of the outlaw brothers’ final run as bank robbers. Abilene Town follows at 5:26am, a 1946 western with Randolph Scott, Edgar Buchanan and Lloyd Bridges, set in a Kansas cattle town where one man tries to hold the peace between homesteaders and unruly ranchers after the Civil War.

Air Rescue then takes over the morning, six instalments back to back from 7:07am to 9:24am, an Australian documentary series following the Westpac Lifesaver helicopter crews as they respond to a fresh emergency each time.

Death Rides a Horse takes the 9:24am slot, a 1967 western with Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law built around a gunslinger whose family was killed by bandits years earlier finally getting his shot at revenge. A Murderer Upstairs follows at 11:26am, a 2017 thriller starring Josie Davis as a stepmother trying to protect her stepdaughter after the girl becomes a witness to murder. Perfect Plan takes the 1pm slot, Emily Rose from 2010 as an estate agent whose dream sale sours once the sellers turn up dead. Time Of Death airs at 2:33pm, Kathleen Robertson from 2013 as an FBI agent chasing a killer who strikes to the exact minute each time. Living With The Enemy follows at 4:13pm, a 2005 thriller with Sarah Lancaster as a new bride who starts uncovering what her tech-billionaire husband has been hiding. Time Of Death repeats at 5:48pm, carrying 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, Wednesday 12 August 2026.

Crisis Point — GREAT! Movies, 7:27pm

Crisis Point opens the evening at 7:27pm. Rhona Mitra plays a psychologist still shaken by a hostage negotiation that went wrong, dragged back into that world when her own sister is taken. It’s a 2012 thriller, and the sort of premise GREAT! Movies leans on most evenings.

Eye For An Eye — GREAT! Movies, 9:03pm

At 9:03pm, Eye For An Eye brings the strongest pairing of the night: John Travolta and Morgan Freeman, from 2019. Travolta’s private investigator takes what looks like a routine missing-persons case and ends up somewhere far murkier, with Freeman circling the edges of the corruption underneath.

Mercenary: Absolution — GREAT! Movies, 10:44pm

Mercenary: Absolution closes the night at 10:44pm. Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones headline this 2015 actioner, in which a mercenary uncovers a trafficking operation and finds an unexpected chance to make amends for his past.

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 7:27pm, with Rhona Mitra pulled back into a hostage crisis, Eye For An Eye at 9:03pm, and Mercenary: Absolution at 10:44pm. John Travolta and Morgan Freeman in Eye For An Eye are the strongest names 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 runs a Rhona Mitra hostage thriller into an actual pairing of recognisable names: John Travolta and Morgan Freeman in Eye For An Eye at 9:03pm, before Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones close things out. Worth the extra step for the 9pm slot alone.

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