| What's on Now & Next (2026-05-18) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
07:50 | Today | Daily magazine show featuring entertainment and celebrity news, consumer advice, and Ireland's biggest giveaways. Presented by Dáithí Ó Sé and Maura Derrane |
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| 09:50 | The Drew Barrymore Show | Featuring Rossy's Gossy Possy, busting cold and flu myths with Dr Kameelah Phillips | |
| RTE2
[102] |
08:00 | New Wave: Ireland's Young Surfers | An unusually calm Atlantic stalls the competition season and as surfers wait for waves, rivalries form, friendships deepen and the pressure of qualification builds onshore |
| 08:30 | A Kind of Spark | With everyone in Juniper looking for them, Addie follows runaway Bonnie to the seaside, and knows she must convince Bonnie to go home - but how? | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
07:00 | Ireland AM | Ireland AM is the longest running daytime show in Ireland. Blending a mixture of lifestyle interviews and news content, with gardening, health, food and fashion seven days a week |
| 10:00 | This Morning | A mix of celebrity chat, lifestyle features, advice and competitions | |
| TG4
[104] |
08:15 | Petronix Defenders | Petswiper turns into a giant-sized iguana to play Princess and Dragon. With the help of Tim, Emma must learn that monsters do not exist to save the iguana |
| 08:27 | Pat an Madra | Lola hears a parrot singing and wants to bring it to school to make him a big star | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
08:00 | 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 |
| 09:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh hosts as Lloyd from Hertfordshire, Cate from Middlesborough, Alison from Beccles and Hashim from Stockport are the brave team hoping to take down one of the country's finest quiz brains | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
08:00 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | A prominent bank manager is almost killed by a hit-and-run driver just before he is due to set sail on the luxury liner Queen Mary. Convinced his life is in danger, he persuades Poirot to accompany him - and his valuable shipment of liberty bonds - to New York. But the Belgian sleuth's main concern is his own terrible sea-sickness. David Suchet stars |
| 08:55 | The Instant Gardener | Presenter Helen Skelton and expert garden designer Danny Clarke head to Bradford to breathe new life into a thoroughly overgrown garden lost in time. The aim is that they will get the job completed in just one day for owner Beverley and her family | |
| BBC One
[108] |
06:00 | Breakfast | A round-up of national and international news, plus current affairs, arts and entertainment, and weather |
| 09:30 | Morning Live | Gethin Jones, Helen Skelton and Michelle Ackerley host the weekday magazine show featuring a mixture of topical discussion and expert advice for viewers | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
08:15 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Debra, Ray and Amy get trapped at Frank and Marie's house during a snowstorm, but they actually find themselves having a good time - until an unguarded comment alters the mood. Comedy, starring Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton and Monica Horan |
| 08:40 | Everybody Loves Raymond | Ray discovers the leader of local group the Frontier Girls is intending to sell a record number of cookies in his area, and sets out to beat her at her own game. Comedy, starring Ray Romano and Amy Aquino | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
08:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | The chef heads to floundering soul food restaurant Blackberry's in Plainfield, New Jersey, but struggles to get his message across to indomitable owner Shelley. Her refusal to deal with the truth comes to a head when Gordon finds a dead mouse in the doorway, prompting him to step up his efforts to change her ways |
| 09:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | Gordon Ramsay is in New Jersey to help Rose Leone, who spent two years in a coma and came out of hospital to learn her son Michael had run her once-thriving Italian restaurant into the ground. With a menu of more than 126 dishes, the quality of the food is suffering, and even the chefs refuse to eat their own creations | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:00 | Art That Made Us | The world wars force artists to grapple with destruction and savagery, challenging conventions and the old imperial order, while those fleeing war bring new ideas to Britain. Contemporary war photographer Oliver Chanarin traces the story of William Orpen's subversive protest image, To the Unknown British Soldier in France, picturing a lone draped coffin amid the magnificence of the Palace of Versailles where peace delegates met in 1919, while artist Ryan Gander examines how sculptor Barbara Hepworth tried to make sense of war by reaching for beauty in abstract human forms and Denzil Forrester looks ahead to the post-colonial aftermath of war |
| 19:00 | University Challenge | Jeremy Paxman asks the questions as the first-round matches continue with an Oxbridge clash as Oriel College, Oxford go up against Christ's College, Cambridge for a place in the next round of the student quiz | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
03:25 | Food Unwrapped | Jimmy Doherty and Matt Tebbutt embark on an extraordinary road trip through America's Deep South. Starting on the Gulf Coast, in New Orleans, they discover how the shells from the huge number of oysters consumed locally could protect the coastline. Heading through Mississippi, Jimmy and Matt find out what makes southern sweet tea different from a British cuppa. In Alabama, Matt wants to know why they fry green tomatoes, and Jimmy uncovers exactly what grits are. Then it's off to Tennessee to visit the Jack Daniels distillery and discover the secrets of sour mash. In Louisville, where the South meets the North, Jimmy and Matt learn about fast-food consistency at Kentucky Fried Chicken HQ |
| 08:55 | Find It, Fix It, Flog It | Henry Cole is rather taken with a throne salvaged from an exotic nightclub and Simon O'Brien's restoration of a Victorian doll's house fails to go to plan | |