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

6.25 The Saint The Master Plan.

7. 20 Kojak Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard.
   8.15 Quincy ME Deadly Protection.
   9.15 Minder The Car Lot Baggers.
   10.20 The Sweeney In from the Cold.
   11.25 Cycling: Vuelta a España
   12.30 PM The Saint Thriller series.
   1.35 Kojak The Good Luck Bomber.
   2.40 Quincy ME Expert in Murder.
   3.45 Minder If Money Be the Food of
   Love, Play On: George Cole stars.
   4.50 The Professionals An unbalanced
   man starts killing hospital staff.
   5.55 The Sweeney Regan oversees
   a secret deal to transport gold.

6.00 AM Classic Coronation Street

6.55 Heartbeat A Gentleman’s Sport.

8.00 Murder, She Wrote Mystery.

8.55 On the Buses Double-bill.

10.00 George and Mildred Fishy Business.

10.30 Lewis Expiation.

12.40 PM Heartbeat Closing the Book:

A conspiracy comes to light.

1.45 Classic Emmerdale

2.50 Classic Coronation Street

3.55 Lewis Allegory of Love: Crime drama

starring Kevin Whately. A woman’s

murder is copied from the pages

of a novel. With Laurence Fox.

5.55 Downton Abbey Sarah continues

to wage war against the Crawleys.

6.00 AM The Planet’s Funniest Animals

6.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World

Records 6.45 You’ve Been

Framed! Gold 7.1 0 Dinner Date

8.00 Emmerdale Last night’s episode.

8.30 Coronation Street

9.25 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

10.20 Superstore Double-bill.

11.15 Dress to Impress

12.15 PM Emmerdale

12.45 Coronation Street

1.50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

2.45 Dinner Date

3.50 Dress to Impress Dating series.

4.50 Take Me Out Dating game show.

6.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

7.0 0 Cycling: Vuelta a España

Gary Imlach presents action from

the fourth stage of the Grand Tour

race, which featured a 177km

course from Cullera to El Puig.

7.0 0 Murder, She Wrote

A Journalist is murdered in the

swamps of New Orleans, where

Jessica discovers that voodoo is

still a force to be reckoned with.

7.0 0 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

Clips series in which comedian

Harry Hill narrates another selection

of mishaps fi lmed by viewers.

8.00 MotorcyclingSteve Parrish,

Steve Plater and Amy Williams

present highlights of the TT Classic

on the Isle of Man, including the

Senior and Lightweight races.

8.00 Maigret Maigret in Montmartre:

Detective drama starring Rowan

Atkinson. The sleuth investigates

the seemingly random murders

of a countess and a showgirl –

and discovers an unexpected

connection between the victims’

past experiences. With Lucy Cohu,

Shaun Dingwall and Nicola Sloane.

8.00 Two and a Half Men Alan

discovers Lyndsey failed to tell him

she broke up with Larry. (S11, ep14)

8.30 Alan asks Lyndsey to choose

between him and Larry. (S11, ep15)

9.00 πfThe

Shawshank Redemption

Prison drama set in 1946. A banker

incarcerated for his wife’s murder

forms an unlikely friendship with a

fellow inmate. Stars Tim Robbins,

Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

and Clancy Brown. Includes

FYI Daily at 10.10pm. (1994, 15)

★★★★★ See Filmweek, page 31

9.00 Family Guy Meg makes a new

friend – unaware that she is also a

member of a suicide cult. (S1, ep3)

9.30 Stewie tries to build a machine

to avoid teething pain. (S1, ep4)

10.00 DCI Banks Cold Is the Grave:

1 of 2. The detective becomes

drawn into the criminal underworld

of Soho while searching for Chief

Superintendent Rydell’s daughter.

10.00 Celebrity Juice With James

Morrison, Rochelle Humes, Ella

Eyre and Caroline Flack. (S14, ep7)

10.50 Family Guy Peter tries to get on

a neighbour’s good side. (S1, ep5)

11.50 fEraser Action thriller.

A framed secret agent must fi ght

to clear his name. Stars Arnold

Schwarzenegger and James Caan.

(1996, 15) ★★★ See Filmweek, page 33

2.05 Motorsport F3 action from the

seventh round at Silverstone, which

was set to feature the 19th, 20th

and 21st races of the season.

3.00 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.00 DCI Banks Cold Is the Grave: 2 of 2.

The detective uncovers evidence

that one of his team is an informer.

