Times 2 - UK (2020-11-13)

12 1GT Friday November 13 2020 | the times

television & radio

Autumn Nations Cup

will be shown free-

to-air. So tonight Lee

McKenzie presents live

coverage of Ireland

v Wales from Dublin.

Sam Warburton and

Rory Best will be

the experts in the

studio. Next week

(on November 21)

Channel 4 will show

England v Ireland,

then on November

29 Ireland v Georgia.

Live Rugby:

Ireland v Wales

Channel 4, 6.30pm

The financial losses

facing the sport are

stark, so the fight for

broadcast rights to the

big rugby games is

entering a period of

intensity. The good

news right now is that

Channel 4 has ensured

that three first-class

games in the inaugural

also likes to involve the

camera-people as he

attempts to learn the

art of making a cooking

show itself. “Thanks

to a very expensive

cameraman, there will

be enough slow-mo

shots of really great

food to stimulate

your gastric senses,” he

rambles, and he’s not

wrong. Middle-aged

men have a new

culinary hero.

much as he did in his

series The Reassembler.

Expect erudite

throwaway remarks

such as “chicken soup

is what William

Langland would have

called the font of peace

and the most precious

of virtues”, which isn’t

the sort of thing you

tend to hear from

Gordon Ramsay.

Sloshing back sancerre

in Floydian style, May

of ramen and, yes,

Spam). That’s because

he has been prepped by

his “boss” here — areal

culinary whizz called

Nicky, whom May

occasionally lets out of

the pantry to help.

Overall, the show has a

knockabout approach

— a lo-fi show done on

a big Amazon budget

— being filmed in one

kitchen with May

talking away to camera

gets in on the TV-chef

format while giving

one of its Grand Tour

signings something to

do. The hook with this

new series, as suggested

by May’s intro, is that

he isn’t even trying to

pretend that he’s an

expert in the kitchen,

even if he then goes

straight on to knock up

an impressive-looking

Asian chicken soup and

some “Spamen” (a mix

Viewing Guide

James Jackson

James May:

Oh Cook!

Amazon Prime Video

“Hello,

viewers, I’m

James May

and I can’t

cook. Welcome to my

cookery show.” The

premise is little more

than that as Amazon

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7. 00 Chhldildren in Needd 2020 A jam-packed

evening of socially distanced

entertainment, with exclusive

sketches, exciting performances,

music, dance and a few surprises. Mel

Giedroyc is joined by Alex Scott, Chris

Ramsey and Stephen Mangan, who will

all be co-hosting the fund-raising

telethon for the first time. There are

Strictly Come Dancing,EastEnderssand

Doctor Whoo-related surprises in store,

while Matt Baker, Ade Adepitan and

the team of six young riders make

their way to the finishing line after

3 32 miles around the Goodwood Estate

as part of The One Showww’s 2020

Rickshaw Challenge. Beverley Knight

and Shawn Mendes perform, while The

Repair Shopp team gives one very

special girl a surprise to treasure for

ever.See Viewing Guidee (AD)

10. 00 BBC News at Ten

10 .3 0 BBC Regional News and Weather

1 0.4 5 A Simple Favour ( 15 , 2018 )

Stephanie Smothers, a widowed single

mother who runs a crafts and recipes

vlog becomes friends with Emilyvlog, becomes friends with Emily

Nelson, a public relations director for

a fashion company. Emily has a work

crisis and asks Stephanie to babysit

her son, but later goes missing amid

suggestions from colleagues she has

jetted off to Miami. Feeling perplexed,

Stephanie attempts to get to the

bottom of her friend’s mysterious

actionsactions Paul Feig’s comedy thriller. Paul Feig s comedy thriller

based on Darcey Bell’s novel, starring

Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry

Golding and Andrew Rannells

12.40am-6.00 BBC News

7. 00 A Special School Following the

reality of life in Britain’s biggest

special school (1/3) (r)

7 .3 0 Between the Covers

With Meera Syal, Guvna B, Dave

Gorman and Babita Sharma (6/7)

