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

That’s TV runs almost entirely on British television’s back catalogue: sitcoms from the 1970s and 1980s, a bit of period drama, archive music clips, and a long teleshopping stretch before breakfast. It’s free to air on Freeview, Sky, Freesat and Virgin Media, with no subscription and no app of its own. Tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026, Shameless and Mind Your Language both settle into a second episode of their new runs, while Minder, Benidorm and Man About the House move on again too, in a weekday daytime built around single half-hour slots rather than the marathon blocks that fill the schedule at weekends.

That’s TV Schedule: Tuesday 4 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Tuesday 4 August 2026, on Freeview 56.

What’s on That’s TV today

Weekdays on That’s TV drop the weekend’s marathon blocks for a single-episode rhythm, one show an hour rather than five or six episodes of the same title stacked together. Rising Damp opens the day at 8:05am with series 2’s “Things That Go Bump in the Night”, before the schedule works through Duty Free, Never the Twain, On the Buses, Bread, Steptoe and Son and Oh, Doctor Beeching! in single episodes through the morning.

The afternoon brings Goodnight Sweetheart at 1:05pm, When the Boat Comes In’s “Bright Young Things” at 1:45pm, Minder’s “Sorry Pal, Wrong Number” at 2:45pm, Just Good Friends at 3:50pm and a second Man About the House episode at 4:25pm, before Birds of a Feather closes out the run at 5:30pm.

That’s TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the That’s TV primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 4 August 2026.

Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — That’s TV, 6:10pm

Three different sitcoms share the run-up to eight o’clock: Rising Damp’s “Stand Up and Be Counted” (series 1, episode 7), Steptoe and Son’s “Sixty-Five Today” (series 2, episode 4), then Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? with “The Shape of Things to Come” (series 2, episode 13). None of the three connect to each other; it’s simply the channel’s habit of switching shows every thirty to forty minutes through early evening.

Minder — That’s TV, 8pm

Series 1, episode 8, “Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away”. Arthur Daley and Terry McCann move on an episode from Monday, an hour later than the previous night’s slot.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

Series 8, episode 4. The Solana Resort sitcom holds its usual slot for a fourth night running.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Series 6, episode 2. The Gallagher household’s second episode of the new run, a night after series 6 opened.

Man About The House — That’s TV, 10:55pm

Series 6, episode 4, “The Sunshine Boys”. One episode on from Monday, the flat-share sitcom working through the closing stretch of its sixth run.

Mind Your Language — That’s TV, 11:25pm

Series 2, episode 2, “Queen for a Day”. Mr Brown’s evening class carries on into its second episode of the new series, ten minutes earlier than Monday’s slot.

What kind of shows are on That’s TV

Sitcoms from the 1970s and 1980s

This is the bulk of the channel. Rising Damp, Steptoe and Son, Man About the House, Bread, Birds of a Feather, Just Good Friends and Mind Your Language cycle through daytime and early evening on a near-constant loop. There’s no theming to speak of: they’re familiar half-hours filling the space between the shopping strands and whatever the channel has lined up for the evening.

Crime and drama reruns

Minder does most of the heavy lifting, often twice in a day, while When the Boat Comes In supplies the one genuinely serious hour in the daytime. Benidorm and Shameless, both decades younger than the rest of it, hold primetime.

Music and variety nostalgia

That’s 60s – Best Music Live! drops in several times a day as a filler strand of archive performance footage, a leftover from when the group ran full decade-themed music channels. Longer compilations such as Ronnie Barker: The Very Best Of turn up as one-off hours.

Teleshopping

Roughly 5am to 8am, given over to mattresses and garden multitools. A free channel with no subscription income has to fill the small hours with something that pays for itself.

How to watch That’s TV

Channel numbers

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

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

There’s no That’s TV app, no catch-up service and no live stream of its own, which puts it a long way behind Channel 4 or ITV. You watch it as it goes out, through a Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media or Freesat box or smart TV. A Freeview Play-enabled television will find and tune the channel for you with no extra setup.

That’s TV regional and sister channels

That’s TV belongs to That’s Media, whose chief executive, Daniel Cass, built the group out of local television licences: around 20 of them, awarded under Ofcom’s Local Digital Television Programme. That’s Manchester, That’s Solent and That’s Glasgow all opt out for local news and community programming for part of the day, then simulcast the national schedule for the rest.

That’s TV 2 works the same archive on a separate schedule. The group also tried standalone channels themed to the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s; several were folded back into the main service or closed outright earlier in 2026, which is why the 60s music show now appears as a filler strand rather than a channel in its own right.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is That’s TV on Freeview?

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

What’s on That’s TV tonight?

Shameless continues series 6 with its second episode at 9:55pm and Mind Your Language continues series 2 at 11:25pm, both a night on from Monday’s series openers. Minder, Benidorm and Man About the House all move on an episode either side of them, at 8pm, 9pm and 10:55pm respectively. The table above has the full day.

Is That’s TV free to watch?

Yes, on every platform that carries it. Ad breaks during programmes and teleshopping before breakfast are how it pays for itself.

Verdict

That’s TV is comfort viewing and makes no pretence otherwise. Tuesday’s single-episode daytime rhythm, one show an hour rather than the weekend’s marathon blocks, is still built almost entirely on sitcoms British viewers have seen several times already, in some cases before they owned a colour set.

Tonight’s point of interest is two series settling into their new runs: Shameless reaches episode 2 of series 6 at 9:55pm and Mind Your Language reaches episode 2 of series 2 at 11:25pm, both a night removed from Monday’s openers. Benidorm and Man About the House continue mid-series, one episode further on than Monday, while Minder works through a first series still some way from its more celebrated later years.

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