| What's on Now & Next (2026-02-05) | |||
| RTE One
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18:01 | RTÉ News: Six One and Weather | The latest national and international headlines |
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| 19:00 | Ear to the Ground | Magazine show for farmers and rural residents, exploring the ever-changing nature of country life and landscape. Featuring topics including food safety, rural development, planning and environmental issues | |
| RTE2
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18:30 | Home and Away | Justin and Leah return from their visit to Theo's grave, Eddie questions Jo about the truth behind her and Tane, and Leah worries that Sonny is still struggling over Theo's death |
| 19:00 | Inside the Four Seasons: Park Lane | Following the staff of the five-star hotel during the festive period. 'Queen of Christmas décor' Ruth makes a pine-scented pilgrimage to Scotland to hand-pick a tree bigger and better than any other in London. Head chef Benjamin follows the Michelin star to select the finest cheeses from London's most exclusive fromagerie, and there's a flurry in the pastry kitchen as the team gets creative, crafting a Christmas afternoon tea | |
| Virgin Media One
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18:05 | The Six O'Clock Show | A lively mix of celebrity chat with national and international guests, fabulous food from the country's top chefs, expert advice and all the unmissable stories making the headlines |
| 19:00 | Live: Guinness Six Nations | France v Ireland (Kick-off 8.10pm). Jill Douglas presents coverage of the opening match of the championship, held at Stade de France in Paris. Tonight's hosts are the reigning champions, having won four games in 2025, the same as England and this evening's opponents, but claimed one bonus point more. The French's 42-27 victory in Dublin in the fourth round of fixtures proved pivotal, but it was the Irish who prevailed 38-17 in Marseille when the sides last met in this competition on French soil in 2024 | |
| TG4
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18:25 | Síorstíl | At the halfway point of the competition, Don O'Neill returns as guest judge, inviting the contestants to design an outfit that will blow people away on the Irish Film & Television Academy's red carpet. It needs to stand out and be original. With two contestants now sent home, the competition is heating up |
| 18:57 | An Aimsir Láithreach | National and international weather forecast | |
| Virgin Media Two
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18:00 | The Chase | All that stands between Zoe from Eastbourne, David from Belfast, Diana from Poole and Ibrahim from South Shields and thousands of pounds is the not-so-small matter of one of the country's finest quiz brains. Bradley Walsh asks the questions, but do they have the answers? |
| 19:00 | News at 7 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team | |
| Virgin Media Three
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17:45 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Wealthy industrialist Sir Reuben Astwell is murdered after making a deal to sell synthetic rubber to the Germans, leaving the dapper sleuth wondering whether the motive was commercial or political. Evidence found in his chemical factory could hold the key to the mystery - but Poirot is unsure if the victim's widow can be trusted. Starring David Suchet, with Ann Bell and Bill Wallis |
| 18:50 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | A mysterious delivery causes Poirot to recall the time his supper at a Buenos Aires restaurant was rudely interrupted by the murder of a fellow diner, who unwittingly drank from a glass laced with cyanide. Drama, starring David Suchet and Philip Jackson | |
| BBC One
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18:30 | BBC Newsline; Weather | |
| 19:00 | The One Show | Alex Jones and Roman Kemp host the live magazine show featuring a mixture of celebrity chat and stories of interest | |
| Channel 4
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18:00 | A Place in the Sun | Famed for its gorgeous landscape, rolling countryside and over 3,000 lakes, France's Haute-Vienne has it all, with picturesque villages and towns scattered in between, making it a perfect tranquil retreat. Craig Rowe shows George B and George S what their maximum budget of £75,000 can secure as they endeavour to purchase a holiday home in the region |
| 19:00 | Channel 4 News | Including sport and weather | |
| E4
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18:30 | The Simpsons | Moe is elated to discover Homer was born with a unique genetic condition that protects his brain from injury, and decides to cash in by training him to be a boxer. Featuring the guest voice of Paul Winfield |
| 19:00 | The Simpsons | Smithers very reluctantly entrusts Homer with transporting a million-dollar bottle of wine to Mr Burns' mansion. And for once, it's not actually him who screws it up | |
| BBC Four
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02:10 | Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars | The physicist fulfils a childhood dream by going behind the scenes at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), mission control for Mars 2020 - one of the most ambitious missions ever launched, which may finally reveal if life has ever existed on the Red Planet. In 1980, a young Brian Cox wrote to JPL asking for photos from some of their missions to the planets. The pictures they sent him from Voyager and the Viking mission to Mars were a source of inspiration that set him on the path to becoming a physicist |
| 19:00 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo begins the latest leg on the seafront at Felixstowe, where in January 1953 the town was engulfed in the worst flooding to hit England in the 20th century. In Norwich, he admires the Norman Cathedral, then traces the history of the postcode | |
| More4
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17:55 | Car S.O.S. | Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend take on one of their most obscure cars to date - a little-known Cannon trials competition car. Car trialling is the world's second oldest motorsport, taking specially adapted cars up steep slippery hills and through thick mud courses. It was huge in the 1950s and '60s, but less well known today |
| 18:55 | Car S.O.S. | Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend travel to Devon to fix up one of the fastest road cars of its time, a 1997 Mitsubishi Evo 4. In the 1990s, the Evos dominated the World Rally circuits and the two litre road going versions were no less impressive, making it one of the most extreme cars available for purchase. The car that Tim and Fuzz are taking on belongs to 60-year-old Gary, a petrolhead who loved his Evo and used it as his daily driver | |