| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-29) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
07:15 | The Drew Barrymore Show | The actress hosts a talk show featuring human-interest stories, celebrity guests, lifestyle segments and reports |
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| 07:40 | The Drew Barrymore Show | The actress hosts a talk show featuring human-interest stories, celebrity guests, lifestyle segments and reports | |
| RTE2
[102] |
06:00 | EuroNews | European and international headlines live via satellite |
| 07:50 | Hungry Bear Tales: To the Pole | Ned and Mishka get an invitation to the polar popsicle festival. But the problem is, they don't know where the pole is | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
07:10 | Animal Emergency | A French bulldog arrives at the vet's for specialist spinal surgery to help him walk properly. Staff in the large animal department have to decide if a wild seal's eye is able to be saved, and nurse Clodagh and vet Myles have to look long and hard to find a magnet in a parrot's gizzard |
| 08:10 | Cooking with the Stars | Emma Willis and Tom Allen present the show in which famous faces cook up a storm week by week in a bid to outdo their rivals. Each of the celebrity contestants are paired with a professional chef who will mentor and teach them to prepare restaurant quality dishes. Anton Du Beke, Joe Wilkinson, Josie Gibson and Woody Cook are the first four contestants battling it out in the kitchen | |
| TG4
[104] |
07:17 | Clifford Óg | Goats are called in to tame the weeds on Birdwell Farm |
| 07:30 | Woozle & Pip | The pups put Little Fish in a bowl, but their friend, the Cat, has other ideas | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
07:00 | Puzzling with Lucy Worsley | Contestants from Leeds, Pontypool, Norfolk, Belfast, Derbyshire and London take on five rounds of fiendish puzzles as they attempt to qualify for the series' Grand Final. Lucy Worsley asks the questions |
| 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] |
07:15 | Heartbeat | Colonel and Joan Maltravers host a dinner party to celebrate their son's return from Kenya but the meal is disrupted by an armed robbery. David gives chase to the thief and becomes a local hero - much to the exasperation of Bernie. Liz has a difficult decision to make after receiving an exciting offer from Ben. Guest starring Simon Williams, his wife Lucy Fleming and their son Tam Williams |
| 08:05 | The Restaurant | Olympic Silver Medallist and World Champion rower Gary O'Donovan acts as head chef. Growing up by the sea and spending much of his life on water there is a fishy theme flowing through his menu - but will it create a strong enough swell of positive reaction to deliver another top award - a 5-star rating? | |
| BBC One
[108] |
06:00 | Breakfast | A round-up of national and international news, plus current affairs, arts and entertainment, and weather |
| 09:10 | Room on the Broom | Animated adaptation of the children's book by author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, the creators of modern classic The Gruffalo. It tells the story of a kind witch who invites a surprising number of animals to ride on her broom - much to the frustration of her cat. But when a fearsome dragon appears, what will the gang do? Gillian Anderson heads the voice cast as the witch, with Rob Brydon, Martin Clunes, Sally Hawkins and David Walliams as the animals, Timothy Spall as the dragon and Simon Pegg as narrator | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
07:05 | Cheers | Norm refuses to tarnish the reputation of a promotion rival at work, while Frasier tries to awaken Diane's romantic feelings with a meticulously planned slide show. Bar-room comedy, starring George Wendt |
| 07:30 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Debra and Ray happily befriend a new couple - whose annoying eight-year-old son Spencer insists on making a nuisance of himself. Ray Romano stars | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
07:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | Gordon Ramsay heads to Florida to help the owners of Fleming, a Danish restaurant in Miami. A husband-and-wife duo bought the business eight years ago in the hope of continuing the place's success, but started losing money rapidly. With a Cuban chef cooking Nordic cuisine and a filthy kitchen, things go from bad to worse until it all comes to a head on relaunch night |
| 08:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | Gordon Ramsay visits Sushi Ko, a Japanese restaurant in California that is losing up to $20,000 a month. Gordon finds owner and chef Akira lacking in confidence and self-esteem as the strain of an empty business is beginning to take its toll on his relationship with this family | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:45 | 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 |
| 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 | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
03:20 | Food Unwrapped | In Lincolnshire, Kate Quilton sees whether shallots are actually just small onions and visits a potato farm looking for the reason baking potatoes cost more. Matt Tebbutt heads to frozen food company McCain to see how potatoes are transformed into their various products, most notably chips. Helen Lawal is in Spain to find out why it is possible to get sheep's cheese in the supermarket, but never sheep's milk |
| 08:55 | A Place in the Sun | Retirees Kay and Barry have decided it's time to fulfil their dream of buying a holiday home in the historic city of Jerez in southern Spain. With a budget of £105,000, they want an apartment close to all the action. Jasmine Harman lines up five excellent properties for the pair to choose between | |