The Daily Telegraph - 19.08.2019

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Teacher 1.25 Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA 2.15 Come Dine
with Me 3.10 The Lateish Show with
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Zealand 4.55 The £100k Drop 5.50 -
6.30am Countdown

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9.00 The Secret World of Your Rubbish
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10.00 Manhunt: Killer on the Run A
convicted murderer goes missing
while out of on licence from prison
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11.05 Secrets of the World’s Toughest
Prison 12.05am Panic at 30,000
Feet 1.00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino
Show 3.00 Access 3.10 Gotham:
Rise of the Villains 4.00 Ben Fogle:
New Lives in the Wild 4.45 House
Doctor 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 -
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Syrian refugee families who have
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Titchmarsh 3.50 ITV Nightscreen
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Northern Ireland

BBC One: 9.00 - 10.00pm The Day
Mountbatten Died 10. 35 Who Do You
Think You Are? 11. 35 This Country
12.0 5 am Have I Got a Bit More Old
News for You 12. 50 Live at the Apollo


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    Rescue – River Deep, Mountain High
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    1. 35 am Neighbours from Hell:
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Newyddion S4C a’r Tywydd 6.0 5 Y Wal
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  1. 55 Chwedloni: Cwpan Rybgi’r Byd
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  2. 3 0 - 12.0 5 am Bad Achub
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ITV2
11.1 5 am Dress to Impress 12.1 5 pm
Emmerdale 12.4 5 Coronation Street


  1. 50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2.4 5
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  2. 55 Take Me Out 6.00 You’ve Been
    Framed! Gold 8.00 Two and a Half
    Men 9.00 Family Guy 10.00 American
    Dad! 10. 55 Family Guy 11. 30 The
    Cleveland Show 12.2 5 am Plebs 12. 55
    Two and a Half Men 1. 50 Superstore
    2.20- 5. 5 0am Teleshopping


E4
Noon Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.00pm The
Big Bang Theory 2.00 Melissa & Joey
3 .00 Baby Daddy 4.00 Brooklyn Nine-
Nine 5 .00 Speechless 6.00 The Big
Bang Theory 7.00 Hollyoaks 7. 30 The
Goldbergs 8.00 Brooklyn Nine-Nine
9.00 Celebs Go Dating 10.00 First
Dates 11.10 The Big Bang Theory
12.10am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1.10
Celebs Go Dating 2.10 First Dates
Hotel 3 .0 5 -4.00am Gogglebox

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Noon Find It, Fix It, Flog It 1.0 5 pm
Four in a Bed 3. 50 Location, Location,
Location 4. 50 Love It or List It
Australia 5. 55 The Secret Life of the
Zoo 6. 55 The Supervet 7. 55 Escape to
the Chateau 9.00 Sarah Millican:
Control Enthusiast 10.00 24 Hours in

A&E 11.0 5 999: What’s Your
Emergency? 12.0 5 am Shocking
Emergency Calls 1.1 5 The Supervet
2.1 5 The Secret Life of the Zoo 3 .20-
3 .4 5 am Food Unwrapped

Dave
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Garage 5 .00 Top Gear 7.00
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Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish
11.00 Jon Richardson: Ultimate
Worrier 12.00 Taskmaster 1.00am
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Week

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Wanderers v Manchester United (kick-
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12.00 AJ: The Untold Truth 1.00-
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Noon Best PL Goals 1999/2000
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Premier League Highlights 6.00
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Wolverhampton Wanderers v
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12.00 MNF Pre Match 1.00am MNF
Hlts 1. 30 Premier League Years 3. 3 0-
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BT Sport 1

Noon Premier League Review 1.00pm
Ligue 1 Highlights 2.00 Premier
League Legends 2. 30 Premier League
Legends 3 .00 30 for 30 4.00 Early
Kick-Off 4. 30 Premier League Review
5. 30 FIM Speedway Grand Prix 7. 30
Live SGB Premiership. SGB
Premiership action as Poole Pirates
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10.1 5 BT Sport Goals Reload 10.4 5
BT Sport Score Best Bits 11.1 5
MotoGP Rewind 11. 30 UFC: Beyond
the Octagon 12.00 MLB’s Best


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  2. 3 0-4.00am BT Sport Goals Reload


History
Noon Forged in Fire 1.00pm Jurassic
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Alaska: Power & Ice 5 .00 Forged in

Fire 7.00 American Pickers 8.00 The
Curse of Oak Island 9.00 Witness
10.00 Mafia Killers 11.00 Who Killed
Tupac? 12.00 Knightfall 1.00am The
Curse of Oak Island 2.00 Jurassic
Fight Club 3 .00-4.00am American
Pickers

