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, Saturday 15 August 2026, the evening opens with A Murderer Upstairs, a domestic thriller with Josie Davis, before Perfect Plan and Jack Hunter And The Star Of Heaven send an archaeologist chasing a relic worth killing for, and The Commando, a home-invasion actioner with Michael Jai White, closes out the night.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight film block runs on from the previous evening: Redemption Day continues into the small hours, finishing at 12:43am, then Blowback takes over, a 2022 revenge thriller with Randy Couture as a heist man hunting down everyone who set him up. Contract To Kill follows at 2:23am, a CIA operative working to stop a weapons-smuggling deal crossing the Mexican border.

Two classic Hollywood westerns fill the pre-dawn hours. Angel and the Badman, a 1947 outing for John Wayne, plays at 4:03am: a wounded gunslinger taken in by a Quaker family who reform him, until his old life catches up with them. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James takes the 5:54am slot, tracking the outlaw brothers toward the end of the road.

Air Rescue then fills the mid-morning, six editions back to back from 7:43am to just before 10am, the Australian series following Westpac Lifesaver helicopter crews as they respond to a fresh emergency around the coast in each episode.

Four Fast Guns takes over at 10:22am, a 1960 western with James Craig as a former gunslinger trying to bring order to a town a saloon owner controls through fear rather than the law. Crisis Point follows at 11:40am, a 2012 thriller with Rhona Mitra as a psychologist dragged back into a hostage negotiation that reopens an old wound of her own. Framed By My Sister airs at 1:16pm, a 2021 thriller with Scout Taylor-Compton, in which adopted twins discover a long-lost triplet sister, and one of the three turns out to be dangerous. A Murderer Upstairs takes the 2:51pm slot, Josie Davis playing a stepmother trying to shield her stepdaughter after the girl witnesses a murder, only to find the real threat may already be inside the house. Final Verdict closes out the afternoon at 4:25pm, a 2009 thriller with Erica Durance as the prosecutor who put a killer away, now under threat as witnesses from that old trial start turning up dead.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

A Murderer Upstairs — GREAT! Movies, 6pm

GREAT! Movies opens its evening with a second helping of this afternoon’s thriller. Josie Davis plays a stepmother who tries to keep her stepdaughter safe once the girl becomes a witness to murder, and the film builds toward the possibility that the greater danger has been living under the same roof all along.

Perfect Plan — GREAT! Movies, 7:34pm

Emily Rose leads this 2010 thriller as an estate agent whose run of luck sours the moment she lands a cash buyer for a high-value house. The sellers turn up dead soon after, and a deal that looked too good starts to look like bait.

Jack Hunter And The Star Of Heaven — GREAT! Movies, 9:07pm

Ivan Sergei is back as the archaeologist adventurer for this 2008 outing, tracking down whoever killed his mentor while racing to keep a fabled relic from falling into the wrong hands. It’s globe-trotting action pitched somewhere between B-movie thrills and Saturday matinee.

The Commando — GREAT! Movies, 10:55pm

Michael Jai White closes the night in this 2022 actioner as a DEA agent whose homecoming goes wrong when the gang he crossed on his last job follows him back. Recovering from the mission becomes secondary to keeping his own family out of the line of fire.

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?

A Murderer Upstairs at 6pm, with Josie Davis protecting her stepdaughter after a murder is witnessed too close to home, Perfect Plan at 7:34pm with Emily Rose, Jack Hunter And The Star Of Heaven at 9:07pm with Ivan Sergei, and The Commando at 10:55pm. Michael Jai White in The Commando 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 Josie Davis domestic thriller into Emily Rose’s estate-agent nightmare in Perfect Plan, before Ivan Sergei’s archaeologist adventure and Michael Jai White’s home-invasion actioner close things out at 10:55pm. A solid rather than essential Saturday, but a reasonable one to leave on.

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