Saturday Magazine - 24.08.2019

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BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4
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6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30 The
Sara Cox Show. With guests
Craig Charles, Stuart MacBride,
Melanie Blake and Francis Rossi.
9.25 Ninja Warrior UK (R) 10.20
Zone of Champions (R) 10.50
Countrywise: Guide to Britain.
In Cornwall. (R) 11.20 Best Walks
with a View with Julia Bradbury
(R) 11.50 ITV News; Weather
12.05pm Midsomer Murders (R)
2.05 Mannequin (1987/PG) Fantasy
comedy, starring Andrew
McCarthy. ★★★★
3.45 Catchphrase Guessing game. (R)
4.30 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
5.30 ITV News; Weather
5.45 Regional News; Weather
6.00 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars
With Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo.

6.20am A to Z of TV Gardening (R)
7.05 Gardeners’ World (R) 7. 35
Countryfile (R) 8.30 Beechgrove
(R) 9.00 Saturday Kitchen Best
Bites 10.30 Nigel Slater: Eating
Together (R) 11.00 Top of the
Shop with Tom Kerridge (R)
12.00noon International Rugby
Union. England v Ireland. (R)
1.00 Athletics: Diamond League
Paris Highlights Action from
the Meeting de Paris.
2.00 Athletics: British
Championships Coverage
from Alexandra Stadium.
5.00 Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond
the Lobby The Icehotel in
Jukkasjarvi, Sweden. (R)
6.00 The Ganges with Sue Perkins A
journey along the sacred river. (R)

6.00am Breakfast 9.00 Match of the
Day (R) 10.30 Sunday Morning
Live 11.30 Homes Under the
Hammer (R) 12.30pm Bargain
Hunt. Items found in York. (R)
1.00 BBC News; Weather
1.15 Songs of Praise An edition
from the Yorkshire Dales.
1.50 Hold the Sunset Double bill.
Edith’s sister tries her patience;
Roger’s hopes of becoming a
carer look like being revived. (R)
2.45 Escape to the Country (R)
3.45 Shop Well for Less? (R)
4.45 Fake or Fortune? A painting
Philip Mould believes is by the
artist Thomas Lawrence. (R)
5.45 Pointless Celebrities A 1980s
edition of the quiz show. (R)
6.35 BBC News; Regional News


6.15am The King of Queens (R) 7.05
Cheers (R) 8.00 Frasier (R) 9.30
Sunday Brunch. Celebrity guests
and conversation, with Tim
Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer.
12.30pm The Simpsons (R)
1.55 Stuart Little (1999/U) Comedy
adventure, featuring the voice
of Michael J Fox. ★★★★
3.35 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun
A couple seek a Cyprus home
for £135,000 or less. (R)
4.35 Coast vs Country Helping a
couple looking for a property
in Devon with £380,000. (R)
5.35 The Yorkshire Dales and the
Lakes In the Lakes, farmer Pip
hatches a plan to prevent the
problem of lost sheep. (R)
6.30 Channel 4 News Headlines.

10.00 ITV News; Weather
10.20 The Best Little Prison in
Britain? Cameras follow a
father and son serving time on
the same wing, while head of
security Margo embarks on
another raid in the prison. (R)
10.45 Yorkshire Airport The
staff prepares for the grand
re-opening of the airport after
millions have been spent on
renovations, and problems arise
with three pilgrimage planes. (R)
11.15pm Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? (R) 12.15am Home
Shopping 3.00 Motorsport UK 3.50
British Superbike Championship
Highlights 4.40 ITV Nightscreen
5.05-6.00am Judge Rinder (R)

10.00 Peter Taylor: My Journey
Through the Troubles On
the 50th anniversary of the
deployment of British troops,
Peter Taylor reflects on the
years he spent reporting on
the Northern Ireland conflict.
11.30pm  FILM Pioneer (2013/15) An
American oil company plans to build
an underwater pipeline off the coast
of Norway, and hires a deep-sea diver
to work on the project. However, when
the operation is struck by a tragic
accident, he becomes suspicious of
his employers’ true objectives. Thriller,
starring Aksel Hennie. In Norwegian
and English. ★★★ 1.15am Who Do You
Think You Are? (R) 2.15 Holby City (R)
3.15-6.30am This Is BBC Two

