| What's on Now & Next (2026-05-12) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
14:00 | Shortland Street | Marty leans in, Dawn holds back, and Madonna is challenged |
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| 14:30 | Best Place to Be | Baz Ashmawy travels across Europe meeting Irish people who have uprooted the lives they had in Ireland to make a home elsewhere. He begins by heading to Spain, where he meets hoteliers Joan and John Gallagher, originally from Roscommon, and Dublin events designer and stylist Róisín Moloney | |
| RTE2
[102] |
14:00 | Holly Hobbie | Holly tries to escape her family drama by running away to Chicago with Tyler |
| 14:30 | Bush Kids | The Bush Kids learn how to build a shelter to sleep in using only what they find on the forest floor and cook their first meal on an open fire | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
14:00 | The Chase | All that stands between Tony from Cramlington, Zoe from Huntingdon, Rachael from Liverpool and Renj from London is the small matter of one of the country's finest quiz brains. Bradley Walsh asks the questions, but do they have the answers? |
| 15:00 | Lorraine | Early morning chat show presented by Lorraine Kelly, with celebrity interviews, entertainment news, cooking tips, fashion features and musical guests. | |
| TG4
[104] |
13:30 | Murder, She Wrote | Jessica's work on a new novel leads her to unravel the mystery behind the death of a friend, racehorse trainer Matt Cleveland. Guest starring Mickey Rooney and Tippi Hedren |
| 14:25 | An Deis | Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile presents the game show in which three teams compete against each other answering general knowledge questions to light up their paths and take home the jackpot | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
14:00 | Storage Hoarders | Aggie MacKenzie helps Maureen and John, who have an overflowing storage unit after downsizing to their latest home. Plus, she travels to Birmingham to meet David, who is struggling to tackle the seven-year problem of sorting out his parents' cluttered house - and matters come to a head with an unexpected proposition |
| 15:00 | Paddington Station 24/7 | A look at the behind-the-scenes action at one of the UK's busiest transport hubs. This series chronicles the typical and not-so-typical issues that face station staff, transport workers, emergency services, commuters, tourists and everyone in between | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
13:55 | Impossible Engineering | The construction of the Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest free-standing tower, which uses liquid springs and safety glass to withstand earthquakes and high winds |
| 14:55 | The Hotel Inspector | Alex Polizzi visits the Sea Croft, a struggling B&B in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Two years ago, owner Georgina gave up a career teaching business studies with a dream of running a successful guest house. Now, a £50,000 bill for unforeseen repairs and dismal occupancy has left her struggling to run the business. With her immaculate rooms lying empty, self-confessed neat freak Georgina cannot understand where she is going wrong. Alex can see the potential for success but getting Georgina to stop focusing on little details and start seeing the bigger picture does not prove easy | |
| BBC One
[108] |
14:00 | Scam Interceptors | The team investigate a scammer pretending to be from Amazon and trying to defraud a man in the UK by saying that hackers have access to his online account |
| 14:30 | Celebrity Escape to the Country | Choirmaster Gareth Malone is hoping that the New Forest property market hits all the right notes, as he enlists the help of Sonali Shah to find him and his family a new home in the Hampshire countryside. With mum Sian along for assistance, Gareth has one big request - to find a property with enough space to fit a grand piano, and a beautifully converted former schoolhouse may just provide the answer | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
13:10 | Help! We Bought a Village | Francesca and Carl, the owners of an Italian hamlet - which they have turned into a holiday complex - welcome the first guests of the season |
| 14:10 | Countdown | Colin Murray and Rachel Riley host the long-running words-and-numbers game with impressionist Rory Bremner joining Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
13:55 | Modern Family | Phil enjoys sharing the secrets of the estate agent's life with Luke and Manny's classmates on school career day - only for things to turn ugly when his rival Gil Thorpe turns up. Jay's dream of being a writer looks destined to fail as he struggles to complete his book, while Lily's first encounter with the Tooth Fairy proves lucrative when a drunken Cam accidentally slips a $100 bill under her pillow |
| 14:25 | Modern Family | Mitch's ex, successful doctor Teddy, invites the entire family to a fundraising event at the local roller rink - and when Cam realises how popular the host is, his jealousy soon gets out of hand. Claire tries to keep her distance from Jay to avoid talk of a job offer, while Phil has a novel way of teaching Gloria to skate and Haley gives Alex tips on flirting | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:15 | Lost Cities of the Ancients | Profile of the ancient Hittite civilisation, looking at what archaeologists found when they uncovered its lost capital, Hattusha in modern-day Turkey, including temples, palaces and a pyramid-like structure facing Egypt. The historians also discovered a library charting the rise and fall of the empire, which vanished 3,000 years ago. Narrated by Mark Halliley |
| 19:00 | University Challenge | In the sixth of the academic quiz's first-round matches, four students from the University of Glasgow pit their wits against a team from Queen's University Belfast in a bid to reach the second stage of the competition. Jeremy Paxman asks the questions | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
13:35 | Come Dine with Me | In Surrey, five cooks from the Woking and Weybridge area battle to win the culinary contest's £1,000 prize. The first to host is Vincenzo Ferlita, who works in an ice-cream van. Staying true to his Italian and Sicilian roots, he hopes that his wealth of family recipes will impress his guests |
| 14:05 | Come Dine with Me | Canadian housewife and craft-maker Sarah Maynard is second to play host in the Woking and Weybridge area, and hopes to impress her guests by serving up a three-course Turkish feast. However, the lavish spread needs a lot of preparation time, and she must hope it turns out as presentable as she plans it to be | |