Your TV and streaming guide: Dancing with the Stars, Room to Improve and Geantraí return

Plus: The Masked Singer returns to Virgin Media; new Call the Midwife on the BBC; and all the new streaming and live sports
Your TV and streaming guide: Dancing with the Stars, Room to Improve and Geantraí return

Liam Flanagan, Derek Hickey, Macdara Ó Faoláin ag seinm ceol i Geantraí; Dé Domhnaigh, 10.30pm, TG4.

Saturday

Wheel of Fortune

UTV, 6pm

Hosted by Graham Norton. This show tests the contestants' skills and luck as they spin the wheel to secure a cash value, before picking a letter to help them solve a hangman-style word game. However, the wheel also contains 'miss a turns' as well as 'bankrupts', which could wipe out the players' winnings. While there are extra prizes to pick up along the way, only one lucky contestant will get the chance to add big money to their cash pot and see if they can take it home.

The Masked Singer, on Virgin Media One
The Masked Singer, on Virgin Media One

The Masked Singer

Virgin Media One, 7pm

An air fryer is one of the costumes on this delightfully silly singing competition — but who is wearing it? That's for panellists Rita Ora, Jonathan Ross, Davina McCall and Mo Gilligan to try to work out as Air Fryer takes on Bubble Tea. 

Joel Dommett will also be introducing performances from Owl, Eiffel Tower, Chicken Caesar and Piranha, but will we recognise any of the voices coming from beneath the elaborate masks?

Sport

FA Cup: Sunderland v Newcastle United, ko 12.45pm UTV; Middlesbrough v Aston Villa, ko 5.30pm, BBC One; Chelsea v Preston North End, ko 5.30pm, Premier Sports 1

URC, round 8: Hollywoodbets Sharks v Emirates Lions, 2.55pm TG4

Sunday

Dancing with the Stars

RTÉ One, 6.30pm

The 11 competitors taking on the challenge this year are: Eileen Dunne, Rosanna Davison, David Whelan, Blu Hydrangea, Miriam Mullins, Laura Fox, Shane Quigley Murphy, Davy Russell, Katja Mia, Rory Cowan, and Jason Smyth.

The 11 professional dancers this year are new dancers Simone Arena, Montel Hewson and Jillian Bromwich who join returning dancers Robert Rowiński, Karen Byrne, Ervinas Merfeldas, Laura Nolan, Kylee Vincent, Stephen Vincent, Denys Samson and Salome Chachua.

The Great Pottery Throw-Down

Channel 4, 7.45pm

Seventh series. Once again Siobhan McSweeney is our host, while judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the tasks. Their first involves a roast dinner set, and the technical challenge follows the 12 new amateur potters as they try to make a dozen identical side plates in a limited amount of time - those that fail to impress will be dispatched in Keith's now infamous 'bucket of doom'.

Call the Midwife

BBC One, 8pm

This is the period medical drama's 13th run - let's hope it isn't unlucky for some. The first of eight episodes begins as Nonnatus House welcomes four new pupil midwives - their arrival marks the start of a training scheme everyone expects to be a big success. However, one of the recruits may be put off the profession immediately. She faces a baptism of fire during a home birth - can the newcomer save the life of both a mother and her baby? 

Back at the hospital, Sister Julienne cares for a pregnant woman with cerebral palsy, while community-minded Reggie is a man with a plan.

I am Andrew Tate

Channel 4, 9pm

The story of the internet star’s rise to prominence, featuring interviews with fans, former associates, critics and alleged victims of sexual and physical violence. The programme examines how he became a global example of toxic masculinity, the background to his sensational arrest in Romania, and his controversial influence on teenage boys.

Room to Improve

RTÉ One, 9.30pm

First stop for Dermot Bannon and Claire Irwin is Urlingford, Kilkenny, where Gráinne Murphy and Ivan Williams have been dreaming about renovating Ivan’s forefather’s old farmhouse for many years. Gráinne is a school teacher and teaches yoga, and Ivan is a full-time farmer. They have two boys Senan (10) and Luan (6). 

When Dermot first visited the house, Gráinne and Ivan had started renovating the exterior of the farmhouse with limestone render, with the help of a local council grant. Inside, they were working on the preliminary demolition of the interior of the farmhouse in their spare time.

Geantraí

TG4, 10.30pm

A new series of Geantraí, a traditional music programme where the presenter, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin, visits traditional music pubs the length and breadth of Ireland. 

Ten years since the broadcast of the last series, this show celebrates acclaimed musicians, emerging artists and the musicians who continue the music tradition in each region. 

Coming to you from Ó Céilleachair's, Kilfinane, County Limerick, the programme features music from Derek Hickey, Liam Flanagan, Claire O'Loughlin, Ciara Flanagan, María Ryan, Lucia McPartlin, Anita Bennis, Donie Nolan, and Seán Ó Fearghaíl.

