The Times Saturday Review - UK (2020-11-14)

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BBC One BBC Two ITV


6. 00 amBreakfast 9 .15 Morning Live
10. 00 Homes Under the Hammer


  1. 00 Claimed and Shamed 1 1.45
    Close Calls: On Camera (r) 12 .15pm
    Bargain Hunt (r)1. 00 BBC News at
    One; Weather 1. 30 BBC Regional
    News; Weather 1.45 Doctors. Ruhma’s
    suspension hits the local press with
    an unexpected headline 2 .15
    Impossible 3. 00 I Escaped to the
    Country. Catching up with people
    who relocated to Derbyshire and
    West Sussex 3 .45 Money for Nothing.
    Jacqui Joseph gets creative with a
    mannequin 4. 30 Antiques Road Trip.
    Margie Cooper and Natasha Raskin
    Sharp hit the antique shops of
    Scotland 5.15Pointless. Quiz hosted
    by Alexander Armstrong (r) 6. 00
    BBC News at Six; Weather 6. 30
    BBC Regional Ne ws; Weather

  2. 0 0 The One Show Presented by
    Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas

  3. 3 0 EastEnders Ben, Kush and Phil
    head to the job, while Shirley
    and Kat create a diversion

  4. 50 Holby City Jac rushes in a
    mysttery patitientt, whihi hch resultlts
    in a deepening medical crisis


8 .30 The Crash Detectives A father
and son are involved in a
serious crash on the M4 ( 2 / 4 ) (r)

9 .0 0 MasterChef: The Professionals
Today’s chefs are challenged to
butcher a chicken in just 20
minutes, or to make a fruit tart
filled with a berry compote,
piped pistachio chantilly and
candied pistachios

10.00BBC News at Ten

10. 30 BBC Regional News

10 .45 Ovie: Life After Reality TV The
professional basketball player
andand Love IslandLove Islanddd star Ovie Soko star Ovie Soko
explores the good and the bad
of the reality television industry


  1. 30 My Family, the Holocaust
    & Me with Robert Rinder The
    barrister helps Noemie Lopian
    find out how her French mother
    survivedsurvived the war after she was the war after she was
    arrested as a child by the Nazis,
    meeting the grandson of the
    man who hid her family (2/2) (r)


12. 30 am Weather for the Week
Ahead 12. 35 BBC News

6. 30 am I Escaped to the Country (r)
7 .1 5Money for Nothing (r) 8. 00 Sign
Zone: Our Food, Our Family with
Michela Chiappa (r) (SL) 8. 30
Powering Britain (r) (SL) 9. 00 BBC
News at 9 10. 00 BBC News 12 .15pm
Politics Live 1. 00 The Super League
Show. Action from the latest fixtures
1.45Royal Recipes (r) 2. 00 Live
Tennis: ATP World Tour Finals. Sue
Barker presents coverage of day
three from The O2 in London, where a
singles round-robin match takes place
4. 30 David Attenborough’s Natural
Curiosities (r) 5.15Flog It! From Suffolk
(r) 6. 00 Richard Osman’s House of
Games. With Angela Barnes, Melvin
Odoom, Greg Rutherford and Denise
Van Outen 6. 30 Strictly: It Takes Two.
Zoe Ball chats to more couples about
their training progress

6.00amGood Morning Britain 9.00
Lorraine10.00This Morning 12.30pm
Loose Women. More interviews and
topical debate 1. 30 ITV News;
Weather 1. 55 Regional News; Weather
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David
Dickinson helps people in Blackpool
sort the treasures from their trash,
where items include a piece of
possessed wood, a knight on
horseback, and some Lalique 3 .00
Winning Combination. Quiz hosted by
Omid Djalili, in which contestants are
assigned combinations of numbers
that represent the size of the jackpot
they play to win in a final round 4.00
Tipping Point. Ben Shephard hosts
the arcade-themed quiz 5. 00
The Chase. Quiz show hosted by
Bradley Walsh 6. 00 Regional News;
Weather 6. 30 ITV News; Weather

7. 00 Emmerdale Belle is in danger

7. 30 Catchphrase Stephen Mulhern
hosts the game show ( 3 / 10 ) (r)

8 .1 5 How to Spend It Well at
Christmas with Phillip
Schofield New series. The
presenter provides festive
consumer advice beginning
with a guide to toys

9 .1 5 I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of
Here! Ant and Dec bring
viewers up to date on the latest
developments in camp as the
trials continue at Gwrych Castle
on the north Wales coast

10 .2 0 ITV News; followed by Weather

10. 50 Regional News; followed by
Regional Weather


  1. 05 Great Art Tim Marlow reveals
    the story behind Monet’s
    greatest paintings, exploring
    the contrast between his
    good-humoured love of
    life and his feelings of
    loneliness and depression

  2. 00 Monster Carp. Ali Hamidi, Tom
    Dove and Neil Spooner visit Thailand,
    home to the largest carp species in
    the world — the Siamese carp (r)

  3. 20 am Teleshopping 3. 00 ITV
    Nightscreen. Text-based information
    service 5. 05 Judge Rinder (r) (SL)


7. 00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The comedian Russell Kane and
the presenter AJ Odudu
navigate their way around
Shropshire looking for antiques,
accompanied by experts Phil
Serrell and Margie Cooper (r)

8. 00 Saving Lives at Sea Volunteers
come to the aid of a family
trapped in their car on the
causeway connecting the Holy
Island of Lindisfarne to the
mainland, who face being
engulfed by the sea ( 7 / 10 )

9. 00 QI XS The theme of travel

9 .1 5 Industry The company tries
to move on in the wake of
the recent tragedy. Yasmin’s
relationship with her boyfriend
hits rock bottom. See
Viewing Guide ( 2 / 8 )

