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

Published: 2 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, Thursday 3 September 2026, the channel runs four films back to back from 6:15pm. Perfect Plan opens, a 2010 TV thriller with Emily Rose as a realtor who discovers the buyers on her latest listing aren’t who they say they are. A Murderer Upstairs follows at 7:48pm, Josie Davis as a stepmother forced to face the possibility that the teenager she’s protecting is a killer. Chief of Station, a 2024 spy thriller with Aaron Eckhart hunting the people behind his wife’s murder, takes the 9:22pm slot, and the stylised revenge film Bunraku, starring Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson, closes the night from 10:59pm.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 3 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 3 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 Predestination at 12:44am, followed by the tornado thriller Supercell at 2:24am and two older Westerns, Abilene Town and The Proud Rebel, from 4:10am.

Air Rescue then takes over the breakfast slot, seven short editions back to back from 7:41am to 10:14am, following helicopter crews from one call-out to the next. Hellgate follows at 10:14am, then Second Chances takes the late-morning slot at 11:47am.

The afternoon runs on made-for-TV thriller: Out of Control at 1:23pm and Time Of Death at 2:57pm, then Staged Killer 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, Thursday 3 September 2026.

Perfect Plan — GREAT! Movies, 6:15pm

A 2010 TV thriller opens the evening. Emily Rose plays a realtor handed what looks like the listing of a lifetime, only to find the sellers are impostors and the real owners have disappeared.

A Murderer Upstairs — GREAT! Movies, 7:48pm

Josie Davis stars in this 2017 thriller, also known as Secrets of My Stepdaughter, as a mother who begins to suspect the teenage stepdaughter she’s protecting might be the one who killed her best friend, not the intended victim.

Chief of Station — GREAT! Movies, 9:22pm

The name to watch tonight. Aaron Eckhart plays a former CIA station chief dragged back into the spy world after his wife is killed in a bombing on their wedding anniversary; Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer also feature in this 2024 thriller, directed by Jesse V. Johnson.

Bunraku — GREAT! Movies, 10:59pm

The strangest-looking thing on the schedule closes the night. Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson lead a cast that also includes Demi Moore, Ron Perlman and Kevin McKidd in this 2010 revenge story, staged with the deliberately theatrical look of Japanese puppet theatre. Two hours, running past 1am.

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 6:15pm. Perfect Plan, with Emily Rose, opens; A Murderer Upstairs, starring Josie Davis, follows at 7:48pm; Aaron Eckhart’s spy thriller Chief of Station takes the 9:22pm slot; and Josh Hartnett and Woody Harrelson’s Bunraku closes the night from 10:59pm.

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 stronger one than most: two functional TV thrillers ahead of Aaron Eckhart in a proper studio-backed spy film, then the deliberately odd Bunraku to close. Nobody is choosing GREAT! Movies over a cinema release, but as an evening’s undemanding viewing it does the job it always has.

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