| What's on Now & Next (2026-09-12) | |||
| RTE One
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14:00 | Racing from Leopardstown | Jane Mangan is joined by Emmet McNamara and Lisa O'Neill for live coverage of day one of the Irish Champions Festival. With commentary from Richard Pugh |
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| 17:45 | Nuacht | The latest news headlines | |
| RTE2
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13:30 | Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby | Giles Coren and Monica Galetti visit a hotel in South Africa that has been built into a 187-foot tall former grain silo and which also incorporates a museum of contemporary art. They are challenged to wash the building's 96 windows inside and out, and discover how staff have coped with the challenge of keeping the place clean in the wake of the worst drought to hit Cape Town in a century |
| 14:30 | Live Irish Open Golf | Hugh Cahill presents coverage of day three of the DP World Tour tournament staged at Trump International Golf Links Ireland in Doonbeg, County Clare. Rory McIlory , John Rahm, Luke Donald, Tyrrell Hatton, Pádraig Harrington and Shane Lowry were among some of the star names to have entered this year's tournament and will hope to have made the cut and put themselves in contention to be crowned this year's champion. With analysis from Gary Murphy and John McHenry | |
| Virgin Media One
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13:40 | Force of Nature | Andrew Lincoln narrates a look at the stories of people who are dedicating their lives to helping animals cope with today's extreme weather. Featuring a scientist negotiating with palm oil plantations to allow Bornean elephants safe passage, and a team of Indian wildlife protection officers rescuing and relocating snow leopards |
| 14:55 | Tipping Point: Lucky Stars | Ben Shephard asks the questions as Anna Williamson, Amir Khan and Stuart Pearce answer questions to win turns on an arcade-style machine. Dropping tokens down a choice of four chutes, they hope to knock piles of them off a moving shelf - and the more they collect, the better their chances of collecting the £20,000 prize for their selected charity | |
| TG4
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13:45 | Domhan an Dúlra | The world of insects - little creatures emancipating themselves from their winter hiding places, while others craw, fly or weave |
| 14:45 | Ceol ón Chlann | Cara and Mary Dillon were born in Dungiven, Co Derry and were raised in a musical household. Mary began to sing at an early age and by her mid-teens had already won the All Ireland Singing Competition at Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann. She has released albums as a solo performer and as a member of the group Déanta. Cara Dillon is a prolific recording artist. She was awarded the Meteor Irish Music Award for Best Irish Female. Their nephew Odhrán Mullen is an acclaimed musician and producer in his own right, and works for Peter Gabriel's Real World Records in Bristol | |
| Virgin Media Two
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13:40 | Winning Combination | Omid Djalili hosts the quiz show in which contestants use their wits to get through to the final, where the combination of numbers they are assigned represents the amount of money they play for. Which of today's nine - Brett, Jamal, Nicky, Billy, Faye, Fadekemi, Karen, Lee and Chris - will be playing for the jackpot? |
| 14:40 | The Finish Line | Roman Kemp and Sarah Greene host the quiz in which Susan, Kier, Evelyn, Naseem and Bex race in moving podiums across the studio floor to try to win £5,000. The contenders battle across a series of fast-paced qualifiers and head-to-head races where the aim of the game is simple - to make it to the finish line before their rivals. The winner then races against the track itself in an attempt to win the cash prize | |
| Virgin Media Three
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14:00 | Emmerdale | Charity shocks Cain, while Nicola continues to struggle and Joe wrestles with grief |
| 14:30 | Soapy Slip-Ups | Emmerdale's stars including Lisa Riley, Lucy Pargeter, Mark Charnock, Roxy Shahidi, Dominic Brunt, Chris Bisson, Claire King and Amy Walsh share their funniest moments from filming the soap | |
| BBC One
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13:45 | The Gruffalo | Animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson's best-selling children's book. It tells the tale of a little mouse who takes a walk through the woods in search of a nut, only to encounter a fox, an owl and a snake who all want to eat him. To escape their clutches, the quick-witted rodent creates an imaginary monster to scare away his attackers - but it turns out to be all too real. Robbie Coltrane heads the voice cast as the Gruffalo, with James Corden as the Mouse and Rob Brydon, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson as the predators |
| 14:15 | The Gruffalo's Child | Animated adaptation of the sequel to Julia Donaldson's best-selling children's book, reuniting all the voice cast from the original. The Gruffalo has raised his daughter on tales of the big, bad mouse, the only creature in the forest he is frightened of. Despite her father's warnings, she sets off in search of this scary creature, along the way encountering the snake, owl and the fox. But when she still has no luck finding the evil rodent, she begins to think he does not exist after all. Robbie Coltrane, James Corden and Rob Brydon lend their voices, with Shirley Henderson as Gruffalo Jr | |
| Channel 4
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13:50 | Four in a Bed | At the Butterchurn Guesthouse in Otterburn, Northumberland, hosts Darren and Bobby are hoping to impress with their home-from-home B&B but a noisy night leaves the guests unhappy |
| 14:20 | Four in a Bed | Daniella and Angela host the second visit of the week, at their Hillside Hotel in Dunbar in East Lothian. All their guests coo over the view, but Darren feels he's been sold short by his attic room, and there's a chill in the air as the B&Bers take on a rope obstacle course across water | |
| E4
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13:30 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | Gordon Ramsay heads to Queens, New York, where he meets a family torn apart by the stress of running failing Greek restaurant Kati Allo. Husband-and-wife owners Manny and Christine are on the brink of divorce, while their daughter Evelyn is caught in the middle and at her wits' end |
| 14:30 | Home Alone 3 | Cheeky eight-year-old Alex Pruitt is delighted to be given a remote-controlled toy car by his neighbour - unaware it contains a stolen microchip. A gang of crooks heads to Alex's town with the intention of recovering the valuable item, but the resourceful youngster has prepared for their arrival with a series of nasty booby-traps. Comedy sequel, starring Alex D Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt and Lenny von Dohlen | |
| BBC Four
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02:25 | The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms | Without people noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything, from search engines on the internet, to satnavs and credit-card security - they even help people travel the world, find love and save lives. Here, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy demystifies this hidden world by showing some of the most essential algorithms. He reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem-solvers came from, showing how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even program themselves |
| 19:00 | Today at the Test | England v Pakistan. Highlights of day four of the Third and Final Test in the series from Edgbaston in Birmingham. Coming into this series, the visitors had only won two of their last 10 Test Series, with their last coming in December 2024 when they beat England 2-1 after losing the First Test. England have fared slightly better, winning four of their previous 10 series, but had disappointing defeats against New Zealand and Australia before they took on Pakistan | |
| More4
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13:40 | A Place in the Sun | Jasmine Harman helps Fiona and David find their perfect holiday home in Cyprus on a budget of £100,000. As a former Royal Navy engineer who used to be based in Cyprus, David knows the island well, but Jasmine hopes she can find them the ideal spot |
| 14:40 | Come Dine with Me | Marketing manager Stephanie Hale hosts the first party in Nottingham, where her guests are local councillor Alex Foster, beauty therapist Janice Overton, project engineer Brian Hodges and businessman Barry Dickman. She encounters problems when one of the diners takes a dislike to her prawns, while another has trouble identifying an artichoke | |