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

Published: 12 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. Sunday 13 September 2026 opens in the small hours with the comedy Hi, Mom! and the thriller Games That Lovers Play, then the anthology series One Step Beyond and the detective drama Honey West carry the schedule towards breakfast. Daytime works through The Lucy Show, the 1954 Sherlock Holmes series and the western Vengeance Valley, then the archive drama Now Barabbas Was a Robber and an episode of the 1966 Batman series either side of a run of feature films including Witness In The Dark and The Net. The evening opens with the wartime drama Enemy At The Door at 6pm, before Home at Seven takes the 7pm slot, Smokescreen (1964) the 8:45pm film slot, and Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate closes the night. Full breakdown below.

Talking Pictures TV Schedule: Sunday 13 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Talking Pictures TV schedule for Sunday 13 September 2026, on Freeview 82.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Talking Pictures TV today

Sunday’s overnight run opens with the comedy Hi, Mom! at 1:20am, then the thriller Games That Lovers Play and the short Miss Bikini lead into an episode of the anthology series One Step Beyond and a Honey West rerun ahead of breakfast.

The morning proper opens with the archive comedy She’s My Darling at 6am, then The Lucy Show, the 1954 Sherlock Holmes series and the 1951 western Vengeance Valley carry the schedule to mid-morning. The archive drama Now Barabbas Was a Robber and an episode of the 1966 Batman series fill the late morning, before the thriller Witness In The Dark and the Cold War-era feature The Net take up most of the afternoon. A Man from U.N.C.L.E. rerun and the channel’s own archive strand The Footage Detectives carry the schedule towards early evening.

Talking Pictures TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Talking Pictures TV primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 13 September 2026.

Enemy At The Door — Talking Pictures TV, 6pm

The opening episode of this 1970s drama, set among the German occupation of Guernsey during the Second World War, opens the evening at 6pm.

Home at Seven — Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

Ralph Richardson directs and stars in this 1952 mystery as a City clerk who arrives home an hour late with no memory of where he’s been, just as a theft he can’t account for comes to light.

Smokescreen (1964) — Talking Pictures TV, 8:45pm

Peter Vaughan plays an insurance investigator chasing a car-fire fraud racket in this lean British thriller from the mid-1960s, taking the 8:45pm film slot.

Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate — Talking Pictures TV, 10:15pm

The last of the low-budget “Adventures of…” comedies from the same stable as Adventures of a Taxi Driver closes out the night at 10:15pm.

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?

The wartime drama Enemy At The Door opens the evening at 6pm, ahead of the 1952 mystery Home at Seven at 7pm. The film slot goes to Smokescreen (1964) at 8:45pm, before Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate closes the night at 10:15pm. 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’s evening is film-led rather than resting on drama serials: Enemy At The Door opens at 6pm and Home at Seven takes the 7pm slot, before Smokescreen (1964) becomes the main film at 8:45pm. Adventures of a Plumber’s Mate closes out the night at 10:15pm.

Related: Film4 TV Guide | Freeview Channel Guide | Films on TV This Week