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 6pm, each separated by a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin.

GREAT! Romance Schedule: Tuesday 11 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Romance schedule for Tuesday 11 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. Love By Design opens the day’s proper run at 8:15am, in which a heartbroken, newly unemployed woman makes a 30th-birthday wish on the vision board she made as a teenager, only to find her wishes start coming true in ways she didn’t quite bargain for.

Stepping into Love takes over at 10:20am, a romantic drama about a struggling museum curator who teams up with an avant-garde artist to build an unconventional new exhibit. Matching Hearts follows from 12:10pm: a professional matchmaker in Portland tries to sign up a handsome newcomer as a client rather than admit she’s interested in him herself.

With Love, Your Sweetly Salted runs from 2pm, an anonymous food critic going undercover as a prep cook to make amends with a chef she trashed online. Cupids on Beacon Street takes the late-afternoon slot from 4pm, a comedy about a book editor who shares a house with a self-help coach hosting Valentine’s Day workshops, running through to 6pm when Sealed with a Kiss opens tonight’s films.

GREAT! Romance tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Romance primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 11 August 2026.

Sealed with a Kiss — GREAT! Romance, 6pm

An engaged country singer reconnects with a childhood friend and finds the spark hasn’t gone anywhere, with Jesse Metcalfe, Autumn Reeser and Laura Mennell leading a cast directed by Anne Wheeler. It’s the sturdiest kind of romance-channel plotting: an engagement that was never quite settled in the first place.

Love Takes Flight — GREAT! Romance, 7:55pm

Nikki DeLoach plays a single mother who starts facing down her own fears after meeting Jeff Hephner’s pilot. Less about the will-they-won’t-they than about a woman getting her nerve back, with the romance following on from that rather than driving it.

The Engagement Plot — GREAT! Romance, 9:55pm

A teacher whose heart was broken on a TV dating show has rebuilt a quiet life back home in small-town Colorado, only for the man who humiliated her on air to reappear with a proposal. Rachel Boston and Trevor Donovan carry a script that leans hard into the embarrassment of falling in love in public.

A Country Romance — GREAT! Romance, 11:50pm

Alix Angelis returns home to help save the family vineyard and, inevitably, falls for a local along the way. The latest in a long line of GREAT! Romance’s homecoming plots, closing out the night just before midnight.

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. Sealed with a Kiss opens the run at 6pm, Love Takes Flight follows at 7:55pm, The Engagement Plot at 9:55pm, and A Country Romance closes the night at 11:50pm. 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 leans on reunion and homecoming plots rather than the deception trope. Sealed with a Kiss and The Engagement Plot both bring an old flame or a public humiliation back into the frame, while A Country Romance runs the more familiar route of a woman returning to help save the family business and falling for a local. Love Takes Flight, in the middle of the run, is the gentler entry, built around a single mother facing her fears rather than a reunion, and it’s the one worth catching if only one slot fits.

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