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

Published: 24 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: Tuesday 25 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Tuesday 25 August 2026, on Freeview 56.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on That’s TV today

Tuesday’s small hours keep the same overall shape as any other night without repeating what came before: Benidorm opens at midnight, Minder follows at 1am, then a comedy run of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Man About the House and The Kenny Everett Video Show carries through to just past 3am. A That’s 60s clip strand and a second Nearest and Dearest double sit either side of 4am before Shop with Shop Unlimited’s teleshopping block takes over from 5am until 8am.

The daytime is a straight run of single episodes rather than one sitcom stripped across the morning. Rising Damp opens at 8am, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em follows at 8:30am, then You Rang, M’Lord? at 9:10am, Bread at 10:10am, Steptoe and Son at 10:45am and Oh, Doctor Beeching! at 11:25am. Rising Damp gets a second, different episode at midday.

The afternoon runs Man About the House again at 12:35pm, Goodnight Sweetheart at 1:05pm, a feature-length When the Boat Comes In from 1:40pm and Minder’s second showing of the day at 2:45pm. Just Good Friends airs at 3:50pm, Man About the House for a third time at 4:25pm, Bread again at 4:55pm, and Birds of a Feather closes out the pre-primetime 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 25 August 2026. The evening keeps almost exactly the same shape and slots as last night, but every episode has moved on.

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

A five-minute burst of archive 1960s music-show clips ahead of the sitcom run.

Rising Damp — That’s TV, 6:05pm

Leonard Rossiter’s Rigsby holds court over his crumbling boarding house, still trying to keep tabs on his tenants’ comings and goings.

Steptoe and Son — That’s TV, 6:40pm

Father and son, one rag-and-bone cart and an argument that’s been running for decades — Harold’s latest scheme to get out from under Albert never quite lands.

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

Bob and Terry pick up their old double act, one of them still restless and the other trying to settle down, in the sequel that outlived the original.

Minder — That’s TV, 7:55pm

Arthur Daley has another dodgy proposition lined up, which means Terry McCann is the one left sorting out the fallout on the ground.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

This is the closing episode of the run: an airport strike leaves the Solana’s guests going nowhere, so the Garveys and the rest of the regulars are stuck making do with each other for a while longer. After nine seasons and more of Mel and Kenneth’s chaos than any hotel deserves, it’s the sendoff for this particular batch of episodes.

Shameless — That’s TV, 10pm

The slot has moved up an hour from last night’s showing. Frank drifts back into Libby’s orbit as she tries to patch things up with him, which on the Chatsworth estate rarely stays a private matter for long.

Man About the House — That’s TV, 11pm

Its only primetime outing of the day: Chrissy finds out she’s picked up an admirer, to Robin and Jo’s amusement.

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

The night closes with the language-school sitcom’s usual exam-based scheme, the class deciding collectively that cheating beats revising.

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 — the last episode of its run — follows at 9pm, Shameless has moved up to 10pm, Man About the House has its one primetime showing 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. Tuesday’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, You Rang M’Lord?, 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 last night’s content. Sitcoms carry the early slots into Minder at 7:55pm, before handing over to the night’s biggest moment, Benidorm’s closing episode, followed by Shameless, which has shuffled forward an hour to 10pm. Man About the House gets a single primetime outing, now at 11pm rather than 10:55pm, and Mind Your Language closes out the night as it usually does.

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