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

Updated: 14 July 2026

GREAT! TV is a free-to-air channel built around vintage British and American drama and sitcoms, sitting on Freeview channel 34 alongside its three network sisters. It began life as Sony Entertainment Television in April 2011, went through spells as Sony Channel and Sony Crime Channel, then relaunched under Narrative Entertainment UK Limited as GREAT! TV on 25 May 2021, after Narrative Capital bought Sony Pictures Television’s UK free-to-air channels. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, a Hamish Macbeth repeat opens primetime at 6pm, before four episodes of MAS*H run from 7pm to 9pm and Brush Strokes takes over for three more until 10:20pm. The night finishes with the 1980 George and Mildred spin-off film, broken in two around the 11:52pm news bulletin. Channel numbers for every platform are further down the page.

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

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 34.

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Tuesday’s daytime on GREAT! TV rotates through the channel’s usual mix of American family drama once the overnight repeats and the early teleshopping block are out of the way. The Waltons opens the day proper at 8am, followed by Doctor Finlay’s Scottish medical practice at 9am and the opening episode of Hamish Macbeth at 10am.

Little House on the Prairie takes over from 11am with a pair of season-one instalments, and The Waltons returns for a run of three episodes from 1pm. The same two Little House episodes repeat at 4pm and 5pm before Hamish Macbeth gets a second outing at 6pm to close out the daytime run.

GREAT! TV Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

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

Hamish Macbeth — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Robert Carlyle’s laid-back Highland constable gets a second outing today, repeating the series opener shown this morning. A stolen delivery of salt from the village shop sets Hamish off on an investigation that says more about his unhurried policing style than any crime ever could.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm

Four series 7 episodes run back to back from here, opening with a black-market subplot: Father Mulcahy risks trading Charles’ private wine cellar to secure medical supplies the 4077th badly needs.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7:30pm

William Christopher gets more room to shine half an hour later, as the mild-mannered chaplain proves there’s steel under the collar after being passed over for a promotion.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 8pm

A quieter, more reflective episode follows. Mulcahy’s letter home to his sister captures the gloom settling over camp as Christmas approaches.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 8:30pm

The run closes with Mike Farrell’s BJ growing so attached to a Korean family he’s meant to be helping that his surgical work starts to slip.

Brush Strokes — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Karl Howman’s chaotic painter and decorator gets caught in a love triangle: a declared crush from Lesley collides with what looks suspiciously like a pass from her mother, while a business loan hangs over the workshop.

Brush Strokes — GREAT! TV, 9:40pm

The fallout continues forty minutes later, with a row between Veronica and Lionel and Jacko still no closer to shaking off Lesley.

Brush Strokes — GREAT! TV, 10:20pm

A runaway nun turns up looking for a bed for the night, unsettling Jacko enough that he ends up doing the running himself.

George And Mildred — GREAT! TV, 11pm

Not an episode of the sitcom but the 1980 spin-off film, split in two around the midnight news. Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy take the Ropers to London for a holiday that goes about as smoothly as anything back at Hooker’s Close.

Good News on GREAT! — GREAT! TV, 11:52pm

A short bulletin of uplifting stories interrupts the film.

George And Mildred — GREAT! TV, 11:57pm

Part two picks up where the first half left off, closing out the night.

What kind of shows are on GREAT! TV

American family drama and rural nostalgia

Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons and Highway to Heaven make up the backbone of GREAT! TV’s daytime schedule, all three built around Michael Landon in one form or another, either on screen or, in Little House’s case, as the driving creative force behind the series. It’s warm, unhurried programming aimed squarely at an audience that grew up with these shows first time round.

British classic drama and sitcom

Ballykissangel, Doctor Finlay and Rising Damp represent the channel’s British side: gentle Irish village drama, a post-war Scottish medical practice, and Leonard Rossiter’s landlord Rigsby presiding over a shabby Yorkshire bedsit house in one of ITV’s best-remembered sitcoms. It’s a different register to the American imports, but it fits the same comfort-television brief.

