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, Saturday 15 August 2026, ten episodes of Little House on the Prairie carry the day through to 6pm before two episodes of The Waltons take the 7pm and 8pm slots. Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide, the 1983 mystery starring Anthony Andrews, fills the 9pm hour, paused for the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming five minutes later, and two episodes of Man About the House close the night from 11:05pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Saturday 15 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Saturday 15 August 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

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Early evening

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Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Highway to Heaven opens the day proper at 8am, Mark taking a job with a haughty film star and the two of them swapping places at a higher power’s suggestion (series 2, episode 15). From 9am, GREAT! TV runs a ten-episode block of Little House on the Prairie that carries straight through, without a break, to 6pm. Caroline grows suspicious of Charles’s secretive carpentry at 9am, a tax rise threatens Walnut Grove’s centennial party at 10am, and a tornado wrecks the Ingalls farm at 12pm. The run continues through the afternoon with a horse race staked on a family heirloom, Carrie Ingalls trapped down a hole, and a wrongly-suspected murder at Mrs Oleson’s, before it closes at 6pm with Laura taking in a troublesome billy goat.

Overnight, three season-one episodes of M*A*S*H run from 12:05am to 1:35am: a locker search follows a spate of camp thefts, Hawkeye and Trapper hatch a plan to steal some of Frank’s blood, and Hawkeye writes home at Christmas. Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletins then punctuate the rest of the graveyard shift, splitting two episodes of rescue documentary Air Rescue from 1:45am and two of Highway to Heaven from 3am, before TJC’s shopping takes over from 5am to 8am.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Saturday 15 August 2026.

Little House On The Prairie — GREAT! TV, 9am–6pm

Ten episodes of Little House On The Prairie run back to back through Saturday, opening at 9am and closing with a tenth outing at 6pm in which Laura adopts a runaway billy goat against a neighbouring farmer’s wishes (series 3, episode 8).

The Waltons — GREAT! TV, 7pm

Elizabeth’s overactive imagination lands another family in trouble in this half-hour instalment (series 6, episode 14).

The Waltons — GREAT! TV, 8pm

A wilting rosebush convinces Mamie Baldwin her own time is nearly up, while Jim-Bob and Ben fall out over each other’s girlfriends (series 6, episode 15).

Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Anthony Andrews and Deborah Raffin headline this 1983 mystery, moved to a glossy eighties setting for a dinner party where the drinks turn out to be lethal. Good News on GREAT! breaks in for five minutes at 9:52pm before the film picks up again and runs through to 11:05pm.

Man About The House — GREAT! TV, 11:05pm

Chrissy’s stock rises with her flatmates once she lands two tickets to a Frank Sinatra concert (series 5, episode 6).

Man About The House — GREAT! TV, 11:35pm

George takes against Chrissy after she goes over his head to Mildred about throwing a house party (series 6, episode 1).

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, Saturday 15 August 2026, two episodes of The Waltons take the 7pm and 8pm slots, then Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide, the 1983 mystery with Anthony Andrews, fills the 9pm hour, pausing for the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm before resuming five minutes later. Two episodes of Man About the House close the schedule from 11:05pm.

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.

Saturday’s daytime is given over entirely to Little House on the Prairie, ten episodes running unbroken from 9am to 6pm, before two episodes of The Waltons take the 7pm and 8pm slots. Agatha Christie’s Sparkling Cyanide, the 1983 mystery with Anthony Andrews, fills the 9pm hour in two halves either side of the Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm, and two episodes of Man About the House close the night from 11:05pm. It is a weekend schedule built around long, familiar runs rather than a nightly rotation of different shows.

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