Full 5USA listings for Saturday 31 October 2026, with times in London local time.

5usa has decided Saturday belongs to NCIS: Los Angeles

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5usa is giving over most of Saturday 31 October to one show. NCIS: Los Angeles runs from 9.25am to 10pm with only a Blue Bloods block interrupting it, and the evening is three consecutive episodes of series 8 at 7, 8 and 9pm. Nobody here is trying to surprise you.

That is not a criticism. It is a schedule built for the viewer who wants to sit down at seven and not think again until bedtime. The run goes Under Siege, Payback, Old Tricks, episodes 14 to 16, and it picks up from Hot Water at six. The show ran for 14 series and 323 episodes, with Chris O’Donnell, LL Cool J, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen and Linda Hunt in the cast, so there is plenty left in the library. It also airs twice today, in the morning and afternoon strand and again in the evening, and has turned up on four days in the window, so anyone who has been dipping in this week will know where they are.

The competition is thin on the same ground. At 7pm A Place in the Sun on 4seven and a Western on 5action are the nearest rivals, and neither is trying to be a procedural. If you want crime, 5usa is the most direct route, and I would say Under Siege at 7pm is the natural place to join, since you get three in a row from there.

The turn comes at 10pm, when Law & Order: Special Victims Unit takes over. Bad Blood at ten and Russian Love Poem at eleven are both from series 1, a long way back for a show that has run 28 series and 594 episodes. Mariska Hargitay and Richard Belzer lead the cast listed for it. It is a daily fixture on 5usa, so this is the channel’s late-night habit rather than a Halloween special, even if the date might suggest one.

Blue Bloods appears twice, in the late morning and early afternoon, and Cops sits at nine in the morning. The overnight hours are more Special Victims Unit, then teleshopping. All of it is in the table.


Also on TV tonight at 9pm

  • BBC One: Wisdom of the Crowd (from 8.30pm)
  • BBC Two: Live: Serie A Football (from 7.40pm)
  • ITV1: The Voice UK (from 8.30pm)
  • Channel 4: New: The F Ward
  • Channel 5: Britain’s Killer Hurricane of 1990 (from 7.45pm)
  • BBC Four: Miss Marple (from 8.30pm)
  • ITV2: Suicide Squad
  • ITV3: Midsomer Murders (from 8pm)
  • ITV4: Live: ITV Racing Live (from 8pm)
  • E4: Celebrity Gogglebox

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Frequently asked questions

What’s on 5USA tonight?

On Saturday 31 October 2026, 5USA shows NCIS: Los Angeles at 7pm, NCIS: Los Angeles at 8pm, NCIS: Los Angeles at 9pm and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at 10pm.

Is there a film on 5USA tonight?

No. 5USA has no films in its evening schedule on Saturday 31 October 2026.

What’s on 5USA late tonight?

After 11pm, 5USA has Law & Order: Special Victims Unit at 11pm.

What time does 5USA’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with NCIS: Los Angeles at 6pm.