The Times - UK (2021-12-18)

70 saturday review Saturday December 18 2021 | the times

BBC4

7.00pm Australia: Earth’s Magical

Kingdom A look at how

the country’s surrounding

oceans — the Southern Sea,

the Pacific and the Indian

Ocean — create a unique

environment for numerous

types of creatures (2/3)

8.00 Royal Institution Christmas

Lectures Professor

Jonathan Van-Tam explores

the world of viruses,

and how new research

could have an impact far

beyond Covid-19 (2/3)

9.00 Billy Connolly: Made in

Scotland The comedian

returns to the country

of his birth (1/2)

10.00 Billy Connolly: Portrait of

a Lifetime The life and

career of Billy Connolly

11.00-12.45am FILM Williams:

Formula 1 in the Blood

(15, 2017) Documentary

about Williams F1 team

founder FrankWilliams

ITV3

7.00pm Heartbeat Lord Ashfordly’s

guests arouse suspicion in

the village, while Blaketon

and Ventress go on the hunt

for a spinster’s missing dog

8.00 Endeavour The detective

investigates the deaths

of an astrophysicist and

his girlfriend in a tragic car

accident as the rest of the

world awaits news of the

first moon landings (2/4)

10.00 An Audience with Ronnie

Corbett The comedian

entertains his peers, fans,

friends and family with jokes

and ramblings in a show

recorded in 1997, and is

joined by Ronnie Barker

11.10-1.30am Inspector Morse

Lewis and Morse pursue a

former supergrass all the

way to the Australian

Outback, where the

detectives soon begin to

miss the comforts of home.

John Thaw stars (5/5)

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6.50pm Blitz: London’s Firestorm

Dramatic reconstructions

and CGI depict the 1940

bombing of London during

the Second World War

9.00 The Great British Dig:

History in Your Back Garden

New series. Hugh Dennis

and a team of archaeologists

excavate back gardens

around Britain, beginning in

Falkirk, where they attempt

to uncover a Roman fort

10.00 Ancient Secrets of Althorp

with Charles Spencer The

Earl of Spencer searches for

evidence of an Anglo Saxon

village in his ancestral home

11.10-1.15am FILM Deepwater

Horizon (12, 2016) An oil

rig in the Gulf of Mexico

becomes the site of the

worst environmental

disaster in US history.

Fact-based drama starring

Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell

and John Malkovich

Sky Max

7.00pm Harry Potter: Hogwarts

Tournament of Houses New

series. Helen Mirren hosts

the ultimate Harry Potter

quiz. See Viewing Guide (1/4)

8.00 Harry Potter: Hogwarts

Tournament of Houses

Superfans take part in

the ultimate quiz (2/4)

9.00 FILM The Fog (15, 1980)

The residents of a small

Californian coastal

community are besieged

by the ghosts of drowned

mariners. John Carpenter’s

horror starring Adrienne

Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis,

Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook

10.45 Rob & Romesh vs Anthony

Joshua Revisited Rob

Beckett and Romesh

Ranganathan meet

the boxer (6/6) (R)

11.45-12.45am Rob & Romesh vs

Ballet Rob Beckett and

Romesh Ranganathan

perform in Swan Lake (1/4) (R)

Sky Atlantic

6.55pm American Rust Harris

finally finds the anonymous

eyewitness and Billy is

returned to the general

prison population to

face the consequences

of his actions (9/9) (R)

8.00 Game of Thrones Jon

organises the defence of the

North, Cersei tries to even

the odds, and Daenerys

comes home (1/7) (R)

9.05 Game of Thrones Daenerys

receives a visitor, Jon

faces a revolt, and Tyrion

plans the conquest

of Westeros (2/7) (R)

10.10 Game of Thrones Daenerys

holds court, Cersei returns

a gift, and Jaime learns

from his mistakes (3/7) (R)

11.20-12.20am Landscapers Susan

and Christopher each take

the stand for a final chance

to prove their version of

events from that fatal night

in the home (4/4) (R)

Sky Documentaries

Sky Comedy

6.20pm Bruno v Tyson The story

of a legendary boxing

rivalry, spanning two epic

fights marred by politics and

volatile race relations (R)

8.00 JFK: Destiny Betrayed

Documentary exploring the

Kennedy assassination,

and questioning the

actions of the President’s

political enemies (2/4)

9.00 FILM The Bee Gees:

How Can You Mend a

Broken Heart (12, 2020)

Documentary exploring

the history of the group,

featuring contributions from

surviving member Barry

Gibb as well as interviews

with Robin and Maurice

11.10-1.30am FILM Tina (15, 2021),

Celebration of Tina Turner’s

life and career, featuring

contributions from the

Grammy Award-winning

artist, as well as Angela

Bassett and Oprah Winfrey

7.00pm The Fresh Prince

of Bel-Air The Banks family

considers moving house

7.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

8.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

8.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

9.00 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The cast of the 1990s sitcom

are reunited 30 years later

10.15 Drew Michael: Red Blue

Green Stand-up comedy

11.30-12.45am Chris Rock: Bigger

& Blacker Stand-up comedy

from the American funnyman

ITV2

6.15pm FILM The Amazing

Spider-Man 2 (12, 2014) The

superhero battles a foe with

electrical powers, while an old

friend presents an even greater

threat. Superhero adventure

sequel starring Andrew Garfield

9.00 FILM Fast & Furious

Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (12, 2019)

Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw

team up to stop a terror threat.

