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6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30
The Sara Cox Show 9.25 James
Martin’s Saturday Morning (R)
11.35 John and Lisa’s Weekend
Kitchen. The couple demonstrate
soda bread and a stuffed loaf. (R)
12.35pm Ainsley’s Caribbean Kitchen
Ainsley Harriott visits Trinidad. (R)
1.05 Save Money: Good Health (R)
1.35 ITV News; Weather
1.50 Countrywise: Guide to Britain
Ben Fogle is in Whitby. (R)
2.20 Liar Liar (1997/12) Comedy,
with Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney
and Justin Cooper. ★★★★
4.00 Tipping Point Quiz. (R)
5.00 The Chase Quiz show. (R)
6.00 ITV News; Weather
6.15 Regional News; Weather6.35am All Over the Place: UK (R) 7.05
The Dog Ate My Homework
7.35 The Dengineers (R) 8.05
Mustangs FC (R) 8.30 Deadly
Top 10 (R) 9.00 Penguins on a
Plane: Great Animal Moves (R)
10.00 Cats v Dogs: Which Is
Best? (R) 11.00 This Farming
Life (R) 12.00noon Lorraine
Pascale: How to Be a Better
Cook (R) 12.30 Secret Britain (R)
1.30 Animals at Play The secrets
behind animals’ group games. (R)
2.30 Athletics: European Team
Championships 2019 Gabby
Logan presents coverage of the
second and penultimate day
of the biennial event, held this
year at Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland.6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen Live 11.30 Nadiya’s Time
to Eat. Recipes to take the stress
out of impressing guests. (R)
12.00noon Football Focus
1.00 BBC News; Weather
1.15 Bargain Hunt From Wetherby
Racecourse, West Yorkshire. (R)
2.00 Big Hero 6 (2014/PG) An orphan
forms a bond with an inflatable
robot who helps him and his
friends investigate a devastating
event. Animation, with the
voice of Ryan Potter. ★★★★
3.30 Money for Nothing EJ Osborne
transforms an armchair. (R)
4.00 Final Score A round-up of this
afternoon’s football results.
5.25 BBC News; Regional News
5.40 Pointless Celebrities Quiz. (R)
6.20am The King of Queens (R) 6.50
Frasier (R) 7.40 The Big Bang
Theory (R) 9.00 Young Sheldon
(R) 9.55 The Simpsons (R)
12.25pm Come Dine with Me (R)
1.30 Rugby Union Ireland v Italy
(kick-off 2.00pm). Coverage of
the Guinness Summer Series
fixture at Aviva Stadium in
Dublin, as both sides continue
preparations for the World Cup.
4.10 A Place in the Sun A holiday
home in La Mata, Spain. (R)
4.45 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun
A holiday home in and around
Marina Almeria, Spain. (R)
5.35 Portrait Artist of the Year 2019
With Jodie Comer, Daniel
Lismore and Nick Moran.
6.30 Channel 4 News Headlines.10.20 ITV News; Weather
10.35 Bridget Jones: The Edge
of Reason (2004/15) The
disaster-prone journalist seems
to have finally found the perfect
boyfriend in Mark Darcy.
However, when the couple start
to squabble over their personal
habits, she decides to head to
Thailand and write a travelogue.
Unfortunately, she has reckoned
without the reappearance of
duplicitous old flame Daniel
Cleaver – and a spell in a Thai
prison. Comedy sequel, with
Renee Zellweger. ★★
12.30am Ideal World 3.00 The Wonder
of Britain. With Julia Bradbury. (R)
3.50-6.00am ITV Nightscreen10.00 Live at the Apollo
Glaswegian comedian Frankie
Boyle takes to the stage at
London’s Hammersmith Apollo,
and introduces rising stars Jack
Carroll and Holly Walsh. (R)
10.30 Atlanta: Robbin’ Season
(9&10/11) Double bill. Paper Boi
is quick to regret his decision
to play a show at a college
campus that Earn arranged;
the authenticity of Earn’s
shirt is called into question.
11.55pm FILM Clouds of Sils Maria
(2014/15) Drama, starring Juliette
Binoche and Kristen Stewart. ★★★
1.55am FILM Stations of the Cross
(2014/15) Drama, starring Lea van Acken.
