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

Published: 8 September 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. Eleven years on, nobody else on British free-to-air is attempting anything like it. Wednesday 9 September 2026 runs 25 programmes through the day, opening in the small hours with two crime thrillers, The Body Beneath and The Black Book, before daytime settles into detective drama and feature films, among them Calling Paul Temple and The Monkey’s Paw. The evening pairs two episodes of the archive drama Rooms from 6pm, then Out of Town, Scotland Yard and Van der Valk carry the schedule into a late double bill: the 1979 remake of The Lady Vanishes at 9:05pm, followed by That Summer! to close the night. Full breakdown below.

Talking Pictures TV Schedule: Wednesday 9 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Talking Pictures TV schedule for Wednesday 9 September 2026, on Freeview 82.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Talking Pictures TV today

Wednesday’s overnight run opens with the drama The Body Beneath at 12:05am, then the archive thriller The Black Book from 1:40am. An episode of the archive crime series Dial 999 and the feature Target: The Corruptors carry the small hours towards breakfast, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E holds its usual 5am spot before the drama The Sicilians opens the morning proper at 6am.

Moment of Indiscretion and Innocent Meeting fill most of the mid-morning from 7:20am, then Calling Paul Temple runs a long stretch from 9:55am and The Monkey’s Paw carries the schedule towards lunchtime. The afternoon runs through The Buccaneers, the feature The Quiet Woman, a pair of short Look At Life documentaries, a second episode of Dial 999 and the sitcom That’s My Boy, before the crime drama Dead Man’s Evidence takes most of the pre-evening slot from 4:40pm.

Talking Pictures TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Talking Pictures TV primetime line-up for tonight, Wednesday 9 September 2026.

Rooms — Talking Pictures TV, 6pm

The archive drama Rooms opens the evening with its first episode, series 1, episode 1.

Rooms — Talking Pictures TV, 6:30pm

Episode two, series 1, episode 2, runs straight on from the 6pm instalment.

Out of Town — Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

Series 1, episode 43 of the archive drama Out of Town takes over once the Rooms double ends.

Scotland Yard — Talking Pictures TV, 7:30pm

The police procedural Scotland Yard follows at 7:30pm, series 1, episode 29.

Van der Valk — Talking Pictures TV, 8:05pm

The detective drama Van der Valk, series 1, episode 3, fills the 8:05pm hour ahead of tonight’s film.

The Lady Vanishes (1979) — Talking Pictures TV, 9:05pm

Tonight’s film is the 1979 remake of The Lady Vanishes, running two hours from 9:05pm.

That Summer! — Talking Pictures TV, 11:05pm

That Summer! closes out the night from 11:05pm.

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?

From 6pm, two half-hour episodes of the archive drama Rooms open the evening, followed by Out of Town at 7pm and Scotland Yard at 7:30pm. Van der Valk takes the 8:05pm hour, then the 1979 remake of The Lady Vanishes runs from 9:05pm to 11:05pm, when That Summer! closes out the night. 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 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.

Tonight is a quieter one, with no single film anchoring primetime. A run of archive drama — Rooms, Out of Town, Scotland Yard and Van der Valk — carries the evening from 6pm through to 9:05pm, when the 1979 remake of The Lady Vanishes takes over. It’s a competent enough version of the Hitchcock original, but not the kind of night that justifies clearing the evening for it.

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