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

Published: 5 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, Sunday 6 September 2026, the evening is film rather than the usual MASH run: Eat Pray Love runs from 6:10pm, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 6:55pm and resuming at 7pm, then I Dreamed of Africa takes over at 9pm — its first outing on this channel, flagged “New” in the listings for that reason rather than as a series launch — broken the same way at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. Two episodes of MASH close the night from 11:25pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Sunday opens with three episodes of Robin’s Nest back to back from midnight, then a single Rising Damp at 1:30am. Two Air Rescue episodes and two of Highway To Heaven follow through the small hours, each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin, before TJC’s teleshopping fills the schedule from 5am to 8am.

A Fine Romance opens the daytime proper at 8:10am, then The Waltons takes over almost the whole of the morning and afternoon: seven episodes back to back from 8:50am through to 3:50pm, series eight’s twelfth episode to its eighteenth. Kind Hearts and Coronets, the 1949 Ealing black comedy, closes out the afternoon from 3:50pm ahead of tonight’s line-up below.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

Eat Pray Love — GREAT! TV, 6:10pm

The 2010 Julia Roberts adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, a marriage ending and a year spent eating in Italy, praying in India and, eventually, falling for Javier Bardem in Bali. A rare properly cinematic booking for this channel’s early evening. Split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 6:55pm, resuming at 7pm.

I Dreamed of Africa — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Kim Basinger as Kuki Gallmann, the real-life conservationist who left Italy for a Kenyan ranch in the 1999 film. This is its first outing on GREAT! TV rather than a new production — the listings flag it “New” because it’s new to this schedule, not a fresh episode of anything. Split by Good News on GREAT! at 9:52pm, resuming 9:57pm.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 11:25pm and 11:55pm

Two series-three episodes close the night, back in the channel’s usual comfort-viewing slot after an evening given over to film.

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, Sunday 6 September 2026, it’s film rather than sitcom: Eat Pray Love from 6:10pm, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 6:55pm and resuming at 7pm, then I Dreamed of Africa at 9pm (its first showing on this channel), split the same way at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. Two episodes of MAS*H close the night from 11:25pm.

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.

Sunday evening is the exception that proves it: two proper feature films rather than the usual stripped sitcom run. Eat Pray Love opens from 6:10pm, then I Dreamed of Africa gets its first outing on the channel from 9pm, both split by the same five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin format the channel uses everywhere. M*A*S*H still gets the last word, closing the night from 11:25pm once the films are done. Daytime keeps to the usual formula — The Waltons through the morning and afternoon, Kind Hearts and Coronets filling the pre-evening gap.

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