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

Published: 9 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. Thursday 10 September 2026 runs 26 programmes through the day, opening in the small hours with the western Ride in the Whirlwind and the thriller Man Accused, before Stagecoach West and a rerun of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. carry breakfast. Daytime works through archive drama and features including Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down, The Red House and the detective serial The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. The evening opens with a short Julius Hagen Season segment and Look At Life Wheel Power from 6:05pm, then Strange But True? and a full episode of The Brothers run to 8pm, when Mark Saber and a rerun of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club take over. The Blood of Fu Manchu anchors from 9:35pm, and the thriller Across The Bridge closes the night. Full breakdown below.

Talking Pictures TV Schedule: Thursday 10 September 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Talking Pictures TV today

Thursday’s overnight run opens with the western Ride in the Whirlwind at 1am, then the thriller Man Accused from 2:40am and the short strand Strange Experiences just before 4am. Stagecoach West holds its usual 4am hour and a rerun of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. closes out the small hours from 5am, before the crime drama Marked Men opens the morning proper at 6am.

Look At Life Common Market and the drama Frail Women fill most of the mid-morning from 7:10am, then the courtroom piece Miss MacTaggart Won’t Lie Down and the mystery feature The Red House carry the schedule towards lunchtime. The afternoon runs through the thriller Cat & Mouse, two archive drama serials in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot and The Duchess of Duke Street, the feature The Frightened Man, a short Look At Life-style clip in Romance of the Odeon, and the sitcom That’s My Boy, before a Julius Hagen Season segment and the drama The Vicar of Bray take up most of the pre-evening slot from 4:35pm.

Talking Pictures TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

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

Julius Hagen Season — Talking Pictures TV, 6:05pm

A brief preview segment for the channel’s ongoing run of films from producer Julius Hagen’s Twickenham Studios, airing ahead of the evening’s archive programming proper.

Look At Life Wheel Power — Talking Pictures TV, 6:10pm

One of the Rank Organisation’s Look At Life cinema shorts, this ten-minute instalment covers motoring and transport, in keeping with the strand’s usual mid-century-Britain subject matter.

Strange But True? — Talking Pictures TV, 6:20pm

An episode of the ITV documentary strand that investigated unexplained phenomena and reader-submitted mysteries during its 1990s run airs from 6:20pm.

The Brothers — Talking Pictures TV, 6:55pm

An episode of the BBC’s 1970s drama about a family haulage firm and the sibling rivalries running through it airs from 6:55pm.

Mark Saber — Talking Pictures TV, 8pm

An episode of the 1950s transatlantic detective series, one of the archive crime strands the channel returns to regularly, airs from 8pm.

The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club — Talking Pictures TV, 8:30pm

A rerun of the Granada variety show built around a fictional working men’s club, mixing stand-up and musical guests in front of a live audience.

The Blood of Fu Manchu — Talking Pictures TV, 9:35pm

Christopher Lee returns as the pulp villain in this 1968 entry in the long-running film series, taking up most of the rest of primetime.

Across The Bridge — Talking Pictures TV, 11:25pm

Rod Steiger stars in this 1957 thriller about a fraudster on the run, closing out the night.

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 6:05pm, a short Julius Hagen Season segment and Look At Life Wheel Power open the evening, followed by Strange But True? at 6:20pm and a full episode of The Brothers at 6:55pm. Mark Saber and a rerun of The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club fill the 8pm hour, before The Blood of Fu Manchu runs from 9:35pm and the thriller Across The Bridge closes the night at 11:25pm. 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 leans on shorter archive strands rather than a single film anchor. Julius Hagen Season, Look At Life Wheel Power, Strange But True? and The Brothers carry the evening from 6:05pm, then Mark Saber and The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club fill the 8pm hour before The Blood of Fu Manchu, a Christopher Lee vehicle from 1968, takes the anchor slot at 9:35pm. Across The Bridge closes out the night.

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