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

Published: 26 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, Thursday 27 August 2026, Perfect Plan opens proceedings at 4:39pm and runs into the first quarter of the 6pm hour, a repeat of the film the channel put out during the evening last night: Emily Rose as an estate agent whose cash buyer for a smart house turns out to be tied up in the sellers’ murder. Summer House takes over at 6:13pm, Lindsay Price inheriting a family property with a curse attached to it. Web Of Lies follows at 7:45pm, also a repeat of last night — Majandra Delfino as a cybersecurity consultant wrongly accused of bank fraud, working with the FBI to clear her name. Richard Gere headlines The Double at 9:19pm, a retired CIA agent called back in to find a US senator’s killer, and Redemption Day closes the night at 10:56pm, Gary Dourdan racing to rescue his kidnapped wife alongside Serinda Swan and Andy Garcia.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 27 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 two newer titles: Supercell at 12:54am, Alec Baldwin as a storm-chaser whose son sets off to follow in his father’s footsteps and finds nature far less forgiving than he expected, and Blowback at 2:40am, Randy Couture as a heist man left for dead by his own crew who sets out after everyone who turned on him. The channel then drops into proper old Hollywood: Kentucky Rifle at 4:20am, Chill Wills leading a wagon train of guns trapped behind enemy lines, and The Quick And The Dead at 5:48am, American troops, helped by local partisans, working their way through occupied Italy to safety.

Air Rescue then holds breakfast and the start of the morning for the best part of three hours from 7:26am, seven back-to-back episodes following the pilots and paramedics of Australia’s Westpac Lifesaver helicopter service from one emergency to the next. Kentucky Rifle repeats at 10:30am, then Dead Lines closes the morning at 11:58am, Jeri Ryan as an eco-fashion designer whose big launch is derailed when a member of staff turns up dead.

The afternoon runs on the same crime-and-thriller strand the channel leans on most days. Dispatch opens it at 1:32pm, Fiona Gubelmann as a 911 operator who brushes off a child’s call as a hoax and then has to make things right once a body turns up. Staged Killer follows at 3:01pm, Chrishell Stause as a television host whose ratings climb just as her home life falls apart when a former co-host worms his way back into her orbit. Perfect Plan takes the slot after that at 4:39pm, running into the start of the evening — see tonight’s line-up below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 27 August 2026. Perfect Plan gets there first, running from 4:39pm into the first quarter of the 6pm hour — a repeat of the film the channel put out during the evening last night — before the main primetime run below begins.

Summer House — GREAT! Movies, 6:13pm

Lindsay Price stars in this 2008 mystery-thriller as a woman who inherits her family’s summer house, only to find it comes with a curse stretching back generations and a run of events that put her in real danger.

Web Of Lies — GREAT! Movies, 7:45pm

Majandra Delfino leads this 2009 thriller as a cybersecurity consultant wrongly caught up in a bank fraud case, who has to work with the FBI to prove her innocence. It’s a repeat too — the same film the channel showed last night.

The Double — GREAT! Movies, 9:19pm

Richard Gere headlines this 2011 thriller as a retired CIA agent dragged back in to track down whoever killed a US senator.

Redemption Day — GREAT! Movies, 10:56pm

Gary Dourdan plays a Marine racing against the clock to bring his kidnapped wife home safely, alongside Serinda Swan and Andy Garcia, in this 2021 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?

Perfect Plan opens from 4:39pm, a repeat of last night’s film. Summer House follows at 6:13pm with Lindsay Price, then Web Of Lies at 7:45pm, also repeating last night, with Majandra Delfino. Richard Gere headlines The Double at 9:19pm, and Redemption Day closes the night at 10:56pm with Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan and Andy Garcia.

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 leans on Richard Gere’s name in The Double at 9:19pm, with Redemption Day’s starrier cast — Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan and Andy Garcia — closing things out after 10:56pm. Perfect Plan and Web Of Lies are both repeats of last night’s films, so anyone who caught them then can happily start their evening at 9pm.

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