GREAT! Movies TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On GREAT! Movies Tonight

Published: 23 August 2026

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, Monday 24 August 2026, Mistaken opens the evening at 5:57pm, a 2008 thriller with Lana Parrilla that runs through to 7:28pm and takes up most of the 6pm and 7pm hours. Dead Lines follows straight after at 7:28pm, a 2010 thriller led by Jeri Ryan. The 9:02pm slot is billed as Sniper Elite, and for once that isn’t a feed error — it’s the alternate title for the 2014 Kevin Sorbo actioner also known as One Shot, a change of pace from the channel’s usual domestic thrillers. Chief of Station closes the night at 10:46pm, Aaron Eckhart’s 2024 spy thriller as a former CIA station chief pulled back into the field after his wife’s death.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight run mixes recent releases with an old western. Supercell opens the night at 12:36am, a 2023 storm-chasing drama with Anne Heche, Skeet Ulrich and Alec Baldwin, following a teenager who takes up his late father’s obsession with tornadoes. Predestination follows at 2:22am, the 2014 time-travel thriller with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook that’s built a cult following since release. Hellgate takes the 4:03am slot, a 2011 supernatural thriller with Cary Elwes and William Hurt in which a car-crash survivor starts seeing the dead. Ride in the Whirlwind closes the small hours at 5:36am, a 1966 western written by and starring Jack Nicholson alongside Cameron Mitchell.

Air Rescue then holds breakfast and the start of the morning for the best part of two and a half hours from 7:04am, seven back-to-back episodes following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service as they’re scrambled to a fresh emergency each time. Wrangler takes over at 9:58am, and Abducted closes the morning at 11:37am, part of the channel’s regular thriller rotation.

The afternoon runs on the same crime-and-thriller strand the channel leans on most days. Web Of Lies opens it at 1:12pm, the 2009 thriller with Majandra Delfino as a computer security specialist framed for bank fraud who has to clear her name. Second Chances follows at 2:45pm. Crisis Point closes the afternoon at 4:21pm, the 2012 thriller with Rhona Mitra as a hostage negotiator dragged back into the job when her own sister is taken.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 24 August 2026. Four films, back to back, and nothing else.

Mistaken — GREAT! Movies, 5:57pm

Mistaken opens the evening at 5:57pm and runs through to 7:28pm, so it owns the 6pm hour and most of the 7pm one too. Lana Parrilla plays a divorcee left destitute after her accounts are drained by someone living under her stolen maiden identity, and her search for the impostor turns into something far more dangerous than she bargained for. It’s a 2008 production, also known by the title The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall.

Dead Lines — GREAT! Movies, 7:28pm

Dead Lines follows straight after at 7:28pm, a 2010 thriller. Jeri Ryan stars as an eco-fashion designer on the verge of launching her first flagship store when an employee is found dead, forcing her to protect both her career and her teenage daughter as the threat closes in.

Sniper Elite — GREAT! Movies, 9:02pm

The 9:02pm slot is billed as Sniper Elite, and the billing checks out — it’s the UK title used for the 2014 Kevin Sorbo film also released as One Shot, in which a squad of human soldiers holds the line against an invading alien army. It’s a genuine change of tone from the channel’s usual ground-level crime thrillers, so don’t go in expecting another domestic-menace picture.

Chief of Station — GREAT! Movies, 10:46pm

Chief of Station closes the night at 10:46pm. Aaron Eckhart plays a former CIA European station chief whose wife, also an operative, dies in what’s ruled an accident; a tip that it wasn’t sends him back into the world he’d left to find out what he never knew about her or the agency. Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer also star in the 2024 thriller.

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 5:57pm, Lana Parrilla’s 2008 thriller, running right through to 7:28pm. Dead Lines follows at 7:28pm, a 2010 thriller with Jeri Ryan. Sniper Elite at 9:02pm is a 2014 Kevin Sorbo sci-fi actioner also released as One Shot, a departure from the channel’s usual fare. Chief of Station closes the night at 10:46pm, Aaron Eckhart in a 2024 spy thriller as a former CIA station chief investigating his wife’s death. Eckhart 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 runs four films back to back from 5:57pm onwards: Mistaken, Dead Lines, a genuine curveball in the alien-invasion actioner Sniper Elite, and Aaron Eckhart closing out the evening in Chief of Station just before eleven. A solid rather than essential Monday, but a reasonable one to leave on.

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