| What's on Now & Next (2026-08-26) | |||
| RTE One
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20:30 | Donal's Festival Kitchen | Donal Skehan is joined by chefs Kwanghi Chan and Gunmoo Kim and some special guests as they whip up a lunar new year feast |
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| 21:00 | RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock and Weather | The latest national and international news | |
| RTE2
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19:30 | Live UEFA Champions League | Tony O'Donoghue presents coverage of a play-off round second-leg tie (Kick-off 8.00pm), as the teams contest a place in the lucrative league stage. The matches taking place are AEK Athens v Levski Sofia, Celje v Slovan Bratislava, Lyon v Fenerbahce and Viking v Dinamo Zagreb |
| 22:35 | The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In | Comedy and entertainment from the Tipperary duo, joined each evening by some of their well-known friends for a host of shenanigans | |
| Virgin Media One
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20:30 | Coronation Street | Lucy uses a therapy session to voice her contempt for the Metcalfes, while Maggie's careless words dampen Brian's ardour. Ollie comes to Christina's aid, and Bethany spots blood on Kit's shirt |
| 21:00 | My Ireland Too | Set in Cork, this powerful documentary series follows young asylum seekers and migrants as they navigate a world of rising hostility | |
| TG4
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19:30 | Beo ón Electric Picnic | The 2025 Electric Picnic event, featuring live music performances from artists on the Collchoill and Puball Gaeilge stages. Highlights include Bláithín Mhic Cana and Piaras Ó Lorcáin, IMLÉ, John Spillane, Eve Belle, Clada, Amano, Caolan Ryan, Dysania and many more. The show also features interviews and intimate acoustic sessions with some of the biggest names playing at this year's festival. Presented by Síomha Ní Ruairc and John Sharpson |
| 21:05 | Cheers | Rebecca makes a pass at her boss in a moment of weakness and has to rely on Sam to help her out of an embarrassing predicament. American bar-room comedy, starring Kirstie Alley | |
| Virgin Media Two
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19:50 | Live UEFA Champions League | Coverage of a play-off round second-leg tie (Kick-off 8.00pm), as the teams contest a place in the lucrative league stage. The matches taking place are AEK Athens v Levski Sofia, Celje v Slovan Bratislava, Lyon v Fenerbahce and Viking v Dinamo Zagreb |
| 22:00 | Friends | Phoebe is shocked to discover her half-brother Frank is planning to marry a woman more than twice his age. Chandler tries to stop smoking with the aid of hypnosis, only to suffer strange side-effects, and Monica gets a handy tip that could net her a small fortune | |
| Virgin Media Three
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19:55 | Heartbeat | Maggie is left questioning her marriage to Neil when he is accused of indecent conduct, while he is furious she could ever think he would do something like that. Elsewhere, Greengrass comes a cropper after organising a Civil War re-enactment, prompting unlikely hero Alf to step into the breach |
| 21:00 | I Fought the Law | In 1989, Ann Ming is distraught when her 22-year-old daughter Julie Hogg goes missing, but the police shrug off her concerns, suggesting that she must have fled to London to reunite with her estranged husband. Knowing in her heart that Julie would never leave her brother Kevin behind, Ann uncovers a mother's worst nightmare. Fact-based drama, starring Sheridan Smith | |
| BBC One
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20:00 | Fake or Fortune? | Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould investigate the legitimacy of a piano that may have belonged to John Lennon and a silver Hawaiian slide guitar that the current owners believe to have once belonged to Ronnie Wood. Having investigated these items before with no luck, the pair are hoping that revisiting old evidence and exploring fresh leads can finally determine the true stories behind the instruments |
| 21:00 | Celebrity MasterChef | As the second round of heats continues, the contestants are given chilli and spice as mystery ingredients that they must create a dish around. In the Who's Coming to Dinner? round, TV and radio broadcaster Zoe Ball challenges the celebrities to make their ultimate pudding | |
| Channel 4