Stripped US sitcoms and evening films

MAS*H is the standout here, stripped nightly across the evening in blocks that can run to ten episodes at a time, but GREAT! TV also gives over regular chunks of primetime to feature films from disaster movies to vintage British comedy, alongside factual filler such as Air Rescue and the regular Good News on GREAT! bulletins that break up the schedule.

How to watch GREAT! TV

Channel numbers

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

GREAT! TV is free on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freely, with no subscription required. The channel was withdrawn from Freesat on 7 February 2024 along with eight other Narrative Entertainment channels; at the time of writing it has not returned to that platform.

Streaming online

GREAT! TV streams free through Great! Player at great-player.com, no account or sign-in needed. The app is also available on Freeview Play, YouView, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung and LG smart TVs, plus dedicated apps on the App Store and Google Play. It carries content from GREAT! TV alongside GREAT! Movies and GREAT! Action, so you can browse the whole network from one place.

GREAT! sister channels

GREAT! TV is one of four channels run by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited under the GREAT! banner, all originally part of Sony’s UK free-to-air line-up before the May 2021 sale and rebrand.

A fifth, seasonal channel, GREAT! Movies Christmas, runs festive films from September to December each year, and Narrative Entertainment has also added an unscripted-focused channel, GREAT! Real, since 2024. All of the year-round channels share the free Great! Player streaming service.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is GREAT! TV on Freeview?

GREAT! TV is on channel 34 on Freeview. It moved onto the COM6 multiplex in June 2023, extending its coverage to nearly all Freeview households, and it’s free with no subscription needed.

What channel is GREAT! TV on Sky, Virgin Media and Freely?

Channel 157 on Sky, channel 170 on Virgin Media, and channel 32 on Freely. All three are free to watch. GREAT! TV is not currently on Freesat, having been withdrawn in February 2024.

What’s on GREAT! TV tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, a Hamish Macbeth repeat opens the evening at 6pm, then four episodes of MAS*H run from 7pm to 9pm. Brush Strokes fills 9pm to 10:20pm with three episodes, and the night ends with the 1980 George and Mildred film, split around the 11:52pm Good News bulletin. Check the schedule table above for the exact time of each programme.

Why does GREAT! TV show so much MAS*H?

MAS*H ran to 251 episodes over eleven seasons, giving GREAT! TV enough material to strip nightly for years without repeating too quickly. It’s the same logic behind the channel’s daytime rotation of Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons and Highway to Heaven: familiar, well-loved shows that keep an audience settled in for hours.

Is GREAT! TV free to watch, and does it carry adverts?

Yes, entirely free on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freely, with no subscription. It carries advertising during programmes, which is why short Good News on GREAT! bulletins are dotted through the schedule.

Who owns GREAT! TV?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. The channel launched as Sony Entertainment Television in 2011, went through several names including Sony Channel and Sony Crime Channel, and became GREAT! TV in May 2021 after Narrative Capital acquired Sony’s UK free-to-air channels.

What are the GREAT! sister channels?

GREAT! Movies, GREAT! Action and GREAT! Romance, plus the seasonal GREAT! Movies Christmas and unscripted GREAT! Real. All are owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited and stream free via Great! Player.

Can I watch GREAT! TV online for free?

Yes, through Great! Player at great-player.com, with apps on Freeview Play, YouView, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung and LG smart TVs. No account is needed.

Verdict

GREAT! TV is exactly what its schedule promises: dependable, unpretentious comfort viewing built on shows most of its audience already knows by heart. The daytime hours are gentle rather than gripping, and the teleshopping block at breakfast time is dead air for most viewers, but the channel is honest about what it’s offering.

Tonight is a good example of the variety within the formula. Four MAS*H episodes give way to three of Brush Strokes, Karl Howman’s painter-and-decorator sitcom holding its own against the American import, before the night winds down with a rarer treat: the 1980 George and Mildred film rather than another run of the small-screen episodes. It’s still a schedule built for viewers happy to leave the channel on for hours, but tonight at least rewards them with something other than pure repetition.

Related: Freeview Channel Guide | Talking Pictures TV Guide