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

GREAT! Romance is the UK’s free-to-air home for Hallmark-style romance films, tucked away on Freeview 52. Narrative Entertainment picked it up in 2021 along with the rest of Sony Pictures Television’s old UK free-to-air stable, ran it for a while as GREAT! Movies Classic, then switched it to romance and nothing else in January 2023. Tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026, The Professional Bridesmaid runs from 7:50pm around a short news break, with the 2019 sequel Wedding at Graceland following from 9:45pm.

GREAT! Romance Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Romance schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 52.

What’s on GREAT! Romance today

Daytime runs on the same pattern as the evening: films split either side of a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin. Love on the Vines opens the day’s proper run at 8:10am, a 2017 film with Margo Harshman as a young lawyer who has to spend six weeks working a vineyard to inherit it, and it plays through to 10:05am around a five-minute break at 9:05am.

One Perfect Match takes over at 10:05am, a 2023 romcom with Merritt Patterson as a Seattle matchmaker whose new client turns out to be more than a client, pausing at 11am and resuming at 11:05am through to 12:05pm. Summer of Dreams follows from 12:05pm, starring Debbie Gibson as a faded pop star who moves home to mentor young musicians, breaking at 1pm and picking up again at 1:05pm until 2pm.

Autumn in The City runs from 2pm to 3:55pm around a 2:55pm bulletin, with Aimee Teegarden as a woman navigating New York and a change of feelings for a jaded writer as the seasons turn. A Lifelong Love takes the late-afternoon slot from 3:55pm, Andrea Brooks and Patch May in a story about reuniting a grandfather with his first love, pausing at 4:50pm and resuming at 4:55pm until 5:50pm, when The Happiness Playbook opens the evening run with Kabby Borders and Tyler Harlow. That one breaks again at 6:45pm before picking back up at 6:50pm through to 7:50pm.

GREAT! Romance tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Romance primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

The Happiness Playbook — GREAT! Romance, 6:50pm

Kabby Borders plays a journalist sent undercover to expose a mysterious wellness retreat in this 2022 romcom, only to find the story complicated by its owner, played by Tyler Harlow. It runs through to 7:50pm with a five-minute news break at 6:45pm ahead of it.

The Professional Bridesmaid — GREAT! Romance, 7:50pm (resumes 8:50pm)

Hunter King stars as a professional bridesmaid who has helped countless brides through their big day without a hitch, only to find her own feelings getting in the way when she takes on a high-profile wedding. The 2023 film starts at 7:50pm, breaks for a five-minute news bulletin at 8:45pm, then resumes at 8:50pm through to 9:45pm.

Wedding at Graceland — GREAT! Romance, 9:45pm (resumes 10:45pm)

This 2019 sequel to Christmas at Graceland brings high school sweethearts Clay and Laurel back together to plan their wedding, with in-laws threatening to derail it. It first aired on the channel on 29 July, so tonight’s outing is a repeat rather than a new screening. The film runs from 9:45pm, pauses for news at 10:40pm, then continues from 10:45pm to 11:40pm.

A Royal Recipe for Love — GREAT! Romance, 11:40pm

An NYC baker chasing a cookbook deal gets an unexpected boost from a touch of royalty and romance in this 2023 film starring Laura Miyata and David Lafontaine. It closes out the night from 11:40pm.

What kind of films are on GREAT! Romance

Made-for-TV romance and Hallmark-style movies

Most of the schedule is exactly what the name promises: romantic comedies and dramas made for television rather than cinema, a great many of them produced for the American Hallmark and Lifetime markets and licensed over here afterwards. Cake shops, small-town festivals, mistaken identities, matchmakers who fall for their own clients. That repetition is the appeal rather than a flaw. Nobody switching on at three on a weekday afternoon wants to be surprised.

Christmas and seasonal takeovers

From October through to early January the channel goes almost entirely festive, with some titles shared with the network’s seasonal GREAT! Christmas strand. The rest of the year defaults to spring and summer settings, weddings and plots that require somebody to get on a plane.

Faith-based and heavier drama

A handful of the films are more serious than the rest, often adapted from novels or true stories, and willing to sit with grief or faith rather than hurry past it. Same genre, heavier going.

How to watch GREAT! Romance

Channel numbers

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

All of the above are free, with no subscription required. Freesat is the gap: the whole GREAT! network was withdrawn from that platform in 2024, so Freesat viewers need Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media or the Great! Player app instead. Virgin Media numbers shift slightly by region, so trust your on-screen guide over ours if the two disagree.

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. There is no account to create and no sign-up form to fill in. You open the app and the channel is there, paid for by ad breaks rather than by you, which is rarer among UK streaming apps than it ought to be.

GREAT! sister channels

Four channels sit under the GREAT! banner, all free-to-air, all inherited from the Sony Pictures Television UK portfolio Narrative Entertainment bought in 2021.

• GREAT! TV (Freeview 34): general entertainment, classic sitcoms and drama repeats
• GREAT! Movies (Freeview 50): films across every genre, not just romance
• GREAT! Action (Freeview 42): action, adventure and war films

A fifth, GREAT! Christmas, borrows part of the network’s schedule each winter and hands it back in the new year.

Frequently Asked Questions

What’s on GREAT! Romance tonight?

Romance films run back to back through the evening, headed by The Professional Bridesmaid from 7:50pm and Wedding at Graceland, a repeat, from 9:45pm. Times for both, plus The Happiness Playbook and A Royal Recipe for Love either side, are in the schedule table above.

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 with guaranteed happy endings, and enough turnover that regulars rarely see the same film twice in a fortnight. It will never trouble anyone after ambitious television. Watch two in a row and the tics start to show. The cake shops. The small towns forever in need of saving. The third-act misunderstanding that one honest conversation would have cleared up in a minute.

Tonight is formula throughout. The Professional Bridesmaid gets the better slot and the better cast, with Hunter King carrying the wedding-industry setup further than the plot really needs; Wedding at Graceland is a repeat, so anyone who caught it in late July already knows how the in-laws’ feud resolves.

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