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

Published: 16 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, Thursday 17 September 2026, the Freeview EPG has the evening running four films: Eyewitness from 6:06pm, then A Date To Die For from 7:42pm, Turbulence from 9:20pm, and The Ice Road closing out the night from 10:59pm. Checking again for tonight, independent listings sites that carry this Freeview slot again showed sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime schedule (Castle, Unforgettable and In Plain Sight among the titles this time) under the same URL instead of this line-up, the same mix-up this channel has produced on previous nights. The titles the Freeview EPG itself lists are films rather than the mystery-drama episodes those mixed-up sources showed, which is the best confirmation available, but tonight’s running order still isn’t independently confirmed — worth checking the on-screen guide nearer the time.

GREAT! Movies Schedule: Thursday 17 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Movies schedule for Thursday 17 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: The Commando opens at 12:44am, then Bandidas from 2:23am, the John Wayne western Abilene Town from 4am and Panhandle closing out the small hours from 5:40am.

Breakfast and the morning belong to Air Rescue, seven short editions running back to back from 7:16am through to 9:44am, before Rage at Dawn takes over at 10:10am and Stealing Paradise follows at 11:47am.

Three more titles fill the afternoon: Island Of Shadows from 1:21pm, A Bride’s Nightmare from 2:54pm and I Do, Or Die: A Killer Arrangement from 4:32pm. See tonight’s primetime below.

GREAT! Movies tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Movies primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 17 September 2026.

Eyewitness — GREAT! Movies, 6:06pm

Eyewitness opens the evening at 6:06pm, one of the newer contemporary thrillers the channel tends to favour in this early slot. Beyond the title and start time, tonight’s billing isn’t independently confirmed, so treat any further detail with caution.

A Date To Die For — GREAT! Movies, 7:42pm

A Date To Die For follows at 7:42pm, a 2015 thriller starring Victoria Pratt built around a first date that goes badly wrong. It’s one of the channel’s regular Lifetime-style imports rather than a cinema release.

Turbulence — GREAT! Movies, 9:20pm

Turbulence follows from 9:20pm, moving the evening on from Lifetime-style thriller into action territory.

The Ice Road — GREAT! Movies, 10:59pm

The Ice Road closes out the night from 10:59pm, a survival thriller built around a perilous drive across a collapsing frozen route.

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 tonight: Eyewitness from 6:06pm, A Date To Die For at 7:42pm, Turbulence at 9:20pm, and The Ice Road closing out the night from 10:59pm. Independent listings sites 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: independent listings sites that would normally confirm a schedule like this are again showing sister channel GREAT! Mystery’s crime dramas under the GREAT! Movies banner, so Eyewitness, A Date To Die For, Turbulence 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