Talking Pictures TV TV Guide: Listings, Schedule & What’s On Talking Pictures TV Tonight

Updated: 14 July 2026

Talking Pictures TV is the independent, family-run channel built almost entirely on one man’s private film collection. Noel Cronin spent decades buying up the rights to older British and Hollywood titles through his company Renown Pictures, and in May 2015 he and his daughter, Sarah Cronin-Stanley, turned that archive into a television channel. A decade on it’s grown into one of the most distinctive things on British free-to-air TV: proper vintage cinema and archive drama, scheduled with obvious affection rather than filler logic. Tuesday’s evening runs archive series into a feature film rather than the other way round. Whiplash and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. open the primetime run from 6:25pm, before detective series The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder takes the 8pm slot. The 1955 adventure Storm Over the Nile screens from 9:05pm, and the night winds down with Fortean TV and 1969 comedy-drama Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice after 11pm. Channel numbers are in the table further down.

Talking Pictures TV Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Talking Pictures TV schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 82.

What’s on Talking Pictures TV today

Tuesday’s schedule on Talking Pictures TV runs archive material through the small hours before the daytime films take over. The BFI-restored curio A Message From Mars closes out the previous night at 1:55am, then a run of vintage serials carries through to dawn: crime drama The Delavine Affair at 3:10am, Anne Francis detective series Honey West at 4:30am, and Western series The Rogues at 5am. Adventure film Great Day In The Morning, a Civil War-era Western starring Robert Stack, takes the 6am slot and runs into the mid-morning.

The late morning and afternoon lean on a mix of B-pictures and drama series. Comedy Love In Pawn arrives at 7:50am, before 1946 thriller Wanted For Murder, starring Eric Portman as a strangler hunted across London, takes the 9:25am slot. Anthony Andrews’ bomb-disposal drama Danger UXB returns at 12pm, followed by Swiss adventure series William Tell at 1:05pm and 1957 drama The Heart Within at 1:35pm. A David Bailey documentary strand airs at 2:50pm, and 1959 comedy Nurse on Wheels, with Juliet Mills as a district nurse on a motorbike, rounds off the afternoon at 3:55pm.

Talking Pictures TV Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

Here’s the Talking Pictures TV primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026.

Whiplash — Talking Pictures TV, 6:25pm

Peter Graves leads this 1961 ITC adventure series as an American running a stagecoach line in colonial Australia, half Western, half swashbuckler. Tonight’s episode, Ribbons & Wheels, is the 28th of the run.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E — Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo and David McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin work a case together in The Odd Man Affair, episode 29 of the Cold War spy series’ debut season. It’s the sort of gadget-heavy espionage that made the show a mid-60s hit on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder — Talking Pictures TV, 8pm

Hugh Burden plays Edgar Wallace’s mild, unassuming detective in The Treasure House, which also happens to be the final episode of the series’ second run. A quietly effective bit of scheduling to close out the character’s story tonight.

Storm Over the Nile — Talking Pictures TV, 9:05pm

The evening’s headline film is this 1955 Technicolor remake of The Four Feathers, with Anthony Steel and Laurence Harvey among the officers caught up in A.E.W. Mason’s story of cowardice, honour and the Sudan campaign. It’s a handsome, old-fashioned adventure that still holds up as a piece of British studio filmmaking.

Fortean TV — Talking Pictures TV, 11:10pm

Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe hosts this late-90s series digging into the paranormal and the plain strange, named after writer Charles Fort. Tonight’s edition is episode 7 of the first run.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — Talking Pictures TV, 11:45pm

Paul Mazursky’s 1969 comedy-drama, with Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon as two couples testing an open marriage after a weekend encounter-group retreat, was Oscar-nominated for its screenplay and remains a sharp snapshot of its era.

What kind of films and shows are on Talking Pictures TV

Vintage British and Hollywood films

The backbone of the schedule is the Renown Pictures library itself: British films from the 1930s to the 1970s, war pictures, adventure films, the odd Hollywood title bought in alongside them. Nothing here is chosen for irony’s sake. It’s programmed the way these films were originally meant to be watched, as straightforward entertainment rather than curiosities.

Archive TV drama and detective series

Early evenings lean on serialised drama from the 1950s through the 1980s, Z Cars, Public Eye, Hannay and their contemporaries. Much of this simply isn’t available anywhere else on British television, which gives the channel a genuine point of difference rather than just a nostalgic one.

Cult strands, B-movies and magazine shows

Late nights bring out the more eccentric corners of the schedule: horror and cult titles through Caroline Munro’s Cellar Club, oddball anthology series like Supernatural, and imported curios. It’s here that Talking Pictures TV feels least like a conventional archive channel and most like a slightly mischievous one.

How to watch Talking Pictures TV

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Talking Pictures TV across the main UK television platforms:

Talking Pictures TV is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. It doesn’t run a +1 timeshift channel, so these are the only live feeds available.

TPTV Encore catch-up

Because there’s no +1 channel, TPTV Encore is how you catch up with anything you miss. It’s Talking Pictures TV’s own free streaming service, launched in December 2021 and accessed through a browser at tptvencore.co.uk, with a dedicated app available on Android. Sign up with a free email registration and recent broadcasts are generally available for around a week afterwards.

Beyond straightforward catch-up, TPTV Encore also carries a much deeper archive, including material from the Southern Television library that has never had a regular slot on the main channel. Content stays free after that initial catch-up window closes, though older titles on the platform carry adverts to keep the whole thing running without a subscription fee.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on Talking Pictures TV tonight?

Whiplash and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. open the evening from 6:25pm, before The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder takes the 8pm slot with its Edgar Wallace detective. The 1955 adventure film Storm Over the Nile is the headline slot at 9:05pm, and the night closes out with Fortean TV and 1969 comedy-drama Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice after 11pm. Check the schedule table above for the full day’s listings.

What channel is Talking Pictures TV on?

Freeview 82, Sky 324, Virgin Media 445 and Freesat 306. It’s also on Freely at channel 36. All are free to watch.

Does Talking Pictures TV have a +1 channel?

No. TPTV Encore is the channel’s replacement for a +1 service, letting you catch up with recent broadcasts on demand instead.

Is Talking Pictures TV free to watch?

Yes, entirely. It’s advertising-funded rather than subscription-funded, on the live channel and on TPTV Encore alike.

Verdict

I rate Talking Pictures TV highly for exactly what it is: a small, independent operation doing something none of the bigger channels bother with anymore, giving genuinely old films and archive television a proper home rather than an occasional late-night slot. It won’t be for everyone, some evenings the schedule can feel like a lucky dip, but that’s also the appeal. You don’t get this on a streaming algorithm.

Tonight’s line-up builds properly towards its headline film. Whiplash and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. make undemanding early-evening viewing, and Hugh Burden’s quietly brilliant turn in The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder gives 8pm real substance, closing out the character’s second series on a high note. Storm Over the Nile at 9:05pm is where the night earns its keep: a lavish, unfairly overlooked remake of The Four Feathers with a cast that includes Laurence Harvey and Christopher Lee. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at 11:45pm is the wild card, a properly provocative late-60s comedy that still has bite. A well-balanced Tuesday, film and archive drama each pulling their weight.

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