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

Published: 22 August 2026

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. The channel’s usual pattern holds night after night: a film plays, a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin interrupts partway through, then the film picks back up before the next title starts. Sunday 23 August 2026 keeps to that pattern from Sweet Pecan Summer at 8:10am through to To England, with Love closing out the night from 11:45pm, with A Very Country Wedding, Vote One for Love and The Last Bridesmaid anchoring the evening.

GREAT! Romance Schedule: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! Romance schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 52.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! Romance today

Daytime keeps to the same rhythm as the evening: a film plays, a short “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin interrupts it partway through, then the film picks back up before the next title starts. Titles rotate regularly and often lean on a loose theme for the day, whether that’s a setting, a season or an occasion.

Sunday 23 August 2026 opens with Sweet Pecan Summer from 8:10am, followed by A Perfect Match from 10:05am, Love at the Ranch taking the midday slot from 12pm, Sealed with a Kiss from 2pm, and A Country Romance closing out the afternoon from 3:55pm. Each is paused briefly for a “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin before picking back up, in the usual pattern.

GREAT! Romance tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! Romance primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026.

A Very Country Wedding — GREAT! Romance, 5:50pm

Greyston Holt and Bea Santos lead this 2019 film about a country singer whose wedding keeps slipping down his own tour schedule. It takes most of the 6pm hour, breaks for a Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 6:45pm, then runs on to 7:50pm.

Vote One for Love — GREAT! Romance, 7:50pm

Natasha Wilson plays a political strategist sent home to steer a mayoral campaign, only to fall for the candidate’s brother-in-law-to-be, in this 2023 romantic comedy. A bulletin splits it at 8:45pm before it finishes at 9:50pm.

The Last Bridesmaid — GREAT! Romance, 9:50pm

Rachel Boston stars opposite Paul Campbell in this 2020 film as a serial bridesmaid who meets a wedding videographer at her cousin’s ceremony. Broken once more by a bulletin at 10:45pm, it runs through to 11:45pm.

To England, with Love — GREAT! Romance, 11:45pm

Georgia Hirst closes the night in this 2024 romantic comedy, playing an American sent on a family treasure hunt around England who ends up revisiting old relationships along the way.

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?

Tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026, it’s A Very Country Wedding from 5:50pm, Vote One for Love from 7:50pm and The Last Bridesmaid from 9:50pm, each paused briefly for a “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin, before To England, with Love closes the night from 11:45pm. See the schedule table above for exact timings.

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.

Sunday 23 August 2026 sticks to the formula: eleven films across the day, each broken by a “Good News on GREAT!” bulletin, running from A Winning Team just after midnight through to To England, with Love from 11:45pm. A Very Country Wedding, Vote One for Love and The Last Bridesmaid anchor the evening. Check the schedule table above for exact timings before settling in.

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