What’s on TV – 27 July 2019

BBC4 starts

broadcasting

at 7.0 0 p m

ITV4

FV 24 Sky 120 Freesat 117 Virgin 118 /HD 178

ITV3

FV 10 Sky 119 Freesat 115 Virgin 117 /HD 177

ITV2

FV 6 Sky 118 Freesat 113 Virgin 115 /HD 176

ITVBe

FV 26 Sky 131 Freesat 118 Virgin 119 /HD 179

5Spike

FV 31 Sky 150 Freesat 141 Virgin 154

BBC4

FV 9 Sky 116 Freesat 107 Virgin 107

HD 106

Scot 82

6.00 AM Only When I Laugh

6.25 The Saint The Fast Women.

7.1 5 Kojak Chinatown Murders: 2 of 2.

8.10 Quincy ME For Want of a Horse.

9.15 Minder Comedy drama.

10.20 The Sweeney Stoppo Driver.

11.25 The Professionals Drama.

12.30 PM The Saint The Death Game.

1.35 Kojak Hush Now, or You’ll Die.

2.35 Quincy ME Slow Boat to Madness.

3.40 Minder Dead Men Do Tell Tales.

4.45 The Professionals Bodie is held

hostage by four German terrorists.

5.55 The Sweeney A routine assignment

leads Regan and Carter to uncover

a massive car-parking fraud.

6.00 AM Classic Coronation Street

6.55 Heartbeat Rural drama series.

8.00 Murder, She Wrote Murder mystery.

8.55 On the Buses Double-bill.

10.05 George and Mildred Comedy.

10.40 Marple They Do It with Mirrors.

12.40 PM Heartbeat Rural drama.

1.45 Classic Emmerdale Double-bill.

2.50 Classic Coronation Street

3.55 Marple The Mirror Crack’d from

Side to Side: Mystery drama series.

A party held by a famous actress

ends with a fi lm fan being killed.

5.55 Downton Abbey 3 of 9. Edith’s

big day arrives, while Mrs Hughes

anxiously awaits her results.

6.00 AM The Planet’s Funniest Animals

6.20 Judge Rinder Real-life court cases.

7.1 0 Dinner Date Glasgow.

8.00 Emmerdale Last night’s episode.

8.30 Coronation Street

9.25 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

10.25 Superstore Double-bill of the series.

11.15 Dress to Impress From Leeds.

12 .15 PM Emmerdale

12.45 Coronation Street

1.50 The Ellen DeGeneres Show

US chat show. With Colin Farrell.

2.45 Dinner Date From Tamwor th.

3.50 Dress to Impress From Cardiff.

4.50 Take Me Out Dating game show.

6.00 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

7.0 0 River Monsters Jeremy Wade

sets off on a journey to unmask a

mystery sea monster that washed

up on a UK beach, travelling to

Greenland, Norway and London.

7.0 0 Murder, She Wrote

Jessica Fletcher comes to the aid

of a private investigator friend who

has been accused of murdering the

woman he has been trying to fi nd.

7.0 0 You’ve Been Framed! Gold

Double-bill of the series in which

comedian Harry Hill narrates a

selection of camcorder calamities.

8.00 Monster CarpNew edition

Ali Hamidi, Neil Spooner and

Tom Dove head to Lac de Saint-

Cassien, France, which has been

attracting anglers since the 1980s.

8.00 Midsomer Murders

Written in Blood: Detective drama

starring John Nettles and Daniel

Casey. The secretary of the writers’

circle in a quiet village is discovered

battered to death on the eve of

a visit by a famous novelist. Also

stars Joanna David, Anna Massey,

Una Stubbs and David Troughton.

8.00 Two and a Half Men

Alan’s friends and family shower him

with love and affection. (S9, ep23)

8.30 Jake makes an important

decision about his future. (S9, ep24)

9.00 fThe Fugitive

Thriller based on the 1960s TV

series. A man wrongly convicted

of killing his wife escapes on the

way to prison and goes in search

of the real culprit. Stars Harrison

Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Julianne

Moore and Sela Ward. Includes

FYI Daily at 10.05pm. (1993, 15)

★★★★★See Filmweek, page 30

9.00 πfThe Hangover

Comedy. Three men on a stag

weekend in Las Vegas wake up to

fi nd they have lost the groom and

cannot remember the night before.

Stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms,

Zach Galifi anakis, Ken Jeong and

Heather Graham. Includes FYI

Daily at 10.00pm. (2009, 15)

★★★★See Filmweek, page 32

10.00 Law & Order: UK A London

hospital leads to a tragic discovery

• but when a murder suspect is
  arrested, the prosecutors have
  insuffi cient evidence. (S1, ep1)

11.40 Lethal Weapon Murtaugh meets

his match in former international

CIA agent Wesley Cole. (S3, ep1)

12.40 AM Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across

America The comedian catches

a train from Chicago to Seattle.

