Alfred Molina living on a yacht on the Costa del Sol, a young Robert De Niro in an early Brian De Palma comedy and one of cinema’s most famous exploding heads are all arriving on Freeview this November.
The headline addition is brand new: The Nicky Horne Jukebox, a music video show fronted by the veteran rock broadcaster. Around it, Rewind TV has a rarely seen wartime drama, a crime comedy set in the Spanish sun and two returning sitcoms.
After Hours, the channel’s late-night film strand, also adds 13 more titles, from cult horror to softcore erotica.
“November shows the full range of Rewind TV,” says co-founder Jonathan Moore. “We’re delighted to welcome Nicky Horne, whose knowledge and passion will make The Nicky Horne Jukebox much more than a collection of great videos.
“Alongside rarely seen drama, returning sitcom favourites and a bold new After-Hours line-up, it is a month full of television and film worth rediscovering.”
Where to Find Rewind TV
Since launching on Sky in May 2024 and expanding to Freeview that September, Rewind TV has become a reliable home for classic British programming that might otherwise stay locked in the archives.
Following its arrival on Freesat in June, it now reaches every major over-the-air free TV platform in the country.
You can find it on:
- Freeview Channel 81
- Sky Channel 182 (satellite only)
- Freely Channel 141 (aerial-connected version only)
- Freesat Channel 164
Streaming is still the gap. There’s no app, no catch-up and no true streamed channel. If you miss an episode, you miss it.
The Nicky Horne Jukebox
The Nicky Horne Jukebox starts November 2 at 9:00am, a rare Rewind TV arrival made for the channel rather than pulled from an archive.
Nicky Horne plays some of the best-known music videos ever made and tells the stories behind the songs, the artists and the images.
He has the CV for it. Horne was on BBC Radio 1 in the early 1970s, then joined Capital Radio’s original lineup, where he hosted Your Mother Wouldn’t Like It.
He interviewed John Lennon at his New York home in 1975, and later turned up on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 2 and Planet Rock.
Older viewers may also remember him from the 1980s, when he co-presented Channel 4’s American football coverage.
“There’s so much shared history that we have in that sound and vision, and I can’t wait to get on the air,” says Horne.
El C.I.D.
El C.I.D. starts November 2 at 12:00pm and 8:00pm, back on television after many years away.
John Bird and Alfred Molina play Douglas Bromley and Bernard Blake, two Scotland Yard men who swap Britain for Spain. They make a luxury yacht called El C.I.D. their home on the Costa del Sol, then find the local criminal underworld keeps them busy.
It was created by Chris Kelly and Iain Roy, and ran on ITV for three series between 1990 and 1992, made by Granada.
Molina left before the third series. Amanda Redman joined as Bromley’s daughter Rosie, giving Bird a new partner for the final run.
Jimmy McGovern wrote episodes for the first two series, a few years before Cracker.
Watching
Watching starts November 2 at 5:00pm, returning to Rewind TV for another run.
Emma Wray plays Brenda Wilson and Paul Bown plays Malcolm Stoneway, a badly matched couple who meet awkwardly in a Liverpool pub and spend the rest of the series breaking up and getting back together. Malcolm is a keen birdwatcher, which partly explains the title.
Liza Tarbuck plays Brenda’s sister Pamela. It was her first big television role, and she stayed for the whole run.
Written by Jim Hitchmough and made by Granada, it ran for seven series and four Christmas specials between 1987 and 1993.
Please Sir!
Please Sir! starts November 3 at 5:00pm, another return for a show the channel first aired in May 2025.
John Alderton plays Bernard Hedges, a newly qualified and idealistic teacher at Fenn Street Secondary Modern who is regularly outsmarted by the pupils of 5C. Deryck Guyler and Joan Sanderson are among the staff, and Sanderson later turned up as the hard-of-hearing Mrs Richards in Fawlty Towers.
It was written by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and ran on LWT from 1968 to 1972. A new class arrived at the start of the fourth series, and Alderton’s Hedges resigned just two episodes in.
The original pupils carried on in The Fenn Street Gang, which Rewind TV aired last December. That show in turn produced Bowler, which arrived on the channel only last month, so November completes the family tree.
We’ll Meet Again
We’ll Meet Again starts November 4 at 12:00pm and 8:00pm, and it has rarely been seen on British television in recent decades.
The drama is set in a fictional East Anglian village during the Second World War, where the arrival of American airmen shakes up a close-knit community.
Susannah York plays Dr Helen Dereham, whose husband is away fighting, and Michael J. Shannon plays Major Jim Kiley, commander of the nearby US air base. Their affair is at the centre of the series.
