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

Published: 1 September 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, Wednesday 2 September 2026, the channel runs four films back to back from early evening. Live Once, Die Twice opens at 6:11pm, a TV thriller with Kellie Martin as a widow who starts to doubt her husband really died in an accident. Circle Of Friends follows at 7:45pm, Julie Benz drawn back into a string of deaths connected to her old classmates — a different film entirely from the 1995 Maeve Binchy adaptation that shares its title. No Man’s Land, a modern-day western with Jake Allyn and Andie MacDowell, takes the 9:20pm slot, and Steven Seagal’s Beyond The Law closes the night from 11:14pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Wednesday 2 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 Son Of A Gun at 12:42am, followed by American Siege at 2:37am and the John Wayne western Angel and the Badman from 4:12am.

Ride in The Whirlwind, a 1966 western with Jack Nicholson, opens the breakfast slot at 6:03am. Air Rescue then takes over, seven short editions back to back from 7:31am to 10:25am, following the crew of an Australian helicopter rescue service from one call-out to the next. The Quick And The Dead, a 1963 war drama, follows at 10:25am — a different film from the 1995 Sharon Stone western of the same name.

The afternoon runs on made-for-TV drama: Summer House at 12:03pm, Mistaken at 1:36pm, Dispatch at 3:07pm, then Living With The Enemy from 4:37pm 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, Wednesday 2 September 2026 — four films back to back, none of them split by an ad-break feature, and two of them share a title with a much more famous film. Check the year before you go looking for either.

Live Once, Die Twice — GREAT! Movies, 6:11pm

Live Once, Die Twice (2006) opens the evening. Kellie Martin plays a widow who starts to suspect her husband’s death in a boating accident wasn’t what it looked like, after kidnappers tell her she has a week to hand over money he supposedly left behind.

Circle Of Friends — GREAT! Movies, 7:45pm

At 7:45pm, it’s Circle Of Friends (2006), a thriller with Julie Benz as a widow who returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband’s name, only to suspect his death is tied to a run of killings among her old classmates. This is not the 1995 Maeve Binchy adaptation with Minnie Driver and Chris O’Donnell — same title, unrelated film.

No Man’s Land — GREAT! Movies, 9:20pm

The 9:20pm slot belongs to No Man’s Land (2020), a modern-day border western with Jake Allyn, Frank Grillo and Andie MacDowell. It’s not the 2001 Bosnian War drama that won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film — again, same title, a different film.

Beyond The Law — GREAT! Movies, 11:14pm

Beyond The Law (2019) closes the night. Steven Seagal plays a former detective going after the mob following his estranged son’s death.

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 6:11pm. Live Once, Die Twice, with Kellie Martin, opens; Circle Of Friends, starring Julie Benz, follows at 7:45pm — a 2006 thriller, not the 1995 Minnie Driver film of the same name; Jake Allyn and Andie MacDowell’s modern-day western No Man’s Land takes the 9:20pm slot; and Steven Seagal’s Beyond The Law closes the night from 11:14pm.

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 made-for-TV thrillers ahead of a modern western with a recognisable cast in Andie MacDowell, then a Steven Seagal 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