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Schedules for the UK & Ireland
January 4th, 2022 edition

Maintained by Wesley Mead

This page provides complete scheduling information for "The Simpsons" in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Schedules are available for Channel 4, Sky Showcase and RTÉ airings. All times are GMT, and all scheduled slot times last 30 minutes. All episodes are subtitled for the hearing impaired.

Click here for USA schedules, and check out my guide to BBFC classification of the show in the UK.



 Latest Update
 January 4th, 2022

Welcome to the January 4th update! Hope you all had a good holiday. Full, updated and finalised schedules for Channel 4, RTÉ2 and Sky Showcase are available below, right up through late January, including news on season 33 on Sky. I'll be back on the 10th with the latest - feel free to e-mail me at wesley@simpsonsarchive.com if you need to contact me in the meantime.



Contents:



 Channel 4 & 4seven: Schedule Status & Listings
 4th to 21st January 2022

SEASON RIGHTS: 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29
LISTINGS SOURCE: Channel4.com, Digiguide

Channel 4 are currently airing season 23 in the usual 6pm weekday slot.

On weekend mornings and lunchtimes on C4, we get season 21. Saturday is usually a repeat of the previous Sunday's episodes. (The weekday S23 run is not getting a weekend repeat.)

There's late-night episodes on Tuesday 4th and Tuesday 18th, and no episode on Wednesday 12th due to an extended episode of Hollyoaks. There's nothing currently on 4seven.

Episodes starting between midnight and 5:30am are listed as part of the previous day's schedule, similar to most print TV guides. Note that all episodes that air on Channel 4 are simulcast on Channel 4 HD and can be viewed one hour later on their timeshift service, Channel 4 +1.


TUE 04 JAN  C4 18:00  S27  Paths of Glory
            C4 01:00  S21  Pranks and Greens
WED 05 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  Replaceable You
THU 06 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  The Food Wife
FRI 07 JAN  C4 18:00  S21  Pranks and Greens
SAT 08 JAN  C4 07:40  S21  Homer the Whopper
            C4 08:05  S21  Bart Gets a "Z"
            C4 08:35  S21  The Great Wife Hope
            C4 09:00  S21  Treehouse of Horror XX
            C4 09:30  S21  The Devil Wears Nada
            C4 19:00  S21  Rednecks and Broomsticks
            C4 10:30  S21  Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?
SUN 09 JAN  C4 08:30  S21  Thursdays with Abie
            C4 09:00  S21  Once Upon a Time in Springfield
            C4 12:30  S21  Million Dollar Maybe
            C4 12:55  S21  Boy Meets Curl
            C4 13:25  S21  The Colour Yellow
MON 10 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants
TUE 11 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  The Ten-Per-Cent Solution
WED 12 JAN  No episodes scheduled
THU 13 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson
FRI 14 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  Moe Goes from Rags to Riches
SAT 15 JAN  C4 10:20  S21  Thursdays with Abie
            C4 10:45  S21  Once Upon a Time in Springfield
            C4 11:10  S21  Million Dollar Maybe
            C4 11:35  S21  Boy Meets Curl
            C4 12:05  S21  The Colour Yellow
SUN 16 JAN  C4 08:00  S21  Stealing First Base
            C4 08:30  S21  The Greatest Story Ever D'oh-ed
            C4 09:00  S21  American History X-Cellent
            C4 12:30  S21  Chief of Hearts
            C4 13:00  S21  The Squirt and the Whale
MON 17 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  The D'oh-cial Network
TUE 18 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  The Daughter Also Rises
            C4 00:55  S27  Halloween of Horror
            C4 01:25  S27  Treehouse of Horror XXVI
WED 19 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  At Long Last Leave
THU 20 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart
FRI 21 JAN  C4 18:00  S23  How I Wet Your Mother
For more information on the episodes, see the Episode Guide.



 RTÉ2: Schedule Status & Listings
 4th to 21st January 2022

SEASON RIGHTS: 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29
LISTINGS SOURCE: RadioTimes.com, Digiguide

RTÉ2 are currently airing the Irish terrestrial premiere of season 29. It airs weekdays at 4:30pm, resuming on Monday 11th after a Christmas break.

There's nothing on weekends at the moment.


TUE 04 JAN  No episodes scheduled
WED 05 JAN  No episodes scheduled
THU 06 JAN  No episodes scheduled
FRI 07 JAN  No episodes scheduled
SAT 08 JAN  No episodes scheduled
SUN 09 JAN  No episodes scheduled
MON 10 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Singin' in the Lane
TUE 11 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Mr. Lisa's Opus
WED 12 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Gone Boy
THU 13 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Haw-Haw Land
FRI 14 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Frink Gets Testy
SAT 15 JAN  No episodes scheduled
SUN 16 JAN  No episodes scheduled
MON 17 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Homer is Where the Art Isn't
TUE 18 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - 3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage
WED 19 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - Fears of a Clown
THU 20 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - No Good Read Goes Unpunished
FRI 21 JAN  16:30  S29  *NEW TO RTE* - King Leer
For more information on the episodes, see the Episode Guide.



 Sky Showcase: Schedule Status & Complete Listings
 4th to 21st January 2022


SEASON RIGHTS: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33
LISTINGS SOURCE: Digiguide

Sky Showcase currently broadcast four episodes on weekdays: one at 5pm, then three from 6:30pm to 8pm. Weekends are a little less predictable, but we usually get a decent number of episodes - usually between five and eight a day, spread across the morning, afternoon and evening.

