Full CBeebies listings for Thursday 29 October 2026, with times in London local time.

CBeebies saves its best work for the last hour

See also: What's on tonight across all channels | Wednesday's TV guide

CBeebies runs 77 programmes on Thursday, most of them five or ten minutes long, so the useful question is when to put the telly on rather than what. The answer is the early evening wind-down. From 5.50pm it lines up Sarah & Duck, Clangers at 6pm and BeddyByes at 6.10pm, then gives In the Night Garden a full half-hour at 6.20pm with the Wake Up Igglepiggle episode. That is the pick: the longest single programme on the schedule and the one built for the end of the day.

Bedtime Stories follows at 6.50pm, with Natalie Dormer reading Love Monster and the Scary Something. It runs eight minutes and is a tidy full stop before the overnight This Is CBeebies strand takes over at 6.58pm.

Earlier in the day the pattern is repetition by design. Teletubbies, Bluey and Hey Duggee all come back several times, and Our Family is on twice. Something Special: We’re All Friends has two 25-minute slots, at 9.45am and 1.45pm, which makes it the best bet for a longer sit-down in the daytime. For everything else, the table below is the guide.


Also on TV tonight at 9pm

  • BBC One: The Celebrity Traitors (from 8pm)
  • BBC Two: Live: UEFA Women’s Champions League Football (from 7.30pm)
  • ITV1: Long Lost Family
  • Channel 4: Titanic: Building the World’s… (from 8pm)
  • Channel 5: The Yorkshire Vet (from 8pm)
  • BBC Four: The Guns of Navarone (from 8pm)
  • ITV2: Big Brother
  • ITV3: Vera (from 8pm)
  • ITV4: Benidorm
  • E4: Gogglebox

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a film on CBeebies tonight?

No. CBeebies has no films in its evening schedule on Thursday 29 October 2026.

What time does CBeebies’s evening start?

The evening schedule starts with Clangers at 6pm.