| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-30) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
20:00 | Fair City | Lorcan faces a choice, while Carol is shocked by JJ's suggestion. Ger makes plans after learning how important Anthony's christening is to Sharon |
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| 20:30 | Killinaskully | Part one of two. With the power station abandoned at Christmas, the entire village must work together to get back into Taoiseach's good books. Comedy, starring Pat Shortt, Louis Lovett, Pascal Scott and Paraic Breathnach | |
| RTE2
[102] |
19:25 | Saving Lives at Sea | Documentary telling the story of the unpaid volunteers who sacrifice their free time to staff more than two hundred RNLI lifeboat stations across the UK |
| 20:35 | DIY SOS | A team of experts comes to the aid of amateurs whose projects have gone horribly wrong, helping them to finally bring their plans to fruition | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
20:00 | Coronation Street | When Abi confides in her about the state of her relationship with Carl, Tracy urges her to take drastic action |
| 20:28 | Virgin Media News Update | All the latest breaking news with the Virgin Media News team | |
| TG4
[104] |
20:00 | Fadó Fadó | A trip down memory lane, as different generations of family and friends come together to look back at the funniest, most scandalous and most entertaining advertisements to have graced TV screens in the past 60 years |
| 20:30 | Ros na Rún | Vince is shaken when Dean makes shocking allegations about John Joe. Although he's torn, he decides to report what he's heard to the Gardaí, hoping the truth will protect John Joe rather than condemn him. Cora is convinced herself and Sonny can get the upper hand on Tadhg, but Tadhg turn the tables on her, leaving her simmering with frustration | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
20:00 | Beat the Chasers | Bradley Walsh hosts as comedian Russell Kane, This Morning's Dr Zoe Williams, broadcaster Kaye Adams, journalist and presenter Matt Allwright and writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth take on the Chasers in a bid to win big money for their chosen charities |
| 21:00 | The Graham Norton Show | The host is joined by Loki and Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston, then playing Benedick in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and Oscar-winner Brie Larson, who was making her West End debut in Elektra. His other guests are Kinky Boots and Pose star Billy Porter, who took the Emcee role in Cabaret and Strictly and Traitors Claudia host Winkleman. Plus, singer-songwriter Myles Smith performs Nice to Meet You | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
19:55 | Heartbeat | When a man dies falling from a bridge Joe discovers the deceased and his girlfriend were implicated in a baby's disappearance three years previously. Foul play is suspected when the man's post-mortem reveals injuries consistent with a recent fight, and deeper delving suggests someone still believes the couple were responsible for the missing child. Elsewhere, Peggy's new look and odd behaviour causes a stir |
| 21:00 | Vera | When dock worker Owen Thorne plunges from the roof of a multi-storey car park while picking up his daughter from her school prom, Vera immediately detects foul play. The team soon discovers a work dispute over the death of a young man, with everyone believing Owen was to blame, and the victim's father admits he wanted revenge - but his alibi holds. The mystery then continues when Vera spots an inconsistency in the statement Owen's wife gave to the police, suggesting she's not certain of her husband's fidelity | |
| BBC One
[108] |
20:00 | DIY SOS | Nick Knowles and the team step in to help a youth club that has lost its home in the town of Beverley, East Yorkshire. The Cherry Tree Community Centre once gave local children a safe place to meet up and find support - but when the pandemic hit, the building was turned into a food hub for families, leaving the kids out in the cold. With another harsh winter on the way, Nick, designer Gabrielle Blackman and the DIY SOS regulars enlist the help of local tradespeople - as well as a few Gladiators - to construct a new, purpose-built youth centre on the edge of the park |
| 21:00 | The Apprentice | Part two of two. After a festive trip to Lapland, the celebrities head back to London to pitch their Christmas biscuits to supermarket giants and retailers. Both teams rope in their famous friends to do their best to raise money in aid of Children in Need but in the boardroom, it's all business and one of the celebrities faces the firing finger | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
20:00 | Alpine Train at Christmas | A festive ride on the illustrious Bernina Express, one of the most picturesque trains in the world, beginning in Chur, the oldest town in Switzerland, and travelling through the Alpine landscape to the town of Tirano in Italy. Along the way, the train visits the Morteratsch Glacier, the Landwasser Viaduct and Lago Bianco, meeting people who live and work in the area including an artisan cheese-maker, a creator of traditional Christmas toys and a multi-generational musical farming family. Narrated by Hugh Bonneville |
| 21:00 | Rocketman | Elton John enters an addiction rehabilitation session, and recounts his life in a flashback, covering his days as young Reginald Dwight growing up in 1950s Britain. He takes piano lessons, makes his way into the Royal Academy of Music, and hones his craft in local pubs before becoming one of the world's biggest pop stars. Golden Globe-winning biopic, starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
20:00 | The Simpsons | Lisa babysits the Flanders children for an evening and her sensible attitude soon sees her in great demand among the parents of Springfield. Encouraged by their daughter's new job, Homer and Marge put her in charge of Bart while they go out - much to his irritation |
| 20:30 | The Simpsons | Strong men are left quaking by the news that alcohol has been made illegal in Springfield. Luckily salvation is at hand in the form of prohibition-busting bootlegger Homer, who brews his own beer to meet demand. Featuring the guest voice of Joe Mantegna | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
20:00 | Seven Worlds, One Planet | A compilation of the best moments from the natural history series, in which David Attenborough looks at life on each of the seven continents, revealing how each distinct land mass has shaped the creatures found there and the many challenges faced by animals in a modern world dominated by humans |
| 21:00 | John le Carré: The Secret Centre | A man whose work was synonymous with espionage, John le Carré was a world-renowned author of thrillers such as The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but he was also an MI5 officer. In this programme, he talks to Nigel Williams about his involvement in covert activities in the interests of national security, reflecting on the morally questionable actions agents sometimes have to perform | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
19:55 | Grand Designs | Professional deep-sea diver Adrian Corrigall and his wife Megan plan to build their new family home in rural East Sussex almost entirely out of concrete, with construction involving cutting-edge technologies conceived in Switzerland and never used to build a house before. However, the perils of being a pioneer soon become evident, and with both schedule and budget under strain, Adrian is forced to resume work as a diver, taking him away from the project for a month at a time |
| 21:00 | 24 Hours in Police Custody | Feature-length special about an investigation into a case of possible rape involving a man who arranges to meet multiple men a week for sex using a dating app. Bedfordshire Police's Rape & Serious Sexual Offences team try to work out whether there is enough evidence to charge a suspect who claims the sex is consensual. The programme examines fraught questions of consent and the reasons why police investigations into male rape are so rare and difficult to prosecute | |