Everything worth watching on Friday 30 October 2026, across 30 channels.

Friday night belongs to the Celebrity Traitors finale

See also: Saturday's TV guide

BBC One has scheduled the finale of The Celebrity Traitors for 8pm, 80 minutes in the slot where everyone else is running Emmerdale, First Dates, The 1% Club and Doc Martin. It is the one programme tonight that has a result at the end of it, and it wins the evening without much of a fight.

What you give up at 8pm

The competition is respectable and entirely ordinary. Emmerdale is on ITV1 at 8, with Coronation Street at 8.30. First Dates opens series 15 on E4, and The 1% Club runs on ITV2. Egypt with Dan Snow, on Channel 5, is the best of the rest if you want something to learn from. Gardeners’ World on BBC Two is its usual self.

None of that is worth missing a finale for. The BBC’s own follow-up, The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked, lands at 9.20 as soon as the main show ends. That is the sensible way to spend the next half hour if you want to stay with it.

Nine o’clock is the contested hour

Once the finale is done, the evening opens up. Channel 4 has Gogglebox at 9, and ITV1 has Beat the Chasers. On ITV2 it is Live Eviction night on Big Brother. All three are happy to be background noise for people who have seen the finale and want to talk about it.

Film viewers have the real choice. Film4 has Memory at 9 with Liam Neeson and Guy Pearce, running 135 minutes. E4 has M3GAN, with Allison Williams and Violet McGraw. Legend has The Patriot, with Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger. Sky Arts has Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters, a 2024 film with Tim Burton, John Carpenter and Joe Dante. Memory is the longest and the most serious bet. M3GAN is the one to put on if you want 120 minutes and no commitment.

Late, and hiding

BBC Two puts Carrie on at 10, the 1976 film with Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie and William Katt, and it is the best thing on after the news. Against it, The Last Leg is live on Channel 4 and Dynamite from All Elite Wrestling is on ITV4. If you want a chat show instead, The Graham Norton Show starts at 10.40 on BBC One. ITV1 closes the night with Top Gun at 10.45, and Talking Pictures TV has Right Hand of the Devil, a 1963 picture, at the same time.

The short version

Watch the Celebrity Traitors finale at 8 on BBC One, stay for Uncloaked at 9.20, and keep Carrie on BBC Two at 10 for later.


