| What's on Now & Next (2025-12-27) | |||
| RTE One
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21:40 | The Banshees of Inisherin | In the last days of the Irish Civil War, a fiddler living on a remote island off the west coast decides to sever ties with his lifelong drinking buddy, feeling he needs to spend his remaining years on things he values. The rejected friend goes to desperate lengths to rebuild their relationship. Martin McDonagh's black comedy, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon and Barry Keoghan |
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| 23:50 | Billy Joel: The 100th Live at Madison Square Garden | The singer-songwriter's 100th show at Madison Square Garden in New York City in March 2024, featuring performances of An Innocent Man, The River of Dreams, Piano Man and Uptown Girl. With guest appearances by Sting and Jerry Seinfeld | |
| RTE2
[102] |
21:20 | The King's Man | Haunted by the death of his wife Emily, the Duke of Oxford is an ardent pacifist, who has established a network of servant spies coordinated by his housekeeper Polly to relay intelligence that will prevent conflicts around the world. When a shadowy mastermind known as the Shepherd orders the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, the Duke rallies his troops including right-hand-man Shola and his headstrong 17-year-old son Conrad. Action adventure prequel, starring Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans and Harris Dickinson |
| 23:45 | The Hurricane | Boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter dreams of winning the middleweight world title, only to be wrongfully thrown into prison for the murders of three people in a bar. Nineteen years later, a teenager reads the fighter's autobiography and sets out on a campaign to free him. Fact-based drama, starring Denzel Washington, John Hannah, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber and Dan Hedaya. | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
21:00 | Beat the Chasers | Jenny 'the Vixen' Ryan, Anne 'the Governess' Hegerty, Shaun 'the Dark Destroyer' Wallace, Mark 'the Beast' Labbett, Paul 'the Sinnerman' Sinha and Darragh 'the Menace' Ennis come together to take on more contestants from across the country. Can any of them come out on top? Bradley Walsh hosts |
| 22:05 | Live Aid at 40 | The behind-the-scenes story of the 1985 charity concerts in London and Philadelphia, looking at this historic event and its legacy in Britain, the US, Ethiopia and Africa as a whole. In late October 1984, a BBC news report about a biblical famine in Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to collaborate with Midge Ure on a pop song that would mobilise not only Britain but also the United States, raising millions for charity, as Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? single catapulted Geldof into the complex worlds of aid, charity and African politics. Featuring archival footage and specially filmed interviews with Geldof, Ure, Bono and Sting, as well as such key figures such as the Ethiopian ministers responsible for aid, the head of US AID and two survivors of the famine | |
| TG4
[104] |
20:30 | Róise & Frank | Róise is still grieving the loss of her husband, Frank, two years after his death, when a mysterious dog shows up at her door. The dog loves sport and steaks, and has taken to a particular armchair in the house - Frank's old spot. This series of coincidences convinces Róise that this dog is her husband, Frank, reincarnated. Her son thinks she has completely lost her mind, but the rest of the community begins to believe it too. Light-hearted drama, starring Bríd Ní Neachtain, Cillian O'Gairbhi and Lorcan Cranitch |
| 22:03 | An Aimsir Láithreach | National and international weather forecast | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
20:30 | The Masked Singer | Four famous faces battle it out in a festive special. Joel Dommett hosts, while Jonathan Ross, Maya Jama, Davina McCall and Mo Gilligan guess who is behind the masks, but it remains to be seen whether they are right |
| 22:00 | Fanning at Whelan's | Iconic music venue Whelan's on Dublin's Wexford street opens its doors once again to an eclectic mix of musical performances from a host of Irish greats, many who will be stopping off for a chat with host Dave Fanning | |
| Virgin Media Three
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21:00 | Creating Christmas Magic | Aspiring illustrator Harper is collaborating with demanding book author Caleb. When he insists on her working through Christmas in a quaint town, she must use the holiday celebrations to break him out of his writer's block. Romantic drama, starring Greer Grammer and Jason Cermak |
| 22:55 | Royally Yours, This Christmas | A prince falls in love with a single mother who is a hotel housekeeper after he mistakes her for a wealthy guest. Romance, starring Cindy Sampson and Steve Byers | |
| BBC One
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19:45 | Elvis | On his deathbed, enigmatic music manager Colonel Tom Parker recalls his relationship with the King of Rock 'n' Roll, whose rise to fame he orchestrated. Over the course of a tumultuous period in American history, the singer takes the world by storm while also struggling against Parker's controlling influence. Baz Luhrmann's biopic of the singer, starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks and Olivia DeJonge |
