| What's on Now & Next (2026-10-17) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
08:40 | Fair City Omnibus | The past week's events in the soap |
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| 10:40 | Ros na Rún | Bobbi Lee's 'relationship quiz' makes Laoise realise how little Micheál really knows about her. Try as he might, Rónán finds it increasingly difficult to conceal his secret and when Niall asks him to read a simple question he panics | |
| RTE2
[102] |
08:55 | Wild Kratts | Animation for children about two brothers who use creature power suits created from animal DNA to learn about and help various species of animals around the world |
| 09:30 | The Next Step | Reality-style drama, following the lives of a group of dancers as they attempt to win the regional championships | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
09:00 | Ireland AM | Ireland's longest-running breakfast show. Bringing you news, entertainment and lifestyle content, as well as stories from communities across the country, seven days a week |
| 12:00 | Rookie Nurses | Leah is faced with her biggest challenge yet when one of her patients confesses that he wants to die. Angelo tries to keep up with a ward full of patients and Mikey thinks he has seen it all until a man comes in to A&E after being run over by his wife. Gina and Issie reflect on the huge progress their stroke patients have made | |
| TG4
[104] |
09:26 | Polly Pocket | Shani discovers that she can talk to plants and encourages her roses to grow, but the plant becomes a jungle |
| 09:37 | Polly Pocket | Polly visits Cosmopolitan City to see Jake perform his magic show | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
08:40 | Unbeatable | Over three rounds, contestants vie to find the single 'unbeatable' answer and streak ahead of the rest to make the final where they can win a cash prize. General knowledge quiz, hosted by Jason Manford |
| 09:40 | 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] |
08:45 | Heartbeat | Nick appears to be uninterested when there is a spate of petrol thefts in Aidensfield, and Blaketon is enraged to discover that he is neglecting his job to spend time with Kate and the baby. Nick Berry and Derek Fowlds star |
| 09:50 | The Darling Buds of May | Part one of two. Dispirited by a wet English summer, the Larkins cross the Channel in the hope that the French way of life will have a beneficial effect on the family. David Jason, Pam Ferris and Catherine Zeta-Jones star | |
| BBC One
[108] |
06:00 | Breakfast | A round-up of national and international news, plus sports reports, weather forecasts and arts and entertainment features |
| 10:00 | Saturday Kitchen Live | Matt Tebbutt is joined by chefs Ben Lippett and Adam Byatt, and by special guest Alan Cumming. Helen McGinn picks the drinks to go with the studio dishes | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
09:15 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Ray is delighted to be awarded an honorary doctorate, but hurts Debra's feelings by thanking everyone except her in his acceptance speech. He claims it was an accident, though she takes the opportunity to remind him of past snubs that were obviously deliberate |
| 09:45 | Frasier | Roz begins to date a compulsive womaniser who also happens to be one of Niles' patients, but when Frasier tries to warn her she is heading for heartache, she mistakes his concern for jealousy. Comedy, starring Peri Gilpin and Kelsey Grammer | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
09:00 | Made in Chelsea | The group arrive at Penn Castle in Dorset for a break away from SW3, organised by Temps and Abi to celebrate their two-year anniversary. Temps has a couple of surprises up his sleeve - including a present for Abi. Sam Prince has told Zeyno that he fancies her, but he decides to keep moving forward with Maali too - and he kisses both of them in the same day. When Chuggs hears that Sam and Zeyno have been kissing, he decides to end things with Zeyno |
| 10:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | The chef heads to family owned Italian restaurant Giuseppi's in Macomb Township, Michigan. Father and son Joe and Sam Borgia's constant fighting is driving customers away, and Gordon discovers one of the restaurateurs is concealing a serious health problem. Nevertheless, he sets about rescuing them from disaster and turning around the failing business | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:35 | Talking Pictures | Celia Imrie narrates a selection of interviews and key moments from the BBC archives featuring directors Akira Kurosawa, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel and Ingmar Bergman. The programme shows how they and their groundbreaking films changed the language of world cinema, and showed those who came after them exactly what the movie camera was capable of achieving |
| 19:00 | Wild Britain | Ted Green uses a hydraulic hoist to propel himself amongst the 50,000 leaves of a 600-year-old oak tree in the grounds of Windsor Great Park. Through the use of time-lapse and macro photography the creatures who depend on it are revealed | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
08:55 | Four in a Bed | The competition kicks off at Creates Monmouth in Monmouthshire, where a peaceful night's sleep is ruined by an early morning fire alarm and a lack of privacy bothers one guest |
| 09:30 | Four in a Bed | The rivals stay over at Coastal Park Accommodation in Llanelli, where an evening drinks session turns tense when Billy confronts hosts Claire and Tony about their business model | |