Sport

GAA Club Championship All Ireland Football semi-finals, 1pm and 3.10pm, TG4 

FA Cup:

Manchester City v Huddersfield Town, 2pm, Premier Sports 1; Arsenal v Liverpool, ko 4.30pm, BBC One

Monday

The 2024 Golden Globe Red Carpet Pre-Show

RTÉ2, 9pm

Watch the stars’ arrival at The Beverly Hilton in California ahead of the annual ceremony.

The 2024 Golden Globe Awards

RTÉ2, 9.30pm

The 81st Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film and American television of 2023 from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California

Sports

FA Cup: Wigan Athletic v Manchester United, 8.15pm, Premier Sports 1

Anna Daly and James Kavanagh in High Road Low Road.
Anna Daly and James Kavanagh in High Road Low Road.

Tuesday

High Road Low Road

RTÉ One, 7pm

Anna Daly and James Kavanagh head off to Lanzarote for a sunny break. While one sets off on their private catamaran and later relaxes in their private ‘swim up’ pool the other travels budget-style and cuddles goats. {pic] Inside Penneys RTÉ One, 8.30pm Behind the scenes of the fashion retailer that has its headquarters in Dublin, beginning by looking at its origins and first store in the capital’s Mary Street.

Sports

English League Cup: Middlesbrough v Chelsea, 8pm, Sky Sports

Wednesday

Digging for Britain

BBC Two, 8pm

Uncovering archaeological treasures in the south of England, including Britain’s oldest shoe, Henry V’s lost shipyard, and top-secret Second World War defences.

Sports

English League Cup: Liverpool v Fulham, 8pm, Sky Sports

Thursday

First Dates Ireland

RTÉ2, 9.35pm

Yoga instructor and donkey sanctuary worker Sinead (60) from Limerick comes to the restaurant to find ‘the One’ but will retired garda Michael (63) from Wexford fit the bill?

Also meeting at the restaurant are Bel (30) from Wicklow and Sam (28) from Dublin; Megan (30) from Kildare and Alan (30) from Mayo; and Nahia (21) from Swords who meets Chaggie (24) from Blanchardstown.

Fíorscéal

TG4, 10.30pm

There are about several tens of thousands of ‘children of ISIS’, whose families had pledged allegiance to the caliphate. They're stigmatised, and their existence is not legally recognised in ‘Post-ISIS’ Iraq. Without IDs, they have no access to medical care, food assistance, or education. Only a handful of NGOs are trying to help these social outcasts of a new Iraq. Around the Mosul area, in Iraqi Kurdistan and Northeastern Syria, this documentary takes the form of a journey on war-torn lands, to meet this generation who endured the reign of the Islamic State, a war for liberation and its resulting violence, and now tries to find a future, between resilience and revenge.

Friday

Extraordinary Extensions

Channel 4, 8pm

The show charting home improvement projects of the super-rich returns. Presenter and rapper Tinie Tempah begins in Warwickshire, where he follows a couple who are taking on a million-pound retirement project involving adding an underground swimming pool and spa extension to their home. But can it be eco-friendly?

The Graham Norton Show

BBC One, 11.10pm

Kevin Hart and Alan Cummings are among the guests.

Streaming

Criminal Record 

Apple TV+, from Wednesday

Eight-part tale set in modern-day London. Peter Capaldi plays Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty, a grizzled, veteran police officer who's about to clash with rising star DS June Lenker over an old murder case. The matter had laid dormant for some time, but an anonymous phone call sets minds racing once again. Cush Jumbo plays Lenker; Stephen Campbell Moore, Cathy Tyson and Zoe Wanamaker also appear.

Marvel's Echo 

Disney+, from Wednesday

The 10th TV series that shares continuity with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's a spin-off from 2021's Hawkeye and sees Alaqua Cox reprise her role as Maya Lopez, aka Echo. She swaps New York for her hometown in Oklahoma, allowing her to chase ghosts from her past while reconnecting with her roots within the local Native American community. But there's a huge fly in the ointment — her adoptive uncle Wilson Fisk, the man she shot during the events of Hawkeye. Also known as Kingpin, he's responsible for the death of Echo's father, so there's no love lost between them. Vincent D'Onofrio plays the villain; Charlie Cox also pops up as Matt Murdock/Daredevil.

Role Play 

Prime, from Friday

Former Big Bang Theory star Kaley Cuoco (who is also one of the movie's producers) stars as Emma, who lives what appears to be the perfect suburban life in New Jersey — she's happily married to her wonderful husband Dave (David Oyelowo) and they have a couple of kids. But what he doesn't know is that Emma has a lucrative sideline as an assassin for hire. However, he's about to discover the truth... Bill Nighy, Connie Nielsen, and Simon Delaney are among the supporting cast.

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