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

Updated: 14 July 2026

GREAT! Romance is the UK’s free-to-air home for feelgood, Hallmark-style romance films, on Freeview channel 52. It’s owned by Narrative Entertainment, which took over the channel in 2021 as part of Sony Pictures Television’s old UK free-to-air line-up, and it settled on its current romance-only format in January 2023 after a spell running classic films under the GREAT! Movies Classic name. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, the evening opens at 5:45pm with the Icelandic road-trip romance Love on Iceland (2020), before Falling for the Manny (2023) takes over as the night’s headline from 7:40pm. Zoe’s Having a Baby (2023) follows from 9:40pm, and The Clue to Love (2021) closes the schedule from 11:40pm. Channel numbers for every platform are further down the page.

GREAT! Romance Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Romance schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 52.

What’s on GREAT! Romance today

Tuesday’s daytime on GREAT! Romance runs its usual pattern of hour-long films split either side of the short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletins. Our Take on Love opens the morning from 8:10am, followed by Love Off the Page from 10:10am. Romantic Rewrite takes the lunchtime slot from 12:05pm, Love, For Real fills the early afternoon from 2pm, and Snapshot Of Love carries the schedule from 3:50pm into the evening films.

GREAT! Romance Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Romance primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026.

Good News on GREAT! — GREAT! Romance, 6:40pm

The regular five-minute round-up of upbeat headlines breaks in halfway through the opening film.

Love on Iceland — GREAT! Romance, 6:45pm

Love on Iceland (2020) picks up here after the news break, having started at 5:45pm. Kaitlin Doubleday plays a burnt-out podcast producer whose friends’ trip to Iceland turns into an unplanned reunion with her photographer ex. It’s one of the few Hallmark-style productions actually shot on location rather than standing in for the setting, and the glacier and waterfall backdrops do a lot of the film’s work.

Falling for the Manny — GREAT! Romance, 7:40pm

Tonight’s headline slot goes to Falling for the Manny (2023), starring Elisabeth Harnois as a single mother chasing a partnership at her firm who hires her sister’s manny to cover childcare during a make-or-break work retreat. The premise leans on a well-worn setup, hired help who turns out to be the love interest, but the film gives Harnois enough scenes to carry it past the formula, and it’s the polished centrepiece of tonight’s four-film run.

Good News on GREAT! — GREAT! Romance, 8:35pm

Another short bulletin splits the film in two, as it does most evenings on GREAT! Romance.

Falling for the Manny — GREAT! Romance, 8:40pm

The second half of Falling for the Manny resumes here, running through to 9:40pm.

Zoe’s Having A Baby — GREAT! Romance, 9:40pm

Zoe’s Having a Baby (2023) takes a slightly different tack than the usual GREAT! Romance fare. Nina Kiri plays a single New Yorker who decides to have a child via sperm donor after giving up on dating, only for two eligible men to complicate her plans once she’s expecting. Director Don McBrearty leans a touch more towards drama than the broad comedy that dominates the schedule elsewhere.

Good News on GREAT! — GREAT! Romance, 10:35pm

A last bulletin before the night’s closing film.

Zoe’s Having A Baby — GREAT! Romance, 10:40pm

The film’s second half runs from here to 11:40pm.

The Clue To Love — GREAT! Romance, 11:40pm

Closing the night is The Clue to Love (2021), in which an ambitious journalist travels to a small coastal town to profile its local paper and ends up investigating the identity of its anonymous advice columnist while falling for the editor along the way. A gentle way to see out the schedule before the overnight repeats begin.

What kind of films are on GREAT! Romance

Made-for-TV romance and Hallmark-style movies

The bulk of the GREAT! Romance schedule is exactly what the name promises: hour-to-two-hour romantic comedies and dramas made for television rather than cinema, many originally produced for the American Hallmark and Lifetime markets before being licensed into the UK. Cake shops, small-town festivals, mistaken identities and matchmakers who fall for their own clients recur constantly, and that’s the appeal rather than a criticism. Nobody watching at 3pm on a weekday afternoon is after surprises.

Christmas and seasonal takeovers

GREAT! Romance leans hard into Christmas from October through early January, when a large chunk of its schedule turns over to festive romance titles, some shared with the network’s dedicated GREAT! Christmas channel during its seasonal run. Outside of that window it returns to its default mix of spring and summer-set romances, wedding stories and travel-heavy plots.

Faith-based and heavier drama

Scattered through the schedule are a handful of more serious romantic dramas, often based on true stories or published novels, that lean into grief, faith or family rather than pure comfort viewing. They’re still recognisably part of the same genre, but carry more emotional weight than the cake-shop comedies that dominate the daytime hours.

How to watch GREAT! Romance

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find GREAT! Romance across the main UK television platforms:

GREAT! Romance is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. It isn’t currently part of Freesat’s official channel list, having been withdrawn from that platform in 2024 along with the rest of the GREAT! network, so Freesat viewers will need to watch via Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media or the Great! Player app instead. Virgin Media numbers can vary slightly by region, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if it doesn’t match.

Streaming online

GREAT! Romance streams free through the Great! Player app, available on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung and LG smart TVs, and at great-player.com. Unlike most UK streaming services, it doesn’t require an account, sign-up or subscription of any kind; you open the app and the channel is simply there, supported by advertising rather than a paywall.

GREAT! sister channels

GREAT! Romance is one of four channels run by Narrative Entertainment under the GREAT! banner, all free-to-air and all descended from the old Sony Pictures Television UK portfolio the company acquired in 2021.

• GREAT! TV (Freeview 34) — general entertainment, classic sitcoms and drama repeats
• GREAT! Movies (Freeview 50) — a broader mix of films across genres, rather than romance-only
• GREAT! Action (Freeview 42) — action, adventure and war films

A fifth strand, GREAT! Christmas, takes over part of the network’s schedule for a festive season each winter before handing back to the regular channels in the new year.

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s on GREAT! Romance tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, the evening runs from 5:45pm with Love on Iceland (2020), into Falling for the Manny (2023) from 7:40pm, before Zoe’s Having a Baby (2023) takes the 9:40pm slot and The Clue to Love (2021) closes the night at 11:40pm. Check the schedule table above for the full day’s listings.

What channel is GREAT! Romance on?

Freeview channel 52, Sky channel 319, and Virgin Media channel 424. It’s currently unavailable through Freesat’s official channel line-up.

Is GREAT! Romance free to watch?

Yes, entirely free to air with no subscription, on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and through the Great! Player app. There are ad breaks during films, as with any commercially funded channel.

Can I watch GREAT! Romance online for free?

Yes, via the Great! Player app or great-player.com, with no account or sign-up needed.

Verdict

GREAT! Romance does one job and does it consistently: comfort viewing, low stakes, guaranteed happy endings, and enough turnover in the schedule that regular viewers aren’t seeing the same handful of films on a loop. It won’t trouble anyone looking for ambitious television, and the genre’s tics, the cake shops, the mistaken identities, the small towns in need of saving, wear thin if you binge more than a couple in a row.

Tonight’s line-up strays a little further from formula than usual. Zoe’s Having a Baby swaps the standard meet-cute for a woman choosing motherhood on her own terms before two suitors complicate matters, while Falling for the Manny at 7:40pm sticks closer to the genre’s comfort zone with its hired-help-turned-love-interest plot. Falling for the Manny is the pick if you only catch one: it’s the glossiest production of the four and Elisabeth Harnois carries scenes that a weaker lead would let sag. Free, cheerful, and exactly as advertised.

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