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

Published: 27 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, Friday 28 August 2026, Web Of Lies opens proceedings at 4:33pm, Majandra Delfino as a cybersecurity consultant wrongly accused of bank fraud who works with the FBI to clear her name; it runs to 6:06pm, clipping just the first six minutes of the 6pm hour before Killer In Red takes over. Summer House follows at 7:40pm, Lindsay Price inheriting a family property with a curse attached to it, a repeat of the film the channel put out at 6:13pm last night. Dragon Eyes takes the 9:13pm hour, pairing martial artist Cung Le with Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Michael Jai White’s The Commando closes the night at 10:50pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Friday 28 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Friday 28 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 Mercenary for Justice at 12:43am and Contract To Kill at 2:25am. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James — an outlaw western, and worth naming correctly since some listings print it back to front as “Last Days Of Frank and Jesse James, The” — runs from 4:05am, with Hellgate closing out the small hours from 5:54am.

Air Rescue then holds breakfast and the start of the morning across six back-to-back episodes from 7:26am, following the crews of an Australian helicopter rescue service from one emergency to the next. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James gets a second outing at 9:59am, before Mistaken takes the late-morning slot at 11:48am.

The afternoon runs on the same crime-and-thriller strand the channel leans on most days. Living With The Enemy opens it at 1:20pm, and Mommy’s Cheating Scandal follows at 2:55pm. Web Of Lies then begins the run into the evening at 4:33pm — see tonight’s line-up below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 28 August 2026. Web Of Lies opens the evening at 4:33pm and runs until 6:06pm, so it clips only the first six minutes of the 6pm hour before the next film takes over.

Killer In Red — GREAT! Movies, 6:06pm

An aspiring stylist finds her newest client hard to read: a retiring, flattering woman whose admiration keeps tipping further towards fixation. Killer In Red runs an hour and a half from 6:06pm, carrying the channel through the opening of primetime.

Summer House — GREAT! Movies, 7:40pm

Summer House returns at 7:40pm, a second airing of the film in as many nights — GREAT! Movies had it in the 6:13pm slot last night. Lindsay Price plays a woman who inherits a family property carrying an old curse.

Dragon Eyes — GREAT! Movies, 9:13pm

The 9:13pm hour belongs to Dragon Eyes, a 2012 action thriller pairing martial artist Cung Le with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

The Commando — GREAT! Movies, 10:50pm

The Commando closes the night at 10:50pm, a 2022 action thriller with Michael Jai White as a former soldier hunting the people responsible for his family’s murder.

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?

Web Of Lies opens the evening at 4:33pm with Majandra Delfino, running to 6:06pm when Killer In Red takes over. Summer House follows at 7:40pm with Lindsay Price, a repeat of last night’s 6:13pm film. Dragon Eyes takes the 9:13pm hour with Cung Le and Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Michael Jai White’s The Commando closes the night at 10:50pm.

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 the two action names late on — Cung Le and Jean-Claude Van Damme in Dragon Eyes at 9:13pm, then Michael Jai White in The Commando from 10:50pm. Summer House at 7:40pm is a repeat of last night’s film, so anyone who caught it then can happily start their evening later.

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