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, Thursday 13 August 2026, the evening opens with Dead Lines, followed by Jack Hunter And The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit, then Eliminators closes the night.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 13 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 13 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight run opens with CONTRACT TO KILL at 12:27am, a CIA agent trying to stop Islamic terrorists teaming up with a Mexican cartel to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the US. American Siege follows at 2:07am, a 2021 actioner with Bruce Willis as a small-town sheriff drawn into a hostage stand-off after local thugs snatch a doctor over a decade-old disappearance.

Two older titles fill the pre-dawn slot. The Quick And The Dead, a 1963 war drama with Victor French and Majel Barrett, follows American soldiers trying to slip through enemy-occupied Italy, at 3:42am. Angel and the Badman takes the 5:20am hour, John Wayne’s 1947 western about a wounded gunslinger taken in by a Quaker family who try to turn him from his old ways.

Air Rescue then fills the morning, eight editions back to back from 7:11am to just after 10am, the Australian series following the Westpac Lifesaver helicopter crews as they respond to a fresh emergency around the coast in each episode.

Ride in The Whirlwind takes over at 10:11am, a 1966 western with a young Jack Nicholson among three cowboys mistaken for outlaws and hunted by a posse. Abducted follows at 11:39am, a 2006 drama with Sarah Wynter as a prison warden’s wife who falls for an inmate she believes is innocent and helps him escape. Web Of Lies airs at 1:14pm, a 2009 crime thriller with Majandra Delfino as a security specialist framed for bank fraud who teams up with the FBI to clear her name. Staged Killer takes the 2:47pm slot, Chrishell Stause’s 2019 thriller about a TV host whose career takes off just as her personal life comes apart. Live Once, Die Twice follows at 4:25pm, a 2006 thriller with Kellie Martin as a widow who discovers her husband faked his death for a second family. Staged Killer repeats at 5:59pm, 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, Thursday 13 August 2026.

Dead Lines — GREAT! Movies, 7:37pm

Dead Lines (2010) opens the evening. Jeri Ryan plays an eco-fashion designer whose big launch is derailed when someone on her team turns up dead, and the film spends its 90-odd minutes picking apart which of her colleagues had the most to hide.

Jack Hunter And The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit — GREAT! Movies, 9:10pm

Ivan Sergei’s globe-trotting archaeologist franchise continues at 9:10pm with this 2008 outing, chasing a buried hoard tied to the ancient city of Ugarit while conspirators try to beat him to it. It’s the kind of matinee throwback GREAT! Movies leans on heavily once the evening gets going.

Eliminators — GREAT! Movies, 10:54pm

Scott Adkins and Wade Barrett close the night at 10:54pm in this 2016 action thriller. Adkins plays a federal agent dragged out of witness protection after his own daughter becomes a target, and the film settles into the kind of hand-to-hand set pieces Adkins built his name on.

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?

Dead Lines at 7:37pm, with Jeri Ryan facing a death inside her own studio, Jack Hunter And The Lost Treasure Of Ugarit at 9:10pm, and Eliminators at 10:54pm. Scott Adkins in Eliminators is the most 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 runs a Jeri Ryan thriller into an Ivan Sergei archaeologist adventure, before Scott Adkins and Wade Barrett close things out in Eliminators at 10:54pm. A solid rather than essential night, but a reasonable one to leave on.

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