Action adventure with Dwayne

Johnson and Jason Statham

11.40-12.10am Family Guy

ITV4

6.10pm FILM The Italian Job (PG,

1969) A crook recruits a gang to

steal $4million in gold bullion and

make a quick getaway in a fleet

of Minis. Crime comedy starring

Michael Caine and Noel Coward

8.15 FILM Rocky V (PG, 1990)

Boxing drama sequel starring

Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire

10.25-1.10am FILM Face/Off (18,

1997) An FBI agent has the face of

a terrorist grafted onto his own to

foil a bombing. Action thriller with

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta

E4

7.00pm Hollyoaks Maxine

makes an upsetting discovery

7.30 Junior Bake Off Featuring

highlights from the 2021

edition of the junior culinary

competition. Last in the series (3/3)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

The Andrew Neil Interviews with

Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson

and Killing Eve are appraised (6/6)

10.00 Gogglebox The households’

opinions on recent television

11.05-12.05am Naked Attraction

Two women look for new partners

Dave

6.40pm Would I Lie to You?

With Jay Blades, Sue Johnston,

Alice Levine and Bob Mortimer

7.20 Would I Lie to You?

8.00 Travel Man: 48 Hours in

New York With Katherine Ryan

8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours

in Helsinki With Paul Rudd

9.00 QI XL With Josh Widdicombe,

Jo Brand and Phill Jupitus

10.00 QI XL With Bill Bailey,

Jan Ravens and Grayson Perry

11.00 Red Dwarf

11.40-12.20am Red Dwarf

Drama

6.00pm Emma The outing

to Box Hill ends in disaster

when Emma insults Miss Bates

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine

Foggy comes up with an

ingenious money-making scam

8.00 Jonathan Creek A successful

composer wonders how his new

lover has managed to regrow

a full head of hair in two days

9.20 New Tricks The team

unearths a poetic murder mystery

10.40-12.40am Judge John Deed

Jo faces a disciplinary hearing

Yesterday

7.00pm Secrets of the Transport

Museum An F1 racer goes

on a perilous journey (4/10)

8.00 The Architecture The

Railways Built Tim Dunn visits

the Ffestiniog in Wales and learns

about Amsterdam Centraal (2/10)

9.00 Hornby: A Model World The

Scalextric team plan to create the

Lamborghini Countach (10/10)

10.00 Bangers and Cash (2/10)

11.00 Bangers and Cash (3/10)

12.00-1.00am Abandoned

Engineering A fairy-tale castle

PBS America

6.10pm Hitler’s Circle of Evil How

the members of the inner cycle

looked for an exit strategy (10/10)

7.20 World War Speed: The Drugs

that Won WWII The role played by

drugs such as methamphetamine

in the Second World War

8.35 Holocaust Escape Tunnel

9.45 Surrender on the USS

Missouri Those who witnessed

the official Japanese surrender

during the Second World War

11.00-12.15am World War Speed:

The Drugs that Won WWII

Smithsonian

7.00pm Cher and the Loneliest

Elephant The singer’s charity Free

the Wild relocate an Asian elephant

8.00 New Forest: The Crown’s

Hunting Ground Hugh Bonneville

ventures into the New Forest

National Park in southern England

9.00 Wolverine: One Tough

Mother The behaviour of

wolverines, occupying woods

between Russia and Finland

10.00 The Wild Andes

11.00 The Wild Andes

12.00-1.00am The Wild Andes

Sky Arts

6.30pm Kipps: The New Half a

Sixpence Musical A production

of the reinvention of the musical

9.00 Spielberg A look at the

career of one of the most

acclaimed filmmakers in

the world, Steven Spielberg

11.35-1.45am FILM The Sugarland

Express (PG, 1974) A couple go

on the run after kidnapping their

baby from a foster family, with

a state trooper as their hostage.

Steven Spielberg’s drama starring

Goldie Hawn and Ben Johnson

Sky Witness

7.00pm Border Patrol Biosecurity

find rare artefacts from Canada

7.30 Border Patrol An irate tourist

causes havoc for the officers

8.00 9-1-1 The 118 members are

called to a disastrous wedding

9.00 Grey’s Anatomy Medical

drama starring Ellen Pompeo

10.00 Criminal Minds (2/15)

11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims

Unit The SVU investigates when an

online role play session turns violent

12.00-1.00am Law & Order:

Special Victims Unit

Sky History

7.00pm Cities of the Underworld

The 10,000 Aztecs who fled

Mexico and disappeared

somewhere in America

8.00 Swamp People Don and

Jacob make a big mistake

9.00 When Big Things Go Wrong

A crash involving a DC-10 airliner

10.00 When Big Things Go Wrong

A Boeing 777 crash-landing

11.00 Tuskegee Airmen:

Legacy of Courage

12.00-1.00am Forged in Fire

Armed Forces Tournament (5/5)

