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, Monday 17 August 2026, The Irish R.M. opens primetime at 6pm with a repeat outing for Flurry and the Major, before GREAT! TV clears the rest of the evening for M*A*S*H. Ten episodes run back to back from 7pm, working through the back half of series one and doubling two of them up again after 11pm. It’s one of the channel’s biggest single-show commitments of the week.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Monday 17 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Monday 17 August 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Primetime

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Bramwell opens the working day at 9am with a Victorian hospital-drama episode from series one, followed by a fresh instalment of The Irish R.M. at 10am. From 11am GREAT! TV settles into a pair of Little House on the Prairie episodes, then hands the early afternoon to three episodes of The Waltons from 1pm. The same Little House on the Prairie pair repeats from 4pm, running through to 6pm, when The Irish R.M. returns to open the evening.

Earlier, the overnight run closes out M*A*S*H’s famous 1983 finale, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, at 12:27am, before two episodes of the rescue documentary Air Rescue from 2am. Highway to Heaven doubles up again from 3am, its two episodes split by a Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin, and TJC’s teleshopping then takes over the schedule from 5am through to 8am, when a single episode of The Waltons bridges into Bramwell’s 9am slot.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 17 August 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

GREAT! TV opens the evening with a repeat of series one’s sixth outing, in which old Mrs Knox throws a ball for her tenants and the evening turns eventful for both couples on screen: Flurry’s courtship of Sally runs into trouble with her mother, while the Major and Philippa end up dousing a fire in the middle of the festivities. It’s a gentle warm-up before the schedule changes shape completely.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm–11:55pm (10 episodes)

From 7pm, GREAT! TV clears the rest of the night for M*A*S*H, running ten episodes back to back with nothing else scheduled in between. The strip opens with Edwina and pushes on through to The Army-Navy Game, taking in Tuttle at 8pm, where Hawkeye and Trapper invent a fictitious officer to divert extra supplies to a local orphanage, and The Ringbanger at 8:30pm, where a decorated colonel’s taste for danger becomes a real problem for the men under him. By the time the eighth episode wraps not long after 11pm, the channel simply starts the block over, replaying Edwina and Love Story to see the night out. It’s a serious hand-over of primetime to one show, even by GREAT! TV’s usual standards.

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, Monday 17 August 2026, The Irish R.M. takes the 6pm slot with a repeat of series 1, episode 6. GREAT! TV then hands the rest of the night to M*A*S*H, running ten episodes back to back from 7pm through series 1, episodes 13 to 20, before looping round to replay episodes 13 and 14 from 11:20pm.

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.

Monday’s daytime rotates The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie in matched pairs either side of a fresh episode of The Irish R.M. at 10am. The evening is simpler again: The Irish R.M. repeats at 6pm, then M*A*S*H takes over completely, ten episodes deep from 7pm to just before midnight. It is a schedule built on repetition rather than variety, and it plainly works for the audience GREAT! TV is chasing.

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