★★★ 3.40-6.15am This Is BBC Two10.10 BBC News; Weather
Followed by Lottery Update
10.30 Match of the Day Gary
Lineker presents highlights of
the opening round of Premier
League fixtures, including West
Ham United v Manchester City
and Tottenham Hotspur v Aston
Villa. With analysis by Alan
Shearer and Ian Wright.
11.55pm Britain’s Youngest Football
Boss West Ham take on Reading in the
FA Cup semi-final. 12.15am FILM The
Double (2011/12) A former CIA agent
investigates the murder of a senator,
which he believes to be the work of
an Soviet assassin. Thriller, with Richard
Gere. ★★ 1.50 Weather for the
Week Ahead 1.55-6.00am BBC News
12.00m’t FILM The Drop (2014/15)
A bartender who secretly works for
gangsters gets involved in a robbery
gone wrong that digs up long-buried
secrets. Crime drama, starring Tom
Hardy and Noomi Rapace. ★★★ 1.55
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA. The
chef focuses his efforts on a struggling
French restaurant in Los Angeles. (R)
2.50 Hollyoaks (R) 4.55 Kirstie’s
Handmade Treasures. Kirstie Allsopp
teams up with cider-maker Andy
Thomstone to make a winter version
of a popular drink. (R) 5.00 The £100k
Drop. Two sisters from Bangor and a
couple from Norwich play the quiz
show. (R) 5.55-6.20am The King of
Queens. US sitcom. Doug’s parents
urge him to sign their will. (R)6.30 Zone of Champions Sports
commentators Jack Bullman
and Nicky Brimble guide
viewers through the worlds
of Supercar Exiting, Canine
Dream Sprinting and Humans
Balancing Things on Their Head.
7.00 The Chase Celebrity
Special Bradley Walsh presents
as celebrity contestants
Katherine Ryan, George Shelley,
Faye Brookes and Bobby
Davro take on the Chaser in
the hope of winning a potential
prize pot worth thousands
of pounds for charity. (R)
8.00 Captain America: The First
Avenger (2011/12) A frail
volunteer is transformed into
the ultimate soldier and fights
for his country during the
Second World War. Superhero
adventure, starring Chris Evans
and Hugo Weaving. ★★★7.00 Proms Encore (3/7) Katie
Derham is joined by composer
Hannah Kendall and trombonist
Peter Moore as Proms Encore
celebrates the next generation
of classical musicians.
7.30 Dad’s Army Jones’s reputation
is called into question by an
old comrade’s allegations about
his conduct at the Battle of
Omdurman in Sudan. (R)
8.00 Animal Babies: First Year
on Earth A three-month-old
sea otter pup learns what is
safe to eat, and a seven-month-
old macaque is forced by his
mother to toughen up. (R)
9.00 Princess Margaret: The
Rebel Royal Part two of two.
Experts analyse the Princess’s
marriage to Lord Snowdon
at the start of the 1960s as
the VIPs ride the wave of a
cultural revolution. (R)6.30 Pirates of the Caribbean:
On Stranger Tides (2011/12)
Captain Jack Sparrow sets
sail in search of the legendary
fountain of youth. His dangerous
mission puts him up against a
mysterious woman from his
past, old enemy Barbossa, now
in the employ of the British
Navy, and the most feared
pirate of them all, the dreaded
Blackbeard. Adventure sequel,
with Johnny Depp. ★★★
8.40 Casualty Feature-length
episode. The walls start to close
in on Connie when the hospital
board notices the high rate of
benzodiazepine prescriptions
in the emergency department,
and she is forced to choose
between her addiction and her
career. Iain takes a stand and
defends the paramedics in
the emergency department.
7.00 Secrets of Egypt’s Valley
of the Kings Documentary
following archaeologists working
to unlock the ancient secrets
of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. (R)
8.00 Egypt’s Great Pyramid
Uncovered Exploring the
latest evidence concerning the
construction of the Great
Pyramid of Giza, and looking
into the lives of those involved
in building the structure.
9.00 Transformers: The Last
Knight (2017/12) Premiere. The
shape-changing robots face a
confrontation with their creator,
who has brainwashed their
leader and intends to save her
own home planet by destroying
Earth. To save the human race
they must recover an ancient
artefact from Arthurian legend.
Sci-fi adventure sequel, starring
Mark Wahlberg. ★★★★