| What's on Now & Next (2026-05-04) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
17:45 | Nuacht | The latest news headlines |
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| 17:55 | RTÉ News | National and international news. | |
| RTE2
[102] |
17:30 | The Big Bang Theory | Sheldon becomes upset about his career, the destruction of the comic-book store and Leonard and Penny's future living arrangements. Elsewhere, Howard is unable to keep hold of a carer for his mother. Comedy, staring Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco |
| 18:00 | Shortland Street | Desi blows up, TK faces backlash, and Drew seeks escape | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
17:30 | News at 5.30 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team |
| 18:00 | Celebrity Catchphrase | Stephen Mulhern hosts the game show, with Alex Jones, Tyler West and Ricky Wilson guessing well-known phrases for the chance to win £50,000 for good causes | |
| TG4
[104] |
17:25 | Malcolm in the Middle | Chaos ensues on a family trip to the zoo. Hal becomes jealous of Lois's ex-boyfriend, Malcolm and Dewey get trapped in a tiger pen and Reese locks horns with a goat. Comedy, starring Frankie Muniz and Jane Kaczmarek |
| 17:55 | Anfa | Action-oriented and high-energy game show based on the weather. Gaelscoil Riabhach from Loughrea in Co Galway take on the magical cloud in this edition | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
17:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh hosts as Carol from Sutton Coldfield, Fuad from London, Victoria from Falkirk and Anthony from Stalybridge hope that they can take home thousands of pounds together, if they can beat a Chaser |
| 18:00 | 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] |
16:55 | The Royal | With Susie and Carnegie's relationship the talk of the hospital, Matron reaches the end of her tether when her niece turns up late for work and she decides to suspend her. Mr Rose faces a personal trial when his golfing friend ends up in the operating room and Dr Burnett wrestles with a dilemma. Ormerod and Bobby try to rescue a farmer who is trapped under a combine harvester. Starring Sarah Beck Mather, Wendy Craig and Damian O'Hare |
| 17:55 | A Touch of Frost | David Jason reprises his role as Jack Frost for the last time in this two-part finale to the popular drama series. The detective teams up with RSPCA inspector Christine Moorhead in a raid on an illegal dogfight organised by criminal Gerry Berland. However, when a scuffle results in the murder of a teenage boy, to which Christine is the sole witness, she becomes the target of Berland's cronies, who will go to any lengths to stop her testifying. Meanwhile, a copycat killer emerges with a vendetta against Frost. With Bruce Alexander, John Lyons and guest stars Phyllis Logan (Lovejoy), Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat), Adrian Dunbar (Ashes to Ashes), Leah Bracknell (Emmerdale) and Simon Shepherd (Peak Practice) | |
| BBC One
[108] |
17:15 | Pointless | Alexander Armstrong is joined by co-host Angela Scanlon for the quiz in which contestants try to score the fewest points possible by giving the least obvious correct answers |
| 18:00 | BBC News at Six; Weather | The latest headlines | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
17:00 | Chateau DIY | Vivienne and Simon attempt to transform a peeling, lifeless room into their deluxe Empire Suite, with beds to upcycle, giant mirrors to install and the entire space to re-invent |
| 18:00 | Sun, Sea and Selling Houses | In Almería, Sharon and Shaun Garner meet friends whose search for a modern bolthole comes with one firm rule - absolutely no terracotta floors. But finding the perfect mix of community, location and style proves trickier than expected, as one property splits opinion and another raises the stakes | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
17:00 | First Dates | Barrister Sarah enters the restaurant looking for love and finds herself paired with ex-military man Dan. Mancunian friends Megan and Ellena are on a double date hoping that Liverpudlian Liam and Yorkshireman Dylan are the partners they've been looking for. Self-described maximalist Aayziat meets astro-chemist Zac |
| 18:00 | The Simpsons | Barney borrows Homer's car and vanishes on a drunken binge. Weeks later, Homer gets a letter from New York saying the vehicle is illegally parked between the towers of the World Trade Centre. Although Homer hates the Big Apple - owing to an unfortunate incident from his youth - the family heads to there to try to get the car back | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:00 | Art That Made Us | The story of Britain in the 18th century, which saw an explosion of creativity and a country with enough money, from trade and conquest, to pay for it. Sculptor Thomas J Price visits Harewood House to see the elaborate Robert Adam-designed interiors, Joshua Reynolds portraits and Thomas Chippendale furniture that the slave trade paid for. This was also the great age of mockery, and artist Lubaina Himid reflects on William Hogarth's scabrous exposure of upper-class hypocrisies, while Stewart Lee analyses the cutting humour of A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift's bitter satire about the treatment of the Irish poor, with passages performed by Jason Isaacs |
| 19:00 | University Challenge | Jeremy Paxman presides as the academic quiz starts its 29th series since the revival of the show in 1994, with the opening match of the first round seeing the University of Bristol take on Durham University | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
17:20 | Four in a Bed | Dave and Jo Bate welcome their guests to the White Horse, a pub and B&B in Ripon, North Yorkshire, where they hope an afternoon of morris dancing in front of the cathedral will make a lasting impression. Unfortunately, Ed and Jane Mitchell get locked inside their room by mistake, and there are arguments over tomatoes at breakfast |
| 17:50 | Four in a Bed | Retired teachers Ed and Jane Mitchell welcome the contestants to the Old Farmhouse, Cheshire, but everyone is shocked to discover they will have to share a bathroom. Meanwhile, Sam and Ian Sugden find an unwelcome surprise underneath their bed | |