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

Published: 14 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, Tuesday 15 September 2026, is an all-repeats evening built in three blocks rather than one long strip. The Irish R.M. holds its usual 6pm slot, then four MAS*H episodes run in half-hour instalments from 7pm to 8:30pm, three episodes of Brush Strokes follow from 9pm to 10:20pm, and two episodes of Robin’s Nest close out the night from 11pm to 11:30pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Tuesday 15 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Tuesday 15 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

The overnight hours open with MAS*H (series 5, episode 13), then Rising Damp (series 3, episode 4) and Man About The House (series 1, episode 2), followed by two Air Rescue instalments (series 4, episodes 4 and 5) and two Highway To Heaven episodes (series 2, episodes 2 and 3), 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 4), then Bramwell takes over from 8:50am (series 4, episode 2) and runs into Little House On The Prairie at 11am. The Waltons holds the early afternoon from 1pm to 3pm, 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 run below.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 15 September 2026 — three repeat-heavy blocks rather than ten separate stories.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Peter Bowles plays Major Sinclair Yeates, an English magistrate posted to the west of Ireland, in this adaptation of Somerville and Ross’s stories. It’s the gentlest thing on the schedule tonight, all misunderstandings and local colour rather than incident.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm

Four series 5 episodes run back to back to 8:30pm. Among tonight’s run are Hanky Panky, in which B.J. spends an awkward night with a nurse whose husband has just sent her a Dear Jane letter, Hepatitis, where Hawkeye has to dose the whole camp after Father Mulcahy falls ill while nursing his own bad back, and Movie Tonight, built around Colonel Potter’s battered print of My Darling Clementine breaking down mid-screening. A fourth episode, The General’s Practitioner, rounds out the block.

Brush Strokes — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Three episodes of the South London painter-and-decorator sitcom fill 9pm to 10:20pm, following Karl Howman’s Jacko through the usual mix of workplace scrapes and romantic near-misses at Bainbridge Decorators, under his brother-in-law Eric’s watch and supervisor Lionel’s disapproval.

Robin’s Nest — GREAT! TV, 11pm

Two episodes close out the night. Richard O’Sullivan reprises his Man About the House role as Robin Tripp, now running a Fulham bistro with girlfriend Vicky and her disapproving father James as an unwilling business partner — a gentler, more domestic register to end on than the sitcom’s farcical early days.

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, Tuesday 15 September 2026, is an all-repeats evening in three blocks. The Irish R.M. holds 6pm, four MAS*H episodes run in half-hour instalments from 7pm to 8:30pm, three Brush Strokes episodes follow from 9pm to 10:20pm, and two Robin’s Nest episodes close out the night from 11pm to 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.

Tonight goes further than usual into the channel’s comfort zone, but in distinct stages rather than one long strip: The Irish R.M. hands over to four MASH episodes at 7pm, three episodes of Brush Strokes take the 9pm slot, and two episodes of Robin’s Nest see the night out from 11pm. It’s a schedule built for background viewing rather than appointment television, all repeats rather than anything new. The small hours keep to the usual formula, with MASH, Rising Damp, Man About The House, 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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