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

Published: 29 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, Sunday 30 August 2026, Crisis Point runs from 5:48pm and holds the whole of the 6pm hour, Rhona Mitra as a Detroit hostage negotiator pulled back into the job when her own sister is taken. Amber Alert takes over at 7:24pm, Alaina Huffman playing a detective negotiator called in when a school bus is hijacked. Trigger Point follows at 9:01pm — a 2015 thriller with Jordan Hinson, and worth flagging separately from the ITV1 bomb-disposal drama airing under the same title in the same hour tonight — before Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody close the night in American Heist at 10:34pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Sunday 30 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Sunday 30 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 Blowback at 12:37am, a 2022 revenge thriller in which a heist crew turns on one of its own and lives to regret it. Predestination follows at 2:17am, the Spierig brothers’ time-travel puzzle box with Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook, built out of a Robert Heinlein short story. Lone Rider takes the 3:58am slot, and Kentucky Rifle closes out the small hours from 5:28am — a 1950s western with a wagon train fighting to get a rifle shipment through hostile territory.

Air Rescue then holds breakfast across five consecutive episodes from 6:56am, following the crews of an Australian helicopter rescue service from one emergency to the next. Two more editions carry the strand into the morning, before Lone Rider returns at 10:01am and Web Of Lies takes the late-morning slot at 11:31am.

The afternoon runs on the same crime-and-thriller strand the channel leans on most days. Circle Of Friends opens it at 1:04pm, and Abducted follows at 2:39pm. Living With The Enemy then begins the run into the evening at 4:14pm — a newlywed growing suspicious that her wealthy husband had a hand in his first wife’s death — before Crisis Point takes over for the 6pm hour. See tonight’s primetime line-up below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 30 August 2026.

Crisis Point — GREAT! Movies, 5:48pm

The evening starts early on GREAT! Movies. Crisis Point runs from 5:48pm and holds the whole of the 6pm hour, ahead of anything the schedule table above marks as primetime proper. Rhona Mitra plays a Detroit hostage negotiator drawn back into the job when her own sister is taken, a role reversal that carries the 2012 thriller.

Amber Alert — GREAT! Movies, 7:24pm

Amber Alert takes over at 7:24pm. Alaina Huffman is the detective negotiator called in when a school bus is hijacked, a 2016 thriller that borrows its title from the real alert system rather than dramatising a specific case.

Trigger Point — GREAT! Movies, 9:01pm

Trigger Point takes the 9:01pm slot, and it is worth being precise about which one: this is the 2015 thriller starring Jordan Hinson, not the Vicky McClure bomb-disposal drama of the same name opening its fourth series on ITV1 at the same hour tonight. Here, a college student joins a campus activist group after her father loses his job, only for two of its members to turn to violence and drag her into it with them.

American Heist — GREAT! Movies, 10:34pm

American Heist closes the night at 10:34pm. Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody play brothers pulled into one last bank job in New Orleans, with Jordana Brewster as the girlfriend James is trying to leave that life behind for.

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?

Crisis Point runs from 5:48pm and takes the whole of the 6pm hour, with Rhona Mitra as a hostage negotiator drawn back into the job by her sister’s kidnapping. Amber Alert follows at 7:24pm, then Trigger Point at 9:01pm — the 2015 film with Jordan Hinson, distinct from the ITV1 drama sharing its title tonight — before American Heist, with Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody, closes the night at 10:34pm.

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 is four thrillers back to back rather than one big theatrical name — Crisis Point and Amber Alert either side of 7pm, then Trigger Point and American Heist carrying the night through to close. Anyone catching the channel from 6pm walks straight into the tail of Crisis Point rather than a fresh start.

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