(R) repeat ★★★★★ brilliant ★★★★ very good ★★★ good ★★ average ★ badFREEVIEW 1 SKY 101 VIRGIN 101 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 102 VIRGIN 102 FREEVIEW 3 SKY 103 VIRGIN 103 FREEVIEW 4 SKY 104 VIRGIN 104BBC 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 Sara
Pascoe and Emma Bullimore.
9.25 James Martin’s Saturday
Morning. With guests Jenni
Falconer and John Williams. (R)
11.25 Save Money: Good Health.
Sian Williams puts home
bacteria-testing kits to the test.
(R) 11.55 Love Your Garden. Alan
Titchmarsh creates a family
garden in Hucknall near
Nottingham. (R)
1.00pm Midsomer Murders (R)
3.00 Tenable Quiz show. (R)
4.00 Tipping Point Quiz show. (R)
5.00 Zone of Champions Clip show.
5.30 ITV News; Weather
5.45 Regional News; Weather
6.00 The Chase Quiz show. (R)6.45am The Dog Ate My Homework
(R) 7.15 Ali-A’s Superchargers (R)
7.35 Mustangs FC (R) 8.00
Blue Peter: HOWZAT!? (R)
8.30 Curious Creatures (R) 9.00
Deadly on a Mission (R) 9.30 The
Animal’s Guide to Britain (R)
10.30 FILM The Princess and
the Frog (2009/U) ★★★★
12.00noon Nigel Slater: Eating
Together An Iraqi dish. (R)
12.30 My Life on a Plate (R)
1.15 Flog It! Auctioning antiques. (R)
1.50 Home Front Heroes (R)
2.35 War Films: Talking Pictures (R)
3.20 The Man Who Never Was
(1956/U) Fact-based Second
World War drama. ★★
5.00 Saving Lives at Sea (R)
6.00 Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico (R)6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen Live 11.30 Mary Berry’s
Quick Cooking. Visiting Rome.
(R) 12.00noon Football Focus
1.00 BBC News; Weather
1.15 Rowing World Championships
Matthew Pinsent presents live
coverage from Ottensheim in
Austria, where the world’s best
rowers have the dual aim of
winning medals and securing
their places at the Olympics.
3.00 Athletics: Zurich Diamond
League Highlights
4.00 Final Score Football results.
5.15 BBC News; Regional News
5.35 Avengers Assemble (2012/12)
Superhero adventure, starring
Robert Downey Jr and Chris
Hemsworth. ★★★★
6.00am The King of Queens (R) 6.55
Frasier (R) 7.45 The Big Bang
Theory (R) 8.45 The Simpsons (R)
10.20 Superhero Tri 11.25 Four in
a Bed. Back-to-back episodes. (R)
2.00pm International Rugby Union
Wales v Ireland (kick-off
2.30pm). Coverage of the
World Cup warm-up fixture,
which takes place at the
Principality Stadium in Cardiff.
4.40 Kevin’s Grandest Design Kevin
McCloud reveals his top five
properties from the show. (R)
5.40 Channel 4 News Including
the latest weather updates.
6.00 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix
Qualifying Highlights The
battle for pole position ahead
of the 13th round of the season.10.00 Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson
hosts the big-prize quiz, in which
another line-up of contestants
answers questions that could
change their lives - with lifelines,
including Ask the Audience,
Phone a Friend and 50-50,
available if they get stuck.
11.00pm ITV News; Weather
11.20 FILM Rambo III. (1988/18)
Vietnam veteran John Rambo heads
for Afghanistan on a quest to rescue
his old boss Colonel Trautman from
prison. Action adventure sequel, with
Sylvester Stallone and Richard Crenna.
★★★ 1.05am Home Shopping 3.00
Britain’s Best Back Gardens (R)
3.50-6.00am ITV Nightscreen10.50 Southside with You (2016/12)
Premiere. Biographical drama
chronicling the afternoon in the
summer of 1989, when the
future 44th President of the
United States Barack Obama and
Michelle Robinson went on their
first date across the South Side
of Chicago. Starring Tika Sumpter
and Parker Sawyers. ★★★
12.05am FILM Is Anybody There?
(2008/12) A lonely 10-year-old boy lives
in a building his parents have converted
into an old people’s retirement home.
He initially resents having to share his
life with the elderly residents, but
when a retired magician comes to stay
he strikes up an unlikely friendship.
