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

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. Eleven years on, nobody else on British free-to-air is attempting anything like it. Monday 10 August 2026 keeps to the channel’s usual weekday shape: archive drama through the early evening, then Georges Simenon’s detective Maigret, followed by the 1954 prison drama The Weak and the Wicked.

Talking Pictures TV Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Talking Pictures TV schedule for Monday 10 August 2026, on Freeview 82.

What’s on Talking Pictures TV today

Monday’s schedule opens overnight with The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read at 12:05am, then a run of archive series through the small hours: A Saint, A Woman, A Devil at 1:10am, Turn of Fate at 3am, The Rogues at 3:30am, The Adventures of Robin Hood at 4:30am, The Buccaneers at 5am and Supercar at 5:30am.

The 1955 mystery serial The Vise opens proper broadcast hours at 6am, followed by the 1959 drama Devil’s Bait at 6:30am and the 1948 crime picture The Dark Road at 7:40am. Later morning brings the 1954 crime drama River Beat at 9:10am, a 1974 Z-Cars episode at 10:30am and the 1938 mystery Inspector Hornleigh, with Alastair Sim in the cast, at 11:30am.

The afternoon runs Richard the Lionheart at 1pm, the 1964 Leslie Nielsen thriller Night Train to Paris at 1:30pm, the 1954 adventure Men Of Sherwood Forest at 2:45pm, and the 1959 Boulting brothers comedy I’m All Right Jack, with Peter Sellers, from 4:20pm.

Talking Pictures TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Talking Pictures TV primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 10 August 2026.

Scotland Yard — Talking Pictures TV, 6:25pm

Ken Hughes directs this 1954 instalment, The Strange Case of Blonde, in which a cat burglar adopts an unlikely disguise, with Lee Sinclaire and Derek Alward heading the cast.

The Footage Detectives — Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

This archive strand pulls together three oddities from the vault: a road-safety short for young cyclists in which a youthful Roy Hudd appears, an old instructional reel with John Cleese and Adrienne Posta in the cast, and a fond look back at how Britain once did afternoon tea. It plays more like a rummage through a filing cabinet nobody has opened in decades than a conventional documentary.

Maigret — Talking Pictures TV, 8pm

Bruno Cremer plays Georges Simenon’s detective in Maigret and N°1 Lock, one of the best-known small-screen adaptations of the character. Cremer’s Maigret is called to Charenton after Émile Ducrau is stabbed and thrown into the canal, working the case among the barges and lock-keepers rather than his usual Paris streets. Jean Yanne and Georges Staquet co-star in this 1994 production.

The Weak and the Wicked — Talking Pictures TV, 9:50pm

J. Lee Thompson’s 1954 drama follows the lives of several women serving time in prison. Glynis Johns takes the lead, with Diana Dors and John Gregson among the supporting cast.

Murders in Cornouaille — Talking Pictures TV, 11:35pm

A French-language mystery from 2018, directed by Franck Mancuso, opens with a body turning up on a stretch of coast tied to local Celtic folklore, discovered by a man out fishing. Sagamore Stevenin and Caroline Anglade star.

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: British films from the 1930s to the 1970s, plus war pictures, adventure films and the odd Hollywood title bought in to fill a gap. Quality swings wildly from one afternoon to the next, which is part of the deal.

Archive TV drama and detective series

Early evenings lean on serialised drama from the 1950s through the 1980s: Z Cars, Public Eye, Hannay and others of that stripe. Much of it isn’t shown anywhere else on British television, and some of it hadn’t been shown anywhere at all for thirty-odd years before this channel dug it out. If you want to know why people are fond of Talking Pictures TV rather than merely tolerant of it, this is the part of the schedule to point at.

Cult strands, B-movies and magazine shows

Late nights get stranger: horror and cult titles through Caroline Munro’s Cellar Club, oddities like Supernatural, imported curios.

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

TPTV Encore is the channel’s own free streaming service, launched in December 2021 and run through a browser at tptvencore.co.uk, with an app on Android. Register an email address and recent broadcasts are usually there for about a week.

The better reason to bother with it is what sits behind the catch-up: a deep archive that includes Southern Television material never given a regular slot on the main channel. Those older titles stay free after the catch-up window shuts, but they carry adverts.

Frequently asked questions

What’s on Talking Pictures TV tonight?

Scotland Yard at 6:25pm and The Footage Detectives at 7pm open Monday’s evening, before Maigret takes the 8pm hour and The Weak and the Wicked follows at 9:50pm. Murders in Cornouaille, a French-language mystery serial, closes out the night from 11:35pm.

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 stands in for a +1 service, with recent broadcasts available to catch up 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 that still does something none of the bigger channels bother with. Old films and archive television get a proper home here instead of the odd graveyard slot. It won’t be for everyone, and some evenings the schedule reads like a lucky dip. That’s also the appeal.

Maigret is the one to catch. Bruno Cremer’s detective is called out to a canal lock in Charenton after a body turns up, in a 1994 production that wears its period detail lightly. The Weak and the Wicked follows, J. Lee Thompson’s account of life inside a women’s prison with Glynis Johns and Diana Dors. Murders in Cornouaille is worth staying up for too, a French mystery serial rarely given a UK airing.

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