| What's on Now & Next (2026-01-27) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
17:40 | Nuacht | The latest news headlines |
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| 17:55 | RTÉ News | National and international news. | |
| RTE2
[102] |
17:30 | The Big Bang Theory | The gang re-creates a prom night on the roof of the apartment building when the girls decide they would like to re-enact their evenings with their current partners. However, Sheldon feels under pressure to take part in all the romantic traditions, and Howard worries about who Stuart will bring as his date. Comedy, starring Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco |
| 18:00 | Shortland Street | Following her fight with Chris, Desi seeks solace at the IV and eyes up a drink | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
17:30 | News at 5.30 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team |
| 18:05 | The Six O'Clock Show | A lively mix of celebrity chat with national and international guests, fabulous food from the country's top chefs, expert advice and all the unmissable stories making the headlines | |
| TG4
[104] |
17:25 | Malcolm in the Middle | Hal takes the boys out of school and along to the stock car races, while Lois turns the house upside down in a desperate search for her missing pay cheque |
| 17:50 | Nuacht Cúla4 | News programme for young people covering local, national and international news | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
17:00 | Tipping Point | Ben Shephard hosts the quiz in which contestants 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 greater the prize fund. The player who has won the least amount is then eliminated, and the last one standing competes for a £10,000 jackpot |
| 18:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh presents as Fabe, Robyn, Joe and Angelene pit their wits against one of the Chasers in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth thousands of pounds. They work as a team and play strategically to answer general knowledge questions against the clock and race down the game board to the exit without being caught | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
16:40 | The Royal | The medics discover a newborn baby abandoned in the grounds, and soon suspect the child may be linked to a missing teenager. Dr Weatherill goes to great lengths to help an elderly couple and a Russian sailor is admitted with acute appendicitis, which presents Greengrass with what appears to be a great moneymaking scheme. Medical drama, starring Julian Ovenden, Robert Daws, Wendy Craig and Bill Maynard |
| 17:45 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | An FBI agent crosses swords with Poirot while trying to retrieve the American Navy's top-secret plans for a new submarine, which have been stolen by a glamorous nightclub singer with a sideline in espionage. Drama, starring David Suchet | |
| BBC One
[108] |
17:15 | Pointless | Alexander Armstrong hosts the quiz in which contestants try to record the fewest points possible by giving the least obvious correct answers to questions. Lauren Laverne reveals the correct answers and comments on the players' scores |
| 18:00 | BBC News at Six; Weather | The latest headlines | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
17:00 | Chateau DIY: Win the Dream | The renovation challenge continues, with contestants competing for the chance to win their very own historic French property. Decision day sees one couple's dream of a new life in France hanging in the balance. Judges Max McMurdo and Stephanie Jarvis to put the contestants' entertainment spaces to the test |
| 18:00 | A Place in the Sun | Laura Hamilton helps Joe and Ali, who are on the hunt for a bolthole in northern Tuscany where they can enjoy the Italian food and culture, and also rent out when they're back home | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
17:30 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | The team visits Boyle's beach house on a detectives-only getaway, but Peralta ruins the fun by inviting Captain Holt along. The host helps Diaz to send romantic texts to her new boyfriend Marcus, while Gina amuses herself by trying to get Santiago drunk. Comedy, starring Andy Samberg |
| 18:00 | The Simpsons | Homer builds a robot for Bart to enter the Robot Rumble TV show, but finds the task harder than expected and resorts to trickery. Meanwhile, Lisa's pet cats keep dying | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:25 | Wild China | The documentary series exploring China's wildlife continues with a journey to the Yunnan Province, where parallel mountain ranges channel mighty rivers from Tibet southward to the tropics, and the landscape provides a home to diverse species. While the mountain forests are home to red pandas, the valleys below contain jungles inhabited by gibbons, sunbirds and elephants |
| 19:00 | Great British Railway Journeys | In Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Michael Portillo visits the National Coal Mining Museum for England at Caphouse Colliery. In Leeds, he heads for the Chapeltown area to investigate the origins of the Leeds West Indian carnival in 1967 and tries his hand on the steel drums | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
16:50 | A Place in the Sun | Alison from Scotland is hunting for a holiday home in Spain with her daughter, Paula, wanting the perfect place that feels 'traditionally Spanish'. Jasmine Harman is on hand to show them five properties around Vélez-Málaga for their budget of £60,000 |
| 17:55 | Car S.O.S. | Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend restore a Fiat X1/9 for 53-year-old owner Steve, who has terminal cancer and is desperate to see his son drive the car | |