| What's on Now & Next (2026-10-21) | |||
| RTE One
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20:30 | Donal's Italian Kitchen | Donal Skehan discovers the Italian way of il dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing, and demonstrates how to cook without living in the kitchen. The chef prepares a baked Italian pinsa, spaghetti alla limone, and an Italian zabaglione with roast peaches |
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| 21:00 | RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock and Weather | The latest national and international news | |
| RTE2
[102] |
19:30 | Champions League Live | Bayern Munich v Arsenal (Kick-off 8.00pm). All the action from a matchday three league phase fixture, held at Allianz Arena. These teams also met at this stage in last season's competition, with the Gunners claiming a 3-1 win at Emirates Stadium. This time around, Arsenal have won both their opening two fixtures against Napoli and Lille, while Munich thrashed Bodø / Glimt 5-0, before surprisingly being held to a 3-3 draw by Viking |
| 23:05 | Kabul | Outside the French embassy, refugees wait anxiously as the Taliban begin to surround the area, while Gilles struggles to organise the evacuation of the growing numbers. The Nazany family scatters as Zahara and Fazal go on the run, while Amina is torn about fleeing | |
| Virgin Media One
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20:30 | Coronation Street | Bernie hides her upset as her test results confirm the worst, Debbie messes up a wedding booking at the hotel, and Ross confiscates Tyrone's phone to wreck his evening with Fiz and the girls |
| 21:00 | Gogglebox Ireland | Deirdre O'Kane provides the voiceover as a selection of telly addicts comment on the week's programmes from the comfort of their living rooms | |
| TG4
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20:30 | Bia Úr | Kirsten Mate Maher and Allie Stack meet people who have moved to Ireland, and they get a taste of the food they have brought with them |
| 21:00 | An Deis | Eibhlín Ní Chonghaile presents the game show in which three teams compete against each other answering general knowledge questions to light up their paths and take home the jackpot | |
| Virgin Media Two
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19:45 | Live UEFA Champions League | All the action from a matchday three league phase fixture (Kick-off 8.00pm), as two teams continue their bids to reach the knockout rounds. Among the matches taking place are Bayern Munich v Arsenal at Allianz Arena, Real Madrid v RB Leipzig at the Bernabéu, and Aston Villa v Viking at Villa Park |
| 23:00 | The Princess Diaries | A nervous Princess prepares for her first catwalk at the Ibiza Fashion Festival before returning to the UK for a big meeting regarding a brand ambassadorship | |
| Virgin Media Three
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19:55 | Heartbeat | Craddock's mother fancies herself as a bit of a Miss Marple figure following a mysterious murder in the village, but her well-meaning interference drives everyone mad. Elsewhere, Greengrass has a stroke of luck on the horses, and David gets more than he bargained for at the vet's. Rural drama, with Philip Franks and Bill Maynard |
| 21:00 | The Hack | With Andy Coulson now in Downing Street, Nick and Alan team up with the New York Times in an effort to make the hacking scandal catch fire - as new leads are uncovered, Nick and Charlotte work together to find hacking victims who might be brave enough to take on the Murdoch press. Meanwhile, Dave is challenged in the witness box at the Morgan murder trial over his handling of supergrass witnesses. Drama, starring David Tennant | |
| BBC One
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20:00 | The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn | Bookbinder Chris Shaw rescues a Glasgow woman's treasured 1869 copy of Dante's Divine Comedy, which her late grandmother used to teach her how to read. Ceramics restorer Kirsten Ramsay rebuilds a shattered Pride of Birmingham trophy awarded to a Coventry teenager and arcade expert Geoff Harvey brings a vintage one-armed bandit back to life. Luthier Julyan Wallis sets to work on a stringed instrument made by a Ukrainian man after the Second World War |
| 21:00 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Comedian Josh Widdicombe embarks on a roller-coaster ride through his extraordinary family history. After a less than promising start with an ancestor who was cut out of the family fortune, Josh is delighted to discover a courtier with very personal access to King Charles I. From there it's back to Elizabethan and Tudor nobility and a royal love triangle | |
| Channel 4
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20:00 | Location, Location, Location | Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are on home turf this week as they search Berkshire, where Kirstie grew up, and Hampshire, where Phil lives. They're helping Sharon, who has sold her house and now wants something better to replace it with nearer to her daughter and grandchildren, and Becca and Phill, who are rapidly running out of space in their one-bedroom flat and need to secure a house before they start planning their wedding |
| 21:00 | Grand Designs | Kevin McCloud catches up with energy conservationist Andrew, who in 2017 decided to build a radical, self-heating home for his family - the first of its kind in the UK. The aim was to heat the house all year round by storing the warmth of the summer sun into insulated earth banks over and around the house, and then drawing the warmth back into the living spaces in winter. Six years since his last visit, Kevin McCloud returns to see if this groundbreaking experiment has proven a success | |
| E4
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20:00 | First Dates | A 71-year-old beekeeper is looking for a man with a naughty side to his nature, and a 21-year-old is reluctant to venture from his house, which has dented his chances of romance. Other visitors to the restaurant include a charity shop manager who has his wedding all mapped out and a Welsh hairdresser who, after a string of failed relationships, spends the evening meeting a part-time model |
| 21:00 | Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA | The chef lends his expertise to Italian restaurant Cafe Notte, in Emsworth, Pittsburgh, which is on the brink of collapse with tension between head chef Jerry and his co-owner stepson David threatening to destroy both the business and their family | |
| BBC Four
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20:50 | Building Sights | Personal reflections on the best of 20th-century British architecture. In this edition, writer Alan Bennett wanders through the architecturally exotic County Arcade in Leeds, designed by Frank Matcham in 1900. First broadcast April 9, 1991 |
| 21:00 | The Planets | Professor Brian Cox continues his tour of the solar system revealing that it was once home to not one, but two blue planets. Today, Mars is an arid desert world that long ago had the same potential as Earth. Which begs a big question - did life get a start on both worlds? | |
| More4
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19:55 | The Dog House | A family of three dogs are split up to increase their chances of finding permanent homes, but nervous Annie sticks close to her more confident sister Ruby. Vocal cockapoo Darcy may find her hero in 11-year-old Luke, and Teddy the chow chow meets Woodgreen's Miss Lady Chow |
| 21:00 | Scotland's Golden Coast | One of Scotland's oldest surviving fishing boats sets sail from the historic harbour at Wick on a special voyage to Portsoy's traditional boat festival. At Chanonry Point, wildlife photographer Charlie and lifelong dolphin adopter Lillian hopes to catch a precious glimpse of a bottlesnose dolphin. On the shores of East Lothian, a much-loved family ice cream business takes its vintage Rolls-Royce van to North Berwick, to try out a new and exotic flavour | |