10.00 BBC News; Regional News
10.30 Match of the Day 2 Mark
Chapman presents action from
today’s Premier League fixtures,
which were Bournemouth v
Manchester City and Tottenham
Hotspur v Newcastle United.
11.30pm A Question of Sport
A two-legged edition with ex-England
striker Darren Bent, sprint hurdling
great Colin Jackson, world Taekwondo
title-winner Bianca Walkden and
former heptathlete Kelly Sotherton. (R)
12.00m’t Sacred Wonders. A painter
battles the elements in Nepal to
honour Buddha’s birthday, and a
Christian delivers a holy flame to
a bishop. (R) 1.00 Weather for the
Week Ahead 1.05-6.00am BBC News


10.00 A Good Day to Die Hard
(2013/12) John McClane goes to
Moscow and helps his estranged
CIA agent son stop the Russian
Mob from stealing nuclear
weapons. Action adventure
sequel, with Bruce Willis. ★★★
11.50pm  FILM Last Vegas (2013/12)
Four sixtysomething friends decide
to relive their wild youth with a trip
to Las Vegas. Comedy, with Michael
Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan
Freeman and Kevin Kline. ★★★ 1.40am
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R)
2.35 The Lateish Show with Mo
Gilligan (R) 3.30 Grand Designs New
Zealand (R) 4.25 Extreme Cake Makers
(R) 4.55 Come Dine with Me (R)
5.50-6.30am Countdown (R)

7.00 The Chase Celebrity
Special Colin Baker, David
Weir, Chelsee Healey and
Alex Horne answer general
knowledge questions to
secure a cash prize for charity.
Presented by Bradley Walsh. (R)
8.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson
hosts the big-prize quiz, in
which another line-up of
contestants answer questions
that could change their lives


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    the Audience, Phone a Friend
    and 50-50 available to them.
    9.00 Sanditon (1/8) Drama adapted
    from the unfinished novel by
    Jane Austen, starring Rose
    Williams, Theo James and
    Anne Reid. A chance accident
    brings Charlotte Heywood to
    Sanditon, a seaside resort on
    the cusp of dramatic change.


7.00 Inside the Factory Gregg
Wallace visits a mattress factory
in Leeds, while Cherry Healey
talks to a scientist about the
benefits to reaction time from
taking an afternoon nap, and
Ruth Goodman tries out a
Middle Ages mattress made
out of a straw-stuffed sack. (R)
8.00 Dragons’ Den (3/14) The
panel assesses an eco-friendly
entrepreneur’s alternative to
straws, a range of skincare
products, a device designed
to make bikes more visible,
and a new brand of food.
9.00 A Black and White Killing:
The Case That Shook
America Part one of two.
Mobeen Azhar investigates
a murder committed by a
white supremacist in Portland,
uncovering a dark underside
to the seemingly liberal city.

7.00 Countryfile Matt Baker heads
to Warwickshire to mark the
centenary of the death of
Joseph Arch, a farm labourer
who helped form the National
Agricultural Labourers’ Union
in 1872. Including Weather
for the Week Ahead.
8.00 Poldark (7/8) Demelza
discovers the French are
smuggling arms into Cornwall,
but Ross is determined to take
revenge on Merceron and
Hanson for framing Ned and
confronts them. The last-ever
episode is tomorrow at 8.30pm.
9.00 Peaky Blinders (1/6) Return
of the period gangster drama,
starring Cillian Murphy and
Helen McCrory. The Shelbys
deal with the impact of the Wall
Street Crash, while ghosts from
Tommy’s past threaten to
undermine his position.


7.00 Prince Philip: The Plot to
Make a King The inside story
of the fierce tensions that were
unleashed when Princess
Elizabeth, the future queen, fell
in love with Prince Philip after
the Second World War. (R)
8.00 The Queen’s Lost Family
(3/3) Britain is ripped apart by
the abdication of Edward VIII
and debate rages in parliament
about Republicanism, while Nazi
Germany continues to be of
concern. Edward meets Hitler,
but when war is declared, his
hopes of a high-profile position
in the war effort are dashed.
9.00 The Handmaid’s Tale (12/13)
Gilead leadership is rocked by
losses among their own, while
Luke and Moira adjust to new
arrivals. June worries about
disruptions to her plan, and
tragedy strikes the household.
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