★★★★ 1.35-6.20am This Is BBC Two10.10 BBC News; Weather
Followed by Lottery Update
10.30 Match of the Day Gary
Lineker presents highlights of
the latest Premier League
matches, including Burnley v
Liverpool at Turf Moor, and
Southampton v Manchester
United at St Mary’s Stadium.
Jurgen Klopp’s men won both
of their encounters with Sean
Dyche’s Clarets last season,
including a 3-1 victory on this
ground in December.
12.00m’t The Rap Game UK. The artists
are split into two groups and challenged
to collaborate on a track together. 1.00
The NFL Show 1.30 Weather for the
Week Ahead 1.35-6.00am BBC News
11.35pm FILM Lone Survivor (2013/15)
Four American soldiers are sent on a
mission into the mountains of
Afghanistan to track down and
eliminate a high-ranking terrorist
leader. They soon find themselves
faced with a terrible moral dilemma
and a battle for survival against
overwhelming odds. Fact-based drama,
starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch,
Emile Hirsch and Ben Foster. ★★★★★
1.50am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
USA. Gordon Ramsay travels to
Fremont, California, in an attempt to
save a failing restaurant that is tearing
the owners’ marriage apart. (R) 2.40
Hollyoaks. Omnibus. (R) 4.55 Gok’s Fill
Your House for Free. Home makeovers.
(R) 5.50-6.15am Star Boot Sale (R)7.00 Celebrity Catchphrase
Stephen Mulhern hosts a
celebrity edition of the
gameshow in which Anton Du
Beke, Gemma Collins and Paul
Sinha guess the familiar phrases
hidden in animated clues.
8.00 Britain’s Got Talent:
The Champions Ant and Dec
present a special version of the
talent show, in which stars from
the past 13 series of Britain’s Got
Talent compete against winners
from versions of the programme
around the world to impress the
viewers and judging panel of
Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden,
Alesha Dixon and David
Walliams. The first episode
features the return of Paul Potts
and Boogie Storm, as well as
Ukraine’s Kseniya Simonova and
father-daughter duo Bello and
Annaliese Nock from the US.7.00 Proms Encore (6/7)
Katie Derham is joined by jazz
pianist Monty Alexander and
conductor Ilan Volkov.
7.30 Dad’s Army Sergeant Wilson
is appointed manager of the
Eastgate branch of the bank.
Starring John Le Mesurier. (R)
8.00 Wild Shetland – Scotland’s
Viking Frontier Ewan
McGregor narrates a portrait of
wildlife on the Shetland Islands,
tracing the course of a breeding
season from the depths of
winter to high summer.
9.00 Their Finest (2016/12)
Premiere. Former secretary
Catrin Cole, appointed as a
scriptwriter for propaganda
films, joins the cast and crew
of a major production while
the Blitz rages around them.
Comedy drama, starring Gemma
Arterton and Sam Claflin. ★★★★7.45 Pointless Celebrities
A star-studded, comedy-
themed edition of the general
knowledge quiz, with
contestants including Ralph
Ineson, John Thomson, Janine
Duvitski, Tony Maudsley,
Melvyn Hayes, Stuart McGugan,
Vicki Pepperdine and Rosie
Cavaliero taking part.
8.35 Who Dares Wins
Gameshow in which two pairs
of complete strangers team up,
each battling to outdo the
other by listing as much as they
know about a given subject.
9.20 Casualty Duffy volunteers at a
care home and finds out how
overlooked some residents
can feel, and she decides to
express her concerns to Charlie.
Meanwhile, David is devastated
when his ex-wife calls him
because their son has run away.
7.30 Mammoth Autopsy:
Return of the Ice Age
Giant? Documentary following
a team of scientists, led by
Dr Tori Herridge, exploring the
wastes of northern Siberia to
find the frozen remains of Ice
Age animals, including woolly
mammoths, woolly rhinos,
steppe wolves and cave lions. (R)
9.00 Bridge of Spies (2015/12)
A lawyer in 1950s New York is
hired to represent a Soviet spy
in a showcase trial designed to
demonstrate the fairness of the
US justice system. In the face of
public condemnation, he argues
against the death penalty, a
stance that years later leads to
his involvement in an exchange
of prisoners in East Germany.
Fact-based Cold War drama,
starring Tom Hanks and Mark
Rylance. ★★★★★