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

Published: 5 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, Sunday 6 September 2026, the evening opens with A Murderer Upstairs at 6:16pm, then three more films run back to back: Abducted at 7:49pm, Redemption Day at 9:24pm, and Escape Plan 3 closing the night from 11:11pm, the second sequel to Stallone’s prison-break franchise, this time with Dave Bautista alongside him. Independent listings sites have recently mixed this Freeview slot up with sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule, so treat tonight’s exact running order as best-available rather than triple-confirmed, and check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 62.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Movies today

Four films fill the overnight hours: Supercell at 12:41am, Blowback at 2:27am, Bad Man’s River at 4:07am and Panhandle closing out the small hours from 5:50am.

Air Rescue fills the whole of the breakfast slot, six roughly half-hour editions back to back from 7:25am to 10:02am, following helicopter crews from one call-out to the next. The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, a 1986 western built around the outlaw brothers’ final months, takes over at 10:02am, then Out of Control from 11:51am.

The afternoon runs two more films — Time Of Death at 1:25pm and Staged Killer at 3:05pm — before Summer House closes out the afternoon from 4:43pm. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

A Murderer Upstairs — GREAT! Movies, 6:16pm

Opens the evening in the domestic-thriller register this channel leans on hardest: a neighbour who isn’t what they seem, and a lead spending the next 90 minutes working that out too late for comfort.

Abducted — GREAT! Movies, 7:49pm

A missing-person thriller in the same low-budget vein, generic title and all. Don’t expect a big name in the cast list, but the plotting does its job inside two hours.

Redemption Day — GREAT! Movies, 9:24pm

The channel’s one stab at something harder-edged tonight: a hostage-and-rescue plot with a former soldier dragged back into the kind of trouble he thought he’d left behind.

Escape Plan 3 — GREAT! Movies, 11:11pm

Closes the night with the pairing GREAT! Movies leans on for its late slot: Sylvester Stallone back in prison-breaker mode, Dave Bautista alongside him, in the second sequel to the franchise that started with Escape Plan in 2013.

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 the channel’s usual mix of low-budget domestic thrillers rather than a single big picture, with Escape Plan 3’s Stallone/Bautista pairing giving the late slot the only recognisable names of the evening. Nobody is choosing GREAT! Movies over a cinema release, but as undemanding evening viewing it does the job it always has.

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