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

Published: 7 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, Tuesday 8 September 2026, the evening runs three films back to back from 7:33pm: Hidden Truth, then American Heist at 9:12pm, and First Kill closing out the night from 10:52pm. Independent listings sites checked for tonight showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule under this same Freeview slot instead of a film line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced before, so treat tonight’s exact running order as best-available from the Freeview EPG rather than independently confirmed, and check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Tuesday 8 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Tuesday 8 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: Mercenary: Absolution from 1:05am, The Double from 2:48am, Ride in The Whirlwind from 4:25am and Lone Rider closing out the small hours from 5:53am.

Air Rescue fills the whole of the breakfast slot, six roughly 25-minute editions back to back from 7:23am to 9:57am, following helicopter crews from one call-out to the next. The Quick And The Dead takes over at 9:57am.

The afternoon runs three more films: Cruel Fixation at 11:35am, Stolen in Her Sleep at 1:08pm and Ties That Bind at 2:46pm. Mommy’s Cheating Scandal, from 4:21pm, and Secrets That Kill from 5:59pm close out the afternoon. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026.

Hidden Truth — GREAT! Movies, 7:33pm

A 2016 Lifetime-style thriller directed by Steven R. Monroe, led by Sarah Lind and Shawn Christian, with Diana Hopper and former teen idol Parker Stevenson as the local sheriff. A teenager’s death exposes secrets in a small California town, and a young woman refuses to accept that her brother is the killer the case is being built around. Competent rather than memorable, and it moves along at a decent clip.

American Heist — GREAT! Movies, 9:12pm

Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody play brothers pulled into a bank job within a day of one of them getting out of a ten-year prison sentence, in this 2014 crime drama directed by Sarik Andreasyan. Jordana Brewster and the singer Akon round out the cast, though critics at the time called the film a fairly generic heist picture that never quite lives up to its leads. It borrows its plot loosely from a real 1953 St Louis robbery, previously dramatised on screen back in 1959.

First Kill — GREAT! Movies, 10:52pm

Hayden Christensen returns in a second, unrelated role, this time as a Wall Street broker whose trip back to his childhood hunting cabin with his son goes wrong when the pair stumble on a botched robbery. Bruce Willis plays the small-town police chief drawn in once the boy is taken hostage, in this 2017 thriller from director Steven C. Miller. Nobody involved would call it a highlight of either man’s career, but the two leads keep it watchable well past what the budget suggests it deserves.

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?

Three films run back to back from 7:33pm. Hidden Truth opens; American Heist, with Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody, follows at 9:12pm; and First Kill closes the night from 10:52pm. Independent listings sites checked for tonight showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s schedule under this slot instead, a known mix-up on this channel, so treat the running order as best-available from the Freeview EPG rather than independently confirmed.

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 American Heist’s Hayden Christensen and Adrien Brody giving the 9pm slot the most 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