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

Published: 11 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, Saturday 12 September 2026, is an Agatha Christie double bill. Little House On The Prairie closes out the daytime run at 6pm (series 5, episode 3), then Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery opens at 7pm, a tropical whodunnit with Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None follows at 9pm, with Oliver Reed and Richard Attenborough among the ten strangers summoned to a remote hotel, broken by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. Ruth Rendell Mysteries closes out the night from 11:15pm (series 11, episode 9).

GREAT! TV Schedule: Saturday 12 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Saturday 12 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Saturday opens with two MAS*H episodes back to back from 12:25am (series five, episodes 9 and 10), then Rising Damp at 1:25am (series three, episode 3), and two Air Rescue episodes and two Highway To Heaven episodes fill the small hours (series three episode 5, then series two episode 4, then series one episodes 21 and 22), each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin. TJC’s teleshopping fills the schedule from 5am to 8am.

Highway To Heaven returns at 8:10am (series two, episode 19), then Little House On The Prairie takes over from 9:20am and runs in hour-long instalments right through the morning and afternoon (series four, episodes 13 to 20), reaching series five by 6pm, when it 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, Saturday 12 September 2026.

Little House On The Prairie — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Little House On The Prairie rounds off the daytime run at 6pm (series 5, episode 3), just ahead of tonight’s Agatha Christie double bill.

Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery — GREAT! TV, 7pm

Primetime opens at 7pm with Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery, a tropical whodunnit with Helen Hayes leading the cast as Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None follows from 9pm, with Oliver Reed and Richard Attenborough among the ten strangers lured to a remote hotel.

Good News on GREAT! — GREAT! TV, 9:52pm

A five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin interrupts the film at 9:52pm.

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None — GREAT! TV, 9:57pm

Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None picks back up from 9:57pm and runs through to gone 11pm.

Ruth Rendell Mysteries — GREAT! TV, 11:15pm

Ruth Rendell Mysteries closes out the night from 11:15pm (series 11, episode 9).

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, Saturday 12 September 2026, is an Agatha Christie double bill. Little House On The Prairie closes out the day at 6pm, then Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery opens at 7pm and Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None follows at 9pm, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. Ruth Rendell Mysteries closes out the night from 11:15pm.

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.

Saturday is a rare break from the usual M*A*S*H-heavy pattern: Little House On The Prairie runs right through the daytime into 6pm, then an Agatha Christie double bill takes over primetime, A Caribbean Mystery at 7pm followed by And Then There Were None at 9pm, before Ruth Rendell Mysteries closes out the night from 11:15pm. Daytime otherwise runs the same formula it always does, with M*A*S*H, Highway To Heaven and Rising Damp filling the small hours ahead of the day’s Little House On The Prairie run.

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