Top picks of what to watch on STV Player
What is STV Player?
STV is a free Scottish channel that broadcasts both to Scottish viewers via live TV and across the UK via the free On Demand app, STV Player. As well as being the home to ITV content in Scotland, such as Coronation Street, Emmerdale and The Masked Singer, STV Player also has an exclusive catalogue of unique content available On Demand from all around the world. In fact, they have over 5,000 hours of top telly to enjoy across the UK! Read on to find out the latest top picks...
What to watch on STV Player:
Celebrity Big Brother
Weeknights from 9pm from on STV
After six years away, a fresh line-up of celebrities give up their daily lives and luxuries to enter the iconic Big Brother House. No strangers to the camera, they'll spend three weeks living together, completing challenges and surviving eliminations to be crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 2024. Hosted by AJ Odudu and Will Best.
The Oscars®
STV, Sunday 10 March at 10:15pm
For the first time in nearly two decades, the Oscars® and the iconic red carpet are coming to UK homes for free exclusively STV and STV Player (ITV1 and ITVX in the rest of the UK). Jonathan Ross hosts the ultimate Oscars party, in celebration of the 96th Academy Awards, with famous guests and all the Hollywood glamour you could expect.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Available now on STV Player
This four-part drama is based on the true story of one of the most infamous and greatest miscarriages of justice in British Legal History, where thousands of Post Office sub postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a flawed accounting system. Toby Jones stars as Alan Bates – a sub postmaster who decided to fight back against a scandalous miscarriage to clear his name along with his colleagues.
After the Flood
Available now on STV Player
Sophie Rundle stars as PC Joanna Marshall is mystery-thriller After the Flood. When the body of an unidentified man is discovered in a lift following a devastating flood, police initially believe he became trapped as the waters rose. However, when it’s revealed that he was dead before that, PC Joanna Marshall becomes obsessed with discovering what happened to him.
The Girl from St Agnes
Available now on STV Player
Mystery meets drama in The Girl from St Agnes as dark secrets are revealed when Lexi Summerfeld (Jane de Wet) is found dead at an elite boarding school. As her teacher decides to investigate, it’s not long before Lexi’s enemies are revealed, and anyone could be a suspect.
Nolly
Available now on STV Player
Noele Gordon (or Nolly to her friends) was, at one point, one of the most famous people in Britain after starring as “flame-haired widow” Meg Mortimer in the long-running soap opera Crossroads from 1964. But in 1981 she is axed at the height of her fame, without warning. Helena Bonham Carter stars in this three-part biographical miniseries created by Russell T Davis, who is renowned for being producer and writer on Doctor Who and It's A Sin.
Trigger Point (Season 2)
Available now on STV Player
Trigger Point returns for a second season, in January as Vicky McClure (Line of Duty) stars as bomb disposal expert Lana Washington. After the tragic losses of her brother Billy and colleague Nut, Lana is yet to return to active duty. However, when an explosion near a power station reveals a looming terror threat to London, Lana feels compelled to rejoin the force. The question remains: is she truly prepared to step back into the job?
Passenger
Watch on STV from Sundays & Mondays starting Sunday, 24 March
Wunmi Mosaku (Loki), David Threlfall (Shameless) and Rowan Robinson (So Awkward) star in new dark comic thriller Passenger, landing on STV Player in February.
Written by debut screenwriter Andrew Buchan, who is best known for his acting roles on Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman and Better. Set in a small (fictional) Northern English Village, a close-knit community is sent spiralling into the unknown following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.
Under The Banner of Heaven
Coming soon in March
Jeb Pyre (Andrew Garfield) – a devout detective – has his faith tested while investigating a brutal murder seemingly connected to a revered Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Inspired by the true crime bestseller by Jon Krakauer, by the same name, and follows the events that led to the 1984 murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her baby daughter in a suburb in the Salt Lake Valley.
Breathtaking
Watch now on STV Player
Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt (Downtown Abbey, Sherwood and Liar) stars in Breathtaking – a drama based on the personal memoir of doctor-writer Rachel Clarke throughout one of the greatest public health crises in living memory.
Brookside
Available now on STV Player
Calling all Brookie fans! Week by week, you can watch the iconic Liverpool-based soap opera on STV Player with new episodes added every Wednesday.
Significant Other
Available now on STV Player
Starring Youssef Kerkour, Katherine Parkinson, Kelle Bryan, Mark Heap, Ben Bailey Smith and more big names, this romantic comedy follow a pair of lonely neighbours who are reluctantly brought together by shocking events.
Watch STV on Freesat channel 103 in Scotland or channel 119 for the rest of the UK, or to watch great telly whenever you want, head to the On Demand section on your Freesat box to watch STV’s fab programming on demand with the STV Player. Plus, find out what's on now with Freesat's TV Guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, both STV linear channels and the STV Player app are free to watch. While the linear channel is dependent on your region, you can watch STV Player or tune in online from across the UK so you don’t miss out.
STV Player is available as an app on most UK smart TVs and set top boxes, including Freesat, Freeview, Sky and more. If you have a Freesat TV box, simply go to the On Demand section and you’ll see the STV Player waiting for you. You’ll then be asked to sign in or create an account, and that’s pretty much it! Please note, your TV will need internet access to use STV Player.
Not at all! Although STV’s linear channel is only available to Scottish viewers, everyone across the UK has access to over 5000 hours worth of great drama boxsets via the STV Player app.
STV has exclusive Scottish rights to much of ITV’s content, which means if you’re in Scotland you’ll be watching I'm a Celeb on STV. That said, STV doesn’t only have ITV content to offer. As well as this amazing range of entertainment, STV Player also has an impressive selection of exclusive dramas and documentaries you won’t find anywhere else, such as the entire series of Brookside and Gracepoint.
Juanita Wyght