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20:00 | Kirstie and Phil's Love It or List It: Brilliant Builds | Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer interrogate the cardinal sin of wasted space, as they look back at two builds where smart solutions, practical thinking and Kirstie's ethos of 'look at what you have before you add to it' helped save the day. In Wolverhampton, Kirstie and Phil stepped into a domestic deadlock. Gordon and Suky lived with their three children in a tired four-bed home. But despite having space to spare, the awkward layout and poorly defined rooms left Suky desperate to leave, but Gordon was convinced Kirstie could fix it with a clever redesign. Armed with an £80,000 Love It budget, Kirstie re-imagined the space, while Phil had £650,000 to tempt them with airy alternatives. But did they stay or leave, and have they stuck to their decision? And in the idyllic Lancashire village of Scorton, the duo helped Joanne and Nick end a seven-year stalemate: their tiny three-bed chalet bungalow had been overwhelmed by two growing kids, endless clutter and poorly functioning spaces. Joanne loved the home and community, but Nick dreamt of more space for the family. With a £70,000 Love It budget, Kirstie attempted to maximise every square inch of their teeny tiny home, while Phil had £550,000 to tempt them with bigger alternatives |
| 21:00 | The Murder Detective | Observational documentary telling the inside story of the seven-year-long mission to find out who murdered journalist Lyra McKee in Derry in 2019 and secure justice for her family. What begins as a murder investigation becomes a seven-year-long mission to identify those responsible, secure justice for Lyra's family, and take on the organisation that claimed responsibility for her death: the New IRA. Senior Investigating Officer Jason Murphy and his team begin the hunt for a masked gunman who seems to have disappeared without trace. With the murder weapon missing and not one of the 150 people on the street when Lyra was killed willing to come forward, detectives must painstakingly uncover the truth of what happened for themselves. Lyra's sister Nichola struggles with the devastating loss. As detectives uncover new evidence, the search for a single gunman grows into something much bigger, drawing Murphy towards investigating the leadership of the New IRA | |
| E4
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20:00 | Ladies of London | Martha has a difficult time unearthing long-forgotten memories when she sorts through some old boxes. Entrepreneur Myka Meier organises an awkward sit down. Missé wants to build bridges and organises a day of wine tasting and - she hopes - bonding. But the experience leaves a bitter taste in heiress Kimi Murdoch's mouth |
| 21:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | The fiery chef pulls no punches as he visits struggling restaurants across America and spends one week trying to help them become successful. Gordon visits Freddy's Steak House in Indiana, where the stakes are high and the steaks are dry. The owner is buried in debt, and the beef between the manager and the head chef has turned into a bitter power struggle | |
| BBC Four
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20:00 | Rome: A History of the Eternal City | Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals how Rome cast aside its pantheon of pagan gods, and Emperor Constantine took a huge leap of faith by promoting Christianity as the religion of the empire. He charts the rocky course of Rome's rise to become the capital of Western Christendom, and its impact on the lives of its citizens, elites and high priests |
| 21:00 | Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit | Scholar Mary Beard tackles one of the biggest puzzles of all as she examines how and when the Roman Empire fell, surveying the walls and fortifications of Britain and Germany. She seeks to redefine understanding of so-called 'Barbarian Invasions', before ultimately asking whether the Empire was transformed rather than destroyed, and still lives on in the world today | |
| More4
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19:55 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud meets Cumbrian couple Rob and Ruth, who have bought a 200-year-old former blacking mill and plan to slot in an entirely new, timber-clad structure within its walls, giving the impression that it is peeping out from the original ruins. But the original building is a scheduled monument and Historic England inform them it is too dangerous to repair, giving them no choice but to painstakingly rebuild the ancient mill around their new structure |
| 21:00 | The Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts | In the city of Parma, Alice surveys an underground hotel, a buried Roman bridge and a museum of offerings to the gods. A train takes Alice north to Turin, to find out how the city's grid system helped scientists crack an age-old mystery. She also heads across the Alps to discover how Hannibal dragged his army of elephants through the mountains | |