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

Published: 11 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 12 September 2026, the Freeview EPG has the evening running four films back to back from 6:01pm: Cruel Fixation, then Stolen in Her Sleep from 7:35pm, Blowback from 9:13pm, and The Ice Road closing out the night from 10:54pm. Checking again for tonight, an independent listings site that carries this Freeview slot showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule (Haunted Harmony Mysteries, Framed for Murder and two Fixer Upper Mysteries films) instead of this line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced on previous nights, so tonight’s running order is UNVERIFIED against an independent source — it is the Freeview EPG’s own listing rather than anything independently confirmed, and worth checking the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Saturday 12 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Saturday 12 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: Acts of Violence from 12:38am, Escape Plan 3 from 2:16am, the western The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James from 3:56am, and Death Rides a Horse closing out the small hours from 5:45am.

Air Rescue fills the breakfast slot, five editions back to back from 7:47am to 9:54am, before the western Abilene Town takes over at 9:54am and runs into the middle of the day.

The rest of the day runs three more films: Secrets That Kill from 11:34am, A Date To Die For from 1:08pm, A Lover Betrayed from 2:46pm and Treacherous from 4:26pm. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 12 September 2026.

Cruel Fixation — GREAT! Movies, 6:01pm

Cruel Fixation opens the evening from 6:01pm, a contemporary thriller of the kind that dominates this channel once the classic westerns and daytime crime movies give way to newer titles after dark.

Stolen in Her Sleep — GREAT! Movies, 7:35pm

Stolen in Her Sleep follows from 7:35pm, continuing the same run of domestic-menace thrillers the schedule leans on most evenings.

Blowback — GREAT! Movies, 9:13pm

Blowback picks up from 9:13pm, roughly ninety minutes further into the same evening run.

The Ice Road — GREAT! Movies, 10:54pm

The Ice Road closes the night from 10:54pm. It’s a bigger-name title than most of tonight’s run, though — as above — tonight’s whole line-up is unverified beyond the Freeview EPG itself.

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 6:01pm: Cruel Fixation, then Stolen in Her Sleep at 7:35pm, Blowback at 9:13pm, and The Ice Road closing out the night from 10:54pm. An independent listings site checked again for tonight showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule under this slot instead of a film line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced before, so this running order is UNVERIFIED beyond the Freeview EPG’s own listing — check the on-screen guide nearer the time.

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.

Tonight’s own line-up carries an extra caveat: an independent listings site that would normally confirm a schedule like this is again showing sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime films under the GREAT! Movies banner, so Cruel Fixation, Stolen in Her Sleep, Blowback and The Ice Road come from the Freeview EPG alone rather than a confirmed source. Treat the schedule table as the best available answer rather than a certainty, and check the on-screen guide before settling in. Nobody is choosing GREAT! Movies over a cinema release regardless, but as undemanding evening viewing it does the job it always has.

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