GREAT! Action [UK] TV guide for the week

Today’s and upcoming schedule: airtimes, programme details, and quick date selection.

GREAT! Action [UK]

TV guide for 1 August

  1. Good News on GREAT! Extra

    An uplifting round-up of good news stories from the UK and around the world.

  2. The High Chaparral

    Mysterious events start occurring on the ranch putting the ranch hands in danger.

  3. Bad Man's River

    Comedy western with Lee Van Cleef and James Mason. It's a wild ride of bank robbing, wife swapping and double crossing as two rivals team up to steal a million bucks from the government.

  4. Angel and the Badman

    Western with Audie Murphy. Apaches are on the warpath and only a shipment of guns can protect the threatened settlers. Can US army captain Coburn stop the rifles falling into the wrong hands.

  5. A Time for Killing

    Civil War drama with Inger Stevens, Glenn Ford and Harrison Ford. Peace has been declared, but when Confederate POWs escape and kidnap a Union major's fiancée, the killing is far from over.

  6. This Week Back Then

    How news bulletins used to look. The GREAT! network takes you back in time, remembering stories from this week back then.

  7. A Time for Killing

    Civil War drama with Inger Stevens, Glenn Ford and Harrison Ford. Peace has been declared, but when Confederate POWs escape and kidnap a Union major's fiancée, the killing is far from over.

  8. The Charge of The Light Brigade

    Epic war satire with Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud. There's bugling and bungling in 1850s Crimea as confusion and disorder send the British cavalry to an infamous fate.

  9. This Week Back Then

    How news bulletins used to look. The GREAT! network takes you back in time, remembering stories from this week back then.

  10. The Charge of The Light Brigade

    Epic war satire with Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud. There's bugling and bungling in 1850s Crimea as confusion and disorder send the British cavalry to an infamous fate.

  11. Sniper Elite

    Sci-fi action with Kevin Sorbo. Elite human soldiers faces down a deadly and powerful extraterrestrial army. Can one man trapped in enemy territory survive the whole armada.

  12. This Week Back Then

    How news bulletins used to look. The GREAT! network takes you back in time, remembering stories from this week back then.

  13. Sniper Elite

    Sci-fi action with Kevin Sorbo. Elite human soldiers faces down a deadly and powerful extraterrestrial army. Can one man trapped in enemy territory survive the whole armada.

  14. The Predator

    Alien action starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes and Olivia Munn. The universe's most lethal predators are back, deadlier than ever before - and hunting season is about to begin.

  15. Predator 2

    Bloodthirsty sci-fi sequel with Danny Glover and Gary Busey. It's 1997, and in the crime-ridden, urban jungle of LA, the ultimate extraterrestrial hunter is in town with a few days to kill.

About GREAT! Action

GREAT! Action [UK] is a British free-to-air film channel dedicated to action movies, war films, westerns and classic adventure stories. The channel began broadcasting on 10 September 2019 as Sony Movies Action and took the name GREAT! Action in 2021.

Before the rebrand, the service continued the direction of Movies4Men, where action films, war titles, westerns and genre series were central. The GREAT! Action schedule is built mainly around feature films, daytime and evening repeats, themed selections and short entertainment segments such as Soccer Bites and Movie News.

The channel is owned by Narrative Entertainment UK Limited and broadcasts in English. Its profile rests on action movies, adventure films, war stories, westerns, repeat screenings and evening blocks.

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