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

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BBC Four


7.00pm Fred Dibnah’s Building of
Britain Structures from the
Middle Ages (3/6)


  1. 30 The Joy of Painting

  2. 00 New York: America’s
    Busiest CityBehind the
    scenes with the team who
    look after Central Park and
    how an entirely new district
    is being built on top of a
    functioning rail depot in
    Manhattan ( 3 / 3 )

  3. 00 True North: The Disability
    Paradox The film-maker
    and wheelchair user
    Chris Lynch examines
    attitudes to disability.
    See Viewing Guide (R)

  4. 00 FILM Sex & Drugs & Rock &
    Roll (15, 2010 ) Biopic of the
    influential punk singer Ian
    Dury starring Andy Serkis
    See Film Choice
    11.50-12.15am Artificial Things
    Stopgap Dance Company
    bring their celebrated stage
    work to the screen


ITV3


5.50pm Inspector Morse The
sleuth investigates a double
mystery connected to the
local Greek community —
the death of a restaurant
chef and the disappearance
of a baby ( 4 / 5 )
8. 00 Doc Martin Ruth is
concerned about becoming
increasingly forgetful, and is
even more perturbed when
Martin offers to perform a
mini mental state
examination ( 3 / 8 )
9. 00 Endeavour A chocolate
factory owner is murdered
during a fox hunt. When a
couple from a nearby village
are also found dead,
Endeavour uncovers a
vicious campaign of gossip
and rumour ( 3 / 4 )


  1. 00 -12. 05 am Grantchester
    Geordie suspects foul play
    when a computer laboratory
    head dies from mercury
    poisoning ( 3 / 6 )


More 4


6.55pm Grand Designs Australia
Building a modernist
house on a modest footprint
in Suffolk Park, New
South Wales ( 8 / 10 )
7. 55 Grand Designs Kevin
McCloud meets
entrepreneur Paul Wilkinson
and his wife Amy, who are
building a giant new home
on a 1 6 -acre plot in
Lincolnshire
9. 00 The Kennedys: Tragedy &
Triumph How personal
relationships within the
Kennedy dynasty helped
shape national and global
events. Last in the series
10. 00 2 4 Hours in A&E A long-
distance lorry driver is sent
for an urgent CT scan after
falling onto a concrete floor
1 1. 05 -12. 05 am 8 Out of 10 Cats
Does Countdown With
contestants Sean Lock,
Danny Dyer, Joe Wilkinson
and Gabby Logan ( 6 / 7 )

Sky One


7 .00pm The Simpsons Homer
teaches an adult
education course (R)
7. 30 The Simpsons The family
visits a scary theme park (R)
8. 00 S.W.A.T The team must
protect a hotel full of
civilians when a joint
task-force mission with the
LAPD gang division goes
wrong and the building is
overrun by gang leaders (R)
9. 00 There’s Something About
Movies Alan Carr hosts the
comedy panel show, with
guests Joanna Lumley,
Nick Mohammed and Rob
Beckett. Last in the series
10. 00 Warrior Ah Sahm travels to
Rooker’s Mill, a border town
owned by Elijah Rooker, the
host of a lucrative fight
tournament Ah Sahm is
determined to win ( 6 / 10 )


  1. 05 -1 2. 05 am The Russell Howard
    Hour Highlights of the
    fourth series (R)


Sky Atlantic


6.50pm Dexter Deborah reveals
a long-hidden truth, as
Dexter clashes with
Arthur ( 12 / 12 ) (R)
8. 00 Britannia Cait and her
father arrive at the safety of
the Cantii citadel. Elsewhere,
it is revealed that Aulus may
have had more to do with
Kerra’s coronation than first
thought ( 6 / 9 ) (R)
9. 00 The Good Lord Bird New
series. Historical drama
series based on the novel by
the author James McBride
starring Ethan Hawke See
Viewing Guide ( 1 / 7 )
10 .1 0 The Good Lord Bird
Onion and Bob cross paths
with a group of pro-slavery
“red shirts” ( 2 / 7 )
11.10-1.20am The Young Pope The
story of the fictional Pope
Pius XIII, the Catholic
Church’s first American
pontiff, as he struggles to
establish his papacy ( 1 / 9 ) (R)

