| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-12) | |||
| RTE One
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19:00 | Nationwide | This edition celebrates the official start of panto season with a very special production featuring a true showbusiness legend, Twink. Presenter: Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh |
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| 19:30 | Fair City | Hayley returns to Carrigstown with a surprising request for James, Cass coaches Darren for his school play audition, and Jacinta and Nora are on the hunt for a replacement Santa Claus. Paul plots a new scheme to get himself out of debt | |
| RTE2
[102] |
19:00 | Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage | Jim feels ganged up on when Georgie and Audrey make changes. Young Sheldon spin-off, starring Montana Jordan and Emily Osment |
| 19:30 | Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy | The American actor visits Sardinia, famous for its rugged landscape and passionately preserved traditions, learning that its food culture varies wildly throughout the island. He experiences the culinary delights of its coastal cities, influenced by previous civilisations, and ventures inland to explore its rural heart, which remains largely untouched from outside influences | |
| Virgin Media One
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19:00 | News at 7 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team, followed by sport and weather |
| 19:30 | Emmerdale | Kim is helpless, while Bob is still sore after being upstaged by Jason Donovan, and Vinny tries to hide his jealousy | |
| TG4
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19:00 | Nuacht TG4 | The day's main news stories from a regional, national and international perspective |
| 19:30 | Junior Eurovision | This edition catches up with all nine of the young singers who have represented Ireland over the past decade. As the 2025 contest in Tbilisi, Georgia, fast approaches, cameras follow Lottie O'Driscoll Murray from Cork as she prepares to take the stage in the world's biggest song competition for young musicians | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
19:00 | The Chase | Harry from Lincoln, Alex from Leicester, Patricia from Hitchin and Rachel from Wellingborough work together as a team to face one of the country's finest quiz brains - watch as Bradley Walsh hosts and they try to take a Chaser down for thousands of pounds |
| 20:00 | Moneyball | Ian Wright hosts as three more teams of two try to bank money by dropping a ball from the Launcher onto an amount of cash. Twins Claire and Racheal want to win enough to send their parents off for their dream holiday, Patricia and her son Ciaran hope to pay for a road trip around America, and Debs and her husband Hong wish for enough to treat their friends and family | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
17:55 | Lewis | A college dean is found bludgeoned to death in local woodland, following a heated pub debate. When an alchemic image is discovered by the body, denoting the first of four stages of a process called `The Magnum Opus", the detectives realise that there are three more murders to follow. Before any more crimes are committed, the team must uncover the guilty secret that the victims share in order to learn the identity of the killer and the potential victims |
| 19:55 | Heartbeat | Rosie is viciously attacked while attending a broken-down vehicle stranded on the moors. When the body of the driver is discovered nearby, Rob and Rachel are determined to solve the mystery. Their investigation leads to a chilling discovery linking the case to a religious cult near Aidensfield | |
| BBC One
[108] |
19:00 | The One Show | Lauren Laverne and JB Gill host the live magazine show featuring a mixture of celebrity chat and stories of interest |
| 19:30 | Farm 999 | In Co Durham, reporter Paul Colgan investigates the enduring crime of livestock rustling. He meets a farmer whose stolen animals cost him thousands and observes officers trialling a bold new operation to stop thieves in their tracks. In East Yorkshire, metal detectorists are suspected of stealing historic treasures under the cover of darkness, while in Hertfordshire, farmers and police fight back against illegal fly-tipping on farmland - a problem reaching epidemic proportions, choking the countryside and leaving landowners to foot the bill | |
| Channel 4
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19:00 | Channel 4 News | Including sport and weather |
| 19:30 | Live: Su2C | Adam Hills and Hannah Fry are joined by a roster of special guests for an evening of comedy, entertainment and fundraising. With moving tributes and a look at the new Screening Checker tool, they showcase a week of celebrity stunts and heartfelt moments and preview what's still to come | |
| E4
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19:00 | The Simpsons | Apu becomes the proud father of octuplets and enjoys being showered with free gifts from companies that want him to endorse their products - until a couple in nearby Shelbyville go one better by having nine children. Cartoon capers, featuring the voice of former Munsters actor Butch Patrick |
| 19:30 | The Simpsons | Principal Skinner takes the school's underachieving pupils on a trip to ensure they miss a standard test and unexpectedly finds himself rediscovering his enthusiasm for teaching. Paranoia stalks Homer after he forgets to pay the family's insurance bill and leaves him trying to prevent a host of imaginary catastrophes | |
| BBC Four
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19:00 | Top of the Pops | Jamie Theakston presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 20 November 1998. Featuring East 17, Steps, James, Aerosmith, Pras, Robbie Williams, Madonna, Stereophonics and Cher |
| 19:35 | Top of the Pops | Jayne Middlemiss presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 27 November 1998. Featuring Steps, The Corrs, Vengaboys, Sash! featuring Shannon, Ruff Driverz, Five and Cher | |
| More4
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19:25 | Four in a Bed | The contestants meet one last time to learn how much they have been paid by their fellow hoteliers before discovering who has won the week's competition. Old tensions resurface as the results are announced, and there are heated exchanges around the table |
| 19:55 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud meets neurologists Penny Talelli and Mark Edwards, who plan to combine their love of old and contemporary architecture as they transform a derelict Victorian gatehouse in north London. However, the pair soon find themselves struggling to balance their busy working lives alongside project managing the build | |