8. 00 Snow Cats and Me Gordon Buchanan

joins pioneering biologist Dr Victor

Lukarevskiy in Russia to attempt to

rehabilitate two pairs of lynx held

captive for years (1/2) (r) (AD)

9 .00Royal History’s Biggest Fibs

with Lucy WorsleyThe historian

digs behind the facade of Georgian

elegance to reveal the fibs that

helped conceal a darker side to the

Regency and suppressed rebellion

in an age of revolution. See

Viewing Guidee (2/3) (AD)

10. 00 Top of the Pops: The Story of

1983 Contributors including Bonnie

Tyler, Tracie Young and Marilyn reflect

on an era when the mood in the charts

was escapism and reinvention (r)

1 0.4 5 Newsnight Faisal Islam presents

analysis of the day’s events

1 1.2 0 Golf: Masters Highlights

Eilidh Barbour presents action

from the second day of the

Major, taking place at Augusta

National in Augusta, Georgia

1 2.50am Battlestar Galactica Part one of two. Adama

appoints an inexperienced replacement for his son (r)

(AD)1.3 5 Battlestar Galactica. Part two of two. Adama

searches for Roslin (r) (AD) 2 .15Sign Zone: Tier Three:

Living by the Rules — Panorama (r) (SL) 2 .45- 3.

Surgeons: At the Edge of Life (r) (SL)

7. 00 Emmerdale Mandy is worried about

Vinny, and Jimmy convinces Will to

join him on a kayak adventure (AD)

7 .3 0 Coronation Street The judge

announces her ruling in Oliver’s case,

Leanne vows to launch an appeal,

and Steve harbours doubts

aboutabout her decision (AD) her decision (AD)

8.3 0 Vera The dead body of a teenage boy

is found in a reservoir near a remote

rural timber community. Vera and her

team investigate, and discover that the

boy had already been missing for three

days prior to his death However thedays prior to his death. However, the

case is complicated by an apparent

conspiracy of silence, as many of the

townsfolk refuse to cooperate with the

police investigation. A complex web of

relationships between the victim’s

friends and family slowly emerges,

with many dark secrets that could have

driven someone to kill (4/4) (r)

10 .2 0 ITV News

1 0. 5 0Regional News

1 1.05I’m a Celebrity... — a Jungle Story

Ant and Dec re-live some of their

favourite moments from 19 series

of I’m A Celebrity..., while a host of

former campmates talk about their

time in the jungle (r) (AD)

1 2.50am Teleshopping3. 00 Nadia’s Family Feasts.

Nadia Sawalha re-creates the family feasts of China with

the chef Jeremy Pang. The menu comprises the street

food snack jianbing for breakfast, prawn toasts, claypot

chicken and mushroom rice for lunch, and banana fritters

for dessert (r) (SL)3.50-6.00ITV Nightscreen

6 .30 Live Internationalbl Rugby Union:

Ireland v Wales (Kick-off 7. 00 ). Lee

McKenzie presents coverage of both

teams’ opening Group A match in the

inaugural Autumn Nations Cup, held at

Aviva Stadium, where both teams will

be looking to get off to a winning start

ahead of matches against England and

Georgia. With analysis by Sam

Warburton and Rory Best, reports from

Peter Stringer and Rob Kearney, and

commentary by Miles Harrison and

Shane Williams. Channel 4 News can

be seen on More4.See Viewing Guide

9. 00 Gogglebox The armchair critics

share their opinions on what they

have been watching during the

week, with cameras capturing their

instant reactions (AD)

10. 00 The Last Leg Adam Hills, Josh

Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are

joined by Victoria Coren Mitchell and

Darren Harriott for a comic review

of the significant moments of the

past seven days

11. 05 Duncanville Jack and Annie visit
    an ’80s-themed club (6/11)

11.3 0 Duncanville Jack follows his dream

of writing a rock opera (7/11)

12.00 FILM: Anchorman 2 — The Legend Continues

(15, 2013 ) Newsreader Ron Burgundy becomes the star

of a 24-hour news channel with a series of sensationalist

stories. Comedy sequel starring Will Ferrell and Christina

Applegate (AD)2.00amCome Dine with Me (r) 4.