10. 00 Out of Her Mind Sara examines
her male relationships ( 5 / 6 )

10. 30 Mandy It is dinner at
Trent Manor ( 5 / 6 ) (r)

10 .45Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events with Kirsty Wark

1 1. 30 Cornwall with Simon Reeve
The presenter investigates the
environmental challenges
facing Cornwall ( 2 / 2 ) (r)

1 2.30am Sign Zone: Harry Hill’s World
of TV. Harry Hill focuses on the
history of home improvement shows.
Last in the series (r) (SL) 1. 00 -2. 00
Autumnwatch. Michaela Strachan
shares more drama from the
Scottish seal colony (r) (SL)

7. 00 Channel 4 News Including
sport and weather

7 .5 5 Rory Peck Awards 2020

8. 00 The Great British Bake Off Matt
Lucas and Noel Fielding present
this year’s semi-final, with three
patisserie challenges for the
last four bakers — including
a cake constructed entirely
from smaller cakes ( 9 / 10 )

9 .1 5 Educating Greater Manchester
The pressure is on at Harrop
Fold as GCSE exams get
underway, and four members
of staff are suspended ( 4 / 4 )

10. 20 Naked Attraction A retired
divorced dentist is in search of
a sexually experimental man,
while a former Marine who falls
in love all too easily is looking
for his dream Englishwoman


  1. 20 Taskmaster Another round of
    ludicrous challenges, which
    sees all five comics
    demonstrate their love of
    watermelon ( 5 / 10 ) (r)


12.2 0 amKitchen Nightmares USA (r)
1.1 0 Coupples Come Dine with Me (r)


  1. 05 FILM Happy as Lazzaro (12,
    2018 ) See Film Choice 4. 15 Fifteen to
    One (r) 5. 05 Coach Trip: Road to
    Barcelona (r) 5. 35 Handmade
    Treasures (r)5.5 0 Countdown (r)


Channel 4 Channel 5


6. 30 am Mike & Molly (r) 6 .5 0 Mike &
Molly (r) 7 .1 0 Cheers (r) 7 .4 0 Cheers (r)
8. 05 Everybody Loves Raymond
(r) 8. 35 Everybody Loves Raymond (r)
9. 05 Everybody Loves Raymond (r)
9. 35 Frasier (r) 10. 05 Frasier (r) 10. 35
Undercover Boss USA (r) 1 1. 30
Channel 4 News Summary 11. 35
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r)
12. 30 pmSteph’s Packed Lunch 2 .1 0
Countdown 3. 00 A Place in the Sun (r)
4. 00 Escape to the Château: DIY (r)


  1. 00 Four in a Bed (r) 5. 30 Come Dine
    with Me. Day two in Birmingham
    features a vegan feast (r) 6. 00 The
    Simpsons. Bart’s guilt gets the better
    of him after he betrays Lisa 6. 30
    Hollyoaks. Nancy calls Marnie, Misbah
    and Mandy discuss the drugs
    problem in their community, while Sid
    comes to terms with his new reality


6. 00 amMilkshake! 9 .15 Jeremy Vine
1 1.15 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away! (r)
12 .10pm 5 News at Lunchtime 12 .15
The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door
(r) 1 .1 0 Access1.15Home and Away (r)
1 .45 Neighbours 2 .15 FILM A Rose for
Christmas (PG, TVM, 2017) A woman
has to take over the building of the
Christmas Rose Parade float for a
client when her father becomes ill.
Drama starring Rachel Boston and
Marc Bendavid 4. 00 Friends. Part one
of two. The gang visits Barbados to
hear Ross address a convention (r)
4. 30 Friends. Part two of two. The
pals attend Ross’s lecture (r)5. 00 5
News at 5 5. 30 Neighbours. Paul
blackmails Pierce into selling his
share of the hotel (r) 6. 00 Home
and Away. Tori nearly interrogates
Christian (r) 6. 30 5 News Tonight

7. 00 Our New Puppy Two puppies
are trained to jump in and out
of helicopters so they can work
in the African bush, tracking
down poachers hunting rhinos
and elephants for their horns
and ivory (4/7); followed
by 5 News Update

8. 00 The Yorkshire Vet Peter
examines a boar that is off its
food, a rescue dog undergoes
surgery, and Rodney invests
in an unusual device for
administering medical
treatment to sheep; followed
by 5 News Update

9. 00 The Great Plague: Outbreak
New series. Xand van Tulleken,
Raksha Dave and John
Sergeant trace the spread
of the Great Plague of 1665.
The first episode traces the
epidemic to where it first took
hold. See Viewing Guide ( 1 / 3 )

10. 00 Jack the Ripper: The Missing
Evidence Documentary
examining the journalist
Christer Holmgren’s theory as
to the identity of the serial
killer who murdered a number
of women on the streets of
Whitechapel in 1888 (3/6) (r)

1 1. 00 FILM Olympus Has Fallen (15,
2013 ) A disgraced secret
service agent tries to redeem
himself when terrorists take
control of the White House.
Action thriller starring Gerard
Butler, Aaron Eckhart and
Morgan Freeman

1. 0 5am Access 1 .1 0 The 2 1.co.uk Live
Casino Show 3. 05 NCIS. The team
investigates a fellow agent’s
disappearance (r) 3.55NCIS. A bomb
plot is uncovered (r) 4. 45 NCIS.
A Marine falls to her death (r) 5. 30
House Doctor (r) (SL) 5. 55 Access

MasterChef heats continue (9pm) Financial drama Industry (9.15pm) Presenter Phillip Schofield (8.15pm) Students Harvie and Jacob (9.15pm) A look at The Great Plague (9pm)

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