| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-29) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
19:30 | EastEnders | The Beales and Brannings prepare to celebrate Jimmy's christening, and one Walford family attempts to navigate a way forward following Christmas |
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| 20:00 | Killinaskully | When Jacksie nails a 'For Sale' sign to the outside of the bar, it looks set to be a cruel Yule for Dan and his drinking buddies. As they contemplate a future without their beloved boozer, Jacksie reveals a dramatic secret. Meanwhile, the regulars recall a famous pub quiz victory, and the time that Timmy was taught a difficult science lesson | |
| RTE2
[102] |
17:50 | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | The globe-trotting archaeologist teams up with a rebellious teenager who draws him into a search in the Amazon jungle for a mysterious artefact of untold power. But their quest is hindered by Soviet agents who also want the fabled object for a more sinister purpose. Action adventure sequel, starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone and John Hurt |
| 20:00 | Asia | David Attenborough narrates footage of the wildlife of Asia's forests. A Bengal tiger has her work cut out feeding three cubs, while greater one-horned rhinos battle it out in conflicts over territory. The rains of the monsoon prove an obstacle to a purple frog looking for a place to lay eggs, and a female orangutan in Borneo searches for a mate | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
19:30 | Emmerdale | There is still a threat to life in the village, while April makes a shocking discovery and Jai knows too much |
| 20:00 | Coronation Street | George and Glenda celebrate their birthdays, Sarah and Kit are puzzled by Carla's silence, Maggie tries to win Ben around, and Theo leaves Todd out in the cold | |
| TG4
[104] |
19:15 | Cúl Stáitse - Oireachtas 2025 | Since it first began over 125 years ago the Oireachtas festival has hosted some of the most prestigious competitions in traditional arts and has grown from an event frequented by the hundreds to now been one of the most important cultural events in Ireland. This year's festival in Belfast had over 1,000 competitors taking to the stage in song, music, dancing and storytelling competitions. This documentary follows the competitors, some taking to the stage for the first time, others returning veterans, while all strive for perfection and a place in the history books |
| 20:15 | Fadó Fadó | Different generations of family and friends come together to look back at the funniest, most scandalous and most entertaining advertisements to have graced TV screens in the past 60 years | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
19:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh presents as Rosie from Chelmsford, Steve originally from Wakefield, Kallan from Cardiff and Seb from Wareham take on one of the country's finest quiz brains |
| 20:00 | The Finish Line | Roman Kemp and Sarah Greene host this quiz contest, in which five contestants race in moving podiums across the studio floor to try to win £5,000. Contenders Craig, Priya, Mark, Christine and Deborah 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
[106] |
17:55 | Endeavour | As England and Argentina kick off in the World Cup quarter-final, Oxford's streets are deserted. At an almost empty museum, Adrian Weiss, a specialist in heraldry and genealogy, is found dead - slain by a ceremonial dagger with links to 19th-century India. An entry in the visitors' book leads Morse to a girls' boarding school, where a note reading 'Save Me' is mysteriously slipped into his coat pocket. Digging into the building's troubled history, he finds a connection between Weiss's untimely fate and a series of unsolved murders that occurred on the school's grounds almost 100 years earlier. 1960s-set drama, starring Shaun Evans, with Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, James Bradshaw and Abigail Thaw |
| 19:55 | Heartbeat | A trio of Australian sheep-shearers arrive in Aidensfield to help out at Grimedale Farm, but a missing watch puts one of them behind bars. Rosie is surprised by a face from the past and has to choose between two tempting offers for the future. Elsewhere, Peggy plans to start a laundry business, but leaves David doing all the work, and Phil and Gina make a life-changing decision. Former Neighbours actors Blair McDonough and Martin Crewes guest star | |
| BBC One
[108] |
19:30 | EastEnders | The Beales and Brannings prepare to celebrate Jimmy's christening, and one Walford family attempts to navigate a way forward following Christmas |
| 20:00 | MasterChef | A quartet of previous winners - Natalie Coleman, Thomas Frake, Chariya Khattiyot and Brin Pirathapan - re-enter the kitchen to compete in a festive culinary showdown. At stake is the golden pan trophy and their reputation. All they need to do is serve up a show-stopping dish fit for royalty, then present two of the best courses they have ever cooked, demonstrating how far they have progressed since they first entered the competition as amateurs. To help them decide the winner, judges Grace Dent and John Torode will be joined by restaurant critic Tom Parker Bowles | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
17:30 | The Hunt for Red October | A Soviet submarine commander creates an international crisis by piloting his experimental nuclear vessel, which is invisible to sonar, toward the American coast. The US and Russian navies think he is planning to attack and set out to destroy the submarine, but a CIA analyst suspects he intends to defect to the West. Cold War thriller, based on Tom Clancy's novel, starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin and James Earl Jones |
| 20:00 | Murder on the Orient Express | An American businessman travelling on the Orient Express from Istanbul to Paris tries to hire Hercule Poirot to be his bodyguard as he has had death threats made against him. The sleuth refuses, but wakes up the following morning to learn the man has been stabbed to death while the train was held up by heavy snow - and there is no shortage of suspects among the passengers. Agatha Christie mystery, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Daisy Ridley, Derek Jacobi and Johnny Depp | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
19:30 | The Simpsons | Homer is caught in a fix when he is accused of stealing a million-dollar painting, but a 1970s detective might be able to clear his name |
| 20:00 | The Simpsons | Homer and Marge follow Moe after he closes his bar early and discover him and his father fighting. It transpires that Moe has been excommunicated from his family for years, so the Simpsons mount a grand plan to bring them back together | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
19:00 | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures | Maggie Aderin-Pocock searches for life in the rest of the Earth's solar system, starting by tracing the evolution in human understanding of it before exploring its central powerhouse of the Sun. Maggie is joined by Nasa's Head of Science Nicky Fox to demonstrate how the processes going on inside the Sun provide all the energy and raw materials for life to exist |
| 20:00 | Blue Planet II | An extended special featuring highlights from the second series of David Attenborough's documentary, journeying from the intense heat of the tropics to the planet's frozen poles and through to its unexplored depths to reveal new worlds and extraordinary never-seen-before animal behaviours | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
18:55 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud follows the progress of a dual-purpose family and wheelchair-friendly home built by design engineer and former Paralympic swimmer Mark Butler. Mark was paralysed from the waist down following a motorcycle accident and the home he currently lives in with his family makes it virtually impossible for him to complete even the simplest of tasks around the house. He and his wife Penny want to build a cutting-edge family home, with a drive-in basement, passenger lift and accessible kitchen and bathroom. However, building such a unique property proves a huge challenge, and the strain on Mark and Penny becomes almost unbearable |
| 19:55 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud meets architect and shed fanatic Micah Jones, who plans to transform an old agricultural building in Co Down. Micah plans an upside-down, four-bedroom shed using new techniques and materials, but the £200,000 budget runs short and Micah is forced to take on some of the building work himself | |