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

Published: 31 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, Tuesday 1 September 2026, the channel runs its more typical mix of contemporary thrillers and one bigger action title. Mistaken opens the evening at 6:01pm, Lana Parrilla as a divorcee whose identity has been stolen. Perfect Plan follows at 7:32pm, with Emily Rose as a Chicago realtor drawn into a murder after selling a house to a pair of imposters. The Ice Road, Liam Neeson’s 2021 disaster thriller about a race to plug a collapsed diamond mine, takes the 9:06pm slot, and Sniper Elite, a Kevin Sorbo sci-fi actioner, closes the night from 10:58pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Tuesday 1 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Tuesday 1 September 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 1:32am, followed by the westerns Lone Rider at 3:09am and Death Rides a Horse from 4:39am.

Air Rescue then takes over breakfast, nine short editions back to back from 6:41am to 9:45am, following the crews of an Australian helicopter rescue service from one call-out to the next. Lone Rider gets a second showing at 10:10am, followed by Abducted at 11:40am.

The afternoon runs on thrillers: Amber Alert at 1:15pm, Crisis Point at 2:52pm, then Dead Lines from 4:27pm carries the schedule up to the evening’s line-up. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 1 September 2026.

Mistaken — GREAT! Movies, 6:01pm

A 2008 identity-theft thriller opens the evening. Lana Parrilla plays a divorcee left with nothing after her bank accounts are drained, who tracks down the woman who has been living under her maiden name.

Perfect Plan — GREAT! Movies, 7:32pm

Emily Rose plays a Chicago realtor who finds a cash buyer for a Gold Coast mansion, only for the sellers to turn out to be imposters and the real owners to be found dead. A 2010 thriller with a straightforward hook: work out who set her up, and why.

The Ice Road — GREAT! Movies, 9:06pm

Tonight’s biggest name. Liam Neeson leads this 2021 disaster thriller as an ice-road trucker racing a convoy of rigs across a frozen lake to reach miners trapped after a collapse. The film built around outrunning the ice itself makes it the natural pick of the night.

Sniper Elite — GREAT! Movies, 10:58pm

Kevin Sorbo’s sci-fi actioner (also released as One Shot) closes the night, casting him as a sniper from a human defence force fighting off an alien invasion. Genre stuff, but a livelier way to see out the evening than the title alone suggests.

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?

Four films run back to back from 6:01pm. Mistaken, with Lana Parrilla, opens; Perfect Plan, starring Emily Rose, follows at 7:32pm; Liam Neeson’s The Ice Road takes the 9:06pm slot; and Kevin Sorbo’s Sniper Elite closes the night from 10:58pm.

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 a fairly typical one for the channel: two Lifetime-style thrillers ahead of a genuine name in Liam Neeson’s The Ice Road, then a low-budget sci-fi actioner to close. Nobody is choosing GREAT! Movies over a cinema release, but as an evening’s undemanding background viewing it does the job it always has.

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