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

Published: 13 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, Monday 14 September 2026, is essentially an all-MASH night. The Irish R.M. holds its usual 6pm slot, and from 7pm MASH takes over in half-hour instalments right through to 11:55pm — ten episodes in total, seven distinct series 5 instalments with three of them repeated a second time before midnight, rather than ten separate stories.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Monday 14 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Monday 14 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Monday opens with two MAS*H episodes (series 4, episodes 18 and 19), then two Rising Damp episodes (series 3, episodes 1 and 4), two Air Rescue instalments (series 4, episodes 2 and 3), and two Highway To Heaven episodes (series 1, episode 25, then series 2, episode 1), 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 8:10am (series 1, episode 3), then Bramwell takes over from 8:50am (series 4, episode 1) and runs into Little House On The Prairie at 11am. The Waltons holds the early afternoon from 1pm to 4pm (series 9, episodes 17 to 19), before Little House On The Prairie returns to close out the daytime run from 4pm to 6pm, ahead of The Irish R.M. at 6pm and tonight’s MAS*H run below.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 14 September 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Peter Bowles leads the gentle Somerville and Ross adaptation as Major Yeates, an Englishman finding his feet as a resident magistrate in the west of Ireland. It’s the calm before ten straight hours of MAS*H.

MAS*H marathon — GREAT! TV, 7pm–11:55pm

This is essentially an all-MAS*H night: ten half-hour instalments run back to back from 7pm to 11:55pm without a break in the schedule. It isn’t ten different stories, though — seven distinct series 5 episodes air across the evening, and three of them (7pm, 7:30pm and 8pm) repeat a second time after 10:45pm, so anyone watching straight through will see the same three instalments twice.

Anyone after a specific storyline within the run is better off checking a dedicated MAS*H episode guide than assuming tonight’s schedule times reflect original US broadcast order — GREAT! TV strips the series without regard to it, which is how the same three episodes end up airing twice in one evening.

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, Monday 14 September 2026, is essentially an all-MASH night. The Irish R.M. holds 6pm, then MASH runs in half-hour instalments from 7pm to 11:55pm — seven distinct series 5 episodes, three of them repeated a second time before midnight.

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.

Monday goes further than usual into the channel’s comfort zone: The Irish R.M. hands over to MASH at 7pm, and the sitcom does not let go again until 11:55pm, ten half-hour slots covering seven distinct series 5 episodes with three of them repeated later the same night. It’s a schedule built for background viewing rather than appointment television, and nobody tuning in for one specific episode should assume the times below follow the show’s original broadcast order. The small hours keep to the usual formula, with MASH, Rising Damp, Air Rescue and Highway To Heaven filling the overnight before TJC’s teleshopping block and the day’s Little House and Waltons run.

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