Sky Documentaries


Sky Comedy


7 .00pm The History of Comedy
The evolution of topical
humour, from the rise of the
monologue to the “fake
news” shows of today. With
contributions by Jimmy
Kimmel, Craig Ferguson and
Kathy Griffin ( 6 / 8 ) (R)
8. 00 Rolling Stone: Stories from
the Edge A look at the
magazine’s explosive 1993
interview with Bill Clinton,
its embracing of hip-hop,
and the 2008 cover story
Britney Spears: Inside an
American Tragedy ( 5 / 6 ) (R)
9. 00 I Am Richard Pryor
Reflecting on the highs and
lows of the comedian and
actor’s life, featuring
interviews with Mike Epps
and Tiffany Haddish (R)
1 1. 00 -12 .4 5 amFILM Pariah: The
Lives and Deaths of Sonny
Liston (15, 2020) A look at
the life and suspicious
death of the iconic boxer

6.50pm Sex and the City


  1. 4 0 Curb Your Enthusiasm
    Larry and Jeff try to comfort the
    Greenes’ ailing dog (5/10)
    8 .2 0 Curb Your Enthusiasm Larry
    accidentally defuses an awkward
    situation on an aeroplane ( 6 / 10 )
    9.00 Silicon Valley ( 1 / 8 )
    9.35 Silicon Valley ( 2 / 8 )
    10 .1 5 Eastbound & Down ( 1 / 8 )
    10.50 The Tonight Show
    Starring Jimmy Fallon

  2. 50 -12. 50 am The Late Late Show
    with James Corden


ITV2



  1. 00 pm You’ve Been Framed!
    Gold Comical clips

  2. 30 You’ve Been Framed!

  3. 00 Two and a Half Men

  4. 30 Two and a Half Men
    Guest starring Mila Kunis

  5. 00 Hell’s Kitchen The chefs
    are met by a craps table
    10.00 The Emily Atack Show
    Emily shares her honest
    musings on family life ( 3 / 6 )
    10.50 Family Guy
    11.20 Family Guy

  6. 50 -12.2 0 am American Dad!


ITV4


7. 00 pm Tenable
8. 00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
Airport ( 3 / 6 )
8. 30 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
Airport ( 4 / 6 )
9. 00 The Motorbike Show Henry
Cole’s Mediterranean odyssey
continues in southern Spain
10. 00 -1 2. 25 am FILM Pale Rider
(15, 1985) A preacher with lethal
gunfighting skills helps a mining
community battle a ruthless
landowner. Western directed by
and starring Clint Eastwood

E4



  1. 00 pm Hollyoaks Sienna plays
    on Maxine’s heart strings

  2. 30 Schooled Principal Glascott
    teaches Coach Mellor how to be a
    good winner and a good loser

  3. 00 Taskmaster In the semi-final,
    Nish Kumar is presented with
    a coconut harness ( 7 / 8 )
    9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox Famous
    faces appraise shows ( 1 / 6 )
    10.00 Gogglebox
    11.05 The Big Bang Theory
    11.35-12.05am The Big Bang
    Theory Johnny Galecki stars


Dave


7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
GamesWith Naga Munchetty
and Jordan Stephens


  1. 4 0 Would I Lie to You? With
    Richard Hammond, Sean Lock,
    Judy Murray and Trevor Noah
    8 .2 0 Would I Lie to You? With
    Clare Balding, Rhod Gilbert,
    Nick Grimshaw and Rob Delaney
    9.00 QI XL With Jo Brand, Marcus
    Brigstocke and Danny Baker

  2. 00 Meet the Richardsons
    10 .4 0 Mock the Week
    11.2 0 -12.2 5 am Taskmaster


Drama


6.40pm Keeping Up Appearances
Hyacinth buys a new suite
7 .2 0 Last of the Summer Wine
Billy celebrates his ancestor Robin
Hood’s birthday by proudly
wearing a green suit
8.00 The Inspector Lynley
Mysteries A woman’s body is
found in a lake. With Liza Tarbuck
9. 55 New Tricks A skeleton is
uncovered in the foundations
of a swimming pool
10 .55-1 2 .15am Spooks Terrorists
hijack a live television broadcast

Yesterday


7 .00pm Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo travels
from Tula to St Petersburg (1/6)
8.00 Forbidden History
Cutting-edge investigations might
confirm what really goes on in
the Bermuda Triangle ( 8 / 11 )
9. 00 Open All Hours Granville tries
to persuade Arkwright to buy a van
9 .40 Open All Hours
1 0.20 Open All Hours
1 1.00 Abandoned Engineering
1 2.00-1.00am Narrow Escapes
of World War Two ( 13 / 13 )

