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One of the best heist movies of the past 10 years is on TV tonight

Published 16:05 11 Aug 2026 BST

Updated 16:05 11 Aug 2026 BST

Stephen Porzio
One of the best heist movies of the past 10 years is on TV tonight

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Daniel Craig is one of the movie's leads.

The story follows Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), a divorced father in West Virginia who has just been laid off from his construction job in the tunnels underneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina. This was for failing to inform the manager about the leg injuries he sustained during his football career in high school.

"Complications arise when a mix-up forces the crew to pull off the heist during a popular NASCAR race while also trying to dodge a relentless FBI agent (Hilary Swank)," the plot synopsis adds.

Thanks to its effortlessly charming cast and Soderbergh's fun, zippy direction, the movie feels like a standalone sequel to the filmmaker's earlier heist trilogy. That said, because the heroes in Logan Lucky are ordinary, blue-collar people down-on-their-luck (the heist is referred to within the story as “Ocean's 7-Eleven"), you care even more about them, hoping they can pull off the impossible.

Logan Lucky is airing on TV tonight on Sky Comedy at 9pm. The movie is also available to stream on the service now.

Here are the other movies on TV tonight:

Missing - Film4 - 9pm

The stand-alone sequel to the hit screen-life thriller Searching.

The Rock - Comedy Central - 9pm

In this deliriously fun action flick, a former SAS captain (Sean Connery) and an FBI chemist (Nicolas Cage) team up to stop a rogue general (Ed Harris) from launching chemical weapons on Alcatraz Island into San Francisco.

The Last Stand - Legend - 9pm

Arnold Schwarzenegger leads this very fun 2013 action flick about a tough, small-town sheriff in the US who must stop a dangerous drug lord from escaping to Mexico in a modified sports car.

The Last Son - Legend Xtra - 9pm

Sam Worthington (the Avatar trilogy) stars in this Western as a murderous outlaw who learns he is cursed by a prophecy: one of his children will kill him.

To prevent this, he hunts down each of his estranged children, including his long-lost son (rapper Machine Gun Kelly).

Year of the Gun - Legend Xtra - 11.05pm

From the director of The Manchurian Candidate and Ronin, this thriller follows an American journalist (Andrew McCarthy) in Italy during the 1970s, a time of political and social turmoil for the country known as “the years of lead".

Jennifer’s Body - Film4 - 11.15pm

This cult classic horror comedy about a popular high school cheerleader (Megan Fox) who becomes possessed by a demon might be getting a sequel soon.

The Boys in the Boat - BBC One - 11.10pm

Holding a 96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, this George Clooney-directed sports drama is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany.

Kickboxer / Kickstarter: Retaliation - Legend - 11.10pm / 1.10am

A double bill of the martial arts franchise.