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

Published: 5 September 2026

That’s TV runs almost entirely on British television’s back catalogue: sitcoms from the 1970s and 1980s, a bit of crime 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, four back-to-back episodes of Man About the House run through early evening before Minder, then Benidorm into Shameless is the strongest pairing of the night. Full times for every programme are in the table below.

That’s TV Schedule: Sunday 6 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete That’s TV schedule for Sunday 6 September 2026, on Freeview 56.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on That’s TV today

Sunday opens with Benidorm just after midnight, then Minder, Birds of a Feather and Man About the House carry the small hours before The Kenny Everett Video Show and the archive clip strand That’s 60s – Best Music Live! drop in from around 2:50am. A Nearest and Dearest pair and The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard run into a teleshopping stretch from 6am — cruise holidays, then a folding mobility scooter, then cruise holidays again — which holds until Going Straight resumes the sitcoms at 8:25am.

From there it’s the channel’s usual stack of half-hour reruns with no particular theming: three runs of Going Straight into six of Are You Being Served? Again! carry the morning and early afternoon, then six episodes of Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em fill the rest of the afternoon through to just after 5pm. Man About the House takes over from 5:50pm, four episodes back to back running into the evening line-up below.

That’s TV tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the That’s TV primetime line-up for tonight, Sunday 6 September 2026.

Man About the House — That’s TV, 5:50pm–7:20pm (four episodes)

Four back-to-back episodes of the mid-1970s flatshare sitcom that later spun off Robin’s Nest: Richard O’Sullivan’s trainee chef sharing a flat with two women, and a landlord who assumes the worst about the arrangement. Nothing here is billed as a standout instalment; it runs exactly as the channel always strips it.

Minder — That’s TV, 7:55pm

George Cole’s Arthur Daley talking his way into trouble again, with Dennis Waterman’s Terry McCann left to mind the fallout. The show’s whole engine was always Arthur’s mouth outrunning his judgement.

Benidorm — That’s TV, 9pm

Derren Litten’s package-holiday sitcom, and the closest thing tonight’s schedule has to a genuinely beloved ensemble comedy. The Spanish-resort setting and an ever-expanding guest cast kept it on ITV for over a decade.

Shameless — That’s TV, 9:55pm

Paul Abbott’s Manchester estate comedy-drama, built around the chaotic Gallagher family. Sharper and considerably darker than anything else in tonight’s line-up.

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

A separate, later outing for the sitcom — a different episode airing on its own, not a continuation of the earlier 5:50pm run.

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

Closes the night: the late-1970s sitcom set in an English-language class for adult foreign students, now watched more as a period artefact of ITV comedy taste than for laughs that have aged well.

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, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, 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 on the crime and drama side, often turning up more than once in a day. Benidorm and Shameless, both decades younger than the rest of the schedule, 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?

Four back-to-back episodes of Man About the House run from 5:50pm to 7:20pm, then Minder takes the 7:55pm slot. Benidorm follows at 9pm and Shameless at 9:55pm, before a separate, later Man About the House airs alone at 10:55pm — a different episode, not a continuation of the earlier run. 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 afternoon is a straight run of 1970s and 1980s sitcom reruns with no particular theme: Going Straight and Are You Being Served? Again! through the morning, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em filling most of the afternoon.

The evening belongs to Man About the House, stripped four times back to back from 5:50pm, before Minder takes the 7:55pm slot. Benidorm at 9pm is the strongest patch of the night, with Shameless close behind at 9:55pm. A separate, later Man About the House gets its own showing at 10:55pm — a different episode from the earlier run, not a repeat of it — and Mind Your Language closes the night at 11:30pm.

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