| What's on Now & Next (2026-05-21) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
15:30 | Today | Daily magazine show featuring entertainment and celebrity news, consumer advice, and Ireland's biggest giveaways. Presented by Dáithí Ó Sé and Maura Derrane |
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| 17:40 | Nuacht | The latest news headlines | |
| RTE2
[102] |
17:30 | The Big Bang Theory | Sheldon becomes concerned that his comfortable lifestyle is having an impact on his professional progress and is stopping him from achieving scientific greatness, so he asks the gang to make life more difficult for him. Meanwhile, Howard invents an unflattering game about Raj. Starring Jim Parsons and Simon Helberg |
| 18:00 | Shortland Street | TK pushes Tillie away, whlle Jack is dealt a harsh life lesson | |
| 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 | Chat show featuring celebrity interviews, food from leading chefs and guidance on a wide range of topics, from consumer affairs to the latest trends, with viewers invited to contribute with pictures, comments, stories and gossip | |
| TG4
[104] |
17:25 | Malcolm in the Middle | Hal reaches the end of his tether over Malcolm's misbehaviour and throws him out of the house - but Reese takes advantage of the situation to play a dirty trick of his own. Family comedy, starring Frankie Muniz and Bryan Cranston |
| 17:50 | Nuacht Cúla4 | News programme for young people covering local, national and international news | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
17:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh hosts as Yarn from Carlisle, Sue from Lockerbie, Zac from Bristol and Emma from Glasgow work together in the hope that they can take on a Chaser as a team and leave with thousands of pounds |
| 18:00 | 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 | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
16:55 | The Royal | Jean announces that Casualty may have to close in light of a financial package to repair the department being rejected. With no admissions or emergency surgery, a round of cost-cutting redundancies seems inevitable - until a mystery benefactor offers to help. When an unexploded wartime bomb detonates, Jill and Ralph have to operate on a tramp trapped in the wreckage of a collapsed buildinge. Guest starring George Irving |
| 17:55 | Endeavour | The detective investigates the disappearance of a Dutch au pair, which seems connected to rivalry amid the city's academics. His search leads him to a family estate in the Oxfordshire countryside where he meets three siblings divided by personal demons and shared loss. Endeavour suspects there is a link between the disappearance and an unsolved case from years before, but as the investigation continues, conflict erupts between his fellow officers. When a group of teenagers makes a horrifying discovery, he suspects someone is manipulating events from afar | |
| BBC One
[108] |
17:15 | Pointless | Quiz show in which four pairs of contestants have to score the fewest points possible by giving the least obvious answers to questions posed to 100 people before the show. At the end of each round, the team with the most points is eliminated until the final two pairs battle for a cash prize. Presented by Alexander Armstrong and Susan Wokoma |
| 18:00 | BBC News at Six; Weather | The latest headlines | |
| Channel 4
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17:00 | Chateau DIY | After a major flood at Château de Lalande, Stephanie needs to complete a full kitchen refurb before a house full of guests descend for her 50th birthday extravaganza. Near Cognac, Bart and Sarah rush to complete a bathroom for their best friends' wedding. Near the Pyrenees, sustainability champion Trish rescues battery hens and plans to build them a château of their own, complete with roosting rooms |
| 18:00 | Sun, Sea and Selling Houses | Documentary following families who have set up shop in Spain selling properties to fellow Brits. In Alicante, Charlotte and Damon line up three properties for Sonia and Chris, who are looking for a family holiday home, on a challenging budget in the face of rising property prices | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
17:30 | The Simpsons | Homer takes Ned Flanders' advice and starts praying regularly, hoping God will lend a sympathetic ear and make it possible for him to buy a better home. Marge warns that his materialistic attitude may incur divine retribution, but he turns a deaf ear - until a flood of biblical proportions hits Springfield |
| 18:00 | The Simpsons | Bart learns that he was once a child celebrity, but that Homer spent all the money he made, so he separates from his parents and moves into a loft apartment, where his neighbours are punk band Blink-182 and skateboarding hero Tony Hawk | |
| BBC Four
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02:15 | Art of Scandinavia | Andrew Graham-Dixon examines how Denmark emerged from modest beginnings to become one of the greatest powers and arbiters of taste in northern Europe. He tells a story of incredible transformation befitting the homeland of Hans Christian Andersen, creator of The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor's New Clothes among many other fairy tales |
| 19:00 | University Challenge | As the first round of the quiz competition for students draws to a close, teams from the Universities of Bangor and Nottingham put fingers on buzzers for the first time. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions | |
| More4
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17:20 | Four in a Bed | The third visit of the week is to the Guesthouse East in Eastbourne, where Tony and Lisa Partridge hope to impress their guests with their family friendly B&B |
| 17:50 | Four in a Bed | Jorge Mesquita plays host at the Shirley B&B, Bournemouth, where he believes the guests will be impressed by his power showers and hopes a go-karting contest will help him win | |