Vet on the Hill (r) (SL)5.10-6.05Fifteen to One (r)

7. 00 The Gadget Show The film-maker

Philip Bloom joins Jon Bentley to test

two of the latest innovations in

consumer steadicam technology. Craig

Charles is tasked with installing a

home security system (8/12)

8. 00 Secret Scotland with Susan

Calman The comedian ventures off

the mainland to the Isle of Bute for a

privileged look at what is said to be

Scotland’s first million-pound home

— Mount Stuart House (9/10)

9 .00Friday on the Farm Farmers Rob and

Dave compete in a horse-drawn

ploughing contest. JB Gill visits a

Surrey vineyard producing a sparkling

wine to rival French Champagnes (6/6)

10. 00 The Bodyguard (15, 1992) Rachel

Marron, a famous singer and actress is

subjected to death threats by an

obsessive fan and persuaded to hire a

former secret service agent as her

bodyguard, but neither of them realise

the effect they are about to have on

each other’s lives. Romantic thriller

directed by Mick Jackson starringdirected by Mick Jackson, starring

Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston,

Gary Kemp and Bill Cobbs

1 2.4 0 am Wonderful World of Chocolate

Documentary offering a glimpse inside the confectionery

world, visiting factories, chocolatiers and shops, and even

revealing the Queen’s favourite chocolates (r) 1. 05 The

2 1.co.uk Live Casino Show3.05Access 3 .15NCIS (r)

(AD)5.30House Doctor (r) (SL)5.55-6.00Access

6 .00amBreakfast 9 .15Morning Live. Kym Marsh and

Gethin Jones host the weekday magazine show 10. 00

Homes Under the Hammer. The progress of properties in

Walthamstow, Dover and Epping (r) (AD) 1 1. 00 Claimed

and Shamed. Two sisters who tried to cheat their insurers

following a car crash (AD) 1 1.4 5 Close Calls: On Camera.

The emergency services attend a baby who has cut his

throat on a glass (AD) 1 2.15pmBargain Hunt. How

Children in Need’s Pudsey Bear was created (AD) 1. 00

BBC News at One; Weather 1 .3 0 BBC Regional News;

Weather 1 .4 5 The Customer Is Always Right. A specially

designed pram, a super-absorbent sponge, and an

anti-theft bag (r) 2 .1 5 Impossible. Quiz hosted by Rick

Edwards3. 00 I Escaped to the Country. Jules Hudson

catches up with past house-hunters on the Isle of Wight

3.45Money for Nothing. Designer Sarah Peterson gives

two side tables a stylish new look4.3 0 Antiques Road

Trip. Experts Charles Hanson and James Braxton search

for antiques in Hampshire. James is drawn to an exotic

alcohol container, while Charles’ eye lands on an unusual

pocket watch stand 5 .1 5 Pointless (r) 6 .00 BBC News at

Six; Weather 6 .30BBC Regional News; Weather

6 .30amI Escaped to the Country (r)7. 15 Money for

Nothing (r) 8. 00 Sign Zone: The Repair Shop (r) (AD, SL)

9. 00 BBC News at 9 10. 00 BBC News1.00pmThe A to Z

of TV Cooking. John Torode highlights culinary clips from

the BBC archive linked by the letter G (r)1.4 5 Holiday of

My Lifetime with Len Goodman. Len takes Jake Wood

back to the Cornish coast, where theEastEnderss star

reminisces about a school adventure holiday he had there

in 1980 (r) (AD) 2 .3 08 00 Words. With the wedding back

on, it is time for Woody’s “groomspiel”, and Big Mac has

plans for it. However, Woody has made Tracy a promise he

will behave — which is going to be hard to keep (r) (AD)

3.1 5 The Great Pottery Throw Down. The five remaining

potters are faced with their most technically demanding

challenge when they have to make a decorative chandelier

in bone china (r) (AD) 5 .1 5 Flog It! Paul Martin presents

previously unseen finds from the show’s travels round the

country, visiting Muncaster Castle, the Bowes Museum

and Norwich Cathedral (r) 6 .00Richard Osman’s House of

Games. With Steve Backshall, Catherine Bohart, Ranj

Singh and Meera Syal 6 .30Strictly: It Takes Two. Rylan

Clark-Neal is joined by a trio of famous superfans

6 .00amGood Morning Britain 9. 00 Lorraine.

Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well

as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly

10. 00 This Morning. Daily magazine, featuring a mix of

chat, showbusiness news, lifestyle features, topical

discussion, health and beauty advice and more 1 2.3 0 pm

Loose Women. Interviews and topical debate from a

female perspective 1 .3 0 ITV News; Weather2. 00

Dickinson’s Real Deal. In Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire,

Mark Stevens gets his hands on a dazzling diamond ring

and Stewart Hofgartner gets some postcards worth

writing home about3. 00 Tenable. Quiz hosted by

Warwick Davis in which a team of five friends answers

questions about top 10 lists, then tries to score a perfect

10 in the final round (r)4. 00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard

hosts the arcade-themed quiz in which contestants drop

tokens down a choice of four chutes in the hope of

winning a £10,000 jackpot 5. 00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh

presents as four contestants answer general knowledge

questions and work as a team to take on one of the

ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize 6 .00 Regional

News; Weather 6 .30ITV News; Weather

6 .30amMike & Molly (r) 7 .1 0 Cheers (r)8. 05 Everybody

Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 9 .35Frasier (r) (AD) 10 .3 5

Undercover Boss USA (r) 11.3 0 Channel 4 News Summary

1 1. 35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) 1 2.3 0 pm

Steph’s Packed Lunch. Magazine show hosted by Steph

McGovern2.1 0 Countdown. With Rufus Hound3. 00

A Place in the Sun. A woman caring for her terminally ill

husband looks for a holiday home in Lanzarote (r)4. 00

Escape to the Château: DIY. Debbie and Nigel start

landscaping their five-acre grounds, while Sarah and

George run into trouble with the château’s electrics as

they host their first-ever wedding (r) 5. 00 Four in a Bed.

At the final showdown, Justin gives Tina and Kay a

platform for their feedback about noisy trains and wants

to know more about Raqeeb’s problems with his shower

5.3 0 Come Dine with Me. A health assistant hosts the

final party in Blackpool and Preston. Several home truths

are revealed and temperatures soar, especially when

Bernard is labelled boring (r) 6 .00The Simpsons. Part

two of two. After being conned by a music mogul and

reduced to bankruptcy, Mr Burns seeks revenge.

Meanwhile, Marge opens an obscure boutique store (AD)

6 .00amMilkshake! 9 .15Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day 1 1.1 5 Can’t Pay?

We’ll Take It Away! Stewart and Vic take on an eviction

case in Nottingham, where they find a volatile tenant who

refuses to back down. The duo also chase £5,000 for an

unpaid parking fine (r) 1 2.10pm 5 News at Lunchtime

1 2.1 5 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door. The series

highlights residential feuds that turned violent, revealing

how a dispute between the Browns and the Webbs in

Devon transformed their neighbourhood into a war-zone

(r) 1 .1 0 Access 1 .1 5 Home and Away (r) (AD) 1 .4 5

Neighbours (AD) 2 .15 FILM: Marry Me at Christmas

(PG, TVM, 2017) A wedding planner finds herself

distracted from her latest job when she falls for the

bride’s film star brother. Festive romantic drama starring

Rachel Skarsten4. 00 Friends. Gavin surprises Rachel (r)

4.3 0 Friends. Ross tries to make Rachel jealous. Guest

starring Dermot Mulroney and Melissa George (r) 5. 00

5 News at 55 .3 0 Neighbours. Yashvi wants to flush out

Scarlett by staging a fake wedding (r) (AD) 6 .00Home

and Away. Jasmine tries to talk with Bella about her

break-up with Nikau (r) (AD) 6 .305 News Tonight