Tune in for the 2026 Home of the Year finale

TV WEEK (Wednesday 15th to Tuesday 21st)

TOP SPECIALS

DMV: Department of Motor Vehicles (ITV, Thursday 16th, 10.05pm)

A comedy series set in that place every American dreads going – the Department of Motor Vehicles – where employees making minimum wage deal with customers who are annoyed before they even walk in the door. Staff at the East Hollywood DMV office includes Colette, a driving examiner with a big heart and bad boundaries; Gregg, a misanthropic former English teacher; and Vic, a former bouncer who loves putting difficult drivers in their places.

Ireland In Music (RTÉ 1, Thursday 16th, 11.05pm)

Ireland’s finest musicians perform and chat at the most beautiful and iconic places on the island, from Meath to Ballydehob. In episode one Denise Chaila meets David Kitt. This visually stunning show features musicians performing and chatting, with breathtaking aerial photography for an unforgettable experience.

Unreported World: Japan’s Shoplifting Pensioners (CH4, Friday 17th, 7.30pm)

Japan is often portrayed as a modern utopia, but beneath its polished exterior, one of the world’s oldest populations is reaching a breaking point. As traditional multi-generational families break down, and pensions failing to cover the rising cost of living, many are turning to petty theft to survive. As a result, Japan has seen a surge in elderly crime, and one in four of those arrested is older than 60.

WATCH OF THE WEEK

Home Of The Year Finale (RTÉ 1, Tuesday 21st, 7pm)

Tune in for Home of the Year finale 2026, where the judges deliberate the winner in Palmerstown, County Kildare. For the first time, each judge awarded one golden key to use throughout the series. With that, they selected one home that was a runner-up from an episode to go straight through to the final. Who will scoop the trophy this year?

BEST FILMS

A Room With A View (RTÉ 1, Friday 17th, 11.45pm)

Based on the novel by EM Forster, and starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith and Daniel Day Lewis, this follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman touring Italy with her older cousin. At a hotel in Florence, she meets the charming and free-spirited George Emerson – a man who upsets her upcoming marriage plans to the wealthy but staid Cecil Vyse.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Sky Cinema Premiere, from Friday)

Some doors take you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell are single strangers who meet at a friend’s wedding, where – through a surprising twist of fate – they find themselves on a sweeping adventure where they get to relive important moments from their pasts, and a chance to alter their futures.

Plane (CH4, Saturday 18th, 9pm)

Gerard Butler is piloting a small group of passengers from Singapore to Tokyo when lightning strikes and he’s forced to land the plane on a small island in the Philippines. Bad enough that the flight is being used to transport a mad serial killer who now needs to be recaptured – but the island is also home to a violent gang who kidnap and murder foreigners.

Stand By Me (CH4, Sunday 19th, 12.05am)

Classic coming-of-age drama based on a Stephen King novella, set in the scorching summer of 1959, when four small-town boys from Castle Rock, Oregon trek across country in search of a missing friend’s dead body. In their quest for local fame and a picture in the paper, the gang face junkyard dogs, brave leech infested swamps, avoid speeding trains and clash with thuggish big kids.

CLASSIC MOVIE

Babylon (CH4, Saturday 18th, 11pm)

Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt star in writer and director Damien Chazelle’s opulently decadent and satirical look at Hollywood in the 1920s as it teeters between the death of the silent era and the advent of the ‘talkies’. Nellie LaRoy wants to be a movie star, and has the looks and the ambition – but the question is whether she can cut it in the new sound age. Jack Conrad knows everyone there is to know – but is worried that his time has come and gone.

KIDS STUFF

Wild Philippines: Realm of Volcanoes (Sky Nature, Sunday 19th, 5pm)

The two-part series takes the viewers on a fascinating journey through the varied natural world of the Philippines, a group of islands located on the Ring of Fire in the Pacific. A compelling expedition through the beauty and natural treasures of a vast archipelago, centred around the fascinating fauna that inhabits the islands.

Dandelion (Netflix)

Set within the Send-Off Department of the Japanese Angel Federation, Dandelion follows ‘Angels’ Tetsuo and Misaki as they scramble to track down Earthbound spirits, souls unable to move on and find peace, and gently guide them to pass on. Sometimes though, the angels struggle to meet their daily tasks.

ON DEMAND

Cochinas – Naughty Business (Amazon Prime)

Nines is a conservative Spanish housewife who is forced to take over the family video store when her husband falls into a coma. After she discovers the business is bankrupt and that the only genre making them money is porn, she decides to go full on and specialise in the genre. Working with her two mis-matched store employees, Nines creates chaos in the town by turning the store into the city’s first ‘porn video club’.

Million Dollar Secret (Netflix)

Fourteen strangers enter a glamorous lakeside estate where each of their rooms contains a mysterious box. Thirteen of these boxes are empty but one contains $1,000,000, a huge prize for that single guest to keep, as long as they can manage to keep their identity hidden. This season, the stakes are higher than ever as players face trickier agendas, gruelling challenges and navigate the ever-changing game of deception.

Balls Up (Amazon Prime)

In this raunchy comedy well timed for the biggest global sporting event this summer, marketing executives Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser opt go ‘balls out’ and pitch a bold full coverage condom sponsorship with the World Cup. After their drunken celebration in Brazil sparks a global scandal, they are forced to outrun furious fans, criminals, and power-hungry officials to salvage their careers and make it home alive.

SPORTS CENTRE

Full Swing (Netflix)

Full Swing features some of the most exciting moments in this generation of golf history: a US Open comeback for the ages and fan-favourite Tommy Fleetwood coming into his own by winning the FedExCup for the biggest money prize in the sport. Season four highlights emerging champions as well as legends of the game as it builds to arguably the most significant golf event in history, The Ryder Cup at New York’s famed Bethpage Black Course – and that man Rory who finally laid his Ryder demons to rest.