| What's on Now & Next (2026-07-21) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
18:30 | Reeling in the Years | News and music from 1980, the year John Lennon was murdered in New York, a Boomtown Rats concert was cancelled due to fears over crowd safety and an IRA land mine pushed the Troubles' death toll to 2,000. Includes hits by the Nolan Sisters, U2, Queen, Abba, Blondie and the Clash |
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| 19:00 | Building Ireland | Exploring Ireland's construction heritage, looking at the country's greatest engineering and building achievements. Architect Orla Murphy examines how Athlone evolved around its strategic River Shannon crossing, from medieval streetscapes and urban topography to the new-found potential the town has for urban regeneration | |
| RTE2
[102] |
18:30 | Home and Away | Sonny's web of lies deepens, Harper and Beau are all loved up, and David covers his trauma |
| 19:00 | Saving Lives at Sea | In Queensferry, near Glasgow, an American visitor is caught out by the tide - and is barely conscious when the RNLI crew drag him out of the water. In Portishead, on the Severn estuary, a man's leap from a party boat lands him in serious trouble. On the south coast of Cornwall, the Lizard crew race to the rescue of four people who are stranded on rapidly submerging rocks | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
18:05 | The Six O'Clock Show | Chat show featuring celebrity interviews, food from leading chefs and guidance on a wide range of topics, from consumer affairs to the latest trends, with viewers invited to contribute with pictures, comments, stories and gossip |
| 19:00 | News at 7 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team | |
| TG4
[104] |
18:57 | An Aimsir Láithreach | National and international weather forecast |
| 19:00 | Nuacht TG4 | The day's main news stories from a regional, national and international perspective | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
17:55 | 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 |
| 19:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh presents as contestants Phil, Liz, Alex and Nicola pit their wits against one of the ruthless Chasers in the hope of winning a potential prize pot worth thousands of pounds. They work as a team and play strategically to answer general knowledge questions against the clock and race down the game board to the exit without being caught | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
17:45 | Inspector Morse | The Oxford sleuth investigates a double mystery connected to the local Greek community - the death of a restaurant chef and the disappearance of a baby - and wonders whether an academic event attended by some of the university's leading classical scholars could shed light on the case. Mystery, starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately, with Jan Harvey, Martin Jarvis and James Hazeldine |
| 19:55 | Heartbeat | Nick moves up a rank to Sergeant and Blaketon becomes the new postmaster, while Greengrass threatens revenge on the miscreant responsible for dosing his beloved dog Alfred with rat poison. Rural drama, starring Nick Berry and Bill Maynard | |
| BBC One
[108] |
18:30 | BBC Newsline; Weather | |
| 19:00 | Our Lives | A portrait of Northern Irish dancer Melissa Hamilton, charting her late start, determination and rise to principal with the Royal Ballet against all expectations. This programme follows her journey, from a childhood in Dromore, County Down, to the pinnacle of one of the most competitive institutions in classical ballet, as she confronts the psychological and physical challenges of elite ballet | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
18:30 | Come Dine with Me | Second to host in Belfast is 39-year-old finance worker Andrea, who's throwing a Belfast-themed evening chock-full of local lingo and simple-but-effective fare. Kirsty is impressed by Andrea's homemade pasta, but the spice isn't right for her in the starter. With lots of Belfast patter flying around, Aodhan leads the group in perfecting a local greeting which has the gang miming tractor driving. But will James's confession that he'd rather eat bugs than cheesecake, and Donna's tattoo tale, leave a bad taste? |
| 19:00 | Channel 4 News | Including sport and weather | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
18:30 | Hollyoaks | Cindy's return sparks plenty of questions, and shocking news ripples through the village. Elsewhere, a resident races against time |
| 19:00 | Hollyoaks | As Beth comes face-to-face with her past, her world might be about to come crashing down, and an investigation takes a shocking turn | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:30 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo's Scottish travels bring him to Glasgow's Hampden Park Stadium, the home of Scottish football, where he admires the oldest football trophy in the world and hears about the birth of the 'passing game'. He also learns about the development of the M8 motorway in the 1960s and visits Kelvingrove Art Gallery, set up by war artist Joan Eardley amid the tenements of Townhead. He finishes this leg in the modernist new town of Cumbernauld, hearing about the utopian ideals that shaped its design and architecture |
| 19:00 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo's Scottish travels bring him to Glasgow's Hampden Park Stadium, the home of Scottish football, where he admires the oldest football trophy in the world and hears about the birth of the 'passing game'. He also learns about the development of the M8 motorway in the 1960s and visits Kelvingrove Art Gallery, set up by war artist Joan Eardley amid the tenements of Townhead. He finishes this leg in the modernist new town of Cumbernauld, hearing about the utopian ideals that shaped its design and architecture | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
18:55 | Location, Location, Location | The dynamic property duo catch up with two sets of house-hunters who wanted to make the switch from London life to family life. In 2016, Cara and Ben realised that in order to have the space they wanted they'd need to move out of the capital. Keen cyclist Ben discovered Bishop's Stortford when he was out on a bike ride, and the couple moved into a rental property there so that they could get a feel for the town before they bought. With the surprise arrival of baby Max, and their rental lease about to end, they were desperate to buy a place of their own. Phil showed them just what they were looking for, and as fate would have it, just around the corner from their rental. Kirstie and Phil catch up with Cara and Ben to find that they've expanded to a family of four and the house has had a serious makeover. In 2020, Tom and his Floridian wife Kaitlyn were still house sharing with Tom's old schoolfriend in south London. Desperate to find their own pad to start a family in and even with a healthy budget of £450k, the couple had been struggling to find everything on their wish list: three bedrooms, character, lots of outside space for keen gardener Tom, and the 'American-style' large open-plan living space that Kaitlyn was used to. Even with Kirstie and Phil onside, none of the properties they saw hit enough of their marks to make the couple want to offer, so Phil advised them to expand their search area further east into Kent. Now, Phil's back to see how they're getting on |
| 19:55 | Grand Designs | GP Peter Berkin and his wife Chard, an alternative medicine practitioner, have decided to build a new home at the bottom of their garden, near Milton Keynes, but cannot agree on any part of the design - even the basic shape. Peter is a keen hobbyist who wants the house to feature a workshop where he can build a plane, and he's planning to spend twice the £200,000 budget Chard has in mind. Kevin McCloud follows their progress | |