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

Published: 12 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 13 September 2026, is a change of pace from Saturday’s Agatha Christie double bill. The Ladykillers closes out the daytime run at 4:30pm, then A River Runs Through It, the 1992 Robert Redford-directed drama with Brad Pitt and Craig Sheffer, opens the evening at 6:25pm — its first outing on this channel rather than any kind of genuine premiere, whatever the EPG’s “New” flag implies. Philadelphia, the 1993 Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington courtroom drama, follows at 9pm, broken by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. MAS*H closes out the night from 11:30pm (series 4, episode 17).

GREAT! TV Schedule: Sunday 13 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Sunday 13 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Sunday opens with Ruth Rendell Mysteries at 12:25am (series 11, episode 7), then Rising Damp at 1:35am (series 3, episode 2), two Air Rescue episodes (series 3, episode 6, then series 4, episode 1), and two Highway To Heaven episodes (series 1, episodes 23 and 24), each break marked by a short Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin. TJC’s teleshopping then fills the schedule from 5am to 8am.

A Fine Romance opens the morning at 8am (series 1, episode 2), before The Waltons takes over from 8:30am and runs in hour-long instalments right through the morning and into the afternoon, series 9, episodes 4 to 11, before The Ladykillers, the 1955 Ealing comedy, closes out the daytime run from 4:30pm.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 13 September 2026.

A River Runs Through It — GREAT! TV, 6:25pm

Robert Redford’s 1992 drama follows two Montana brothers, played by Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt, whose fly-fishing father measures out a hard, quiet kind of love through the sport itself. The schedule flags it “New”, but that reads as its first outing on this particular channel rather than any kind of genuine premiere; it’s a well-worn film, not a launch.

Philadelphia — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Tom Hanks plays a lawyer fired after his firm learns he has AIDS, and hires Denzel Washington’s initially reluctant attorney to fight the dismissal, in Jonathan Demme’s 1993 courtroom drama. A five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin splits the film at 9:52pm; it resumes at 9:57pm.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 11:30pm

Series 4, episode 17 closes out the night, one more instalment in a run the channel treats as effectively bottomless.

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 13 September 2026, The Ladykillers closes out the daytime run at 4:30pm, then A River Runs Through It opens the evening at 6:25pm — its first outing on this channel rather than a genuine premiere, despite the EPG’s “New” flag. Philadelphia follows at 9pm, split by a five-minute Good News on GREAT! bulletin at 9:52pm and resuming at 9:57pm. MAS*H closes out the night from 11:30pm.

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 returns to something closer to the usual pattern after Saturday’s Agatha Christie double bill: The Waltons runs right through the morning and afternoon into 4:30pm, then A River Runs Through It, a proper film rather than a series episode, takes the evening’s opening slot at 6:25pm ahead of Philadelphia at 9pm and a M*A*S*H episode closing out the night from 11:30pm. The small hours keep to the same formula as ever, with Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Rising Damp, Air Rescue and Highway To Heaven filling the overnight before TJC’s teleshopping block and the day’s Waltons run.

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