1.40 Football Genius Quiz series.

2.05 Take the Tower Challenge series.

2.55 Nightscreen

3.00 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.00 Law & Order: UK A 13-year-old

boy is discovered kicked to death

at Euston Station. (S1, ep2 of 7)

12.05 AM Inspector Morse Driven to

Distraction: Detective drama series.

The investigation into a woman’s

murder proves a testing time for

Morse and Lewis. Stars John Thaw.

2.05 Nightscreen

2.30 to 6.00 AM Shopping

11.05 Family Guy Double-bill. Peter loses

his job as a forklift driver. (S12, ep9)

11.35 Peter discovers that he

has a vestigial twin. (S12, ep2)

12.05 AM American Dad! Double-bill.

( S5, ep13 ) 12.35 ( S5, ep7)

1.05 Two and a Half Men See 8.00pm.

1.55 Superstore Comedy. (S3, ep1)

2.25 Shopping

5.55 to 6.00 AM Nightscreen

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FREEVIEW

7.0 0 Beyond 100 Days

7. 3 0 Top of the Pops: 1988
   8.00 Skies Above Britain The stories of
   people who spend their life in fl ight.
   9.00 The Secret Life of Rockpools
   The lives of species that live within
   the seaside water formations.
   10.00 Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from
   the Ice Examining the mammals.
   11.00 Size Matters 2 of 2. Documentary.
   12.00 M’T Top of the Pops: 1988
   12.30 AM The Secret History of My
   Family 3 of 4. Documentary.
   1.30 The Genius of Marie Curie: The
   Woman Who Lit Up the World
   2.30 to 3.30 AM
   The Secret Life of Rockpools

9.00 AM Children’s Programmes

12.00 NOON Income Property

12.25 PM The Real Housewives

of Atlanta US reality series.

1.20 Million Dollar Listing: LA

2 .15 Little Women: LANew edition

3.10 Real Housewives of New Jersey

4.05 The Real Housewives of New York

City Double-bill of the reality series.

6.00 Buying and Selling A family who

have outgrown their small home.

7.0 0 Buying and Selling A couple seek

help sprucing up their home.

8.00 Dinner Date From Suffolk.

9.00 Vanderpump Rules: Jax & Brittany

Take Kentuck yNew editions

Double-billl. Brittany and Jax

fi ght about his drunken exploits.

9.30 Jax and Brittany have a huge

row before leaving for Los Angeles.

10.00 Married to MedicineNew edition

Heavenly throws a special DNA

reveal party for her unborn child

11.00 Ladies of London Reality series.

11.55 PM to 12.45 AM

The Only Way Is Essex

9.00 AM Access Showbiz gossip.

9.05 The A -Team Double-bill.

11.05 Police Interceptors Documentary.

12.05 PM Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!

2.05 fSubmarine Seahawk World

War Two drama. Stars John Bentley

and Brett Halsey. (1959, U) ★★

4.00 Tra c Cops Special: Carjacked

5.00 The A -Team Double-bill.

7.0 0 Police Interceptors Duggie is left

speechless when a routine stop

uncovers a huge haul of cash.

8.00 Police Interceptors A 4x4 is driven

dangerously through Basildon.

9.00 fEnd of Days Thriller. A former

cop protects an innocent woman

from the Devil, who plans to bring

about Armageddon. Stars Arnold

Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne

and Robin Tunney. (1999, 18) ★★★

12.05 AM Spartacus: War of the Damned

Double-bill of the series. Crassus

is left reeling by a rival. (S4, ep9)

1.25 The warrior slave prepares

for his fi nal battle. (S4, ep10 of 10)

2.45 to 3.00 AM Access

12.00 NOON to 7.0 0 PM As shown on BBC2.
7.0 0 The Town That Thread Built The history
of Scotland’s biggest town, Paisley.
8.00 BeechgroveNew episode 9 of 14. In this
edition, Chris Beardshaw demonstrates
creative and fun ways of pruning.
8.30 Test Drive 7 of 8. Game show hosted
by Grado. Three teams tour Peebles
on their way to a mystery destination.
9.00 The Nine Scottish and international news.
10.00 The Moments That Made Ford and Greg
A look back at the careers of Still Game
stars Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill.
10.30 The Thick of It Last in the series. Malcolm
Tucker sets his fi nest trap to date.
11.00 Loop Artists discuss their craft.
11.30 PM to 12.00 M’T The Comedy
Underground With Elaine Malcolmson.

BBC Scotland

Scotland Only: Sky 115 Freesat 106 Virgin 108
Rest of the UK: Sky 457 Freesat 108 Virgin 162

Scot Only

FV 9

HD 115

Home and Away

5STAR, 6.30pm

John returns to work after his hospital

stay, and is left mortifi ed when Jett makes

it clear that he can manage without him.

The Hangover

ITV2, 9.00pm

A wild stag party in Las Vegas leaves Zach

Galifi anakis, Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms

frantically looking for the missing groom.

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Baywatch

Film4, 9.00pm

Dwayne Johnson’s veteran lifeguard tries

to keep new recruit Zac Efron in line– in

this action comedy based on the TV series.

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