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

Published: 7 September 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. Tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026, Antiques Roadshow opens the evening at 6pm, then the nature documentary Mammals takes 7pm before Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics at 8pm runs straight into three more Bangers & Cash episodes back to back from 9pm to midnight. Full breakdown below.

Yesterday Schedule: Tuesday 8 September 2026 (Full Listings)

Here is the complete Yesterday schedule for Tuesday 8 September 2026, on Freeview 27.

Overnight

Breakfast

Morning

Afternoon

Early evening

Primetime

Late night

What’s on Yesterday today

Overnight opens with Bangers & Cash at midnight, then Find It, Fix It, Flog It at 1am and The Architecture the Railways Built at 2am, before Teleshopping fills the schedule from 3am through to just after 6am.

The Architecture the Railways Built runs two more episodes back to back at 6:10am and 7:10am, then two Bangers & Cash episodes take 8am and 9am. Rise of the Nazis and The World at War carry the late morning, two Antiques Roadshow episodes fill midday and early afternoon, and two further Bangers & Cash episodes lead into a repeat of Rise of the Nazis and The World at War ahead of this evening’s line-up.

Yesterday tonight — primetime and the evening schedule

Here’s the Yesterday primetime line-up for tonight, Tuesday 8 September 2026.

Antiques Roadshow — Yesterday, 6pm

An older edition of the family valuation show, with the team set up at one of their regular touring venues and the usual mix of surprise attic finds and pieces people already suspected were worth something. Series 37 puts this several years before the current run, so some of the specialists on screen may since have moved on, but the format hasn’t changed in decades.

Mammals — Yesterday, 7pm

The second episode of David Attenborough’s 2024 landmark series, built around new low-light camera technology that let the crew film animal behaviour after dark for the first time. It’s a considerably bigger production than most of what surrounds it on Yesterday, a reminder that the channel occasionally reaches beyond pure nostalgia.

Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics — Yesterday, 8pm

The workshop-focused spin-off follows the Mathewson family’s restoration side of the business rather than the saleroom floor, with a fourth episode of series 7 tracking a car through the garage before it’s ready for auction. It’s slower and more technical than the main series, aimed at viewers who want to see the actual mechanical work rather than the bidding.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 9pm

A comparatively recent instalment, from series 14, opens the main run of the night with the Mathewsons back at their Thornton-le-Dale saleroom in North Yorkshire, buying, restoring and auctioning classic cars with their usual mix of family bickering and genuine expertise.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 10pm

An older episode from series 8 follows, several years earlier in the show’s run, before some of the newer additions to the family business had joined. Yesterday mixes recent and archive Bangers & Cash freely, so the jump backwards mid-evening is routine rather than a scheduling mistake.

Bangers & Cash — Yesterday, 11pm

The night closes with a second series 8 episode straight after the first, rounding off three hours of the same format drawn from three different points in the show’s run. It’s the kind of repeat-heavy scheduling that’s built Yesterday’s reputation as comfort viewing rather than appointment television.

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 opens the evening at 6pm, then Mammals airs at 7pm. Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics takes 8pm, and three more Bangers & Cash episodes close out the night back to back from 9pm to midnight.

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 hard into the channel’s biggest strength: Antiques Roadshow and Mammals share the early slots, then Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics at 8pm runs straight into three more Bangers & Cash episodes back to back from 9pm to midnight. It’s about as repeat-heavy as the schedule gets, but Bangers & Cash carries the night on its own popularity rather than feeling like padding.

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