Sky Arts

Noon Discovering: Charlton Heston
1.00pm Tales of the Unexpected 2.00
Jefferson Airplane: Music Icons 2. 30
The Band: Music Icons 3 .00 Creedence
Clearwater Revival: Music Icons 3. 30
The Grateful Dead: Music Icons 4.00
The Sixties 5 .00 Discovering: Judy
Garland 6.00 Discovering: David Niven
7.00 The Eighties 8.00 FILM: The
Phantom of the Opera at the Royal
Albert Hall (2011) Ramin Karimloo
and Sierra Boggess star 10.4 5 Natalia
Osipova: The Mother See What to
watch 12.10am Santana: Music Icons
12.40 Discovering: Jimi Hendrix 1.0 5
The Art of Architecture 2.00-4.00am
FILM: Obey Giant: The Art and Dissent
of Shepard Fairey (2017) The life and
career of the street artist

Sky Cinema Premiere
24 hours, including at:


  1. 3 0am Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes
    of Grindelwald (2018) Fantasy
    adventure starring Eddie Redmayne
    2.00pm Marriage Material (2017)


Romantic comedy starring Jennifer
Morrison 4.10 A Stork’s Journey
(2017) Animated family adventure
with the voice of Cooper Kelly Kramer
5. 50 American Summer (2018)
Premiere. In 1970, a 14-year-old boy
learns to stand up for himself in the
midst of bullying. Comedy drama
starring Donald Sutherland 7.4 5 Free
Preview Avengers: Endgame 8.00
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of
Grindelwald (2018) Newt Scamander
tries to scupper a sorcerer’s plans.
Fantasy adventure starring Eddie
Redmayne and Katherine Waterston
10.20 Sorry To Bother You (2018) A
telemarketer finds his career takes a
sinister turn after he finds success
using his “white voice”. C o medy
starring Lakeith Stanfield 12.20am
Nobody’s Fool (2018) Romantic
comedy starring Tiffany Haddish 2.1 5 -
4.0 5 am Lizzie (2018) Thriller starring
Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart

PBS America


  1. 35 am The Bog Bodies 12.40pm
    Super Hummingbirds 1. 50 The
    Mystery of Mary Magdalene 3 .0 5 Left
    Behind America 4.1 5 The Bog Bodies
    5 .20 Super Hummingbirds 6. 30 The
    Mystery of Mary Magdalene 7. 50
    World of Stonehenge 9.00 Kissinger
    11.00 World of Stonehenge 12.10am
    The Mystery of Mary Magdalene 1. 30


Walks Around Britain 2.00-6.00am
Teleshopping

TCM Movies

24 hours, including at:
11.10am The Stalking Moon (1968)
Western adventure starring Gregory
Peck 1. 3 0pm Strangers on a Train
(1951, b/w) Hitchcock thriller starring
Robert Walker and Farley Granger
3. 35 Cattle Drive (1951) Western
starring Joel McCrea 5 .20 Apache War
Smoke (1952, b/w) Western starring
Gilbert Roland 6. 50 This Savage Land
(1969) Watchable Western adventure.
George C Scott stars 9.00 The
Enforcer (1976) Maverick cop “Dirty”
Harry Callahan is unwillingly teamed
up with a female partner as he takes
on a terrorist group. Crime thriller
sequel starring Clint Eastwood and
Tyne Daly 11.0 5 Stigmata (1999)
Horror starring Patricia Arquette and
Gabriel Byrne 1.1 5 am Pat Garrett and
Billy the Kid (1973) Western starring
James Coburn 3 .40-4. 3 0am
Hollywood’s Best Film Directors

GOLD


  1. 5 0am 2point4 Children 12.2 5 pm
    The Green Green Grass 1.0 5 Are You
    Being Served? 1.4 5 Only Fools and
    Horses 2. 55 Last of the Summer Wine
    4.20 2point4 Children 4. 55 Are You
    Being Served? 5. 35 The Good Life


6.1 5 Dad’s Army 10.20 Only Fools and
Horses 11.40 Blackadder Goes Forth
12.20am Two Pints of Lager and a
Packet of Crisps 12. 55 Knowing Me,
Knowing You – With Alan Partridge


  1. 30 Inside No 9 2. 35 Two Pints of
    Lager and a Packet of Crisps 3 .0 5
    Knowing Me, Knowing You – With Alan
    Partridge 3. 35 -4.00am Harry Hill’s TV
    Burp


Yesterday

Noon Time Team 2.00pm Deep Wreck
Mysteries 3 .00 The Life of Mammals
4.00 Forbidden History 5 .00 Bangers
and Cash 6.00 The World at War 7.00
Abandoned Engineering 8.00 Flying
Scotsman with Robson Green 9.00
Monster Ships 10.00 The World at
War 11.00 Open All Hours 1.00am
The World at War 2.00 Raiders of the
Lost Past 3 .00-6.00am Teleshopping

Discovery
Noon Railroad Alaska 1.00pm Combat
Dealers 2.00 Alaskan Bush People
3 .00 Kindig Customs 5 .00 Diesel
Brothers 6.00 Fast N’ Loud 7.00
Outback Truckers 8.00 Combat
Dealers 9.00 Fast N’ Loud 10.00
Street Outlaws 11.00 Wheeler Dealers
12.00 Fast N’ Loud 1.00am Street
Outlaws 2.00 Fast N’ Loud 3 .00 Fast
N’ Loud: Demolition Theatre 3. 5 0-
5. 3 0am Deadliest Catch

