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

Published: 10 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, Friday 11 September 2026, The Irish R.M. leads in at 6pm, then four MASH episodes run back to back from 7pm to 8:30pm — the best part of ninety minutes of one stripped sitcom, worth a plain mention even though it’s routine for this channel. I Dreamed of Africa takes the film slot at 9pm, broken by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm, before two more MASH episodes close out the night from 11:25pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Friday 11 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Friday 11 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Friday opens with four MAS*H episodes back to back from midnight to 1:30am (series five, episodes 3 to 6), then two Air Rescue episodes and two Highway To Heaven episodes fill the small hours (series three, episodes 2 and 3, then series one, episodes 19 and 20), each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin. TJC’s teleshopping fills the schedule from 5am to 8am.

The Waltons opens the daytime proper at 8am, then Bramwell takes 9am (series three, episode 10) and Highway To Heaven returns at 10am (series one, episode 7). Little House On The Prairie and The Waltons share the rest of the morning and afternoon between them, running through to 6pm, when The Irish R.M. leads into tonight’s line-up below.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Friday 11 September 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

The Somerville and Ross adaptation about an English magistrate finding his feet among the eccentricities of rural Ireland opens the evening. Series two, episode one.

Four MAS*H episodes — GREAT! TV, 7pm to 8:30pm

Ninety straight minutes of the Korean War field-hospital sitcom, series five’s episodes seven through ten run back to back. It’s the channel’s biggest single block of the evening, and worth flagging plainly even though stripping MAS*H four at a time is business as usual here.

I Dreamed of Africa — GREAT! TV, 9pm

The 2000 drama with Kim Basinger as Kuki Gallmann, an Italian aristocrat who moves her family to a Kenyan ranch, based on Gallmann’s own memoir. It runs from 9pm, breaks for a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm, and picks back up at 9:57pm to close out just before 11:25pm.

Two more MAS*H episodes — GREAT! TV, 11:25pm to 11:55pm

The same run continues late, series five’s episodes seven and eight repeating 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, Friday 11 September 2026, The Irish R.M. leads in at 6pm, then four MASH episodes run from 7pm to 8:30pm. I Dreamed of Africa takes the 9pm film slot, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm, before two more MASH episodes close out 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.

Friday is the channel at its most typical: The Irish R.M. leads in at 6pm, then four M*A*S*H episodes run back to back through to 8:30pm before I Dreamed of Africa takes the 9pm film slot and two more M*A*S*H episodes close out the night from 11:25pm. Daytime runs the same formula it always does, with Highway To Heaven, Little House On The Prairie and The Waltons sharing the morning and afternoon between them.

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