| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-26) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
21:20 | Oppenheimer | General Leslie Groves Jr spearheads the Manhattan Project to research and develop a devastating weapon capable of ending the Second World War. J Robert Oppenheimer and his colleagues subsequently risk destroying humanity to create an atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan's Bafta and Oscar-winning biopic, starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr and Emily Blunt |
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| 00:45 | Goodfellas | An Irish-Italian boy from a poor neighbourhood grows up idolising the glamorous lifestyle of the Mafia. Taken under the wing of a mobster, he rises quickly in the world of organised crime. But he soon has to face the realities of murder and treachery, while his involvement in drug deals puts him at risk from both sides of the law. Martin Scorsese's crime drama, starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and an Oscar-winning Joe Pesci | |
| RTE2
[102] |
00:20 | A Film with Me in It | An out-of-work actor turns to a failed writer for help when a freak accident leaves him with a number of dead bodies on his hands. Aware that the situation looks too suspicious to go to the police, they decide to dispose of the corpses and put their creative minds to work on coming up with a foolproof plan. Black comedy, starring Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty and Keith Allen |
| 02:00 | Sea Fever | A shy, aspiring marine biologist and the crew of an Irish trawler run into an unseen object, and are soon marooned at sea. Before long, they are fighting for survival as they tackle a parasite in their water supply. Director Neasa Hardiman's thriller, starring Connie Nielsen, Dougray Scott and Hermione Corfield | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
21:00 | Titanic | A party of explorers studying the sunken remains of the famous liner meets an elderly woman who was a passenger on the ill-fated maiden voyage. She recounts how she boarded the ship while on the brink of being forced into marriage by her family, and was stopped from killing herself by a penniless artist. She fell in love with her saviour, but the disaster on the horizon meant their time together was doomed to be short. James Cameron's Oscar-winning romantic drama, starring Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates and Bill Paxton |
| 00:55 | Gogglebox Ireland | Festive special in which three Irish households living abroad join the fun, with audiences in London, Berlin and Auckland tuning in for some traditional Irish Christmas TV | |
| TG4
[104] |
00:25 | Gradam Ceoil TG4 @ Expo 25 | A musical collaboration celebrating the cultural links between Ireland and Japan featuring the recipients of the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Awards 2025 and traditional Japanese musicians and dancers. Siobhán Peoples, Matt Cranitch, Cathy Jordan, Colm Broderick, Johnny Óg Connolly and Flook join Kozo Toyota on stage to perform a newly composed piece of music to celebrate the writer Patrick Lafcadio Hearn. The concert features Okinawan singing, Taiko drumming and Bon Odori dancing. Presented by Áine Hensey |
| 01:45 | Queen: A Night at the Odeon | A performance from the rock band led by Freddie Mercury, recorded on Christmas Eve at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1975, featuring one of the first live renditions of Bohemian Rhapsody | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
00:00 | Below Deck: Mediterranean | Captain Sandy reckons with a chaotic season while the few remaining chips fall. Rob and Jess struggle to reconcile after a disastrous fight |
| 00:55 | The Proposal | A Canadian publishing editor working in New York faces deportation to her own country. Desperate to stay in America, she offers her assistant a promotion if he will marry her, but an immigration official becomes suspicious and the pair are forced to go to desperate lengths to look like a happy couple. Romantic comedy, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
00:00 | Turbulence: How Safe Is Your Flight? | Investigating the science of turbulence, its causes, effects, implications and if it can be predicted after severe turbulence caused one death and 104 injuries aboard Singapore Airlines Flight SQ321 in May 2024. Plus, is climate change having an impact when it comes to turbulent flights? |