What’s on tonight — Friday 30 October 2026

Time Channel Programme
19:00 4seven Grand Designs: South Herefordshire 2023
19:00 5Action Police Interceptors: Episode 9
19:00 5Star GPs: Behind Closed Doors: Episode 25
19:00 5USA NCIS: Engaged, Part 1
19:00 BBC One The One Show
19:00 BBC Two Newsnight
19:00 Blaze Dickinson’s Real Deal: Huddersfield 4
19:00 Channel 5 Our Great Yorkshire Life: Episode 8
19:00 E4 The Simpsons: Brother From Another Series
19:00 GREAT! Action Burn Notice: Friends Like These
19:00 GREAT! Movies Castle: Bad Santa
19:00 GREAT! Romance The Sweetest Christmas: Episode 2
19:00 GREAT! TV MAS*H: Germ Warfare
19:00 ITV2 Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles: Claire and Leon
19:00 Legend Babylon 5: And All My Dreams Torn Asunder
19:00 Really The Yorkshire Auction House: He Shoots, He Scores
19:00 Sky Arts Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The 31st of February
19:00 BBC Four Top of the Pops
19:00 Channel 4 Channel 4 News
19:00 Dave Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone…
19:00 Quest Antiques Road Trip
19:00 Yesterday The Tropic of Capricorn with Simon Reeve
19:20 Drama Last Of The Summer Wine
19:20 That’s TV Likely Lads: Whatever Happened?
19:25 ITV2 Deal or No Deal: Banker’s Best Battles: James and Jack
19:28 BBC Two BBC Weather
19:30 BBC One Have I Got News for You: Episode 5
19:30 BBC Two Landward: Episode 20
19:30 E4 Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Johnny and Dora
19:30 GREAT! TV MAS*H: Dear Dad
19:30 BBC Four Top of the Pops
19:30 ITV1 It’ll Be Alright on the Night
19:45 4seven The Great British Bake Off: Pastry Week
19:55 More4 The Dog House: Episode 5
19:55 That’s TV Minder
20:00 5Action Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders: Episode 5
20:00 5Star Casualty 24/7: Every Second Counts: Episode 1
20:00 5USA NCIS: Engaged
20:00 BBC One The Celebrity Traitors: Finale
20:00 BBC Two Gardeners’ World: Episode 31
20:00 Blaze Dickinson’s Real Deal: Wood Green 1
20:00 Channel 5 Egypt with Dan Snow: Episode 2
20:00 E4 First Dates: Episode 1
20:00 GREAT! Action Burn Notice: Long Way Back
20:00 GREAT! Movies Unforgettable: All In
20:00 GREAT! Romance Christmas in the Ballroom: Episode 1
20:00 GREAT! TV MAS*H: Edwina
20:00 ITV2 The 1% Club: Episode 15
20:00 ITV3 Doc Martin: Haemophobia
20:00 Legend Walker, Texas Ranger: Full Contact
20:00 Really Antiques Road Trip: Natasha Raskin Sharp and Raj Bisram, Day 5
20:00 Sky Arts Guy Garvey: From the Vaults: Britpop
20:00 Talking Pictures TV Public Eye: The Trouble with Jenny
20:00 BBC Four Top of the Pops
20:00 Channel 4 George Clarke’s Building Home
20:00 Drama Miss Marple
20:00 ITV1 Emmerdale
20:00 Quest The Yorkshire Auction House
20:00 Yesterday Canal Boat Diaries
20:20 Dave Would I Lie To You?
20:30 GREAT! TV MAS*H: Love Story
20:30 BBC Four Top of the Pops
20:30 ITV1 Coronation Street
20:55 GREAT! Romance Good News from GREAT!
21:00 4seven 24 Hours in A&E: Episode 1
21:00 5Action For a Few Dollars More: Episode 1
21:00 5Star 999 Critical Condition: Episode 4
21:00 5USA Beauty and the Beast: The Beast of Wall Street
21:00 BBC Two Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez: Tutankhamun’s Secrets
21:00 Blaze My Strange Arrest: Mr. Funk’s Wild Ride
21:00 Channel 5 Harrods: The Rise & Fall of a British Institution
21:00 E4 M3GAN
21:00 Film4 Memory
21:00 GREAT! Action Kiss of the Dragon: Episode 1
21:00 GREAT! Movies Reef Break: The Hohenzollern Collection
21:00 GREAT! Romance Christmas in the Ballroom: Episode 2
21:00 GREAT! TV Master Gardener: Episode 1
21:00 ITV2 Big Brother: Live Eviction
21:00 ITV3 Doc Martin: Old Dogs
21:00 Legend The Patriot
21:00 More4 Coastal Unit: Episode 7
21:00 Really My Feet Are Killing Me: Trouble With Toes
21:00 Sky Arts Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
21:00 Talking Pictures TV Cellar Club with Caroline Munro: Intro – Cellar Club Live (First Water Rats)
21:00 Channel 4 New: Gogglebox
21:00 Dave Guy Martin: Proper Jobs
21:00 ITV1 Beat the Chasers
21:00 Quest The Repair Shop
21:00 That’s TV Benidorm
21:00 Yesterday Canal Boat Diaries
21:05 Talking Pictures TV Cellar Club with Caroline Munro: Cellar Club Live (Water Rats)
21:10 BBC Four Top of the Pops
21:20 BBC One The Celebrity Traitors: Uncloaked: Finale
21:30 Blaze My Strange Arrest: Sweet Tea Pleasure
21:40 BBC Four Disco at the BBC
21:50 GREAT! Romance Our Christmas Love Song: Episode 1
21:52 GREAT! TV Good News from GREAT!
21:55 That’s TV Shameless Finale
21:56 GREAT! Action This Week Back Then
21:57 GREAT! TV Master Gardener: Episode 2
22:00 4seven 999: On the Front Line: Episode 4
22:00 5Action Entertainment News On 5: Episode 220
22:00 5Star A&E After Dark: Episode 4
22:00 5USA Beauty and the Beast: Primal Fear
22:00 BBC One BBC News at Ten
22:00 BBC Two Carrie
22:00 Blaze What on Earth?: Riddle in the Ruins
22:00 Channel 5 Alan Carr: My Best Bits & More
22:00 GREAT! Movies Reef Break: Blue Skies
22:00 ITV3 Downton Abbey: Episode 6
22:00 ITV4 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
22:00 Really My Feet Are Killing Me: Alligator Feet
22:00 Channel 4 Live: The Last Leg
22:00 Dave Have I Got A Bit More News For You?
22:00 Drama New Tricks
22:00 ITV1 ITV News at Ten
22:00 Quest The Repair Shop
22:00 Yesterday Bangers & Cash
22:01 GREAT! Action Kiss of the Dragon: Episode 2
22:05 5Action For a Few Dollars More: Episode 2
22:15 More4 24 Hours in A&E: Episode 5
22:30 BBC One BBC London
22:30 ITV1 ITV News London
22:35 ITV2 Family Guy: Peternormal Activity
22:40 BBC One The Graham Norton Show: Episode 6
22:40 Talking Pictures TV Cellar Club with Caroline Munro: Outro Week 171
22:40 BBC Four Studio 54
22:45 GREAT! Romance Good News from GREAT!
22:45 Talking Pictures TV Right Hand of the Devil
22:45 ITV1 Top Gun
22:50 GREAT! Romance Our Christmas Love Song: Episode 2
22:55 Sky Arts Dickens: Phantoms and Fiction