| What's on Now & Next (2026-08-21) | |||
| RTE One
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19:30 | Fair City | Hayley and James' careful planning is derailed by a furious Ger, a smitten Lorcan conspires to win over Síofra and Tara and Max struggle to find a new receptionist. Ellie and Renee clash over Hughie |
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| 20:00 | Super Garden | Gardener Chris Walsh hopes to create a 'culinary canopy' design, with planting being key to Chris's garden as he plans to try and attract wildlife to the outdoor space | |
| RTE2
[102] |
19:30 | Great Coastal Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo alights at Wareham to visit Dorset's internationally renowned Jurassic Coast. He heads through Swanage, Poole and Sandbanks, before ending his journey on Brownsea Island |
| 20:05 | Great Coastal Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo heads from a bustling Southampton to the Isle of Wight, where he rides the island's railway, made up of recycled London Underground trains | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
19:30 | Friends | With the wedding only four weeks away, Chandler struggles to write his vows and turns to Joey and Ross for much-needed help. Meanwhile, Monica has similar difficulties and recruits Phoebe and Rachel - but they soon get distracted and start reminiscing |
| 20:00 | Emmerdale | Struggling with financial pressures, Jimmy sells his haulage business, while Nicola is delighted when Jimmy agrees to a vow renewal | |
| TG4
[104] |
19:15 | Rásaí Beo | Live horse racing from Killarney, Co. Kerry. Presented by Seán Bán Breathnach with Mánus Ó Conghaile, Tomás Báicéir, and Daragh Ó Conchúir |
| 20:00 | Beo ón Electric Picnic | The 2025 Electric Picnic event, featuring live music performances from artists on the Collchoill and Puball Gaeilge stages. Highlights include Bláithín Mhic Cana and Piaras Ó Lorcáin, IMLÉ, John Spillane, Eve Belle, Clada, Amano, Caolan Ryan, Dysania and many more. The show also features interviews and intimate acoustic sessions with some of the biggest names playing at this year's festival. Presented by Síomha Ní Ruairc and John Sharpson | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
19:30 | Live SSE Airtricity Men's Premier Division | Sligo Rovers v Waterford (Kick-off 8.00pm). All the action from the match at The Showgrounds. Both these teams are battling to avoid the drop and Rovers won 2-0 when the teams last met at this venue in April, but Waterford claimed a 4-0 home win two months later, with Padraig Amond scoring a hat-trick and Sligo's Ollie Denham getting sent off for two bookable offences |
| 22:30 | Friends | Ross becomes increasingly jealous of Rachel's new workmate, and Joey auditions for a Broadway musical - even though he cannot dance. Meanwhile, Monica falls for a would-be poet | |
| Virgin Media Three
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19:00 | Live Athletics: Diamond League | Fast track, packed stands and world-leading performances expected at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne. |
| 21:00 | The Forsytes | Jolyon assures Frances and June he has cut ties with Louisa and as Soames and Irene honeymoon in Paris, Frances resumes her efforts to secure Horatio for June. In Paris, Soames begins to realise he doesn't fit in with Irene's friends, while Louisa gives a speech on fallen women at Ellen's charity event | |
| BBC One
[108] |
19:00 | The Big Deal with Steph McGovern | Having said goodbye to one pair, the six remaining teams of aspiring art dealers are tasked with buying and selling works to meet the brief of two high-end homeowners. Host Steph McGovern and series mentor Cordelia de Freitas are joined by Peter Staunton, an interior designer who tells the dealers about his clients' tastes, as well as sharing tips and tricks when it comes to investing in art for the home |
| 20:00 | Celebrity MasterChef | The celebrities have reached the first quarter-final, knowing only three of them can win a place in the semis. The first hurdle is a new challenge in which they have to work in teams to serve up a three-course meal in just 90 minutes. On the menu this evening is mackerel scotch egg, roast chicken with fondant potatoes, leeks and a chicken jus, with sticky toffee pudding to round things off. Can the celebrities teams work in perfect harmony, or will the pressure get to them and cause a clash? But there's more, as chef and author Seema Pankhania challenges the contestants to recreate one of here recipes, each of which is inspired by her travels | |
| Channel 4
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19:30 | Formula 1 | Steve Jones presents action from the battle for Sprint Race positions in the 12th round of the season, held at Circuit Zandvoort, with little room for error for the drivers in a shortened qualifying format. Analysis comes from David Coulthard and Billy Monger |
| 20:00 | Surgery Secrets of the Super Rich | Cheshire-based Victoria turns to a non-surgical skin tightening treatment after losing 25 kilos through weight loss injections. Combining radiofrequency microneedling and suction therapy, the full course costs £3,300. With weight loss injections surging in popularity, the demand for treatments to tackle loose skin is booming. Entrepreneur JC invests in one of the fastest-growing trends in aesthetic medicine, fat banking: harvesting and storing his own fat cells for future rejuvenation treatments as part of a long-term package that costs £7,500. Make-up artist Emmy upgrades her smile with a set of bespoke composite veneers, a precision-crafted treatment designed to deliver a natural, refined finish, with a price tag of £8,000. And interior designer Ava opts for jaw-slimming Botox in a bid to subtly reshape her face, part of a growing trend for tweakments that deliver definition without going under the knife | |
| E4
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19:30 | The Simpsons | Bart discovers a previously unknown comet while carrying out a punishment for Principal Skinner. Unfortunately, to the horror of all concerned, it is on a direct collision course with Springfield - and Flanders owns the only bomb shelter in town |
| 20:00 | The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer | Hosts Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond welcome Dermot O'Leary, Greg James, Fern Brady and Mel B to the tent, as they put their baking skills to the test, under the watchful eyes of judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. The celebs take on iced buns in the Signature, a family classic in the Technical and a Showstopper where they create their celebrity doppelganger in biscuit form | |
| BBC Four
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19:00 | Today at the Test | England v Pakistan. Action from the third day of the First Test in the three-match series, held at Headingley Cricket Ground in Leeds. The last Test series between the teams came in October 2024, when Pakistan claimed a 2-1 victory on home soil. England won the first match by an innings and 47 runs, but the Shaheens fought back to prevail by 152 runs in the second contest and secure the series with a nine-wicket triumph in the decider |
| 20:00 | BBC Proms | Clive Myrie presents a night at the Royal Albert Hall in tribute to the legendary trumpeter who would have celebrated his centenary in 2026. The concert combines the musician's influences - works by Rodrigo and Gershwin - with his own hits from classic albums such as Porgy and Bess, Sketches of Spain and Miles Ahead, amongst others | |
| More4
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18:50 | Car S.O.S. | Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend take on one of the most challenging cars they've ever encountered in the form of a 1959 MGA Roadster, which has been rusting in a damp barn for almost 40 years. The car belongs to former engineer Billy, whose life was turned upside down several years ago when his son and daughter-in-law were drowned on their honeymoon in South Africa. The team manage to bring the car back from the brink after the show's biggest salvage operation to date, and the boys enlist actor James Nesbitt to present Billy with his newly restored vehicle |
| 19:55 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud meets energy conservationist Andrew, who has decided to build a radical, self-heating home for his family - the first of its kind in the UK. He aims to heat the house all year round by storing the warmth of the summer sun into insulated earth banks over and around the house, and then drawing the warmth back into the living spaces in winter. However, this pioneering construction seems an exercise in trial and error from the start, and what began as a seemingly simple, pure concept becomes a complicated feat of engineering | |