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

Published: 22 August 2026

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: Sunday 23 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Sunday 23 August 2026, on Freeview 56.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on That’s TV today

Sunday’s early hours pick up straight from Saturday night, with a repeat of Benidorm at 12:05am and Minder at 1am. A scattering of comedy and drama fills the rest of the small hours: Birds of a Feather at 2:05am, a single Man About the House at 2:25am, The Kenny Everett Video Show at 2:50am and the archive music strand That’s 60s – Best Music Live! at 3:20am. Two episodes of Nearest and Dearest carry the schedule to 5am, when Shop with Shop Unlimited’s teleshopping strand takes over in two blocks through to 8am, broken only by a short Kenny Everett Video Show repeat at 8am. From 8:25am the channel settles into a long stripped run: five episodes of Oh, Doctor Beeching! occupy the whole morning, from 8:25am to 11:25am.

Steptoe and Son then takes over for five episodes back to back, from 11:25am to 2:25pm, before five episodes of Rising Damp carry the afternoon from 2:25pm to 4:55pm. That’s when the evening’s main sitcom run begins: six episodes of Man About the House play in sequence from 4:55pm, three of them before 6pm and the rest continuing into primetime.

That’s TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the That’s TV primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 23 August 2026.

Man About the House — That’s TV, 6:20pm, 6:55pm and 7:20pm

The six-episode Man About the House run that started at 4:55pm plays out its final three instalments here. A row over an overcrowded flat brings the landlord round at 6:20pm, Robin ends up squaring off with a loud regular at the local at 6:55pm, and by 7:20pm his flatmates are fretting over Chrissy’s new, older boyfriend.

Minder — That’s TV, 7:55pm

Arthur spots a chance to make money from forged artwork after bumping into an old contact, while Terry picks up casual work minding a strip club. Dennis Waterman and George Cole lead, well into the show’s third series.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

Joyce turns on both Sam and Monty once she works out Monty has quietly signed Sammy to a rival deal after his run of flop shows at Neptunes. Without asking anyone first, Doreen fires off Pauline’s manuscript to a publisher, Sheron and Billy spend a day revisiting their old haunts, and Denis and Nigel keep finding reasons to put off arresting Lesley.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Ian lets himself be talked into standing in as Maxine’s boyfriend for a family occasion, and the arrangement digs up feelings that catch them both off guard. Back home, Mimi tries to keep Karen’s condition quiet after her return from hospital, while Jamie is left working out how to cope.

Man About the House — That’s TV, 11pm

The sitcom returns for one more episode: Chrissy is short of a partner for her office dance, so Robin gets roped into dance lessons from Mrs Roper.

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

The night closes with the language-school sitcom, as news that a classmate has been arrested for shoplifting leaves the rest of the group stunned.

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?

Three more episodes of Man About the House run from 6:20pm to 7:55pm, closing out a six-episode stretch that began at 4:55pm. Minder takes the 7:55pm slot, Benidorm follows at 9pm, Shameless at 9:55pm, a later Man About the House repeat airs at 11pm, and Mind Your Language closes the night 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. Sunday’s daytime keeps to the channel’s usual habit of stacking one sitcom across several hours in a row: five episodes of Oh, Doctor Beeching!, five of Steptoe and Son and five of Rising Damp all play out before the evening even starts, shows most British viewers have already seen several times over.

The evening follows the same pattern rather than breaking from it. Six episodes of Man About the House run from 4:55pm through to 7:55pm, three of them inside primetime, before handing over to the night’s strongest pairing: Benidorm into Shameless, where the material finally gets a bit sharper and more modern. A further Man About the House and a Mind Your Language repeat close out the night much as they do most others.

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