| What's on Now & Next (2026-08-06) | |||
| RTE One
[101] [HD:135] |
18:01 | RTÉ News: Six One and Weather | The latest national and international headlines |
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| 18:30 | Reeling in the Years | News and music from 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev stopped over at Shannon for a brief summit meeting, Iran ordered the death of Salman Rushdie, the Berlin Wall fell and the 25th Dail was dissolved. Includes hits by U2, the Stone Roses, Guns N' Roses, Van Morrison and Billy Joel | |
| RTE2
[102] |
18:00 | Shortland Street | Maeve fears she is losing everything, Drew and Harper think big, and Madonna goes all in with Marc |
| 18:30 | Home and Away | Harper throws caution to the wind, Sonny faces an ultimatum, David's big day is bittersweet, and Beau changes the rules | |
| 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] |
17:55 | Campa Fiáin | This week on Campa Fiáin Colm and his friends Ava, Rebecca and Laragh learn how to use a compass. |
| 18:25 | Beo ón Electric Picnic | The 2025 Electric Picnic event, featuring live music performances from artists on the Collchoill and Puball Gaeilge stages. Highlights include Bláithín Mhic Cana and Piaras Ó Lorcáin, IMLÉ, John Spillane, Eve Belle, Clada, Amano, Caolan Ryan, Dysania and many more. The show also features interviews and intimate acoustic sessions with some of the biggest names playing at this year's festival. Presented by Síomha Ní Ruairc and John Sharpson | |
| Virgin Media Two
[105] |
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 |
| 19:00 | The Chase | Bradley Walsh hosts as Arthur from London, Jane from Suffolk, Aidan originally from Harrogate and Trish from Morecambe form the brave team willing to take on the challenge of The Chase this time, but can they take down one of the country's finest quiz brains? | |
| Virgin Media Three
[106] |
17:45 | Inspector Morse | The peace of an Oxfordshire village is shattered by the apparently motiveless shooting of a woman through her kitchen window. Twenty-four hours later, her next-door neighbour suffers a similar fate. As Morse searches for a link between the victims, he becomes embroiled in an increasingly bitter election contest at an Oxford college. Starring John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Richard Briers, Maggie Steed and John Shrapnel |
| 19:55 | Heartbeat | Two joyriders steal a car from outside the pub, unaware there is a radioactive isotope hidden in the boot _ and it is up to Mike to avert a potential catastrophe. Meanwhile, Greengrass gets a surprise visit from his brother, who begs him to look after a champion greyhound. Rural drama, starring Bill Maynard and Jason Durr | |
| BBC One
[108] |
18:00 | BBC News at Six; Weather | The latest headlines |
| 18:30 | BBC Newsline; Weather | ||
| Channel 4
[111] [HD:142] |
18:00 | American Pickers | Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz come across a huge 200,000-square-foot factory-turned-private collection by Woody, its dumpster diving owner |
| 19:00 | Channel 4 News | Channel 4's flagship news programme. Including sport and weather | |
| E4
[112] [HD:162] |
18:00 | The Simpsons | Homer enrols in clown college and begins impersonating Krusty, but trouble looms on the horizon as the showbiz prankster's underworld creditors come looking for the money he owes them. Featuring the guest voices of Joe Mantegna, Dick Cavett and Johnny Unitas |
| 18:30 | The Simpsons | Bart is summoned to Australia to make amends for tricking an impressionable youngster into accepting an expensive reverse-charge phone call. Unfortunately, he learns the authorities are not prepared to accept a simple apology and want to exact an altogether harsher punishment | |
| BBC Four
[117] |
02:40 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo travels from Northallerton and confronts a menacing detachment of knife-wielding Gurkhas. He also produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker, which is key to making plastic, before ending his post-war journey from Merseyside to Teesside in a recreated 1950s street |
| 19:00 | Great British Railway Journeys | Michael Portillo travels from Northallerton and confronts a menacing detachment of knife-wielding Gurkhas. He also produces a fine heritage cheese and discovers a monster cracker, which is key to making plastic, before ending his post-war journey from Merseyside to Teesside in a recreated 1950s street | |
| More4
[118] [HD:168] |
17:50 | Car S.O.S. | Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend head to Dorset to pick up a Ford Escort MK2 RS2000, which belongs to carpenter Mike. After his son was involved in a horrific road accident, Mike gave up work and supported him through a four-year recovery. Now, Mike's family want to give something back to offer thanks to such a devoted father by presenting him with his fully restored RS2000 |
| 18:50 | Car S.O.S. | Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw head to Stockport to take on a 1994 Vauxhall Cavalier Turbo owned by Darren, who is unable to move from the neck down after an accident. With the car gathering dust on the drive, Darren's friends are hoping Fuzz and Tim can convert it to allow him to be a passenger and satisfy his need for speed again | |