| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-06) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
11:10 | Amanda & Alan's Italian Job | Amanda Holden aims to bring a slice of Hollywood to Sicily with a banana leaf-patterned boudoir as she takes the reins designing the master bedroom. Alan Carr is concerned her camp theme is on the wrong side of tacky, so she takes him to visit one of Palermo's most prestigious hotels to show how exuberant décor has enticed high-profile guests including famous composer Richard Wagner. To bring her vision to life, Amanda ropes in her DIY-loving father to help build a bespoke four-poster bed. Alan, meanwhile, learns to kick back like the Italians do, with a lesson in the art of doing nothing |
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| 11:45 | MasterChef: The Professionals | Anna Haugh's Skills Test challenges the chefs on their butchery skills, while Marcus Wareing asks them to butterfly sardines, and serve them with tomato paste and olive tapenade. The four chefs then have a final chance to impress in the Signature Menu round, when they have 90 minutes to serve up an outstanding main course and dessert of their own choosing | |
| RTE2
[102] |
11:10 | Deadly Mission Shark | The team explores the mangroves, which are essential for the survival of some sharks, and come face to face with baby lemon sharks |
| 11:45 | news2day Weekly | The stories making the headlines both at home and abroad during the past seven days | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
09:00 | Ireland AM | Magazine programme blending a mixture of lifestyle interviews and news content, with human interest stories, consumer affairs, health, politics, gardening, education, finance, food and fashion |
| 12:00 | Wheel of Fortune | Graham Norton hosts a special edition of the game show featuring famous faces, with AJ Odudu, Gok Wan and Charlotte Church trying their luck at spinning the wheel and solving puzzles to win big for their chosen charities | |
| TG4
[104] |
11:20 | The Golden Girls | Blanche's father dies, and Sophia devises a plan to make money from their new giant television screen |
| 11:50 | Rásaí Beo | Live horse racing from Navan Racecourse in Co Meath. Presented by Seán Bán Breathnach, with Mánus Ó Conghaile, Sarah Lynam and Daragh Ó Conchúir | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
11:05 | The Masked Singer | Joel Dommett hosts as the five Masked Singers perform in the semi-final and a double elimination chooses the three finalists. Richard E Grant joins the judges panel |
| 12:30 | Live: Formula E | The Sao Paulo ePrix qualfiying session (Start-time 12.40pm). Coverage of the battle for grid positions in the opening round of the season, held at Sao Paulo Street Circuit in Brazil | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
10:00 | Endeavour | Shaun Evans steps into the shoes of John Thaw in this 1965-set prequel to Inspector Morse, playing a younger version of the cerebral detective involved in the hunt for a missing schoolgirl. Soon deep in a full-blown murder investigation, Endeavour is sidelined, discredited and at a dead end - so he risks all to begin his own quest for justice. Roger Allam and Charlie Creed-Miles co-star in the mystery |
| 12:00 | Emmerdale | Ray reveals he knows what April has been up to, Marlon is filled with hope and Sam is shamefaced | |
| BBC One
[108] |
11:30 | Mary at 90: A Lifetime of Cooking | Mary Berry comes to the culinary rescue of actor and comedian Kiell Smith-Bynoe, who loves to entertain but is more at home making cocktails than food. Mary's four dinner party recipes are a canape of porcini mushroom arancini, roast salmon with parmesan crust and mushroom and white wine sauce, fillet tails of beef in Béarnaise sauce and chocolate roulade |
| 12:00 | Football Focus | A look ahead to the weekend's matches, including Manchester City v Sunderland in the Premier League and the FA Cup second-round ties. Plus, news from the lunchtime games | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
11:35 | The Simpsons | Homer is aghast to overhear Marge threatening to leave him and makes a big effort to turn over a new leaf, starting by taking her out for the night - leaving their kids in the care of the babysitter from hell |
| 12:10 | The Simpsons | Homer is photographed in a compromising situation with an exotic dancer during a workmate's stag party and finds to his dismay that Marge is in no mood to forgive and forget | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
11:30 | The Big Bang Theory | Leonard and Howard attempt to distract Sheldon with a trip to a historic railway when he slows the progress of their work on the Air Force guidance system. Raj and Stuart look after baby Halley, while Penny and Amy take Bernadette out |
| 12:00 | The Big Bang Theory | Amy is furious when she learns that Sheldon has shared intimate details of their relationship with his colleagues at the university, prompting their first fight since moving in together. Raj considers trying to live without financial support from his father, who thinks he is spoilt | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:35 | All Creatures Great and Small | Siegfried takes matters into his own hands when he discovers who shot war veteran Jacob Pearson's dog, and a farmer is found to be sneaking his cows onto a neighbouring property to enjoy better grazing. Christopher Timothy and Robert Hardy star |
| 19:00 | Live Snooker: UK Championship | Hazel Irvine presents coverage of the early stages of the second semi-final from York Barbican, where the first man to reach 11 frames will join this afternoon's winner in the showpiece match. With commentary and analysis from Steve Davis, John Parrott, Ken Doherty, Dennis Taylor and Stephen Hendry, and reports from Shabnam Younus-Jewell | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
11:00 | A Place in the Sun | Berkshire charity worker Lynda Feymor has travelled all over the world, but it's Portugal's eastern Algarve that's captured her heart. With a budget of £175,000, Jasmine Harman scours every nook and cranny of the local market to find five properties, but can any of them give Lynda the 'feeling' she is searching for? |
| 12:00 | A Place in the Sun | Ben Hillman shows Warwickshire couple Lorraine and Neville Bulsara five holiday homes in the Spanish region of La Marina Alta within their budget of £160,000. It's not an easy decision because the properties present the couple with a tricky dilemma of whether to buy on the coast or in the country | |