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

Published: 23 August 2026

Yesterday is UKTV’s history and heritage channel, mixing archive documentaries, military history and natural history with a growing slate of classic motoring shows. BBC Studios has owned it outright through UKTV since 2019, and it’s free with no subscription required. Monday’s daytime works through an Abandoned Engineering double, a Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics pairing and an Antiques Roadshow double at midday, before several of those daytime episodes resurface in the evening: the same Antiques Roadshow airs again at 6pm and the afternoon’s two Bangers & Cash episodes return at 10pm and 11pm. The genuinely new material sits inside a run of four Canal Boat Diaries from 8pm, where Robbie Cumming sets off on a fresh cross-country trip covering roughly 170 miles of northern waterways. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Monday 24 August 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Monday 24 August 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Monday’s schedule opens just after midnight with an episode of Canal Boat Diaries, followed by Flipping Bangers at 1am and Abandoned Engineering at 2am, before just over three hours of teleshopping fill the small hours from 3am.

Two more episodes of Abandoned Engineering run from 6:10am, then Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics takes the 8am and 9am hours with a pair of episodes. Secret Nazi Bases and The World at War carry the schedule through mid-morning, taking it up to midday.

Antiques Roadshow settles in for a double from midday, visiting Derby’s Roundhouse, before Bangers & Cash repeats that same pairing structure in the early afternoon with two episodes from 2pm. Secret Nazi Bases and The World at War repeat themselves from 4pm, and by 6pm Antiques Roadshow is back on screen — the same Derby episode shown at noon, not a new one — ahead of the evening’s Canal Boat Diaries-led primetime.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Monday 24 August 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Antiques Roadshow returns to Derby’s Roundhouse at 6pm, but it’s worth knowing this is a straight repeat of the episode that aired at midday rather than a fresh valuation day. Same finds, same verdicts, second airing.

Blue Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

Blue Planet moves into the reef world at 7pm with Coral Seas, one of the strongest single hours in the original Attenborough-narrated series and a change of pace from the channel’s usual archive and motoring fare.

Four Canal Boat Diaries — Yesterday, 8pm to 10pm

Canal Boat Diaries takes over the whole 8pm hour and the one after it, four half-hour episodes back to back. Robbie Cumming starts with a stretch from Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham at 8pm, then at 8:30pm he sets off on a new run entirely — the opener of series 3, roughly 170 miles of northern canals starting out from Wigan and pushing on toward Burnley. The two episodes either side of 9pm carry that trip forward, from Barrowford to Bingley and then from Dowley Gap to Ferrybridge. Worth noting the 8:30pm slot is a series launch buried inside what otherwise looks like a single continuous block.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm and 11pm

Bangers & Cash closes the night at 10pm and 11pm, but neither is new: they’re the same two episodes shown at 2pm and 3pm this afternoon, a 1957 Ford 100E Estate and a Mk1 Escort in the first, then a Lea Francis built half from wood and a Morris one-tonne truck in the second. Good viewing if you missed the daytime slot, a rerun if you didn’t.

What kind of shows are on Yesterday

Classic motoring and Bangers & Cash

Motoring is the growth area, and it is essentially one family: the Mathewsons of Thornton-le-Dale. Bangers & Cash produced Restoring Classics, and the channel has built a wider strand around them with Flipping Bangers and Find It, Fix It, Flog It.

Military and social history

Archive war documentaries are what the channel was founded on. The World at War still anchors a run of conflict and social history titles pulled from decades of British broadcast archive.

Natural history and engineering

The rest is natural history and engineering: A Perfect Planet, plus Abandoned Engineering and Secrets of the London Underground, which are really infrastructure documentaries wearing a history badge.

How to watch Yesterday

Channel numbers

Here’s where to find Yesterday across the main UK television platforms:

Yesterday is free on all of the above platforms, with no subscription required. Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat channel numbers can vary slightly by region and box, so your on-screen guide is the definitive source if these don’t match.

Streaming online

Yesterday streams live and free on u.co.uk and via the U app on smart TVs, iOS, Android and most streaming boxes. U is UKTV’s streaming service, formerly known as UKTV Play, and it’s free to sign up for. Most Yesterday shows are also available to catch up on demand once they’ve broadcast, though older archive series can come and go from the library.

Yesterday +1 and sister channels

Yesterday +1 runs the main schedule exactly an hour behind, on Freeview channel 26. Miss the start of a Bangers & Cash episode on the main channel and +1 lets you pick it up from close to the beginning an hour later instead.

Yesterday sits within the wider UKTV stable alongside Dave, Drama, Really and Alibi. If you enjoy Yesterday’s history and documentary output, Dave carries more panel shows and sitcoms, while Really leans towards true crime and paranormal programming.

Frequently asked questions

What channel is Yesterday on?

Freeview 27, Sky 155, Virgin Media 129 and Freesat 155. Yesterday +1 is on Freeview 26. All are free to watch.

What’s on Yesterday tonight?

Antiques Roadshow repeats at 6pm, the same episode shown at noon, followed by Blue Planet’s Coral Seas at 7pm. Four Canal Boat Diaries episodes run from 8pm to 10pm, including the start of a new series, then Bangers & Cash closes the night at 10pm and 11pm with the same two episodes that aired at 2pm and 3pm.

Is Yesterday free to watch?

Yes, on every major UK platform, with advertising breaks but no subscription fee.

Can I watch Yesterday online for free?

Yes, live and on demand via u.co.uk and the U app, UKTV’s free streaming service.

Verdict

Pound for pound, Yesterday remains one of the better-value channels on Freeview. The archive documentaries that built its reputation are still on air, and Bangers & Cash has grown into the channel’s biggest draw since it began in 2019.

Tonight is more repeat-heavy than most: the 6pm Antiques Roadshow is the same episode shown at midday, and the 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash instalments are the same two episodes that aired at 2pm and 3pm. The genuine new ground is tucked inside the Canal Boat Diaries run, where Robbie Cumming sets off at 8:30pm on a fresh trip covering around 170 miles of canals through the north of England. It rewards anyone who missed the daytime showings more than regulars looking for something they haven’t seen already.

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