| 22:10 | BBC News | A round-up of the latest headlines | |
| Channel 4
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21:00 | Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me | The actress investigates a story from her family's past, delving into the archives to discover if one of her ancestors really did meet Shakespeare. The encounter is said to have occurred in 1606, a tumultuous year for both the Bard, who wrote three of his greatest plays, and England, with an outbreak of plague and the Gunpowder Plot. Judi's journey takes her from Denmark's Kronberg castle, the inspiration for Shakespeare's Elsinore in Hamlet, to some of England's finest buildings, including the Old Naval College at Greenwich, the Tower of London, Eltham Palace and Hampton Court Palace |
| 22:00 | The Green Mile | A convicted child-killer of towering height and massive build is condemned to death row, but astonishes the guards with his good nature and miraculous healing powers. They believe the gentle giant is incapable of crime, and emotions run high as they realise there is no hope of overturning his death sentence. Supernatural drama, based on a novel by Stephen King, starring Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse and Harry Dean Stanton | |
| E4
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21:00 | Celebrity Gogglebox | Denise Van Outen and partner Eddie, Mo Gillian and Babatunde Aleshe, Nick Grimshaw and niece Liv, Joe Swash and Stacey Solomon, Zoe Ball and her son Woody Cook, Martin Kemp and son Roman Kemp, Maureen Lipman and Gyles Brandreth, Johnny Vegas and his PA Bev, Shaun Ryder and Bez, Emilia Fox and Joanna David, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, and Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling offer critiques of This Morning, Dating Around, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Hostile Planet, Big Brother: Best Shows Ever, EastEnders, The Repair Shop and BBC News. First shown in June 2020 |
| 22:00 | Celebrity Gogglebox | Denise Van Outen and her partner Eddie, Mo Gilligan and Babatunde Aleshe, Nick Grimshaw and his niece Liv, Joe Swash and Stacey Solomon, Zoe Ball and her son Woody Cook, Martin Kemp and son Roman Kemp, Maureen Lipman and Gyles Brandreth, Johnny Vegas and his PA Bev, Shaun Ryder and Bez, Emilia Fox and Joanna David, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford, Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling, Rylan Clark-Neal and Linda Clark, Georgia Taylor and Sunetra Sarker, and Susanna Reid and Rob Rinder offer sharp, insightful, funny and sometimes emotional critiques. Shows under scrutiny include 127 Hours, Planet Earth II, Cape Fear, This Morning on public toilets, EastEnders, Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad, and BBC news reports on beaches and travel | |
| BBC Four
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21:50 | A Question of Attribution | John Schlesinger's 1991 adaptation of Alan Bennett's play about the double life of former MI5 spy Anthony Blunt. Knighted after becoming Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, Blunt life took a twist in 1964 when he confessed under interrogation to assisting the escape of Soviet spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Starring James Fox, with Prunella Scales and David Calder |
| 23:00 | Looking for Victoria | Dramatised documentary about Queen Victoria in which Prunella Scales looks back at the fascinating life of the monarch, visiting many of the houses and places in her life. This first of two parts charts Victoria's traumatic childhood years, coronation at the age of 18 and, barely a year later, marriage to her beloved first cousin Albert. With Timothy West , Charles Dance and Andrew Sachs | |
| More4
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21:00 | 24 Hours in A&E | The documentary charting the work of staff at St George's A&E continues, this time focusing on the stories of patients whose friendships have seen them through good times and bad. Phil, a 60-year-old bricklayer, is rushed in after suffering multiple injuries following a short fall from a ladder at work, and his business partner Paul discusses how the pair bonded over the course of 28 years. Meanwhile, 93-year-old widow Violet arrives after fracturing her leg while preparing to go out for lunch with the friends who have supported her since the death of her husband, and 18-year-old dance student Shiana comes to A&E with her mother and her best friend, after injuring her ankle during a rehearsal |
| 22:00 | 24 Hours in A&E | Cameras follow couples as they cope with treatment, including Corey, who's 27. He is rushed to St George's after suffering a cardiac arrest during a game of ice hockey, and his wife of seven days, Alice, was watching him play when he collapsed. There's also a profile of John, 55. He fell 10 feet while taking down scaffolding at home, and his spouse Penny talks about how he has supported her through sickness and bereavement during their marriage | |