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, Tuesday 18 August 2026, the evening opens with Abducted, a 2006 thriller starring Sarah Wynter as a prison governor’s wife who ends up on the run with the inmate hired to kidnap her, before Kevin Sorbo’s sci-fi actioner Sniper Elite takes the 9:04pm slot, and Eye For An Eye, teaming John Travolta and Morgan Freeman as a private eye and the crime boss blocking his case, closes out the night at 10:48pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Tuesday 18 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Tuesday 18 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight hours run on two contemporary thrillers. Blowback opens at 12:20am, a 2022 revenge picture with Randy Couture as a thief left for dead by his own crew during a botched heist, now working through the list of who set him up. Supercell follows at 2:01am, a 2023 disaster thriller with Alec Baldwin, in which a teenager chasing his storm-obsessed father into the field discovers the weather is a far bigger threat than either of them planned for.

Two westerns take the small hours. The Pledge runs from 3:47am, a 2008 western with Luke Perry, C. Thomas Howell and Kim Coates, following a former lawman whose vow of revenge after killing an innocent man puts him on a collision course with the man he’s really after. Hellgate follows at 5:22am, a 1952 Sterling Hayden western about a rancher wrongly locked up in a desert jail as a plague outbreak threatens to overwhelm it.

Air Rescue then holds the whole of breakfast, seven episodes back to back from 7am to 9:33am, following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service as they’re scrambled to a fresh emergency each time. Panhandle takes over at 9:59am, a 1948 western with Rod Cameron as a former Texas marshal convinced a powerful casino owner had his brother killed, and Live Once, Die Twice follows at 11:34am, a 2006 thriller with Kellie Martin as a widow who learns her husband faked his death for a second family, and teams up with the other wife to expose him.

The afternoon runs on Lifetime-style thrillers. My Baby Gone opens it at 1:08pm, a 2017 drama with Anna Van Hooft as a mother-to-be who becomes convinced her new neighbour is hiding something dangerous for the baby on the way. Final Verdict takes the 2:44pm slot, a 2009 thriller with Erica Durance as the prosecutor behind an overturned murder conviction, watching everyone connected to the original trial start turning up dead. A Murderer Upstairs closes out the afternoon at 4:19pm, a 2017 thriller with Josie Davis trying to protect her stepdaughter after the girl witnesses a murder, only to find the danger may be closer to home. Second Chances rounds off early evening at 5:53pm, a 2010 thriller with Melissa George as a journalist who finds a figure from her own history shadowing her, years after she unknowingly vouched for a killer.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 18 August 2026.

Abducted — GREAT! Movies, 7:29pm

Primetime opens with Abducted, a 2006 Incendo production (also billed as Abducted: Fugitive for Love) starring Sarah Wynter as the wife of a controlling prison governor who arranges to have her kidnapped by an inmate he’s set up to take the fall. The plan unravels once the two of them start uncovering the truth about who framed whom.

Sniper Elite — GREAT! Movies, 9:04pm

At 9:04pm it’s Sniper Elite, a 2014 sci-fi action film starring Kevin Sorbo, also released as One Shot, pitting a squad of human soldiers against an invading alien army rather than the Second World War setting the title might suggest to fans of the video game series.

Eye For An Eye — GREAT! Movies, 10:48pm

The night closes at 10:48pm with Eye For An Eye, a 2019 crime thriller also known as The Poison Rose. John Travolta plays a hard-drinking Los Angeles private eye dragged back to his old Texas hometown by a missing-persons case, with Morgan Freeman as the local crime boss standing in his way.

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?

Abducted at 7:29pm, a 2006 thriller with Sarah Wynter as a prison governor’s wife pulled into a kidnap plot against her own husband. Sniper Elite at 9:04pm, Kevin Sorbo’s alien-invasion actioner also known as One Shot. Eye For An Eye closes the night at 10:48pm, a 2019 crime thriller with John Travolta and Morgan Freeman. Travolta and Freeman are the most recognisable 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 runs a Sarah Wynter kidnap thriller into Kevin Sorbo’s alien-invasion picture, before John Travolta and Morgan Freeman’s Eye For An Eye, the clear standout of the three, sees the night out just before 11pm. A solid rather than essential Tuesday, but a reasonable one to leave on.

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