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

GREAT! TV is a free-to-air channel that lives on vintage British and American drama and sitcoms, and it sits at Freeview 34 with three sister channels for company. It has been through four names and one full closure since Sony launched it in 2011; Narrative Entertainment has run it since 2021.

Tonight, Friday 14 August 2026, The Irish R.M. repeats at 6pm before GREAT! TV settles into its usual M*A*S*H strip: four episodes run back to back from 7pm to 8:30pm. Ghost, the 1990 Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore favourite, takes the 9pm hour, paused for the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm and picking up again at 9:50pm, and a further M*A*S*H repeat closes the night at 11:35pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Friday 14 August 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Daytime opens with The Waltons at 8am, the family finally clearing years of debt while Corabeth sets her sights on matchmaking for the new preacher (series 6, episode 13). Bramwell follows at 9am, Dr Robert Bramwell’s electrotherapy experiments landing him in trouble just as an ungrateful patient causes Eleanor grief of her own (series 1, episode 5). The Irish R.M. gets a new outing at 10am, the Major up against a publican determined to sell beer at the parish games despite his objections, while Philippa is left organising the tea (series 1, episode 5). Little House on the Prairie runs two episodes from 11am, Mrs Oleson staking a family heirloom on her daughter’s racehorse beating Laura’s, then young Carrie Ingalls getting stuck down a hole while chasing a butterfly (series 3, episodes 3 and 4). The Waltons returns at 1pm for a two-part story as the family grieves Grandpa’s death while Mary Ellen and Erin move in together in Charlottesville (series 7, episode 1, parts one and two), then at 3pm Jason takes charge of his wayward cousin Boone while Daisy pays a visit (series 7, episode 3). The same two Little House on the Prairie episodes repeat at 4pm and 5pm, and the 10am Irish R.M. airs again at 6pm right before the evening’s M*A*S*H run begins.

Overnight, three M*A*S*H episodes from the show’s first series open the schedule from 12:25am: a documentary crew gets more than the staged heroics it bargained for, Hawkeye and Trapper plot some faked insanity for a spot of leave, and a nervous helicopter pilot broods over a possibly unfaithful wife. Two editions of the rescue documentary Air Rescue run back to back from 1:55am, covering a motorcyclist hurt on a jump and a lost tourist, before a single Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin at 2:50am. Highway to Heaven then splits a two-part story about a stray dog and an orphanage either side of a further bulletin at 3:50am, with one more Good News on GREAT! Extra closing the overnight run at 4:50am ahead of TJC’s shopping from 5am to 8am.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

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

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Back for its second showing of the day, this episode has the Major locking horns with a publican who won’t be told he can’t sell beer at the parish’s St Peter and St Paul’s celebrations, and Philippa stuck manning the tea urn while everyone else enjoys the games (series 1, episode 5).

M*A*S*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm–8:30pm

Four series-one episodes run back to back through the middle of the evening: Henry Blake’s brief posting to Tokyo, a locker search that lands everything stolen on Hawkeye, a scheme to lift some of Frank’s blood for a POW patient, and Hawkeye’s Christmas letter home (series 1, episodes 9 to 12). It’s the strip GREAT! TV builds its whole night around, four episodes deep before the 9pm film even starts.

Ghost — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Sam is killed early on and lingers as a ghost trying to shield Molly from danger, with a reluctant, fraudulent psychic played by Whoopi Goldberg dragged into helping him. The pottery scene alone has kept this one in rotation on channels like this for three decades. The Good News on GREAT! bulletin splits the film neatly at 9:45pm, picking back up five minutes later.

M*A*S*H — GREAT! TV, 11:35pm

The night closes with a repeat of the 7pm episode, Henry’s Tokyo transfer and Frank’s brief spell running the camp, for anyone who missed the strip earlier or wants to see it again before bed (series 1, episode 9).

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 carry the daytime hours, and two of the three are largely Michael Landon’s doing. He starred in and directed much of Little House, and created Highway to Heaven outright. The register barely shifts between them: slow, sincere, usually ending on a lesson learned.

British classic drama and sitcom

The British side is thinner but sharper. Ballykissangel and Doctor Finlay handle the gentle end. Rising Damp handles the other, with Leonard Rossiter’s Rigsby prowling a shabby Yorkshire bedsit house being appalling about more or less everything.

Stripped US sitcoms and evening films

M*A*S*H is the one the channel leans on hardest, sometimes ten episodes deep in a single night. Films turn up most evenings (disaster pictures, old British comedies) and the seams get filled with Air Rescue and the short Good News on GREAT! bulletins.

How to watch GREAT! TV

Channel numbers

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

All four are free, with no subscription of any kind. Freesat is the exception: GREAT! TV was pulled from it on 7 February 2024 along with eight other Narrative Entertainment channels, and it has not come back since.

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

Four channels carry the GREAT! banner, all run by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited, and the split between them is straightforward enough.

A seasonal fifth, GREAT! Movies Christmas, runs festive films from September to December, and GREAT! Real joined the line-up in 2024 with unscripted programming. The year-round channels all share the free Great! Player service.

Frequently Asked Questions

What channel is GREAT! TV on Freeview?

GREAT! TV is on channel 34 on Freeview, free and with no subscription. It moved onto the COM6 multiplex in June 2023, which took its coverage to nearly every Freeview household.

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

GREAT! TV is on Sky channel 157, Virgin Media channel 170 and Freely channel 32, all free to watch. It has not returned to Freesat since being dropped in February 2024.

What’s on GREAT! TV tonight?

Tonight, Friday 14 August 2026, The Irish R.M. repeats at 6pm, then four M*A*S*H episodes run from 7pm to 8:30pm. Ghost, the 1990 Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore favourite, takes the 9pm slot, pausing for the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm before resuming at 9:50pm, and a further M*A*S*H repeat closes the schedule at 11:35pm.

Why does GREAT! TV show so much M*A*S*H?

Because 251 episodes across eleven seasons is enough to strip nightly for years without a viewer noticing the loop. The channel applies the same maths to Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons and Highway to Heaven during the day.

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 is funded by advertising, which is also why the short Good News on GREAT! bulletins turn up between programmes.

Who owns GREAT! TV?

Narrative Entertainment UK Limited. It launched as Sony Entertainment Television in 2011, became Sony Channel in 2016, shut down in 2018, came back in 2019, and took the GREAT! TV name in May 2021 after Narrative Capital bought Sony’s UK free-to-air channels.

What are the GREAT! sister channels?

GREAT! TV sits alongside GREAT! Movies, GREAT! Action and GREAT! Romance, plus the seasonal GREAT! Movies Christmas and the unscripted GREAT! Real, which joined in 2024. All are owned by Narrative Entertainment and stream through the same free Great! Player app.

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 knows precisely who is watching and rarely deviates from what keeps them there.

The Irish R.M. takes the 6pm slot for the second time that day, a repeat of its own 10am premiere, before four M*A*S*H episodes carry the schedule from 7pm to 8:30pm. Ghost, the 1990 Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore favourite, fills the 9pm hour in two halves either side of the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm, and a further M*A*S*H repeat closes the night at 11:35pm. The daytime schedule works on its own loop, cycling The Waltons, Bramwell and Little House on the Prairie through the morning and afternoon before handing over to the evening’s main event.

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