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’s strongest pairing, Benidorm into Shameless, arrives once the early evening sitcoms have cleared. Full times for every programme are in the table below.

That’s TV Schedule: Monday 10 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Monday 10 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. The teleshopping strand Shop with Shop Unlimited holds the channel from 5am to 8am, then the sitcoms take over: Never the Twain at 9:05am, Steptoe and Son at 10:45am and Oh, Doctor Beeching! at 11:25am carry the morning through to lunchtime.

Rising Damp opens the afternoon with Seymour trying to con Rigsby out of his savings. Man About the House, Goodnight Sweetheart, When the Boat Comes In and Minder fill the two hours after that, then Just Good Friends and a repeat of Man About the House lead into Bread, which closes out the daytime run.

That’s TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the That’s TV primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 10 August 2026.

Steptoe and Son — That’s TV, 6:50pm

Harold decides his father belongs in a nursing home and sets about proving it, while Albert digs in and refuses to budge. Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell do what they always did best: turn a small domestic standoff into something close to tragedy.

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

Terry lets Bob talk him into revisiting their old stomping ground, only to find developers have flattened most of it. Settling back into life at home turns out harder than he expected, and a job interview goes just as badly. James Bolam plays Bob opposite Rodney Bewes as Terry.

Minder — That’s TV, 7:55pm

A card sharp needs somewhere to stash a group who can help him beat the tables, and Arthur offers up Terry’s flat without checking with Terry first. Anthony Valentine guests, and there’s an early screen appearance from Lesley Joseph, years before Birds of a Feather.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

Joyce turns to Lesley when the hotel’s meat supplier lets her down, Sam puts Joey and Tiger to work drumming up trade for a local bar, and Jodie is called back to the UK for an advert audition that turns into a family outing. Troy’s sudden interest in Kenneth and Liam’s salon has more to do with Jacqueline’s arrival than anyone lets on. The episode repeats in the early hours once Mind Your Language closes the night.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Paddy comes home trying to hide a heroin habit from the rest of the family, while Frank’s unexpected inheritance of a house has the Gallaghers dreaming of a life away from Chatsworth. Kelly and Shane run a hotel con on unsuspecting men after she walks out of Lillian’s brothel, and it goes wrong quickly. Jamie, meanwhile, does his best to wreck Karen’s wedding plans.

Man About the House — That’s TV, 11pm

Chrissy starts to doubt whether she’s still desirable after Robin fails to notice her, and spends the episode fishing for a compliment he’s too slow to give.

Mind Your Language — That’s TV, 11:30pm

The night closes with the language-school sitcom, still remembered for Barry Evans as the harried teacher trying to keep control of a classroom built on broad national stereotypes. It’s one of the older titles in the schedule, first broadcast in the 1970s.

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?

Steptoe and Son opens the evening at 6:50pm, followed by Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? at 7:20pm and Minder at 7:55pm. Benidorm takes the 9pm slot, Shameless follows at 9:55pm, and the night closes with Man About the House at 11pm and Mind Your Language at 11:30pm. 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. Monday’s daytime keeps to a single-episode rhythm, one show an hour instead of the marathon blocks that fill weekends, built almost entirely on sitcoms British viewers have already seen several times, in some cases before they owned a colour set.

Tonight’s evening run is stronger than most. Steptoe and Son and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? back to back from 6:50pm are two of the best-written sitcoms in the channel’s library, and Benidorm at 9pm into Shameless at 9:55pm gives the night a proper primetime pairing. Benidorm’s repeat after midnight, once Mind Your Language has closed the schedule, is the one genuine oddity in an otherwise straightforward Monday.

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