FRIDAY
August 16 CHOICE
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Drama GOLD
Dave Yesterday ITV3
ITV2
FREESAT 105FREESAT 113FREESAT 159 FREESAT 1156.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy
Vine 11.15 GPs: Behind Closed
Doors (R) 12.10pm 5 News
Lunchtime 12.15 Can’t Pay? We’ll
Take It Away! (R) 1.10 Access
1.15 Home and Away See 6.00pm.
1.45 Neighbours See 5.30pm.
2.15 Dating to Kill (2019/12) Premiere.
Thriller, starring Clare Kramer
and Mia Topalian. ★★★
4.00 Friends Double bill. Monica
applies for a job; Phoebe’s
identical twin pays a visit. (R)
5.00 5 News at 5 The day’s headlines.
5.30 Neighbours Aaron questions
Elly, worried that she may
end up hurting Chloe. (R)
6.00 Home and Away Robbo offers
to track down Jasmine’s dad. (R)
6.30 5 News Tonight
10.15 Cher: The Greatest
Showgirl Interspersed with
dramatised extracts, this
documentary relives the
meteoric highs and devastating
lows of the singer and actress’s
career in showbusiness.
12.20am Will & Grace: Cher Special
Will uses a gift voucher from Grace to
consult a psychic about his future and
encounters an absent-minded fortune-
teller whose predictions leave him
reeling. Cher guest stars. (R) 12.45 Lip
Sync Battle: Cher Special. Bryshere Y
Gray and Rumer Willis go head to head.
(R) 1.10 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show
3.10 Gotham: Rise of the Villains (R) 4.45
House Doctor (R) 5.10 Great Scientists
(R) 5.35-6.00am Wildlife SOS (R)
7.00 Cricket on 5: The Ashes
England v Australia. Day three of
the Second Test from Lord’s.
England suffered a heavy 405-run
defeat when they last faced
Australia here in this format,
but have lost just two of their
seven Tests played here since.
Followed by 5 News Update
8.00 Draining Alcatraz: The
Impossible Escape A look at
the floor of San Francisco Bay
surrounding the infamous
prison, revealing why the
damage caused by previous
earthquakes helped make the
island impossible to escape. (R)
Followed by 5 News Update
9.00 Celebrity 5 Go Barging (5/5)
Michael, Shaun, Amanda, Anita
and John head into Shakespeare
country, where they whip up
some Elizabethan gin and play at
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. 6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Sin City
Motors 8.00 American Pickers 9.00
Storage Hunters UK 10.00 American
Pickers 1.00pm Top Gear 2.00 Cops
UK: Bodycam Squad 3.00 Yianni:
Supercar Customiser 4.00 Lazy Boy
Garage 5.00 Top Gear: double bill
7.00 Taskmaster Game show.
8.00 Have I Got a Bit More News
for You Ed Balls hosts, with guests
Henning Wehn and Janet Street-Porter.
9.00 Porters Double bill. Comedy
starring Ed Easton; Simon is still coping
with his unrequited love for nurse Lucy.
10.20 Josh With Josh Widdicombe.
11.00 Live at the Apollo. Stand-up
comedy. 12.00m’t Taskmaster 1.00
Mock the Week 1.40 Have I Got a Bit
More News for You 2.40 Dave Gorman:
Modern Life Is Goodish 3.25 Mock the
Week 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping
6.00am Teleshopping 7.10 Boon
8.00 London’s Burning 10.00 Classic
Holby City 11.00 The Bill 1.00pm Classic
EastEnders 2.20 Murdoch Mysteries
4.20 All Creatures Great and Small
5.20 Birds of a Feather. Comedy.
6.00 ’A l l o ’A l l o! Helga tells Von Strohm
that the stolen money was forged.
6.40 Waiting for God Jane becomes
confused when she overhears Tom
and Diana’s discussion over God.
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine
Compo decides to build a trampoline
following a trip to the seaside.
8.00 Kavanagh QC Double bill.
The barrister defends a family doctor
accused of murder; a couple are
accused of murdering their baby.
