What’s on TV – 10 August 2019

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HIDDEN GEMS SKY & VIRGIN

The best of BBC iPlayer,

ITV Hub, All 4, and more...

What to watch on Netflix,

Amazon, and beyond...

The secret shows tucked

away in the TV listings...

The best on Sky and Virgin

showing this week...

We search the TV schedules and

online for the shows you might miss...

Counting Tigers

ITV Hub

Joanna Lumley narrates this show following a

special ‘tiger count’ in India. Cameras follow

the massive wildlife survey across 50 tiger

reserves to help the endangered big cat...

Back of the Net

Amazon Prime Video, from Tuesday

13 Aug, episodes released weekly

Peter Crouch, Gabby Logan and John Bishop

host this fun football show. With a live studio

audience, they look at the week’s Premier

League fixtures with the help of celeb guests.

WW2: The True Cost of War

Saturday, 8pm, Channel 5

The scale of destruction in World War Two was

extraordinary. But, as this documentary shows,

nobody was ready for war when Germany

invaded Poland in 1939 – not even Adolf Hitler!

Joan Jett:

Bad Reputation

Saturday, 9pm, Sky Arts (Sky 122, Virgin 122)

Joan Jett’s four-decade career comes under

scrutiny in this documentary, with interviews

with fellow musicians including Debbie Harry.

Stacey Dooley: Face to Face

with the Bounty Hunters

BBC iPlayer

Last year’s Strictly winner heads to America to

meet some of the bounty hunters tracking down

criminals in what’s a huge industry out there...

Mindhunter

Netflix, from Friday 16 August,

9 episodes as a box set

Back for a second series, criminal profilers

Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and Holden Ford

(Jonathan Groff) are caught up in the Atlanta

child murders that took place in 1979-1981.

24 Hour Baby Hospital

Thursday, 9pm, More

Tissues at the ready... There are highs and

lows as cameras go behind hospital doors to

witness incredible moments that will change

the lives of the new parents and staff for ever.

American Housewife

Wednesday, 8pm & 8.30pm, W

After spending years as a full-time mum, Katie

(Katy Mixon) returns to work as a party planner

as the third season begins. She and hubby Greg

now split parenting duties, with mixed results...

Drag SOS

All 4

Meet Anna Phylactic, Cheddar Gorgeous and

co – a group of drag artists embarking on a

six-part trip around the UK, turning ordinary

Brits into fabulous drag versions of themselves!

Pulse

My5, from

Thursday 15 August,

8 episodes as a box set

This Aussie mini-series

follows businesswoman

Frankie Bell (Claire van

der Boom), who led life

in the fast lane until

she suddenly needed

a kidney transplant.

She decided to retrain

as a doctor and, eight

years later, starts work

in the renal department

of the hospital that

saved her life! But as

she negotiates the

pitfalls of her new

job, she joins her

new best friend Lou

(Andrea Demetriades)

in battling against

unforeseen barriers.

Monster Ships

Thursday, 8pm, Yesterday

Think cruise ships are huge? Well, they’re not

as big as Saipem 7000 – one of the world’s

largest crane vessels, which operates as a town

of up to 725 and has its own shops and cinema!

A League of Their Own

Thursday, 9pm, Sky One

Jamie Redknapp, Romesh Ranganathan and

Freddie Flintoff are back! Look out for some special

guests in the hot seat when James Corden goes

away to film his US talk show later in the series.

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