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FREEVIEW 1 SKY 101 VIRgIn 101 FREEVIEW 2 SKY 102 VIRgIn 102 FREEVIEW 3 SKY 103 VIRgIn 103 FREEVIEW 4 SKY 104 VIRgIn 104BBC One B B C Two ITV Channel 4
FREESAT 101 FREESAT 102 FREESAT 103 FREESAT 1046.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30 The
Sara Cox Show 9.25 John and
Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 11.20
Midsomer Murders (R)
1.15pm ITV News; Weather
1.25 Death Becomes Her (1992/PG)
Black comedy fantasy, starring
Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep and
Bruce Willis. ★★★
3.15 Zone of Champions (R)
3.45 Star Wars: Episode VI – Return
of the Jedi (1983/U) The rebel
heroes set out to rescue Han
Solo before a final decisive
battle with the forces of the evil
Empire. Sci-fi adventure sequel,
with Mark Hamill. ★★★★★
6.15 ITV News; Weather
6.25 Regional News; Weather
6.30 Tipping Point: Lucky Stars6.30am Gardeners’ World (R) 7. 30
Countryfile (R) 8.25 Beechgrove
(R) 8.55 Saturday Kitchen Best
Bites 10.25 A Cook Abroad: Rick
Stein’s Australia (R) 11.25 Nigella:
At My Table (R) 11.55 Orson
Welles: Talking Pictures (R)
12.40pm The Third Man (1949/PG)
Thriller, starring Joseph Cotten
and Orson Welles. ★★★★★
2.20 BMX World Championship
Highlights Action from Belgium.
3.30 Swimming World
Championships Highlights
Action from the final day.
5.00 World’s Busiest Cities: Hong
Kong The hidden systems and
armies of the greatest cities. (R)
6.00 Mediterranean with Simon
Reeve In Libya and Sicily. (R)6.00am Breakfast 9.00 BBC News
10.00 Sunday Morning Live 11.00
Homes Under the Hammer (R)
12.00noon Bargain Hunt (R)1.00 BBC News; Weather
1.15 Songs of Praise From MotoFest.
1.50 Lifeline On behalf of JDRF.
2.00 Escape to the Country A family
home in Hampshire. (R)
3.00 Money for Nothing Jay Blades
salvages items in Walsall. (R)
3.45 Shop Well for Less? Helping a
family in Evesham. (R)
4.45 Fake or Fortune? Examining an
18th-century landscape. (R)
5.45 Pointless Celebrities With
Richard Madeley, Dreda Say
Mitchell, John O’Farrell (R)6.35 BBC News; Regional News
6.00am The King of Queens (R) 7.15
Everybody Loves Raymond (R)
8.00 The Simpsons (R) 9.30
Sunday Brunch. Guests include
Louise Redknapp, Stacey
Dooley and Tom Rosenthal.
12.30pm The Simpsons (R)
2.30 The Secret Life of the Zoo
Chimp Zee Zee gives birth. (R)
3.30 A Place in the Sun A woman
looking for a holiday home that
feels traditionally Spanish. (R)
4.30 Coast vs Country A couple
of first-time buyers look for
a property in Suffolk. (R)
5.30 The Yorkshire Dales and the
Lakes The search is on for a
puppy that has fallen down
a 50-foot sinkhole. (R)
6.30 Channel 4 News10.30 ITV News; Weather
10.45 Inside the Ritz Hotel
The establishment is turned
around overnight for Christmas,
staging a huge 25ft Christmas
tree and cooking up to 500
Michelin-star standard roast
dinners. Last in series. (R)
11.15 Yorkshire Airport The baggage
boys fear for their jobs when the
auditors come calling. (R) 11.45 Love
Your Garden (R) 12.15am The Voice
Kids Final. The junior version of the
talent contest reaches its climax. (R)
1.45 Teleshopping 2.15 Motorsport UK.
From Oulton Park. 3.05 British Superbike
Championship Highlights. Action from
Snetterton. 3.55 ITV Nightscreen
5.05-6.00am Judge Rinder (R)10.00 Mandy Comedy short, written
by and starring Diane Morgan.
10.15 Sorry Comedy short, written
by and starring Lolly Adefope.
