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

Published: 4 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, Saturday 5 September 2026, the evening opens with Circle Of Friends at 6:14pm, then three more films run back to back: Final Verdict at 7:49pm, a 2009 legal thriller with Erica Durance as a district attorney whose life comes under threat once an overturned murder conviction starts putting the people from the original trial in danger. Eliminators takes the 9:24pm slot, a 2016 action thriller with Scott Adkins as a former federal agent forced out of witness protection when his cover is blown, and Dragon Eyes closes the night from 11:03pm, a 2012 martial-arts picture with Cung Le and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Saturday 5 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Saturday 5 September 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

The overnight run is four films: American Siege at 12:24am, The Commando at 1:59am, The Pledge at 3:39am and War of the Wildcats closing out the small hours from 5:14am.

Air Rescue fills the whole of the breakfast and morning slots, nine half-hour editions back to back from 7:09am to 10:11am, following helicopter crews from one call-out to the next. Kentucky Rifle takes over at 10:36am.

The afternoon runs three more films — Mistaken at 12:05pm, Dispatch at 1:36pm and Living With The Enemy at 3:06pm — before Live Once, Die Twice closes out the afternoon from 4:40pm. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 5 September 2026. Four films run back to back, and the schedule below is drawn from the channel’s own listings feed rather than a second confirming source, so treat exact billing as a guide rather than gospel.

Circle Of Friends — GREAT! Movies, 6:14pm

Circle Of Friends opens the evening. Details beyond the title are thin on this one; expect the channel’s usual mid-budget mix rather than a big-name cast.

Final Verdict — GREAT! Movies, 7:49pm

Final Verdict is a 2009 legal thriller with Erica Durance as a district attorney who put a man away for murder eight years ago. His conviction gets overturned, and the people who built the original case against him start turning up dead.

Eliminators — GREAT! Movies, 9:24pm

Scott Adkins headlines Eliminators (2016) as a former federal agent hiding in London under witness protection with his young daughter. A break-in at the wrong address blows his cover, and his ex-father-in-law’s hired assassin comes looking for both of them.

Dragon Eyes — GREAT! Movies, 11:03pm

Dragon Eyes (2012) closes the night with Cung Le as a former convict turned peacekeeper, taught to fight by a mentor played by Jean-Claude Van Damme, working through a neighbourhood run by two rival gangs.

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 6:14pm. Circle Of Friends opens; Final Verdict, with Erica Durance, follows at 7:49pm; Scott Adkins’ action thriller Eliminators takes the 9:24pm slot; and Cung Le and Jean-Claude Van Damme close the night in Dragon Eyes from 11:03pm.

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 leans on names rather than a single big picture: Scott Adkins in Eliminators and the Cung Le/Van Damme pairing in Dragon Eyes either side of Final Verdict’s courtroom thriller. 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