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

Published: 21 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 22 September 2026, The Irish R.M. opens the evening at 6pm, and then four MAS*H episodes run back to back from 7pm to 8:30pm — a far shorter run than the ten-episode strip this channel sometimes manages. Three Brush Strokes episodes take over from 9pm, and two editions of Robin’s Nest close out the night from 11pm.

GREAT! TV Schedule: Tuesday 22 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete GREAT! TV schedule for Tuesday 22 September 2026, on Freeview 34.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on GREAT! TV today

Tuesday’s overnight run opens with MAS*H at 12:30am (series 6, episode 12), then Rising Damp and Man About The House each take a half hour from 1am. Two Air Rescue episodes and two editions of Highway To Heaven follow from 2am, each preceded by a Good News on GREAT! Extra bulletin, before TJC’s teleshopping fills 5am to 8am.

The Waltons opens the morning proper at 8am (series 1, episode 6), then Bramwell, Highway To Heaven and Little House On The Prairie each take an hour from 9am, before three more Waltons episodes run back to back from 1pm to 4pm (series 1, episodes 14 to 16) and Little House On The Prairie closes out the afternoon with two more episodes from 4pm, running up to The Irish R.M.’s evening start below.

GREAT! TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the GREAT! TV primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 22 September 2026.

The Irish R.M. — GREAT! TV, 6pm

Peter Bowles plays a retired British army major turned resident magistrate in the west of Ireland, a fish-out-of-water setup the Edwardian-set comedy-drama mines gently rather than broadly. Series 3, episode 2 opens the evening.

MAS*H — GREAT! TV, 7pm

Four series 6 episodes run back to back to 8:30pm, a far shorter strip than the channel sometimes runs. Hawkeye and the rest of the 4077th trade gallows humour for the usual half hour, decades after the show first aired and it still holds up.

Brush Strokes — GREAT! TV, 9pm

Three episodes carry the night from 9pm to 10:20pm (series 5 into series 6), following Jacko, Karl Howman’s serially unfaithful painter-decorator, from one entanglement into the next. Broader and more dated than the MAS*H that precedes it, but it knows exactly what it is.

Robin’s Nest — GREAT! TV, 11pm

Closes the night with two series 6 episodes from 11pm, the Man About the House spin-off that swapped a shared flat for Robin and Vicky’s basement bistro.

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 22 September 2026, The Irish R.M. opens the evening at 6pm, then four MAS*H episodes run back to back from 7pm to 8:30pm. Three Brush Strokes episodes follow to 10:20pm, and two Robin’s Nest episodes close out the night from 11pm.

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 is a lighter sitcom night rather than the marathon this channel sometimes runs: The Irish R.M. takes the early evening at 6pm, MAS*H runs just four episodes from 7pm to 8:30pm, and Brush Strokes and Robin’s Nest share the rest of the night between them. The small hours keep to the usual formula, with Rising Damp, Man About The House and TJC’s teleshopping filling the overnight before The Waltons, Bramwell and Little House On The Prairie share out the daytime schedule.

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