What’s on TV – 24 August 2019

BBC4 starts

broadcasting

at 7.00pm

ITV4

FV 24 Sky 120 Freesat 117 Virgin 118 /HD 178

ITV3

FV 10 Sky 119 Freesat 115 Virgin 117 /HD 177

ITV2

FV 6 Sky 118 Freesat 113 Virgin 115 /HD 176

ITVBe

FV 2 6 Sky 131 Freesat 118 Virgin 119 /HD 179

5Spike

FV 31 Sky 150 Freesat 141 Virgin 154

BBC4

FV 9 Sky 116 Freesat 107 Virgin 107

HD 106

Scot 82

6.00 AM Only When I Laugh Comedy.

6.25 The Saint The Time to Die.

7.1 5 Kojak Night of the Piraeus.

8.15 Quincy ME The Unquiet Grave.

9.15 Minder Sorry Pal, Wrong Number.

10.20 The Sweeney Selected Target.

11.25 Cycling: Vuelta a España

12.25 PM The Saint The Master Plan.

1.25 Kojak Detective drama series.

2.30 Sherlock Holmes The Eligible

Bachelor: Mystery drama. A bride

disappears on her wedding day.

4.45 fBrannigan Crime thriller.

A Chicago cop pursues a fugitive

to London. Stars John Wayne

and Mel Ferrer. (1975, 15) ★★★

6.00 AM Classic Coronation Street

6.50 Heartbeat No Hiding Place.

7.55 Murder, She Wrote Mystery drama.

8.55 fCarry On Screaming Horror

comedy starring Kenneth Williams

and Jim Dale. (1966, PG) ★★★★

10.55 fCarry On Again Doctor

Comedy starring Kenneth Williams

and Sid James. (1969, PG) ★★★

12.40 PM Heartbeat A Gentleman’s Sport.

1.45 Classic Emmerdale Double-bill.

2.50 Classic Coronation Street

3.55 Poirot The Theft of the Royal Ruby.

4.55 Downton Abbey Double-bill.

Robert faces a diffi cult decision.

5.55 Old wounds are reopened

6.00 AM The Planet’s Funniest Animals

6.20 Guinness World Records

6.45 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

7.1 0 Dinner Date 8.00 Emmerdale

8.30 Coronation Street Double-bill.

9.25 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

10.20 fWhat a Girl Wants

Teen comedy. (2003, PG) ★★

12.20 PM Emmerdale

12.55 Coronation Street Double-bill.

1.50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2.45 Dinner Date From London.

3.50 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

4.15 Minion Madness Animation.

4.30 fDespicable Me 2 Animated

comedy sequel. (2013, U) ★★★

7.0 0 Cycling: Vuelta a España

Gary Imlach presents highlights

of the third stage of the Grand

Tour race – a 186km course from

Ciudad del Jugeute to Alicante.

7.0 0 Murder, She Wrote Jessica

Fletcher is invited to the desert

town of Gila Junction by a friend

who suspects that it is the site of

dangerous chemical experiments.

8.00 Speed Freaks Zef Eisenberg

explores performance-enhancing

technology in an electric vehicle, as

work continues on the Porsche’s

braking and cooling systems.

8.00 Doc Martin Double-bill. The

doctor’s infuriating life in Cornwall

is interrupted by an encounter with

his girlfriend from medical school,

before a familiar face returns.

9.00 fGoldenEye

James Bond action adventure

starring Pierce Brosnan. Agent

007 encounters an old enemy

when a duplicitous Russian general

steals a deadly satellite weapon.

Also stars Sean Bean and Izabella

Scorupco. Includes FYI Daily

at 10.05pm. (1995, 15) ★★★★

9.00 Doc Martin Despite the doctor’s

attitude towards her, Louisa applies

for a job at the school – where she

quickly notices something strange

about the new headmaster.

9.00 Family Guy First-ever episode.

Peter loses his job. (S1, ep1 of 7)

9.30 Peter destroys the town’s

TV transmitter and persuades

Meg to take the blame. (S1, ep2)

10.00 Scott & Bailey 1 of 2.

Double-bill. The badly burned

body of a disabled man turns up

in remote woodland – and a few

days later another corpse is found.

10.00 American Dad! Stan and

Francine try to prevent Hayley from

eloping with her boyfriend. (S7, ep1)

10.30 Stan and Francine try to

test their parental skills. (S7, ep2)

11.40 fDirty Harry Thriller. San

Francisco detective Harry Callahan

vows to hand out his own brand

of justice and end a deranged

sniper’s reign of terror. Stars Clint

Eastwood, Andy Robinson and

Harry Guardino. (1971, 18) ★★★★★

1.50 Motorsport U Snetterton.

2.40 Nightscreen

3.00 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.00 Scott & Bailey 2 of 2. The detectives

face a wall of silence in their murder

investigation, and Janet attempts to

keep her newly single status secret.

12.05 AM A Touch of Frost The Things We

Do for Love: Crime drama series.

Jack investigates a murder case

in a religious community.