Currently airing: season 14, in two concurrent runs - one primetime (6:30pm and later, except Saturday), one out-of-primetime (pre-6:30pm, plus Saturday evenings). Season 7 follows. There's also season 30 as a utility player, occasionally filling up spaces on weekends; and we sometimes get additional 8pm double-bills, mostly on Thursdays.

Good news on season 33: following the Christmas Eve premiere of a "A Made Maggie", the regular season begins its run on Sunday, January 16th - that's right, it's back to Sunday premieres! "The Star of the Backstage" is being shown at 6pm that day; as yet, it's not clear whether there will be an encore later in the week.

Note that episodes starting between midnight and 5:30am are listed as part of the previous day's schedule, similar to most print TV guides.


TUE 04 JAN  17:00  S12  Children of a Lesser Clod
            18:30  S14  How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
WED 05 JAN  17:00  S12  Simpsons Tall Tales
            18:30  S14  Bart vs Lisa vs the Third Grade
            19:00  S14  Helter Shelter
THU 06 JAN  17:00  S14  How I Spent My Strummer Vacation
            18:30  S14  The Great Louse Detective
            19:00  S14  Special Edna
            19:30  S14  The Dad Who Knew too Little
            20:00  S14  Strong Arms of the Ma
            20:30  S14  Pray Anything
FRI 07 JAN  17:00  S14  Bart vs Lisa vs the Third Grade
            18:30  S14  Barting Over
SAT 08 JAN  14:00  S14  Helter Shelter
            14:30  S14  The Great Louse Detective
SUN 09 JAN  09:05  S14  Special Edna
            09:30  S14  The Dad Who Knew too Little
            10:00  S14  Strong Arms of the Ma
            10:30  S14  Pray Anything
            13:00  S14  Barting Over
            13:30  S30  The Girl on the Bus
            17:00  S14  I'm Spelling As Fast as I Can
            17:30  S14  A Star is Born-Again
MON 10 JAN  17:00  S14  I'm Spelling As Fast as I Can
            18:30  S14  Mr Spritz Goes to Washington
            19:00  S14  C.E. D'oh!
            19:30  S14  'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
TUE 11 JAN  17:00  S14  A Star is Born-Again
            18:30  S14  Three Gays of the Condo
            19:00  S14  Old Yeller-Belly
            19:30  S14  Brake My Wife, Please
WED 12 JAN  17:00  S14  Mr Spritz Goes to Washington
            18:30  S14  The Bart of War
            19:00  S14  Moe Baby Blues
            19:30  S7   Radioactive Man
THU 13 JAN  17:00  S14  C.E. D'oh!
            18:30  S7   Bart Sells His Soul
            19:00  S7   Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodily
            19:30  S7   Lisa the Vegetarian
FRI 14 JAN  17:00  S14  'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky
            18:30  S7   King-Size Homer
            19:00  S7   Mother Simpson
            19:30  S7   Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
SAT 15 JAN  09:30  S14  Three Gays of the Condo
            10:00  S14  Old Yeller-Belly
            13:30  S14  Brake My Wife, Please
            14:00  S14  The Bart of War
            14:30  S14  Moe Baby Blues
            19:00  S7   Radioactive Man
            19:30  S7   Bart Sells His Soul
SUN 16 JAN  13:00  S7   Home Sweet Home-Diddly-Dum-Doodily
            13:30  S7   Lisa the Vegetarian
            14:00  S7   King-Size Homer
            14:30  S7   Mother Simpson
            15:00  S7   138th Episode Spectacular
            17:30  S7   Team Homer
            18:00  S33  *NEW* - The Star of the Backstage
MON 17 JAN  17:00  S7   138th Episode Spectacular
            18:30  S7   Two Bad Neighbours
            19:00  S7   Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
            19:30  S7   Bart the Fink
TUE 18 JAN  17:00  S7   Team Homer
            18:30  S7   Lisa the Iconoclast
            19:00  S7   Homer the Smithers
            19:30  S7   A Fish Called Selma
            20:00  S7   The Day the Violence Died
            20:30  S7   Bart on the Road
WED 19 JAN  17:00  S7   Two Bad Neighbours
            18:30  S7   22 Short Films about Springfield
            19:00  S7   Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in:
                          "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"
            19:30  S7   Much Apu About Nothing
THU 20 JAN  17:00  S7   Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield
            18:30  S7   Homerpalooza
            19:00  S7   Summer of 4 ft. 2
            19:30  To be confirmed
FRI 21 JAN  17:00  S7   Bart the Fink
            18:30  To be confirmed
            19:00  To be confirmed
            19:30  To be confirmed
For more information on the episodes, see the Episode Guide.



 Additional Notes and Latest UK DVDs
 Updated November 2021

Latest UK DVDs: The Season 19 DVD set is out now! Woo-hoo! You can order it from Amazon.co.uk now.

Disney+ streaming services: The Disney+ streaming service is now available in the UK, and includes seasons 1-32 of The Simpsons (minus "Stark Raving Dad") available to watch whenever you desire.

UK scheduling history: check out my June 2012 piece for Dead Homer Society, "English? Who Needs That?": The Simpsons in the United Kingdom, a 3000-word piece on the show's history, scheduling and ratings over here.

Credit where credit's due: Many thanks to David McCormick, creator of this page and original maintainer; Brian Petersen and Adam Wolf, who contributed HTML; and Phinbart, Christopher Wickham, Robert Burroughs, Matt Johnson, Ben Clifford, Nathan, and Grace for helping out around these parts - much appreciated.

Contact: Being completely accurate is great, but unfortunately, sometimes unattainable. Changes can occur that are beyond my control; if you spot any such late amendments, note any errors, or have any suggestions or queries regarding the listings, please contact me - details here, e-mail is your best bet for a speedy answer.

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