Alibi

7.00pm Hudson & Rex The clock

is ticking as Charlie and Rex

attempt to find a murderer (2/16)

8.00 Hudson & Rex A social media

star dies while livestreaming

her wedding day (3/16)

9.00 The Gulf (5/8)

10.00 The Gulf (6/8)

11.10-12.05am The Good Wife

Discovery

7.00pm Fast N’ Loud The team

creates a one-of-a-kind restoration

8.00 Kindig Customs Dave takes

on something completely different

9.00 Moonshiners

10.00 Moonshiners: Smoke Ring

Searching for the best pit masters

11.00 Gold Rush: The Dirt

12.00-1.00am Moonshiners

Nat Geographic Comedy Central

7.00pm Friends Joey takes Tag out

7.30 Friends Monica agonises

8.00 Friends Rachel and Tag argue

8.30 Friends

9.00 FILM Role Models (15, 2008)

Comedy starring Paul Rudd

and Seann William Scott

11.00 Lee Evans: Monsters

12.00-1.00am Guessable?

Gold

6.45pm Only Fools and Horses

Rodney wins a holiday in Majorca

7.55 Only Fools and Horses

A seance at the Nag’s Head

inspires Del to visit the doctor

9.05 Only Fools and Horses

Rodney and Cassandra get married

10.15-12.10am Only Fools and

Horses The Trotters go to Margate

W

7.00pm Emma and AJ Get to Work

Emma and AJ work with Cumbrian

shepherdess Hannah Jackson

8.00 Emma and AJ Get to Work

9.00 FILM Sleepless in Seattle

(PG, 1993) Romantic comedy

starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan

11.10-12.10am Emily Atack:

Adulting The big questions in life

7.00pm Nazi Megastructures

Hitler’s plan to land troops in

southern England in 1940 (1/6)

8.00 Disasters Engineered (5/10)

9.00 Seconds from Disaster

10.00 Seconds from Disaster

11.00 Air Crash Investigation

12.00-1.00am Airport Security:

Brazil Documentary (2/4)

FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 107 FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 113, VIRGIN 122 SKY 108 SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 25, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 26, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

SKY 132, VIRGIN 126 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 322 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 317 SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 307 SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 310 SKY 109, VIRGIN 125, BT 311

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 56, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 130, VIRGIN 165 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

Sky Main Event

7.00am Live Big Bash League:

Sydney Sixers v Brisbane Heat

10.30-12.00 Live Big Bash League:

Melbourne Renegades v Hobart

Hurricanes From Marvel Stadium

12.30-4.30pm Live World Darts

Championship Session one on day

12 at Alexandra Palace in London

7.00 Live SPFL: Aberdeen v

Rangers (Kick-off 7. 4 5)

10.00 Live World Darts

Championship Session two on day

12 at Alexandra Palace in London

11.00-12.00m’t Live: NFL Fantasy

Sky Premier League

9.00am PL 100 Club

10.00 The Football Show

1.00pm PL Years

3.00 PL Greatest Games

4.00 Best PL Goals 06/07

5.00 PL Highlights

6.00 Premier League Review

7.00 Gillette Soccer Special

10.00 Class of ‘92: Full Time

The fortunes of Salford City

11.00 PL World

11.30 Soccer AM: The Best Bits

12.00 Premier League Icons

1.00-1.30am PL World

Sky Cricket

6.00am The Fletcher Years (4/4)

6.30 Test Cricket

7.30 Live Test Cricket: South Africa

v India Coverage of day four of the

first Test in the three-match series,

at SuperSport Park in Centurion

3.30pm Big Bash League

7.00 Test Cricket

8.00 Big Bash League

11.30 Test Cricket

12.30am The Fletcher Years (4/4)

1.00 Test Cricket

2.00-5.00am How The 2007

ICC World Cup Was Won

BT Sport 1

7.30-8.15am Live: Ashes Daily

A look back at all the best action

from day four of the third Test

7.00pm BT Sport Reload

7.30 Badminton Unlimited

8.00 Serie A: Full Impact

8.30 DIY Pundit

9.00 WWE NXT

10.45 BT Sport Reload

11.00-7.30am The Ashes Live:

Australia v England Coverage of

the fifth and final day of the third

Test in the five-match series, taking

place at Melbourne Cricket Ground

BT Sport 2

9.30am ESPN FC Football news

10.00 Ligue 1 Highlights

10.30 BT Sport Goals Reload

11.00 Live: Ultimate Pool

Professional Cup Day three of the

Ultimate Pool Professional Cup

5.00pm The Ashes

6.30 Extreme E: Electric Odyssey

7.00 Live: Ultimate Pool

Professional Cup Further

coverage from day three of the

Ultimate Pool Professional Cup

11.00 WWE NXT UK

12.00-1.00am WWE Raw

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 467 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 459 SKY 414, BT 460

Wednesday 29 | Primetime digital guide

Sleepless

in Seattle

Meg Ryan stars in the

classic 1993 rom-com

W, 9pm

FV Freeview FS Freesat

Alfredo Morelos of Rangers is

set to line up against Aberdeen

(Sky Main Event, 7pm)