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

Published: 3 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, Friday 4 September 2026, the evening runs from 5:57pm with Perfect Plan, a 2010 thriller with Emily Rose as a realtor who lands a cash buyer for a mansion, only to find the sellers aren’t who they claim to be. Web Of Lies follows at 7:31pm, a 2009 crime thriller with Majandra Delfino as a computer security specialist framed for bank fraud. Richard Gere leads The Double at 9:04pm, a 2011 spy thriller with Gere as a retired CIA operative pulled back in to hunt the killer of a US senator, and Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones close the night from 10:41pm in the action thriller Mercenary: Absolution.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Friday 4 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Friday 4 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 The Trust at 1:09am, a 2016 heist thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as two police officers who stumble onto a hidden fortune while working an ordinary case. Contract to Kill, a 2016 Steven Seagal action film, follows at 2:47am, then the 1989 outback western Wrangler, with Jeff Fahey, at 4:27am — the same film also turns up on GREAT! Action at 11am today.

Four Fast Guns, a 1960 western with James Craig, opens the breakfast slot at 6:07am. Air Rescue then fills the rest of the morning: six half-hour editions back to back from 7:26am to 10:04am, following helicopter crews from one call-out to the next.

Panhandle, a 1948 western with Rod Cameron, takes over at 10:04am, and Amber Alert follows at 11:40am, with Alaina Huffman as a hostage negotiator called in when a school bus is hijacked.

The afternoon runs three more TV thrillers: Crisis Point (2012) with Rhona Mitra at 1:17pm, Dead Lines (2010) with Jeri Ryan at 2:52pm, and Mistaken (2008) with Lana Parrilla at 4:26pm, before the evening’s line-up begins. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 4 September 2026.

Web Of Lies — GREAT! Movies, 7:31pm

Web Of Lies (2009) stars Majandra Delfino as a computer security specialist framed for bank fraud, forced to team up with the FBI to clear her name before the real culprits catch up with her.

The Double — GREAT! Movies, 9:04pm

The Double (2011) brings Richard Gere back as a retired CIA operative pulled out of retirement to track down the assassin behind a US senator’s murder. Topher Grace and Martin Sheen also star.

Mercenary: Absolution — GREAT! Movies, 10:41pm

Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones close the night in Mercenary: Absolution (2015), an action thriller about a mercenary who uncovers a human trafficking ring while trying to make peace with his past.

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 5:57pm. Perfect Plan, with Emily Rose, opens; Web Of Lies, starring Majandra Delfino, follows at 7:31pm; Richard Gere’s spy thriller The Double takes the 9:04pm slot; and Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones close the night in Mercenary: Absolution from 10:41pm.

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 solid one: a pair of workmanlike TV thrillers ahead of Richard Gere in a proper studio-backed spy picture, then Steven Seagal and Vinnie Jones to close things out. 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