LWT made a single series of 13 episodes, shown on ITV between February and May 1982.
After Hours
After Hours keeps moving. It launched last autumn with British cult cinema of the 1960s and 70s, swung to American drive-in fare in July, and filled August with 1980s video-shop horror.
November’s 13 films range from John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and Brian De Palma to Playboy-produced period erotica and a sword-and-sorcery romp.
No broadcast dates or times have been announced. Expect the usual small-hours slots with warnings attached.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
A handful of police officers, prisoners and civilians are trapped inside an isolated, almost-closed police station while a street gang lays siege outside.
It was Carpenter’s second feature. He wanted to make a Howard Hawks-style western, and when the $100,000 budget ruled that out, he moved the basic set-up of Rio Bravo to a modern setting. He even took his editing credit as John T. Chance, John Wayne’s character in Rio Bravo.
Re-Animator (1985)
Stuart Gordon‘s cult horror loosely adapts an H.P. Lovecraft story, with Jeffrey Combs as medical student Herbert West, whose serum brings the dead back to life with very messy results.
Combs went on to play West twice more, in Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator.
Scanners (1981)
Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror pits telepaths with lethal powers against each other in a conspiracy of mind control and corporate scheming.
It’s best known for the scene in which a rival scanner’s head explodes. Less expected is the cast: Patrick McGoohan plays the scientist pulling the strings, a long way from Danger Man, which the channel aired in May.
Hi, Mom! (1970)
De Niro stars in De Palma’s anarchic black comedy as an aspiring filmmaker whose schemes drag him into voyeurism, radical theatre and urban chaos.
It’s a sequel of sorts to De Palma’s Greetings, with De Niro playing the same character, and both films came before Mean Streets made his name.
Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore record their final Derek and Clive album, Ad Nauseam, and the cameras catch every profane minute.
The British Board of Film Classification rejected it outright in 1980, and an attempt to release it straight to video ended with police impounding copies. It finally got an uncut 18 certificate in 1993.
It was directed by Russell Mulcahy, later of Highlander, who also made the video for The Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star, the first music video ever played on MTV. A neat link, given this month’s other new arrival.
Vampyros Lesbos (1971)
Jesús Franco‘s psychedelic cult film follows a young woman who falls under the spell of the mysterious Countess Carody.
The countess is played by Soledad Miranda, who was killed in a car accident in 1970, before the film was released. Its soundtrack found a new audience in the mid-1990s, when a compilation reached the top ten of the UK alternative charts, and one track turned up in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown.
Emmanuelle V (1987)
Emmanuelle heads into the world of film, fame and fantasy, with Monique Gabrielle as the first American actress to play her. Walerian Borowczyk directed.
Unlike Emmanuelle in Soho, which After Hours showed earlier this year and which only borrowed the name, this one is an official entry in the French series.
Black Venus (1983)
A woman from Martinique becomes a sculptor’s model and lover in 19th-century Paris, in a lavish erotic period drama directed by Claude Mulot.
The lead is Josephine Jacqueline Jones, a former Miss Bahamas. It was a Playboy production, written by Harry Alan Towers under a pseudonym and purportedly based on a Balzac story. Mandy Rice-Davies, of Profumo affair fame, is in the cast.
Lady Libertine (1984)
In 1880s England, a young aristocrat takes in an orphan called Frank, then discovers his guest is a woman in disguise.
Another Playboy production written by Towers, it was directed by Gérard Kikoïne and adapted from the Victorian novel Frank and I. Jennifer Inch plays Frank.
Ecstasy aka Love Scenes (1984)
Tiffany Bolling plays an acclaimed actress whose role in her director husband’s controversial new film starts to blur the line between screen passion and real desire.
Towers produced this one too, and Britt Ekland, Julie Newmar and Monique Gabrielle (again) are in the cast.
The Bikini Carwash Company (1992)
A struggling Los Angeles car wash gets a makeover when a group of women turn soap, sunshine and sex appeal into a booming business. A sequel, The Bikini Carwash Company II, followed in 1993.
Barbarian Queen (1985)
Lana Clarkson leads a band of warrior women on a rescue mission in this sword-and-sorcery cult favourite.
Roger Corman was executive producer, and it was the third of ten films Corman produced in Argentina during the 1980s.
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
Two prisoners escape into deep space, only to land on a remote planet where a sadistic hunter makes them his next quarry.
If the plot sounds familiar, it’s a loose reworking of The Most Dangerous Game, with added spaceships and very little costume budget.
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