10.30 Louis Theroux’s Altered
States: Choosing Death
The documentary-maker visits
California, where the terminally
ill have the right to end their
own lives, and investigates the
moral and legal issues
surrounding this situation. (R)
11.35pm The 250 Million Pound Cancer
Cure A report on centres being built in
England for proton-beam therapy,
which has the potential to save lives. (R)
12.35am TV’s Black Renaissance: Reggie
Yates in Hollywood (R) 1.35 Holby City
(R) 2.35-6.30am This Is BBC Two10.00 BBC News; Regional News
10.30 Imagine Alan Yentob presents
a profile of Danish-Icelandic
artist Olafur Eliasson, whose
work is the subject of an
exhibition at Tate Modern on
London’s Bankside.11.30pm A Question of Sport With
former tennis player Greg Rusedski,
Ireland rugby union player Jason
Stockdale, 1991 world 10,000m
champion Liz McColgan and former
England defender Joleon Lescott. (R)
12.00m’t The Last Showmen – Our
Lives. Documentary about a family of
funfair workers, looking at this unique
way of life and exploring whether it is
in danger of becoming extinct. (R)
12.30 Weather 12.35-6.00am BBC News
10.00 First Dates Twins Rebecca and
Stephen embark on a double
date, while there is a special
guest at the First Dates
restaurant as maitre d’ Fred’s
father visits from France. (R)
11.00pm FILM Transformers: Dark of
the Moon (2011/12) Sci-fi adventure
sequel, starring Shia LaBeouf. ★★★
1.45am Undercover Boss USA. The
CEO of Retro Fitness poses as a
contestant on a reality show. (R) 2.35
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (R)
3.25 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces
(R) 4.20 Extreme Cake Makers (R) 4.45
Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free (R) 4.55
The £100k Drop. Two friends from
Croydon and a Swansea couple take
part. (R) 5.50-6.25am Countdown (R)7.30 The Comedy Years
A look back at TV comedy from- It was a pivotal year for
Britain, with a new prime minister
in Margaret Thatcher following
mass strikes in the so-called
‘Winter of Discontent’. Television
saw a return to political satire,
with the BBC series Not the
Nine O’Clock News. Narrated
by Hugh Bonneville (R)
8.30 Vera The detective investigates
when charred human remains
are found in an abattoir furnace,
and attempts to deduce who
they belong to and how they
came to be there. The bones
are identified as belonging to a
fellow detective, and Vera
uncovers a web of dark secrets
as she investigates his fraud
squad. Brenda Blethyn stars in
the eighth series of mysteries
based on Ann Cleeves’ novels. (R)
7.00 Remarkable Places to Eat
Chef Tom Kerridge takes
Fred Sirieix to his favourite
restaurants in Edinburgh,
including fine-dining restaurant
Kitchin, run by Tom Kitchin,
where they enjoy venison. (R)
8.00 Animals at Play (1/2) The
reasons why young animals
enjoy playing, and how it can
teach them to survive in the
wild, developing social skills,
mental agility, and how playing
can help hunting talents.
9.00 The Misadventures of
Romesh Ranganathan (1/5)
Romesh heads to more
countries that are rarely visited
by tourists to get a sense of the
local culture and find out if they
deserve their reputation. In this
first edition, he heads to
Zimbabwe in the aftermath of
Robert Mugabe’s rule.7.00 Countryfile John Craven and
Anita Rani celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the Riding for the
Disabled Association, with
Princess Anne talking about her
association with the organisation.8.00 Antiques Roadshow The
team visits the Black Country
Living Museum in Dudley, where
Geoffrey Munn examines a
Faberge jewel, commissioned by
the Countess of Dudley in 1903.
Other artefacts brought in to be
examined include a 3,000-year-
old baby rattle. (R)9.00 Poldark (3/8) Hanson’s presence
in Cornwall raises suspicion and
as Demelza wrestles with how
best to equip the community to
look after itself. Morwenna
lends herself to the cause and
finds new hope. Geoffrey
Charles and Cecily’s relationship
continues to blossom.7.00 Formula 1 German Grand
Prix Highlights Steve Jones
presents action from the 11th
round of the season at the
Hockenheimring, where Lewis
Hamilton was victorious last
year. The Mercedes driver
started the race back in 14th
place, but was able to claim
victory after race leader and
Hamilton’s title rival Sebastian
Vettel crashed out in heavy rain.
With analysis from David
Coulthard and Billy Monger.
9.00 The Handmaid’s Tale (8/13)
June and the rest of the
Handmaids shun Ofmatthew,
and both are pushed to their
limit at the hands of Aunt Lydia,
who reflects on her life and
relationships before the rise
of Gilead. Dystopian drama
continuing the story of
Margaret Atwood’s novel.