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

Published: 26 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. Thursday’s daytime runs the same shape as most weekdays here: an Abandoned Engineering double, a Bangers & Cash double and an Antiques Roadshow double at midday, and several of those episodes resurface later on. Secret Nazi Bases and The World at War repeat at 4pm and 5pm, the same Antiques Roadshow comes round again at 6pm, and the 2pm and 3pm Bangers & Cash episodes return at 10pm and 11pm. Primetime is where tonight earns its keep: David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds One Planet takes 7pm, then a genuinely new Bangers & Cash airs at 8pm with a new Dream Car Fixers straight after at 9pm. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Thursday 27 August 2026 (Full Listings)

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

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Thursday’s schedule opens just after midnight with Bangers & Cash, followed by Find It, Fix It, Flog It 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 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, 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 episode shown at noon, not a new one — ahead of an evening that opens with David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds One Planet, moves into a genuinely new Bangers & Cash and Dream Car Fixers double at 8pm and 9pm, and closes on a Bangers & Cash pair that repeats the afternoon’s 2pm and 3pm episodes.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Thursday 27 August 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

Worth flagging before anyone settles in: this isn’t a fresh instalment. Series 37, episode 11 is the same edition Yesterday showed at noon, so anyone who already caught the lunchtime broadcast has effectively seen the 6pm slot too.

Seven Worlds One Planet — Yesterday, 7pm

David Attenborough’s continent-by-continent survey lands on Antarctica for this outing, series 1, episode 1. It’s a genuine documentary hour before the motoring runs take over for the rest of the night.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 8pm

Series 14 gets an actual new episode here, the Mathewsons back at the Thornton-le-Dale saleroom. This is one of only two fresh hours in the whole evening.

Dream Car Fixers — Yesterday, 9pm

A new episode too, series 3, built around a Triumph Stag restoration. Paired with the 8pm Bangers & Cash, it’s the closest thing tonight has to appointment viewing for motoring fans.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm and 11pm

Neither of these is new. Both repeat episodes the channel already ran at 2pm and 3pm this afternoon, series 7 episodes 4 and 5, so anyone who watched the afternoon showing will recognise both hours immediately.

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 David Attenborough’s Seven Worlds One Planet at 7pm. A new Bangers & Cash airs at 8pm and a new Dream Car Fixers at 9pm, before the night closes with two more Bangers & Cash episodes at 10pm and 11pm that repeat the afternoon’s 2pm and 3pm instalments.

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 leans on that strength without overplaying its hand: a new Bangers & Cash at 8pm and a new Dream Car Fixers at 9pm give the evening real substance either side of Attenborough’s Seven Worlds One Planet at 7pm. The 6pm Antiques Roadshow is the same episode shown at midday, and the 10pm and 11pm Bangers & Cash instalments repeat the afternoon’s 2pm and 3pm episodes — worth knowing before settling in for what looks like four fresh hours of programming and isn’t.

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