7.00 pm Beyond 100 Days


  1. 30 Iolo’s Snowdonia
    8.00 Life
    9.00 Rams: Principles of Good
    Design See What to watch
    10.00 Sir Chris Hoy: From
    Velodrome to Le Mans
    11.00 Jerusalem: The Making of a
    Holy City
    12.00 How the Celts Saved Britain
    1.00 am Architects of the Divine:
    The First Gothic Age
    2.00 How to Be a Surrealist with
    Philippa Perry
    3 .00 - 4.00am Rams: Principles
    of Good Design


Noon NCIS: Los Angeles
1.00 pm Hawaii Five-0
3 .00 MacGyver
4.00 Modern Family
5 .00 The Simpsons
5. 30 Futurama


  1. 30 The Simpsons
    8.00 Carpool Karaoke: When
    Corden Met McCartney Live
    from Liverpool
    9.00 FILM: Ghost Rider (2007)
    Fantasy thriller starring
    Nicolas Cage
    11.20 Manifest
    12.20 am Brit Cops: Rapid
    Response
    1.20 Road Wars
    2.00 Warrior
    3 .00 - 4.00am Hawaii Five-0


Noon Without a Trace
1.00 pm Without a Trace
2.00 Blue Bloods
3 .00 The West Wing
4.00 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 Succession
10.10 Last Week Tonight with John
Oliver
10.4 5 Real Time with Bill Maher


  1. 55 Euphoria
    1.00 am Six Feet Under
    2.1 5 Ballers

  2. 50 Girls
    3 .2 5 - 4.00am Girls


10.40 am Agatha Christie’s Poirot
12.40 pm Heartbeat
1.4 5 Classic Emmerdale
2.1 5 Classic Emmerdale


  1. 50 Classic Coronation Street
    3 .20 Classic Coronation Street

  2. 55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot

  3. 50 Downton Abbey

  4. 50 Murder, She Wrote

  5. 55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
    9.00 Doc Martin
    10.00 Scott & Bailey
    11.00 Scott & Bailey
    12.0 5 am A Touch of Frost
    2.00 ITV3 Nightscreen

  6. 3 0 - 6.00am Teleshopping


11.2 5 am The Professionals


  1. 3 0 pm The Saint

  2. 35 Kojak
    2.40 Quincy ME
    3 .4 5 Minder

  3. 50 The Professionals

  4. 55 The Sweeney
    7.00 The Chase
    8.00 Speed Freaks
    9.00 Benidorm
    10.00 FILM: Death Race (2008)
    Sci-fi thriller starring Jason
    Statham
    12.10 am Car Crash Global: Caught
    on Camera
    1.10 Minder
    2.10 Motorsport UK
    3 .00 - 6.00am Teleshopping


11.00 am Short Circuit (1986)
Adventure See Film choice
1.0 5 pm Garfield 2: A Tale of Two
Kitties (2006) Comedy with
the voice of Bill Murray
2.40 Baby’s Day Out (1994)
Comedy with Joe Mantegna
4.40 Big Eyes (2014) Biopic of
painter Margaret Keane with
Amy Adams See Film choice


  1. 55 X-Men: The Last Stand
    (2006) Superhero adventure
    starring Hugh Jackman
    9.00 Red (2010) Action thriller
    starring Bruce Willis
    11.1 5 Paranormal Activity: The
    Ghost Dimension (2015)
    Horror with Chris J Murray
    1.00 - 3 .20am Adore (2013)


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 Inspector George Gently
10.00 The Inspector Lynley
Mysteries


  1. 55 Murdoch Mysteries

  2. 55 am Murdoch Mysteries

  3. 55 Boon
    2.4 5 - 4.10am The Bill


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Film choice

Kick-Ass (2010)
5STAR, 9.00PM ★★★★

 Matthew Vaughn’s lurid flick about
self-styled superheroes will be many
people’s idea of a great time. It’s bright,
violent and tongue-in-cheek, if neither
as hilarious nor shocking as it thinks.
Ordinary teenager Dave Lizewski
(Aaron Johnson) decides that he
should become a superhero, despite
having no training, or indeed powers.
Chloë Grace Moretz is superb as Hit-
Girl, a foul-mouthed child vigilante.

Short Circuit (1986)
FILM4, 11.00AM ★★★★

 John Badham’s amusing adventure
follows Johnny 5, a cute robot who
acquires human-like thoughts and
feelings after he’s struck by lightning.
He escapes the scientists who built
him (as a weapon for US military use)
and befriends a woman (Ally Sheedy)
who tries to stop him falling back into
their clutches. The only prospect may
be to convince Steve Guttenberg’s
inventor that Johnny 5 really is alive.

Big Eyes (2014)
FILM4, 4.40PM ★★★

 Amy Adams is ideally cast as the
browbeaten artist Margaret Keane
who, for eight years, churned out
iconic, sought-after paintings, only
for her con-artist husband (Christoph
Waltz) to receive all the credit. Tim
Burton’s take on this curious real-life
tale of curdled suburbia could do with
some of Adams’s subtlety: even the
usually restrained Waltz is caught
up in the overly-stylised strangeness.

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