11.00 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
12.55am Birds of a Feather 1.35 Boon
2.35 The Bill 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping6.00am Walter Tull – Forgotten Hero
7.10 A Very British Murder with Lucy
Worsley 8.00 Time Team 10.00 The
World at War 11.00 Forbidden History
12.00noon Time Team 2.00 Deep Wreck
Mysteries 3.00 The Life of Mammals
4.00 Forbidden History 5.00 Impossible
Engineering 6.00 The World at War
7.00 Abandoned Engineering A
cliff-top ruin and a very tall tower.
8.00 WW2 – Battles for Europe Hitler’s
launch of his great counter-offensive
against the unsuspecting Allies.
9.00 War Factories Henry Ford’s plan
to build a giant factory in Michigan.
10.00 Nazi Hunters The capture and
suicide of Heinrich Himmler.
11.00 Abandoned Engineering 12.00m’t
Forbidden History 1.00 The World
at War 2.00 Walter Tull – Forgotten
Hero 3.00-6.00am Teleshopping6.00am Classic Coronation Street 6.55
Heartbeat 8.00 Murder, She Wrote 8.50
On the Buses 9.55 George and Mildred
10.30 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 12.40pm
Heartbeat 1.45 Classic Emmerdale 2.50
Classic Coronation Street 3.55 Agatha
Christie’s Poirot 5.55 Downton Abbey
7.00 Murder, She Wrote The
Cabot Cove residents fall victim to
a callous development scheme.
8.00 Lewis Following the murder of a
psychologist who was moonlighting
as a psychic, Lewis struggles to unravel
the victim’s baffling double life.
10.00 Foyle’s War The death of a
conscientious objector while in police
custody prompts an investigation.
12.05am FILM The Theory of
Everything (2014/12) Biopic. ★★★★★
2.25 Cilla 3.15 Wild at Heart 4.55 On
the Buses 5.50-6.00am Nightscreen7.30am Steptoe and Son 8.35 Lucky
Feller 9.05 The Green Green Grass
9.45 Last of the Summer Wine 11.05
The Green Green Grass 12.00noon
2point4 Children 12.40 Are You Being
Served? 1.15 The Green Green Grass
1.45 Only Fools and Horses: triple bill
4.40 Last of the Summer Wine
6.00 Porridge Prison comedy.
6.40 Are You Being Served? Sitcom.
7.20 The Vicar of Dibley Comedy
8.00 Only Fools and Horses Double
bill. Rodney wins a holiday in Majorca;
Del-Boy becomes a yuppie.
10.20 Mrs Brown’s Boys Sitcom.
11.35 Mrs Brown’s Boys 12.10am Dylan
Moran: Aim Low 1.25 Michael McIntyre’s
Comedy Roadshow 2.20 The Mighty
Boosh 2.50 Harry Hill’s TV Burp 3.20
Spaced 4.00-6.00am Teleshopping6.00am The Planet’s Funniest Animals
6.20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World
Records 6.45 You’ve Been Framed! Gold
7.10 Dinner Date 8.00 Emmerdale 9.00
You’ve Been Framed! Gold 9.25 The
Ellen DeGeneres Show 10.25 Superstore
11.15 Dress to Impress 12.15pm
Emmerdale 1.15 You’ve Been Framed!
Gold 1.50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2.45 Dinner Date 3.50 Dress to Impress
4.50 Take Me Out. Dating game show.
6.30 You’ve Been Framed! Gold
8.00 Two and a Half Men Double bill.
Walden becomes interested in his
date’s grandmother; Charlie’s daughter
turns up at Walden’s beach house.
9.00 FILM Bridesmaids (2011/15)
Comedy, starring Kristen Wiig. ★★★★
11.35 Family Guy 12.30am American
Dad! 1.30 The Cleveland Show 2.20
Teleshopping 5.50-6.00am NightscreenFREEVIEW 5F’VIEW 6F’VIEW 19 SKY 111 VIRGIN 127 FREESAT 157 F’VIEW 25 F’VIEW 10Lethal Weapon
ITV, 9pm
Murtaugh (Damon
Wayans) is reminded
that, in his line of
work, mistakes
can have major
consequences, as a
murder case raises
doubts about a
conviction he secured
some years back.Fosse/Verdon BBC Two, 9pm
Rehearsals start for a new musical, Pippin,
with Ben Vereen (Ahmad Simmons) revelling
in the lead role. It follows rave reviews for
Cabaret, with Bob’s pal Paddy Chayefsky
telling him he now has a blank cheque to do
as he pleases, creatively speaking.