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

Published: 23 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: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 56.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on That’s TV today

Monday’s early hours are a rerun of Sunday night’s line-up: Benidorm at 12:05am, Minder at 1am, Birds of a Feather at 2:05am and a single Man About the House at 2:25am, followed by The Kenny Everett Video Show at 2:50am and the That’s 60s archive clip strand at 3:15am. 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.

The daytime schedule is a straight run of single episodes rather than a stripped block. Rising Damp opens the morning at 8am with the classic sitcom’s own series finale, Rigsby’s divorce finally coming through and a badly judged choice of best man for his proposal to Miss Jones. Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em follows at 8:30am, then Never the Twain at 9:10am, On the Buses at 9:40am, Bread at 10:10am and Steptoe and Son at 10:50am. Oh, Doctor Beeching! takes the 11:30am slot before Rising Damp returns at 12:05pm with a different episode.

Afternoon programming runs Man About the House at 12:35pm, Goodnight Sweetheart at 1:05pm, a feature-length When the Boat Comes In at 1:40pm and Minder again at 2:45pm. Just Good Friends airs at 3:50pm, then Man About the House once more at 4:25pm and Bread at 4:55pm, a repeat of the same episode shown at 10:10am. Birds of a Feather closes out the pre-primetime run at 5:30pm, taking the schedule up to 6pm.

That’s TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the That’s TV primetime line-up for Monday 24 August 2026. On the surface it looks like a repeat of Sunday’s shape, the same run of sitcoms into Minder into Benidorm into Shameless at roughly the same times, but every episode tonight is different, and the six-episode Man About the House stretch that filled Sunday’s teatime has gone: the sitcom turns up four times across Monday instead, and only once after dark.

Birds of a Feather closes out the early evening at 5:30pm, Tracey rearranging the household to give Garth and Marcie some privacy while Sharon’s search for space in the loft turns up a discovery of its own. It runs to 6pm, when a five-minute archive clip-show slot bridges into the night’s run of sitcoms proper.

Rising Damp — That’s TV, 6:05pm

Alan has taken up with a girlfriend from a rather posher background and turns to Rigsby of all people for tips on fitting in, a decision that can only end badly.

Steptoe and Son — That’s TV, 6:40pm

Albert and Harold barricade themselves indoors rather than settle up with a butcher who has come demanding payment.

Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? — That’s TV, 7:15pm

Bob and Thelma get away from Terry at last, honeymooning in Norway, while Terry stays behind and gets to know Thelma’s sister Susan.

Minder — That’s TV, 7:55pm

A prisoner who has broken out of Chelmsford insists he was wrongly convicted, and Arthur spots a chance to cash in by shopping his story around Fleet Street. A different episode from the one ITV4 shows at 5:55pm the same evening.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

Monty is out of work once Joyce sacks him and has to weigh up going cap in hand to Sir Henry against whatever Mr Wu can offer instead. Loretta and Eddie are quietly plotting an anniversary party for Billy and Sheron, who seem to have plans of their own, while Kenneth surfaces in Blow & Go to find the builders have bricked him in overnight. A separate showing airs on ITV4 later in the evening.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Paddy’s romance with D’reen runs into trouble when Mimi leans on him for one more job, pitting the safety of his family against a relationship he doesn’t want to lose. Liam, meanwhile, can no longer dodge the money problems he’s been putting off.

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

Robin spins a story about a mouse loose in the flat to talk his way into spending the night in Chrissy’s room. This is the only Man About the House of the evening; the show also airs three times earlier in the day, at 2:25am, 12:35pm and 4:25pm.

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

The night ends with Jeremy being told his services are no longer wanted, closing out the classroom comedy on a downbeat note.

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

The archive clip strand billed as That’s 60s drops in several times a day, live performance footage from 1960s music shows and 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?

Birds of a Feather runs to 6pm, then Rising Damp at 6:05pm, Steptoe and Son at 6:40pm and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? at 7:15pm carry the early evening. Minder takes the 7:55pm slot, Benidorm follows at 9pm, Shameless at 9:55pm, Man About the House has its one primetime showing at 10:55pm, 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. Monday’s daytime is less repetitive than the channel can be: instead of stacking one sitcom across several hours, single episodes of Rising Damp, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Never the Twain, On the Buses, Bread and Steptoe and Son rotate through the morning, most of them shows most British viewers have already seen several times over.

The evening keeps its usual shape without repeating Sunday’s content. Sitcoms carry the early slots into Minder at 7:55pm, before handing over to the night’s strongest pairing, Benidorm into Shameless, where the material finally gets a bit sharper and more modern. Man About the House gets a single primetime outing at 10:55pm rather than the extended run it sometimes holds, and Mind Your Language closes out the night as it usually does.

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