| What's on Now & Next (2026-01-20) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
07:00 | Teleshopping | Buying goods from the comfort of home |
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| 07:35 | Today | Daily magazine show featuring entertainment and celebrity news, consumer advice, and Ireland's biggest giveaways. Presented by Dáithí Ó Sé and Sinéad Kennedy | |
| RTE2
[102] |
06:00 | EuroNews | European and international headlines live via satellite |
| 07:50 | news2day | Domestic and international news items of interest to younger viewers | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
07:00 | Ireland AM | Magazine programme blending a mixture of lifestyle interviews and news content, with human interest stories, consumer affairs, health, politics, gardening, education, finance, food and fashion |
| 10:00 | This Morning | A mix of celebrity chat, lifestyle features, advice and competitions | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
07:00 | Impossible Engineering | A look at the Airbus A380, which as the largest passenger plane ever built can carry more than 850 people non-stop nearly half-way around the world. With the largest wingspan of any commercial aircraft and four specially developed mighty turbo jet engines, the A380 weighs 560 tonnes and getting it off the ground would not have been possible without the work of past innovators such as George Cayley and Frank Whittle. Key developments in aerospace engineering - from Richard Whitcombe's energy-efficient wing-tip designs to Nasa engineers' cutting-edge control system, Fly by Wire - helped bring the A380 to fruition |
| 08:00 | 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] |
01:30 | The Doctor Blake Mysteries | Lucien investigates when one of Ballarat's most prominent surgeons is found dead on his own operating table, and ends up being drawn into a web of jealousy and sexual intrigue. Meanwhile, as Chief Superintendent Munro's enmity towards the doctor continues, an old ally returns from Melbourne. Australian detective drama, starring Craig McLachlan |
| 07:30 | Heartbeat | A group of young offenders come to stay at Ashfordly Hall, but soon find themselves under suspicion after a spate of disturbances in the village. Meanwhile, Blaketon and Ventress go on the hunt for a spinster's missing dog, and a £50 reward gives Peggy an idea. Rural drama, starring Rupert Vansittart, William Simons, Derek Fowlds and Gwen Taylor | |
| BBC One
[108] |
06:00 | Breakfast | A round-up of national and international news, plus current affairs, arts and entertainment, and weather |
| 09:30 | Morning Live | Weekday magazine show featuring a mixture of topical discussion and expert advice for viewers | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
06:55 | Cheers | Norman and Cliff have an argument leading to monkey business with an orang-utan, and nobody believes Woody when he tells the bar regulars he has met actor Robert Urich. Comedy, starring Woody Harrelson and George Wendt |
| 07:20 | Cheers | Rebecca gets a job arranging a party for one of her bosses, and reluctantly agrees to hire Sam and Woody as bartenders - but the event proves to be a disaster. Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson star | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
07:00 | Junior Bake Off | Harry Hill hosts the first day of Finals Week, and the four best bakers from each heat collide in the tent for Mash-Up Day. Ravneet Gill mixes it up in the Technical, challenging the young bakers to fuse a British classic with a global viral sensation, while in the Showstopper, the bakers turn their favourite dessert into a delicious cake |
| 08:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | Gordon Ramsay revisits three of the restaurants he tried to save, returning to Lido, Anna Vincenzo's and Le Bistro to find out whether his advice has been put to good use | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
03:00 | Wild China | The country's diverse wildlife, beginning by exploring how rural Chinese peasants in the south have developed a relationship with the region's animal inhabitants - including how water buffalo are used in agriculture, and tamed cormorants help their owners to fish |
| 19:00 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo strikes out to explore the Britain of his youth, starting at Preston's Fulwood Barracks, where he is called up for National Service but fails to impress the drill sergeant. At Bury Bolton Street station in Greater Manchester, Michael meets the volunteers who operate the East Lancashire Heritage Railway and learns how the Beeching cuts affected rail services in the area | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
03:25 | Food Unwrapped | Kate Quilton uncovers something surprising about small hens' eggs, Matt Tebbutt tracks down where the bubbles in beer come from, and Jimmy Doherty investigates why supermarket burgers should not be eaten when the meat is still pink |
| 08:55 | Food Unwrapped | Jimmy Doherty sniffs out the best way to remove the smell from fish, Kate Quilton dives into water and whether it makes a difference what kind of water we drink, and Briony May Williams unpacks whether splashing out on recipe boxes is good value | |