| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-29) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
21:30 | The Last Rifleman | Artie Crawford is a Second World War veteran who has just lost his wife. On the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, Artie decides to secretly escape his Northern Ireland care home, and embarks on a journey to France to pay his final respects to his best friend. Drama, starring Pierce Brosnan and Jurgen Prochnow |
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| 23:25 | Rory McIlroy: A Battle Won | Documentary chronicling golfing great Rory McIlroy's incredible 2025, when he finally won The Masters, completed the Career Grand Slam to achieve sporting immortality and also helped Europe to a first Ryder Cup victory on American soil since 2012. The film blends archive footage of a young Rory over the years, alongside interviews with fellow players such as Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, Paul McGinley and Bob Rotella | |
| RTE2
[102] |
21:00 | Thirteen Lives | A rescue mission is organised in Thailand when 12 boys from a football team and their coach are trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non system of underground caves that are flooding. Ron Howard's fact-based drama, starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell and Joel Edgerton |
| 23:35 | The Claremont Murders | Part two of two. The police find the killer's DNA on a scrap of fingernail. They discover that the killer has struck before, but that his victims lived to tell the tale. Soon, a loving husband and stepfather is on trial for three murders in the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
22:15 | My Boyfriend Made Me Do It | Hearing from people who were coerced, tricked and forced by their partners into committing serious crimes. In this edition, Suzana reveals that she spent almost a year in a notorious Hong Kong prison for smuggling a kilo of cocaine into the country. Plus, Robert speaks about how his wife tricked him into believing his daughter had Leukaemia, so that she could scam people into giving them money |
| 23:15 | Live Aid at 40 | A look at events during and after staging the concerts of July 1985, when Bob Geldof engaged with governments and aid agencies - and found himself at the heart of a controversy over Ethiopia's Marxist government's resettlement policy and how aid was being used. Featuring archival footage from both concerts, including BBC, ABC and MTV coverage, with interviews with figures including Sting, Bono, Nile Rodgers, Mike Mitchell and Birhan Woldu, the Ethiopian girl whose image was immortalised by David Bowie during the Wembley concert | |
| TG4
[104] |
22:15 | My Best Friend's Wedding | A food critic realises she is in love with her best friend just as he announces he is going to marry another woman. Determined to have him to herself, she heads for the wedding with the intention of sabotaging the ceremony - but persuading the groom to give up on his bride-to-be proves harder than expected. Romantic comedy, starring Julia Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett |
| 00:08 | An Aimsir Láithreach | National and international weather forecast | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
22:00 | Love Island | Memorable contestants from the past decade of Love Island reunite for an unmissable anniversary event, from explosive recouplings and shock bombshells to the love stories that captured the nation. They reflect on unforgettable moments from the villa and look back at previously unseen audition clips |
| 23:30 | The Graham Norton Show | Stage and screen star Ian McKellen talks about taking the role of Falstaff in Player Kings, a new version of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. Award-winning actor Michael Sheen discusses his new Welsh BBC drama series The Way, which he also directed, Ambika Mod chats about her contribution to the new Netflix version of David Nicholls' romantic bestseller One Day, while comedian Josh Widdicombe also guests. Plus, Gabrielle performs her current single A Place In Your Heart | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
22:40 | Emmerdale | There is still a threat to life in the village, while April makes a shocking discovery and Jai knows too much |
| 23:15 | Christmas on the Alpaca Farm | Jess quits her job at a New York City fashion label intent on winning a competition with her own line of sustainable luxury knits. She teams up with Andrew, a single dad and alpaca farmer, as they bring Christmas joy and love to the farm. Festive romance, starring Kirsten Comerford and Matt Wells | |
| BBC One
[108] |
22:30 | The Priests: Faith and Fame | The story of three parish priests from Northern Ireland who landed a million pound record contract, and broke records for the fastest selling debut classical album of all time. Fathers Martin and Eugene O'Hagan and Father David Delargy reveal the real story of how they were catapulted to fame, how they juggled their Parish duties with recording sessions and concerts around the world |
| 23:30 | Amandaland | The family heads to Aunt Joan's country house for Christmas, but things fall apart when Mal and Anne tag along and Amanda struggles to recreate the magic from her youth. Anne is in despair at being separated from her family and Felicity is increasingly irritated by her sister's high spirits, while Mal finds a hidden photo that appears to reveal a deep family secret. Jennifer Saunders guest stars in a festive episode of the Motherland spin-off, starring Lucy Punch, Joanna Lumley and Philippa Dunne | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
22:15 | Gangs of New York | An Irishman in 19th-century New York is taken under the wing of the ruthless gang leader who killed his father 15 years before, and rises up the ranks of power - all the while plotting his revenge. Meanwhile, the tension caused by the enforced drafting of the population into the army to fight in the Civil War explodes into bloodshed and riots. Martin Scorsese's epic historical drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz and Liam Neeson |
| 01:15 | Happiest Season | A woman heads to girlfriend's family home for Christmas, but discovers she hasn't come out to her conservative parents. That throws a spanner in the works when it comes to her plans to propose. Romantic comedy, starring Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, and Clea DuVall, who also wrote and directed | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
22:00 | Celebrity Gogglebox | Celebrities including Josh Hartnett, Tamsin Egerton, Kieran Culkin, Jazz Charton, Joe Marler and Nick Mohammed join Gogglebox regulars to react to the week's television, in this special episode for Stand Up to Cancer. Shows under scrutiny include The 1% Club Rollover, With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration, Celebrity Catchphrase Christmas Special, The Sound of Music, James May's Shed Load of Ideas and both Becca's and Matthew's Stand Up to Cancer stories |
| 23:05 | First Dates | Those taking part this time include Melina, a 23-year-old make-up artist who has struggled to find a man who is willing to accept that dating her also means dating her whole family. Vincent is a 26-year-old microbiologist who wants to meet a ginger-haired man who can match his intellectual conversation. So when redhead and fellow microbiologist Ben steps into the restaurant, it looks like a match made in science heaven | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
22:00 | Imagine | Tom Stoppard is one of the world's leading, funniest and cleverest playwrights. Ever since he hit the ground running in the 1960s with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, there has always been a streak of melancholy beneath the sparkling surface of his work. In this programme from 2021, he recounts his extraordinary life story to Alan Yentob and talks about his 2020 play Leopoldstadt, in which he came full circle and faced up to the pain and loss in his past |
| 23:30 | Shakespeare in Love | The Elizabethan dramatist suffers from writer's block while working on his new play, and to make matters worse creditors are about to close down the theatre. But when a noblewoman disguises herself as a man to fulfil her dream of appearing on stage, the Bard becomes enchanted by her and is inspired to pen the most famous love story of all time. Comedy, with Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Judi Dench, Ben Affleck, Geoffrey Rush, Martin Clunes and Tom Wilkinson | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
22:00 | Two Men on a Bike | David Baddiel and Hugh Dennis travel along the Canal du Midi. Along the way, Hugh and David visit an artisanal dye expert who reveals the ancient magic behind turning things blue. At the Seuil de Naurouze, they gatecrash an unusual local fiesta, before dining in Castelnaudary - the cassoulet capital of the world. This leg of the journey culminates at the medieval citadel of Carcassonne |
| 23:05 | Two Men on a Bike | On the final leg of their journey, David Baddiel and Hugh Dennis head to the Mediterranean port of Le Somail and take a leisurely boat ride along the Canal du Midi. They head on to the city of Beziers and see the engineering genius behind the Nine Locks of Fonseranes, before it's off to a Languedoc vineyard and the final push to the coast and the seaside town of Sète | |