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

Published: 1 September 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 2 September 2026, The Irish R.M. repeats its own 10am episode at 6pm, and then MAS*H changes cast in real time: four episodes run from 7pm to 9pm, and they are the four that open series four — “Welcome to Korea” parts one and two, in which Trapper is discharged and good-natured BJ Hunnicutt arrives to replace him, followed by “Change of Command” and “It Happened One Night”. At 9pm the channel switches to the 1970 Robert Altman film of the same name, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! at 9:45pm and running to 11:30pm, when the first episode of the new TV series repeats to close the night.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Wednesday 2 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Wednesday 2 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Wednesday opens just after midnight with a straight repeat of the previous evening’s MAS*H block: the same four series 3 episodes running through to “Abyssinia, Henry”, the one where Henry Blake’s discharge finally comes through. Two episodes of Air Rescue follow, then two of Highway To Heaven either side of 3am and 4am, each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin, before TJC’s teleshopping fills the schedule from 5am to 8am.

The Waltons opens the daytime proper at 8am, and Bramwell takes the 9am slot. The Irish R.M. gets its first outing of the day at 10am with “The Devil You Know” (series 3, episode 6), before Little House on the Prairie runs two episodes from 11am. The Waltons returns for three more episodes from 1pm to 3pm, series 8’s sixteenth to eighteenth, then the same two Little House on the Prairie episodes repeat at 4pm and 5pm, and The Irish R.M. itself repeats again at 6pm — the same instalment shown at 10am — ahead of the evening’s MAS*H run.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 2 September 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

The Irish R.M. takes the 6pm slot with “The Devil You Know” (series 3, episode 6) — a repeat of the same episode shown at 10am this morning.

MAS*H: series four begins — GREAT! TV, 7pm-9pm

Four episodes of M*A*S*H run back to back from 7pm to 9pm, and they are the exact point the show changes cast. “Welcome to Korea” parts one and two (7pm, 7:30pm) see Hawkeye discover Trapper has been discharged and dash to the airport too late to say goodbye, before good-natured BJ Hunnicutt arrives as his replacement. “Change of Command” (8pm) finds Frank Burns expecting to take over from the departed Colonel Blake, and “It Happened One Night” (8:30pm) closes out the block. It follows straight on from Henry Blake’s discharge episode, which GREAT! TV showed in primetime last night and repeats again overnight tonight.

MAS*H (1970) — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Robert Altman’s 1970 film M*A*S*H, starring Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, takes over at 9pm — not another TV episode, despite the run of four that has just finished. It’s split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:45pm and runs through to 11:30pm, when the first episode of the new TV series, “Welcome to Korea – Part 1”, repeats to close 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 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 (war pictures, old British comedies, the odd action thriller) and the seams get filled with 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 2 September 2026, The Irish R.M. repeats its own 10am episode at 6pm, and then MAS*H changes cast for real. Four episodes run from 7pm to 9pm and they are the four that open series four: “Welcome to Korea” parts one and two, then “Change of Command” and “It Happened One Night”. At 9pm the channel switches to Robert Altman’s 1970 M*A*S*H film with Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! at 9:45pm and running to 11:30pm, when the new series’ opening episode repeats.

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’s evening is the exception that proves it. The Irish R.M. repeats its own 10am episode at 6pm, then M*A*S*H marks the biggest transition of its whole run inside a single two-hour block: four episodes carry the show from Henry Blake’s departure, through Trapper’s discharge and BJ Hunnicutt’s arrival, to Frank Burns’ short-lived hope of a promotion — the moment series four properly begins. Robert Altman’s 1970 film of the same name follows at 9pm, split by a Good News on GREAT! bulletin, before the new series’ opening episode repeats at 11:30pm. For once, that’s a genuinely good night to tune in, not just a comfortable one.

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