12.00 M’T Poirot Dumb Witness: Crime

drama starring David Suchet.

The sleuth takes a break at Lake

Windermere, only to end up

investigating a murder case.

2.10 AM Nightscreen

2.30 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.20 Family Guy Joe takes the guys on a

road trip to Niagara Falls. (S13, ep14)

11.50 American Dad! Animated comedy.

(S13, ep14) 12.20 AM (S13, ep14)

12.45 Two and a Half Men See 8.00pm.

1.45 Superstore (S4, ep13)

2.10 Totally Bonkers Guinness World

Records Record-breaking attempts.

2.20 Shopping

5.50 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 What it takes to
   build thousands of cars a day.
   9.00 Revolutions: The Ideas That
   Changed the World New edition
   Last in the series. Jim Al-Khalili
   explores the history of the robot.
   10.00 nFranco Building
   with Jonathan Meades The
   writer considers the architectural
   legacy of Spain’s General Franco.
   11.25 Peaky Blinders Triple-bill of the
   period crime drama series. (S1, ep4)
   12.25 AM (S1, ep5) 1.25 (S1, ep6)
   2.20 to 3.20 AM Revolutions: The
   Ideas That Changed the World

9.00 AM Children’s Programmes

12.00 NOON Income Property

12.25 PM The Real Housewives of Atlanta

1.20 Million Dollar Listing: LA

2.15 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

3.10 The Real Housewives of New

Jersey Melissa and Joe break

ground on their dream home.

4.05 The Real Housewives of Auckland

6.00 Buyers Bootcamp A property that

requires a lot of restorations.

7.0 0 Buying and Selling A family of six

who are in need of a bigger house.

8.00 Dinner Date A Lancashire woman

picks three dates from fi ve menus.

9.00 The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Kim ignites a fi ery argument

with Kenya, Kandi and NeNe.

10.00 Gemma Collins: Diva Forever

Gemma struggles to move on with

her break up in time for a trip to LA.

11.00 Mob Wives: The Last Stand

The wives attend a parade, and

Renee clashes with a new arrival.

11.55 PM to 12.45 AM

The Only Way Is Essex

9.00 AM Access Showbiz gossip.

9.10 The A-Team Double-bill.

11.15 Police Interceptors

12.20 PM Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!

2.20 fParatroop Command World

War Two adventure starring Richard

Bakalyan. (1959, PG, b&w) ★★★

4.00 Traffi c Cops Real-life crimes.

5.00 The A-Team Double-bill.

7.0 0 Police Interceptors The helicopter

crew is called out to rescue a

woman trapped by rising water.

8.00 Traffi c Cops Police offi cers pursue

a 15-year-old who is driving a stolen

car at 140mph down the M62.

9.00 Traffi c Cops: On the Edge

An edition focusing on offi cers

dealing with alcohol-related crimes.

10.00 fThe Fall of the Krays Biopic

charting the gangster brothers rise

to the top of the London criminal

underworld. Stars Simon Cotton

and Kevin Leslie. (2015, 15) ★★

12.20 AM Idiot TV Double-bill.

2.30 to 3.00 AM

Criminals: Caught on Camera

12.00 NOON to 7.0 0 PM As shown on BBC2.
7.0 0 PM Cycling: Women’s Tour of Scotland
Action from the third and fi nal stage of
the race, from Dundee to Edinburgh.

7. 3 0 The River 5 of 6. Documentary series.
   Farrier David Merry tends to all the
   horses at the Jedburgh common ride.
   8.00 Scotland from the Sky 1 of 3. Jamie
   Crawford takes to the skies to explore
   Scotland’s cities and countryside.
   9.00 The Nine Scottish and international news.
   10.00 nIED: Improve Every Day
   The story of a soldier who became
   a bodybuilder after losing his legs.
   11.00 PM to 12.00 M’T The Scottish Bounty
   Hunter Documentary following Scot
   Christian Matlock, who is forging a
   career in the US tracking down fugitives.

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

Home and Away

5STAR, 6.30pm

After listening to Rick’s allegations,

Colby is forced to bring Mackenzie in for

questioning over the missing $80,000.

Building the Dream

More4, 9.00pm

Host Charlie Luxton meets a couple who

are planning to construct an oak-framed

retirement property in the New Forest.

Picks^ of

the^ day

What’s^ on^

TV

The Shawshank

Redemption ITV4, 9.00pm

Inmates Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman

forge an unlikely friendship in this prison

drama based on a Stephen King novella.

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