| 01:00 | The Doctor Blake Mysteries | Still feeling uneasy in Ballarat, Lucien finds himself sitting on the judging panel for the Begonia Festival. When one of his fellow adjudicators is found dead in his burned-out greenhouse, the prime suspects are the head of the committee, Charles Griffith, and his rough-hewn local rival Nick Manos. Both seemingly have a motive, and Danny is only too keen to keep interviewing the latter's beautiful daughter Maria about her father's whereabouts. Detective drama, starring Craig McLachlan | |
| BBC One
[108] |
00:10 | Michael McIntyre's The Wheel | A festive edition of the game show, which sees Richard Osman, Mel Giedroyc and Paddy McGuinness competing to win a big cash prize for their chosen charity. Helping them along the way are fellow celebrities Gyles Brandreth, Josie Gibson, Big Narstie, Tim Vine, Zara McDermott, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Gavin and Stacey themselves, Joanna Page and Mathew Horne |
| 01:10 | Weather for the Week Ahead | A look ahead to the latest forecast | |
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
23:00 | Gogglebox | As the Goggleboxers hang up their Christmas stockings, a bumper edition of the show takes a very merry look back at the best of 2025 |
| 01:00 | The Great British Bake Off | Ten years following the end of cult Channel 4 comedy Peep Show, stars Olivia Colman, David Mitchell, Isy Suttie, Matt King and Sophie Winkleman reunite to take on a series of baking challenges paying homage to their much-missed sitcom. Hosts Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding join in the fun, while Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith judge their efforts | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
00:10 | The Inbetweeners | Simon joins his girlfriend Tara on a visit to see her sister at university, so the other boys invite themselves along too. Will insists that he wants to look around his last-choice institution, Jay wants to be there to offer sex advice, and Neil's excuse for going is that he has nothing better to do. Comedy, starring Joe Thomas and Hannah Tointon |
| 00:40 | The Inbetweeners | Will is left home alone when his mother goes away for the weekend with an old school friend, so he decides to take advantage of the situation. After a wild time with the boys ordering items off the internet and raiding the fridge, he wakes up to an unpleasant shock. Comedy, starring Simon Bird and Joe Thomas | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
23:15 | 40 Hits of 1985 at the BBC | A selection of songs from the year, featuring Queen, Simple Minds, Elton John, Prince, Duran Duran, Foreigner, Billy Ocean, Marillion, Go West, King, Strawberry Switchblade, Kirsty MacColl and Princess. There are also collaborations between Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson, Phil Collins and Philip Bailey, Gary Moore and Phil Lynott, and Chrissie Hynde and UB40 |
| 01:35 | Abba at the BBC | A collection of memorable performances by the group. Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad were thrust into the limelight in 1974 when Waterloo triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, marking the start of their rise to fame. Various outings were captured by BBC cameras over the next few years and several are featured here alongside their Top of the Pops debut, archive interviews and footage featuring hits including Waterloo, Dancing Queen, Does Your Mother Know, Thank You for the Music, SOS, Fernando and Chiquitita. There is also a chance to see the foursome on a 1982 edition of Noel Edmonds' Late, Late Breakfast Show, which was Abba's last televised appearance in the UK | |
| More4
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00:10 | 24 Hours in A&E | This episode focuses on the chances people take in life and whether a gamble ever pays off. 20-year-old Megan is rushed to St George's hospital after being involved in a high-speed car crash, and as doctors begin treatment and work to assess her injuries, it soon becomes clear how her hedonistic lifestyle has put her at risk. Meanwhile, James, who's 78, is transferred from his local hospital with suspected internal bleeding, and 40-year-old Jibraeel has lodged a cotton bud in his ear |
| 01:15 | 24 Hours in A&E | The staff at St George's A&E in south-west London tend to 59-year-old Debby, who cut her hand on her lawnmower while distracted by thoughts of her son's forthcoming wedding. Also visiting the emergency room is 70-year-old George, whose eye has been impaled by a piece of driftwood, after he fell while bailing rainwater from his boat moored on the Thames. Plus, eight-year-old Phoebe arrives after accidentally sitting on a pair of scissors she left on a chair - getting them stuck in her thigh | |