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, Friday 14 August 2026, the evening opens with Mistaken, a divorcee’s identity-theft thriller, before Jack Hunter And The Quest For Akhenaten sends its archaeologist hero after an ancient weapon, and Redemption Day, a hostage-rescue thriller with Andy Garcia, closes out the night.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Friday 14 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Friday 14 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 The Commando at 12:34am, a 2022 action film starring Michael Jai White as a DEA agent whose return home from a botched mission turns into a fight to protect his own family from an invading gang. Supercell follows at 2:13am, a 2023 disaster picture with Alec Baldwin, in which a teenager chases the same storms that made his late father’s name, only to find them far more dangerous than he expected.

Two westerns fill the pre-dawn slot. Lone Rider, a 2008 outing for Lou Diamond Phillips, follows a Civil War veteran who comes home to find a ruthless landowner has taken over his town, at 3:59am. Kentucky Rifle takes the 5:29am hour, a 1955 western with Chill Wills, Lance Fuller and Cathy Downs, in which a broken-down, gun-laden wagon strands its passengers in hostile country.

Air Rescue then fills the morning, seven editions back to back from 6:57am to just after 9:25am, the Australian series following the Westpac Lifesaver helicopter crews as they respond to a fresh emergency around the coast in each episode.

Bad Man’s River takes over at 9:50am, a 1971 comedy western with Lee Van Cleef and James Mason as rival conmen who join forces to swindle a government fortune. Amber Alert follows at 11:33am, a hostage thriller in which Alaina Huffman’s detective is called in to talk down a young man who has hijacked a school bus. Summer House airs at 1:10pm, a 2008 mystery-thriller with Lindsay Price inheriting a family property with a centuries-old curse attached. Gone Daughter Gone takes the 2:43pm slot, Andrea Bogart playing a mother who goes looking for her abducted daughter herself rather than wait on the police. Circle Of Friends follows at 4:21pm, Julie Benz returning to her home town for a funeral and finding a secret among her old friends that threatens to unravel the reunion. Burning Lies closes out the afternoon at 5:56pm, Annika Foster falling for a firefighter whose protectiveness curdles into obsession.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 14 August 2026.

Mistaken — GREAT! Movies, 7:36pm

The evening opens with Mistaken, a 2008 thriller built around Lana Parrilla’s Nellie, a divorcee whose life has already fallen apart before someone steals what’s left of her identity. A new romantic interest gets pulled into the hunt for the culprit, which is about as far from subtle as this slot ever gets, but the plotting keeps a decent pace across ninety minutes.

Jack Hunter And The Quest For Akhenaten’ — GREAT! Movies, 9:07pm

Ivan Sergei takes over at 9:07pm as the title archaeologist, chasing down an ancient weapon before it lands in worse hands. It’s 2008 pulp adventure of the sort GREAT! Movies leans on heavily, more concerned with keeping things moving than with plausibility.

Redemption Day — GREAT! Movies, 10:56pm

Closing the night at 10:56pm, Redemption Day puts a returning war veteran on the trail of his kidnapped wife, with Andy Garcia leading a cast that also includes Gary Dourdan and Serinda Swan, and the clock running down on the rescue. Garcia is the recognisable face here, and 2021’s slicker production values show against some of the earlier titles in the schedule.

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?

Mistaken at 7:36pm, with Lana Parrilla piecing her life back together after an identity theft, Jack Hunter And The Quest For Akhenaten at 9:07pm, and Redemption Day at 10:56pm. Andy Garcia in Redemption Day 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 Lana Parrilla identity-theft thriller into an Ivan Sergei archaeologist adventure, before Andy Garcia and Gary Dourdan close things out in Redemption Day at 10:56pm. 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