| What's on Now & Next (2026-05-18) | |||
| RTE One
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15:30 | Today | Daily magazine show featuring entertainment and celebrity news, consumer advice, and Ireland's biggest giveaways. Presented by Dáithí Ó Sé and Sinéad Kennedy |
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| 17:40 | Nuacht | The latest news headlines | |
| RTE2
[102] |
17:30 | The Big Bang Theory | Sheldon bids an emotional goodbye to Fun with Flags as he and Amy record the final instalment of the internet show. Leonard, Howard and Raj clear out the office of a recently deceased professor and take a peek at his research. Guest starring LeVar Burton |
| 18:00 | Shortland Street | Marty keeps his options open, while Cece vows to cope and Leanne takes Dawn under her wing. | |
| Virgin Media One
[103] |
17:30 | News at 5.30 | The latest national and international news stories from the Virgin Media News team |
| 18:05 | The Six O'Clock Show | A lively mix of celebrity chat with national and international guests, fabulous food from the country’s top Chefs, expert advice and all the unmissable stories making the headlines | |
| TG4
[104] |
17:25 | Malcolm in the Middle | Grandma Ida slips on garden rubbish outside the Wilkersons' home and decides to sue for compensation. Meanwhile, Lois receives momentous news from her doctor. Comedy, starring Frankie Muniz and Jane Kaczmarek, with Cloris Leachman |
| 17:55 | Anfa | Action-oriented and high-energy game show based on the weather. This time, Ógras Chiarraí from Co Kerry take on the magical cloud | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
17:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh presents as Jane from Seaford, Orla from Glasgow, Peter from North Shields and Sam from Peterborough 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 |
| 18:00 | 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 | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
16:55 | The Royal | Dr Weatherill and Sister Brigid take the Ormerod children on a family day out to Peasholm Park to see a naval re-enactment show, but the trip ends in disaster. Meanwhile, Dr Ellis risks getting too involved with a patient who is in trouble with the law, and Lizzie sets out to improve her career prospects. Starring Amy Robbins, Linda Armstrong, Neil McDermott and Michelle Hardwick |
| 17:55 | Endeavour | As plans to build a new police station lead Morse to question his place in the force, he investigates the case of Tommy Cork, a boy from a broken home who has disappeared. Meanwhile, the body of disreputable journalist Eric Patterson has been found on railway tracks in mysterious circumstances. He was last seen embroiled in an argument with a council official about a company preparing to redevelop the site of Blenheim Vale, a disused correctional facility for boys. When a petty criminal with a connection to Blenheim absconds from an open prison, it sets off a chain reaction of events that threaten to expose horrors of the past. Did missing Tommy witness something that cost him his life? | |
| BBC One
[108] |
17:15 | Pointless | Alexander Armstrong is joined by co-host Susan Wokoma on the quiz in which contestants try to score the fewest points possible by giving the least obvious correct answers |
| 18:00 | BBC News at Six; Weather | The latest headlines | |
| Channel 4
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17:00 | Chateau DIY | In the Charente, Sophie and Ray begin transforming a tower room into a bridal suite. But the space currently looks like a 1970s sauna and there are bird droppings in the ceiling. In Brittany, Donna and Paul face a balcony crisis and are forced to winch oversized flooring up the outside of their home |
| 18:00 | Sun, Sea and Selling Houses | In Alicante, Charlotte Rodriguez and her brother-in-law Damon search with Sara from Devon, who's decided to swap hospital beds for sun beds on the Spanish Costas after 34 years with the NHS. In Málaga, Shani and Andrew Hamilton line up three properties for Irish German couple Joy and Bernd and their two dogs | |
| E4
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17:30 | The Simpsons | Homer is appointed Springfield's new sanitation commissioner, but finds it so hard to keep his elaborate election promises that he is forced to spend the year's budget allocation in his first month in charge. Featuring the guest voices of U2 and Steve Martin |
| 18:00 | The Simpsons | Two company executives hire Homer to climb Springfield's most treacherous mountain, the ominously named Murderhorn, as a promotional stunt for their energy bar product. With the guest voice of Brendan Fraser | |
| BBC Four
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02:00 | Art That Made Us | The world wars force artists to grapple with destruction and savagery, challenging conventions and the old imperial order, while those fleeing war bring new ideas to Britain. Contemporary war photographer Oliver Chanarin traces the story of William Orpen's subversive protest image, To the Unknown British Soldier in France, picturing a lone draped coffin amid the magnificence of the Palace of Versailles where peace delegates met in 1919, while artist Ryan Gander examines how sculptor Barbara Hepworth tried to make sense of war by reaching for beauty in abstract human forms and Denzil Forrester looks ahead to the post-colonial aftermath of war |
| 19:00 | University Challenge | Jeremy Paxman asks the questions as the first-round matches continue with an Oxbridge clash as Oriel College, Oxford go up against Christ's College, Cambridge for a place in the next round of the student quiz | |
| More4
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17:20 | Four in a Bed | The third visit of the week takes place at the Torcroft Boutique B&B in Torquay, south Devon, where Phil and Sharon Hobson hope their added extras will help win over their rivals |
| 17:50 | Four in a Bed | The final stay is at the 600-year-old Rhydspence Inn in Herefordshire, where the medieval character proves charming, although the everyday practicalities prove painful for some | |