PBS America


6.00pm Influenza 1918 The
worst flu epidemic in history
77 .2 0 The Balkans in Flames New
series. The history of the former
Yugoslavia, looking at how it was
formed.See Viewing Guide ( 1 / 3 )
8.30 Country Music How country
music adapted to the cultural
changes of post-war society ( 3 / 8 )


  1. 00 Nazi Hunters The mission to
    track down Herbert Cukurs ( 1 / 8 )

  2. 00 -1.1 5 am The Balkans in
    Flames The history of the
    former Yugoslavia ( 1 / 3 )


Smithsonian


7 .00pm Jaguarland The jaguars of
the Pantanal region of Brazil
8 .00 V-Day: Volcanic Planet
The imagining of the scenario in
which all the world’s volcanoes
erupted on a single day
10. 00 Volcanoes: Dual
Destruction The eruptions of
Kilauea in Hawaii and Fuego
in Guatemala during 2018
1 1.00-1.00am V-Day: Volcanic
Planet An experiment imagining
that all the world’s volcanoes
erupted on a single day

Sky Arts


7.00pm The Art of Architecture
8. 00 Portrait Artist of the Year
2020 With sitters Eddie Marsan,
Sian Clifford and Paul Mescal
9. 00 The Sixties The beginning
of space exploration ( 7 / 10 )
10.00 Life & Rhymes Benjamin
Zephaniah hosts more spoken-
word performances ( 3 / 4 )
10.30 Cary Grant and Timothy
Leary: Urban Myths Starring Ben
Chaplin and Aidan Gillen ( 4 / 5 )


  1. 00 No Masks
    12.00-1.00am Comedy Legends


Sky Witness


7 .00pm Nothing to Declare
7 .30 Nothing to Declare
8. 00 9 -1- 1 Athena tries to keep the
peace in the aftermath of the
earthquake, while Bobby and his
team rescue further victims
9.00 Blindspot The team tries to
stop a terrorist group from gaining
access to a deadly weapon ( 4 / 11 )
10. 00 CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation Henry’s birthday
celebrations take an unusual turn


  1. 00 The Rookie

  2. 00 -1. 00 am Blue Bloods


Sky History


7 .00pm Forged in Fire Forging a
historic hunting weapon ( 12 / 15 )
8. 00 Curse of Skinwalker Ranch
The team members share
their findings ( 8 / 8 )
9. 00 Mountain Men Mike
returns to the crags of Kodiak to
reclaim his mountain goat kill
10.00 Swamp People Troy brings
together a crew to infiltrate Cow
Island, while Brock and Aaron
chase a big beast
11.00 Kings of Pain ( 6 / 9 )
12.00-1.00am Forged in Fire

Fox


7 .00pm NCISTorres and Bishop
are victims of a hit-and-run
8. 00 NCIS Sloane has a secret
admirer on Valentine’s Day
9.00 Minority Report Vega is the
victim in Dash’s latest vision ( 5 / 10 )
10. 00 NCIS: New Orleans


  1. 00 L.A.’s Finest ( 10 / 13 )
    12.00-12.30am Family Guy


Discovery


7 .00pm Outback Truckers
8. 00 UFOs: The Lost Evidence
9. 00 Moonshiners
10.00 The Explosion Show
Checking out one of the world’s
largest fireworks companies


  1. 00 Gold Rush

  2. 00 -1. 00 am Gold Rush: White
    Water The boys have a limited time


Nat Geographic Comedy Central


7.00pm Friends
9. 00 FILM Airplane II: The Sequel
(15, 1982 ) Disaster movie spoof
with Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty,
Lloyd Bridges and William Shatner
10. 50 -1. 00 amFILM Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels (PG, 1988 ) Comedy
starring Michael Caine, Steve
Martin and Glenne Headly

Gold


6.40pm The Vicar of Dibley
7 .20 The Vicar of Dibley Geraldine
tries her hand at fundraising
8.00 The Vicar of Dibley
8.40 The Vicar of Dibley
9.20 Not Going Out
10. 00 The Cockfields
10 .4 0 The Fast Show
11.15-12.20am Live at the Apollo

W


7.00pm My Kitchen Rules:
Australia It is an Asian
street food challenge
8. 00 Inside the Ambulance
9. 00 Ski A&E
10. 00 Ski A&E


