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 as part of Sony Pictures Television’s old UK free-to-air portfolio, ran it for a couple of years as GREAT! Movies Classic, then switched it to romance only in January 2023. Tonight’s four primetime films run from 5:55pm, each separated by a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin.

GREAT! Romance Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Romance schedule for Monday 10 August 2026, on Freeview 52.

What’s on GREAT! Romance today

Daytime follows the same pattern as the evening: films split around a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin. Wedding Do Over opens the day’s proper run at 8:15am. Nicole Gale Anderson plays a wedding planner who specialises in fixing weddings gone wrong, called in for her cousin’s second wedding only to discover the best man organising it is the ex-fiancé who left her at the altar.

The Vows We Keep takes over at 10:10am: Fiona Gubelmann plays an event planner given a month to organise her sister’s wedding at a historic inn that’s about to be sold, working against the estate agent handling the sale. Love By Chance follows from 12:05pm, a pastry chef whose mother is secretly engineering her love life behind her back.

The Wish Swap runs from 2pm: two strangers granted birthday wishes at the same moment end up with each other’s instead of their own. Let Love Grow takes the late-afternoon slot from 3:55pm, a landscape architect drawn into her stubborn new client’s daughters’ campaign to find their dad a girlfriend, running through to 5:55pm when Love By Accident opens tonight’s films.

GREAT! Romance tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Romance primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 10 August 2026.

Love By Accident — GREAT! Romance, 5:55pm

Getenesh Berhe and Henderson Wade lead a fake-relationship comedy, in which a road-trip breakdown strands Berhe’s character with her ailing godmother and the mechanic who tows them in gets talked into posing as her boyfriend to keep the older woman from worrying.

Love and Sunshine — GREAT! Romance, 7:55pm

Danica McKellar plays a nursery owner who has been fostering a retired military dog while its original handler, played by Mark Deklin, served overseas. He comes home to reclaim the dog and finds he isn’t quite ready to say goodbye to either of them.

14 Love Letters — GREAT! Romance, 9:50pm

Vanessa Sears plays a hobby farmer who starts finding anonymous, decades-old love letters in her mailbox and sets out to trace who left them, while a neighbour angling to buy her land keeps getting in the way.

Romantic Rewrite — GREAT! Romance, 11:45pm

The night closes with Kristina Cole as a romance book editor drafted in to help a stubborn mystery writer punch up the romance in his next novel, then talked into posing as his date for a friend’s beach wedding.

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. Love By Accident opens the run at 5:55pm, Love and Sunshine follows at 7:55pm, 14 Love Letters at 9:50pm, and Romantic Rewrite closes the night at 11:45pm. Full times 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 looking for 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 too, and leans on the fake-relationship trope twice over. Love By Accident opens with a breakdown-turned-charade, and Romantic Rewrite closes the night with a near-identical arrangement dressed up as a wedding date. Love and Sunshine, sandwiched between them, is the gentler entry, built around a returning soldier and the dog he left behind rather than a manufactured deception, and it’s the one worth catching if only one slot fits.

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