2.10 Nightscreen

2.30 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.00 Family Guy Stewie impregnates

himself with Brian’s DNA. (S13, ep12)

11.30 Cleveland and Meg both

get new jobs. (S13, ep13 of 18)

11.55 The Cleveland Show Animation.

(S3, ep13) 12.30 AM (S3, ep14)

12.55 Plebs Comedy series. (S4, ep4)

1.25 Release the Hounds

2.25 Shopping

5.55 to 6.00 AM Nightscreen

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FREEVIEW

7.0 0 Beyond 100 Days

7. 3 0 Building Cars: Secrets of the
   Assembly Line 1 of 2. Co-hosts
   James May, Kate Humble and Ant
   Anstead broadcast from inside
   the busy Mini Plant car factory in
   Oxford. Concludes tomorrow.
   9.00 Victoria & Albert: The Royal
   Wedding Lucy Worsley oversees
   a restaging of the 1840 wedding of
   Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
   10.30 Life Last in the wildlife series. A look
   at the lives of apes and monkeys.
   11.30 Peaky Blinders Triple-bill of
   the period crime drama series.
   2.25 to 3.55 AM Victoria & Albert:
   The Royal Wedding As 9.00pm.

9.00 AM Children’s Programmes

12.00 NOON Cake Wars

12.55 PM Celebrity Dinner Date

Back-to-back editions in which

Towie stars embark on dates.

12.55 Featuring Jasmin Walia.

1.55 Amy Childs looks for love.

3.00 Chloe Sims picks three dates.

4.00 Charlie King looks for love.

5.00 With Chloe Meadows.

6.00 Diags picks three dates.

7.0 0 Jess Wright looks for love.

8.00 Bobby Norris looks for love.

9.00 Botched Terry Dubrow attempts

to help the world’s fi rst paraplegic

fi tness model achieve her dream.

10.00 Botched: Most Outrageous

Patients The most memorable

patients share their stories of

botched cosmetic surgery.

10.30 The Real Housewives of Sydney

The stars of the reality series

gather for a series-one reunion.

12.05 to 12.50 AM

The Only Way Is Essex Pete whisks

Emma off to a spa for the night.

9.00 AM The A-Team (S4, ep4)

10.00 Police Interceptors

11.05 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!

1.00 PM fThe High and the

Mighty Aerial adventure starring

John Wayne, Claire Trevor and

Laraine Day. (1954, U) ★★★★

4.00 Traffi c Cops Documentary series.

5.00 The A-Team Double-bill.

7.0 0 Rallying Action from the ADAC

Rallye Deutschland, which is held

on gravel roads around Trier.

8.00 Trucking Hell Documentary series.

9.00 fRed Planet Sci-fi adventure.

Members of a spaceship crew are

stranded during an exploratory

mission to Mars. Stars Val Kilmer

and Tom Sizemore. (2000, 12) ★★

11.10 fGhosts of Mars Sci-fi thriller.

A Martian police unit is besieged

by an army of warrior ghosts. Stars

Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube and

Jason Statham. (2001, 15) ★★★

1.15 AM Spartacus: Blood and Sand

2.20 Criminals: Caught on Camera

2.50 to 3.00 AM Access

12.15 PM to 7.0 0 PM As BBC2 except:
12.15 PM Scotland’s Home of the Year
12.45 The Generation Frame 1.45to
2.45 PM War at Sea: Scotland’s Story
7.0 0 Beechgrove Kirsty Wilson shows how
to create an evergreen hanging basket.

7. 3 0 The Children’s Hospital 2 of 8. Staff
   in the trauma department deal with a
   teenager who has been hit by a car.
   8.00 Africa 5 of 6. Wildlife series. In this
   edition, David Attenborough examines
   the varied wildlife of the African Sahara.
   9.00 The Nine Scottish and international news.
   10.00 River City Angus attempts to deter
   an over-enthusiastic one-night stand.
   11.00 Breaking the News Panel game. With
   guests Matt Forde, Ayesha Hazarika,
   Raymond Mearns and Jay Lafferty.
   11.30 PM to 12.00 M’T Loop In this edition,
   playwright Stef Smith discusses how
   theatre can create a sense of belonging.

BBC Scotland

Scotland Only: Sky 115 Freesat 106 Virgin 108
Rest of the UK: Sky 457 Freesat 108 Virgin 162

Scot Only

FV 9

HD 108

6.35 fCaptain America:

The First Avenger Comic-

book adventure. A frail volunteer

takes part in an experiment that

transforms him into the ultimate

soldier – and fi ghts for his country

during World War Two. Stars Chris

Evans, Hugo Weaving and Tommy

Lee Jones. Includes FYI Daily at

7. 5 0 p m. (2011, 12) ★★★★

Hollyoaks

E4, 7.00pm

Brooke feels awkward when Ollie brings

baby DJ along on their date together.

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TV

The World’s Most

Beautiful Railway

More4, 9.00pm

Meeting steam enthusiasts who safeguard

some of Scotland’s famous rail routes.

Tennis: US Open

Novak Djokovic will begin the

defence of his men’s singles

title today as the fi na l Grand

Slam tennis event of the year

gets underway at Flushing

Meadows in New York.

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