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

Published: 25 August 2026

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, Wednesday 26 August 2026, GREAT! TV has a film. The Irish R.M. opens the evening at 6pm, a repeat of this morning’s outing rather than anything new, before four episodes of MASH run in order from 7pm to 9pm. As Good As It Gets (1997), starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, then takes over for the rest of the night, breaking for a short Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm before resuming at 9:50pm through to 11:50pm, when a fifth MASH — a repeat of the 7pm episode — closes the schedule.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Wednesday 26 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Wednesday 26 August 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Wednesday opens overnight with four MAS*H episodes from midnight, still in series two, then two episodes of Air Rescue and two of Highway To Heaven, each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin. TJC’s teleshopping takes the schedule from 5am to 8am.

The Waltons opens the daytime proper at 8am, and Bramwell follows at 9am. The Irish R.M. airs its new series three episode, The Muse In Skebawn, at 10am, before Little House On The Prairie takes the late morning. Three more episodes of The Waltons run back to back from 1pm to 4pm, and both the late-morning Little House and the 10am Irish R.M. repeat later on, Little House at 4pm and 5pm and the Irish R.M. again at 6pm.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 26 August 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

The Irish R.M. rounds off the early evening at 6pm, though there’s nothing new about it — it’s the same series three opener, The Muse In Skebawn, that had its first airing here this morning at 10am. GREAT! TV often doubles up its daytime hits this way, and the gentle culture-clash comedy travels fine on a second showing.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm–9pm

Four episodes of M*A*S*H run back to back from 7pm, picking up series three from the start with episodes one through four shown in their original broadcast order. It’s the kind of stripped-sitcom scheduling GREAT! TV leans on hardest, and running a full block in sequence rather than dipping around the archive at least lets the jokes and character beats build properly across the hour.

As Good As It Gets — GREAT! TV, 9pm

The evening’s film, As Good As It Gets (1997), starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, takes over at 9pm and runs to 9:45pm, when a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin interrupts it before it picks straight back up at 9:50pm and plays out to 11:50pm. Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their performances as a prickly, obsessive-compulsive novelist and the overworked waitress who wears him down, and it gives the schedule a proper spine rather than another hour of sitcom reruns.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 11:50pm

A fifth M*A*S*H closes out the night at 11:50pm, repeating the 7pm episode rather than moving the run on — a familiar way for the channel to fill the last slot before the schedule loops back into the overnight block.

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, Wednesday 26 August 2026, GREAT! TV has a film. The Irish R.M. opens at 6pm with a repeat of this morning’s new episode, then four episodes of MASH run in order from 7pm to 9pm. As Good As It Gets (1997), starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, takes over at 9pm, breaking for a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm before resuming at 9:50pm through to 11:50pm, when a fifth MASH — a repeat of the 7pm episode — closes the night.

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.

Wednesday splits the evening cleanly in two: four MASH episodes run in series order from 7pm to 9pm, then As Good As It Gets, the 1997 Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt comedy drama, takes over for the rest of the night, pausing only for a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm before resuming to just before midnight. A fifth MASH, repeating the 7pm episode, closes the schedule at 11:50pm. It won’t suit anyone wanting a run of different sitcoms across the evening, but the pairing of a familiar sitcom block with an accessible studio film makes for a more shaped night than most on this channel.

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