  1. 00 Inside the Ambulance

  2. 00 -1. 00 am One Born Every
    Minute A midwife retires


7.00pm Air Crash Investigation:
Special Report ( 10 / 10 )
8. 00 Ice Road Rescue
9. 00 Food Factory
9.30 Food Factory
10. 00 Wicked Tuna: North v South


  1. 00 Seconds from Disaster

  2. 00 -1. 00 am Air Crash
    Investigation


FV 9/24, FS 107, SKY 116, VIRGIN 10 7 FV 10, FS, 115 , SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 106, VIRGIN 110 SKY 10 8 SKY 114, VIRGIN 27 7

SKY 113, VIRGIN 12 1

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 11 5 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 11 8 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 10 6 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 13 0 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 12 9

SKY 1 2 4, VIRGIN 157 SKY 1 2 5, VIRGIN 250 , BT 316 SKY 1 29 , VIRGIN 266 , BT 327 SKY 11 2 , VIRGIN 1 32 , BT 307 SKY 11 0 , VIRGIN 1 2 4, BT 310 SKY 1 09 , VIRGIN 1 2 5, BT 311

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 12 7

FV 91, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 27 6 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 122, VIRGIN 12 3 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 27 0

Sky Main Event


9.00am-11.00 Live State of Origin
Rugby League:New South Wales
v Queensland(Kick-off 9 .1 0 )
12.00 Live Ladies European Tour
GolfThe second day of the Saudi
Ladies Team International
3.00pm Live Grand Slam of Darts
Day three of the tournament
7.00 Live Uefa Nations League:
England v Iceland (Kick-off 7. 45 ).
Coverage from Wembley Stadium
10. 30 Sky Sports News


  1. 00 Live: Total Access

  2. 00 - 6. 00 am Sky Sports News


Sky Premier League


7 .00pm PL World
7 .30 Live Uefa Nations League:
Wales v Finland (Kick-off 7 .4 5 ).
Coverage of the Group B4 match
from Cardiff City Stadium
10 .15 PL World
10 .45 PL Greatest Games
Manchester United v Tottenham
Hotspur from 200 9


  1. 00 PL Retro

  2. 00 am PL Years

  3. 00 PL Greatest Games

  4. 00 Best PL Goals

  5. 30 - 6. 00 am PL 1 00 Club


Sky Cricket


7 .45pm Ashes Greats A look back
at some of the best moments
from Ashton Agar
8.00 Cricket Classics A look back
to 2005 and the first Twenty 20
International for the England team
10. 30 MCC: On Tour In Lahore
11.00 Cricket’s Greatest Games
12. 00 How The 200 7 ICC
World Cup Was Won
3.00am Cricket’s Greatest Games
4 .00 Best of England v Pakistan
5. 00 - 6. 00 Cricket’s
Greatest Games

BT Sport 1


7 .00pm BT Sport Reload
7. 30 PL World
8 .00 MotoGP Highlights
9 .00 Bundesliga Special
9 .30 UEFA Champions League
Magazine
10. 00 WWE NXT UK
11.00 WWE NXT Highlights
12.00 WWE Raw Highlights
1.00am Live: WWE NXT The next
generation of Superstars in action
3 .15 MotoGP Rewind
3. 30 - 5. 30 30 for 30
Requiem for the Big East

BT Sport 2


8. 00 am-11. 30 Live Cricket:
Women’s Big Bash —Sydney
Thunder v Sydney Sixers
7 .00 FIA World Endurance
Championship
8. 00 The Undertaker:
The Last Ride An in-depth look at
Mark Calaway’s career
9. 00 Dan Hardy’s Open Mat
9. 30 UFC Countdown
10.30 UFC Fight Night
1.30am UFC Main Event
2. 30 UFC Countdown
3. 30 -5.15 UFC Reloaded

SKY 4 0 1, VIRGIN 511, BT 4 02 SKY 4 02 , VIRGIN 51 2 SKY 4 0 4, VIRGIN 51 4 SKY 41 3 , BT 4 08 SKY 414, BT 4 09

Wednesday 18 | Primetime digital guide


Andy Serkis
The actor plays the rock
star Ian Dury in the biopic
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
BBC Four, 10pm
FV Freeview FS Freesat

Dan James could line up for
Wales against Finland tonight
(Sky Premier League, 7.30pm)
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