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

Updated: 14 July 2026

That’s TV is a free-to-air network built almost entirely from British television’s back catalogue: classic sitcoms, vintage drama and a strand of archive music programming, all without a subscription. It’s on Freeview channel 56 nationally (channel 80 in Greater Manchester), plus Sky 183, Freesat 178 and Virgin Media. Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, a short archive music slot opens the evening before Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads carry the early hours, Minder settles into the 8pm slot, and Benidorm at 9pm leads into Shameless at 9:55pm. Full channel numbers and the streaming picture are covered further down.

That’s TV Schedule: Tuesday 14 July 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Tuesday 14 July 2026, on Freeview 56.

What’s on That’s TV today

Tuesday’s daytime picks up from the teleshopping run with Rising Damp at 8am, followed by Duty Free and Never the Twain before Porridge: Going Straight settles into the 9:35am slot. Bread and a second run of Steptoe and Son carry the mid-morning, and Oh Doctor Beeching! and another Rising Damp take the schedule up to lunchtime.

The afternoon leans more on drama than usual. Goodnight Sweetheart from 1pm gives way to the hour-long When the Boat Comes In, before Minder takes a further hour from 2:45pm. Just Good Friends, a repeat helping of Man About the House and a second Bread fill out the rest of the afternoon, and Birds of a Feather closes daytime out at 5:30pm ahead of tonight’s line-up.

That’s TV Tonight — Primetime and the Evening Schedule

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

That’s 60s – Best Music Live! — That’s TV, 6pm

A quick burst of archive performance clips opens the evening, the same short strand that fills gaps in the schedule several times most days.

Rising Damp — That’s TV, 6:15pm

Series 3, episode 5, “Fawcett’s Python”, finds Rigsby taking an interest in a new lodger who turns out to be an exotic dancer with an unusual pet in tow. Leonard Rossiter’s suspicious landlord is at his nosiest here.

Steptoe and Son — That’s TV, 6:45pm

In “Back in Fashion” (series 8, episode 1), a photographer turns up at the yard looking for a male model, and Harold fancies his chances rather more than his father does.

Likely Lads: Whatever Happened? — That’s TV, 7:20pm

“Countdown” (series 1, episode 11) sees wedding preparations take over as Mrs Chambers gets involved in planning her daughter’s big day, with predictably chaotic results for Terry and Bob.

Minder — That’s TV, 8pm

Arthur Daley’s latest scheme in “Cars, Pints and Pains” (series 9, episode 10) has him struggling to shift his stock of dodgy second-hand motors, so he tries renting them out instead. It doesn’t go entirely to plan.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

The night’s headline show. Series 5, episode 4 has the Solana holidaymakers convinced that Madge has vanished, with wild rumours doing the rounds among the sunbeds. Written by Derren Litten, it remains the sharpest comedy writing in the schedule by some margin, and this episode leans hard into the ensemble’s gift for escalating a minor mystery into full-blown farce.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Series 4, episode 5 turns up the heat on the Gallagher household as Karen and Jamie’s relationship develops and Monica grows jealous of the attention Debbie gets from their father. Sharper and more recent than most of what surrounds it, this is the other strong hour of the night.

Man About The House — That’s TV, 11pm

“Come Into My Parlour” (series 3, episode 2) has Robin trying to engineer a romantic evening, only for Chrissy to keep getting in the way.

Mind Your Language — That’s TV, 11:35pm

“Who Loves Ya, Baby?” (series 3, episode 2) centres on a missing baby causing panic around the college, dated humour and all as the night winds down.

What kind of shows are on That’s TV

Sitcoms from the 1970s and 1980s

This is the backbone of the schedule. Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son, Man About the House, Bread, Birds of a Feather, Just Good Friends and Mind Your Language rotate through daytime and early evening on a near-constant loop. Little of it is programmed thematically; it’s more a case of familiar half-hours filling the hours between the shopping strands and the evening’s bigger titles.

Crime and drama reruns

Minder anchors a good chunk of the drama slots, Arthur Daley’s dealings running well into the late evening most nights, while When the Boat Comes In brings a heavier period drama into the daytime mix. Shameless and Benidorm, both considerably younger than the rest of the schedule, sit in the 9pm and 10pm slots as the night’s closest thing to must-watch television.

Music and variety nostalgia

That’s 60s – Best Music Live! turns up several times a day as a short strand of archive performance footage, a hangover from when the network ran a dedicated decades-themed music channel. Compilation specials like Ronnie Barker: The Very Best Of do similar work, mixing sketch comedy and clips in a format that hasn’t really survived anywhere else on British television.

Teleshopping

Between roughly 5am and 8am the schedule hands over to teleshopping, selling everything from mattresses to garden multitools. It’s how a channel with no subscription income and modest advertising rates keeps the lights on outside peak hours.

How to watch That’s TV

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find That’s TV across the main UK platforms:

That’s TV is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Virgin Media’s number shifts more often than the others, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if it doesn’t match.

Streaming online

Unlike Channel 4 or ITV, That’s TV doesn’t run its own catch-up app or live-stream player. The channel is designed to be watched the traditional way, through a Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media or Freesat box or smart TV. If you have a Freeview Play-enabled television, its built-in guide will find and tune the channel for you without any extra setup.

That’s TV regional and sister channels

That’s TV is owned and operated by That’s Media, the broadcaster founded and run by chief executive Daniel Cass. Alongside the national That’s TV channel, the company holds around 20 local television licences awarded under Ofcom’s Local Digital Television Programme, running services such as That’s Manchester, That’s Solent and That’s Glasgow. Each opts out for local news and community programming at points in the day but otherwise simulcasts the national That’s TV schedule, and each sits on Freeview channel 7 or 8 rather than the national channel 56.

That’s TV 2, on Freeview 65, runs a companion schedule from the same archive, and the wider group has experimented over the past couple of years with decade-themed spin-off channels covering the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. Several of those niche music strands were folded back into the main channel or closed outright earlier in 2026 as the network consolidated around its core sitcom-and-drama offering, which is why the surviving music content now shows up as short strands, like tonight’s That’s 60s slot, rather than as standalone channels.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is That’s TV on Freeview?

Channel 56 nationally, or channel 80 in Greater Manchester. That’s TV 2 is on Freeview 65, and local opt-out versions sit on channel 7 or 8 depending on region.

What’s on That’s TV tonight?

Tonight, Tuesday 14 July 2026, the evening opens with a short music slot at 6pm before Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads take over. Minder settles into the 8pm hour, Benidorm follows at 9pm and Shameless at 9:55pm, with Man About the House and Mind Your Language closing out the night. See the schedule table above for the full day.

Is That’s TV free to watch?

Yes, entirely free on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. There’s advertising during programmes and teleshopping in the early hours, but no subscription fee anywhere.

Can I watch That’s TV online?

Not through a dedicated app of its own. You’ll need a Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media or Freesat connection, or a Freeview Play smart TV, since the channel doesn’t offer a standalone streaming service.

Verdict

That’s TV knows exactly what it is. It’s comfort viewing built on sitcoms most British viewers have seen a dozen times already, propped up by teleshopping in the small hours and the occasional burst of archive music. Nobody’s pretending this is prestige television.

Tonight’s line-up is a fair sample of what the channel does well. Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son and the Likely Lads into Minder make for comfortable, familiar viewing that asks nothing of you. Benidorm at 9pm is the pick of the night, its Madge-gone-missing plot giving the cast plenty to work with, and Shameless at 9:55pm keeps the standard up straight after it. Stick around past 11:30pm only if Mind Your Language’s dated humour doesn’t put you off first.

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