The Daily Telegraph - 27.08.2019

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Dine with Me 5.50 - 6.30am
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7.00 How They Built Concorde Part one
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The Goldbergs 8.00 The Big Bang
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10.00 Ancient Aliens 12.00 Pirate
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American Pickers

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Johnny Cash: Song by Song 4.00 The
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Rita Hayworth 6.00 Discovering:
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Art Walks 8.00 Battle of the Brass
Bands 9.00 Andre Rieu: European
Dream 10.00 Discovering: Roy Orbison
10.30 The South Bank Show Originals

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Quinto 2.50 Sorry To Bother You
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(2018) Drama starring David Arquette
6.30 A Very Bad Day (2017) Premiere.
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Aquaman (2018) The human-born
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Nicole Kidman 10.25 The Hate U Give
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Gold: The Story of Man’s 6,000 Year
Obsession 2.10 Leslie Caron: The
Reluctant Star 3.20 Titanic and Me

5.20 A History of Ancient Britain:
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The Story of Man’s 6,000 Year
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10.05 Archaeology: A Secret History
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(1951) Western starring Randolph
Scott 7.25 Southwest Passage (1954)
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Ransom (1996) Thriller with Mel
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Stallone 1.40am Maximum Risk
(1996) Action thriller starring Jean-
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Hollywood’s Best Film Directors

GOLD
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Children 1.20 Are You Being Served?
2.00 Only Fools and Horses 2.40
Porridge 3.20 Last of the Summer
Wine 4.40 Are You Being Served?

5.20 Last of the Summer Wine 6.00
The Good Life 6.40 Porridge 7.20
Dad’s Army 8.00 Dad’s Army: The Lost
Episodes 8.40 Dad’s Army 10.00 Only
Fools and Horses 10.40 Two Pints of
Lager and a Packet of Crisps 11.20
Live at the Apollo 12.20am Absolutely
Fabulous 1.00 Inside No 9 1.40 Two
Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
2.15 Two Doors Down 3.20-4.00am
Absolutely Fabulous

Yesterday

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Natural Curiosities 4.00 Forbidden
History 5.00 Bangers and Cash 6.00
The World at War 7.00 Trains That
Changed the World 8.00 World War
Weird 9.00 Open All Hours 11.00 The
Two Ronnies 12.45am Journey’s End
3.00-6.00am Teleshopping

Discovery
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3.00 Kindig Customs 5.00 Diesel
Brothers 6.00 Fast N’ Loud 7.00
Outback Truckers 8.00 Combat Dealers
9.00 Deadliest Catch 10.00 Guardians
of the Glades 11.00 Wheeler Dealers
12.00 Deadliest Catch 1.00am
Guardians of the Glades 2.00 Bitchin’
Rides 3.00 Fast N’ Loud Revved Up
3.50-5.30am Garage Rehab

7.00 pm Beyond 100 Days
7.30 Building Cars: Secrets of the
Assembly Line
9.00 Revolutions: The Ideas That
Changed the World
10.00 Franco Building with
Jonathan Meades
See What to watch
11.25 Jerusalem: The Making
of a Holy City
12.25 am Art of America
1.25 Bauhaus Rules with
Vic Reeves
2.25 - 3.25am Revolutions:
The Ideas That Changed
the World

Noon NCIS: Los Angeles
1.00 pm Hawaii Five-0
2.00 Hawaii Five-0
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4.00 Modern Family
4.30 Modern Family
5.00 The Simpsons
5.30 Futurama
6.00 Futurama
6.30 The Simpsons
8.00 A League of Their Own
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10.00 Warrior
11.00 A League of Their Own:
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12.00 Brit Cops: Rapid Response
1.00 am The Blacklist
2.00 Road Wars
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Galapagos
1.00 pm Making Attenborough’s
Galapagos
2.00 Blue Bloods
3.00 The West Wing
5.00 Without a Trace
6.00 Without a Trace
7.00 CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation
8.00 Blue Bloods
9.00 The Affair See What to
watch
10.10 Euphoria
11.15 Der Pass
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1.35 The Affair
2.45 Dice
3.55 - 4.10am Life Itself: Special

10.30 am Lewis
12.40 pm Heartbeat
1.45 Classic Emmerdale
2.15 Classic Emmerdale
2.50 Classic Coronation Street
3.20 Classic Coronation Street
3.55 Lewis
5.55 Downton Abbey
7.00 Murder, She Wrote
8.00 Maigret in Montmartre
10.00 DCI Banks
11.00 DCI Banks
12.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
2.10 am ITV3 Nightscreen
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11.25 am Cycling: Vuelta a Espana
12.30 pm The Saint
1.35 Kojak
2.40 Quincy ME
3.45 Minder
4.50 The Professionals
5.55 The Sweeney
7.00 Cycling: Vuelta a Espana
8.00 TT Classic Highlights
9.00 FILM: The Shawshank
Redemption (1994)
Prison drama starring Tim
Robbins and Morgan
Freeman See Film choice
11.50 LaLiga Highlights
12.50 am Minder
1.50 BRDC Formula 3 Highlights
2.45 - 6.00am ITV4 Nightscreen

11.00 am Snoopy and Charlie
Brown: The Peanuts Movie
(2015) Animated comedy
12.45 pm Capture the Flag (2015)
Animated sci-fi adventure
2.35 A Thousand Words (2012)
Comedy with Eddie Murphy
4.25 Mrs Doubtfire (1993)
Comedy with Robin Williams
6.50 The League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen (2003) Comic-
book fantasy adventure
with Sean Connery
9.00 Red 2 (2013) Action thriller
sequel starring Bruce Willis
11.15 Nerve (2016) Thriller
starring Emma Roberts
1.05 - 3.15am The Angels’ Share
(2012) Comedy drama

Noon The Bill
1.00 pm Classic EastEnders
1.40 Classic EastEnders
2.20 Murdoch Mysteries
3.20 Murdoch Mysteries
4.20 All Creatures Great and
Small
5.20 Birds of a Feather
6.00 ’Allo ’Allo!
6.40 Waiting for God
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
8.00 Kavanagh QC
9.30 New Tricks
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11.55 Murdoch Mysteries
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Film choice

Runaway Jury (2003)
UNIVERSAL TV, 9.00PM ★★★

 When a stockbroker is shot in cold
blood, his widow attempts to sue a
gun manufacturer with the help of
an idealistic lawyer (a brilliant Dustin
Hoffman). But they find that there are
those who will stop at nothing to bend
justice for their own purposes. The
film lacks the momentum of the John
Grisham novel on which it’s based,
but it’s still a fine drama. Rachel Weisz
and Gene Hackman co-star.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
ITV4, 9.00PM ★★★★★

 In the minds of both the voting
public and the top rank of film critics,
Frank Darabont’s adaptation of a
Stephen King novella is one of the very
greatest films. Tim Robbins is Andy,
a man “wrongfully” sent to prison in
Shawshank State for his wife’s murder.
There he befriends fellow lag Red
(Morgan Freeman) and settles into
life behind bars, while plotting the
most daring prison break of all.

The Fountain (2006)
SYFY, 9.00PM ★★★

 Darren Aronofsky, who would
move onto more assured work like
The Wrestler, Black Swan and Mother!,
first made a metaphysical melodrama
about the quest for eternal life. Rachel
Weisz and Hugh Jackman star in a
visually resplendent time-travelling
three-pronged narrative. The jumps in
time are more than a little bewildering,
but the film’s daring structure does
make the effort involved worth it.

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