The Times - UK (2022-01-01)

30 saturday review Saturday January 1 2022 | the times

BBC4

7.00pm Great British Railway

Journeys Michael Portillo

explores Britain between

the world wars (1/15)

7.30 Winter Walks Famous faces

explore landscapes in

Yorkshire and Cumbria (1/5)

8.00 Fake or Fortune? Coming to

the aid of a man who has

inherited three paintings

and needs to prove they

are by LS Lowry (1/4)

9.00 Art on the BBC: The Great

Salvador Dali The art

historian David Dibosa

explores the BBC archives to

create a history of Salvador

Dali. See Viewing Guide (1/4)

10.00 How to Be a Surrealist

with Philippa Perry The

psychotherapist examines

the roots of surrealism

11.00-12.30am Life of a Mountain:

A Year on Helvellyn

Documentary capturing a

year in the life of the Lake

District’s most popular peak

ITV3

7.00pm Heartbeat The villagers

leave Aidensfield en masse

to support Rob in a charity

football match and David’s

jury duty is more trouble

than he imagined

8.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot

The sleuth attends a North

African archaeological dig

and uncovers a wealth

of suspects when an

aristocrat’s wife is stabbed

to death. Guest starring Tim

Curry and John Hannah

10.00 The Bay As the crime drama

returns, DC Lisa Armstrong

is given the opportunity

to assist in a murder

investigation in Morecambe.

Starring Morven Christie

and Daniel Ryan (1/6)

11.00-12.10am The Ruth Rendell

Mysteries Part one of two.

A girl’s body is found in the

Fens and the investigation

takes a complicated turn

for Inspector Masters (5/6)

More 4

6.55pm Escape to the Château:

Designing the Dream A look

at how Angel Adoree’s

creativity has brought the

château back to life (2/8)

7.55 Grand Designs Kevin

McCloud follows a project

near Newbury to construct

a modern farmhouse

that combines an open-

plan party pad with

functional spaces below

9.00 Love It or List It Australia

New series. Andrew Winter

and Neale Whitaker help a

couple decide what to do

with their 1940s bungalow

in Melbourne’s Kew East

10.00 George Clarke’s

Remarkable Renovations

The architect follows people

as they transform former

commercial properties (1/6)

11.05-12.15am 24 Hours in A&E

A 12-year-old is airlifted

to St George’s after he is

struck by a motorcycle

Sky Max

6.00pm Harry Potter 20th

Anniversary: Return to

Hogwarts Stars Daniel

Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and

Emma Watson, the director

Chris Columbus and many

more cast members all

celebrate 20 years since

the franchise’s first film (R)

7.30 Cricket’s Funniest Moments

A selection of funny clips (R)

8.00 A League of Their Own

A look back at the best

moments from series 15 (R)

9.00 FILM The Fog (15, 1980)

The residents of a small

Californian coastal

community are besieged by

the ghosts of drowned

mariners. Horror with

Adrienne Barbeau.

See Film Choice

10.45 The Force: North East A raid

on the house leads officers

to a drugs den (10/10) (R)

11.45-12.45am Russell Howard

Hour: Selection Box (R)

Sky Atlantic

6.45pm The Wire D’Angelo

Barksdale is questioned

after a witness in his trial

is murdered (2/13) (R)

7.50 Game of Thrones First

episode of the fantasy

drama starring Sean Bean.

Lord Eddard Stark faces a

dilemma when he is asked

to serve at the side of King

Robert Baratheon (1/10) (R)

9.00 Dexter: New Blood

Dexter and Harrison find

themselves closer than

ever over Christmas

break (9/10) (R)

10.05 Euphoria: Trouble Don’t

Last Always As Rue deals

with the aftermath of being

left by Jules at the train

station and relapsing, she

prepares to celebrate

Christmas. Starring Zendaya

and Hunter Schafer (1/2) (R)

11.10-12.15am Billions Drama

starring Paul Giamatti and

Damian Lewis (1/12) (R)

Sky Documentaries

6.20pm What’s My Name:

Muhammad Ali Charting

the events that followed

Muhammed Ali’s defeat to

Joe Frazier in 1971 (2/2) (R)

8.00 FILM The Bee Gees: How

Can You Mend a Broken

Heart (12, 2020) Exploring

the history of the group,

featuring contributions from

surviving member Barry

Gibb as well as archive

interviews with his brothers

Robin and Maurice

10.00 The Man Who Bought

Cricket The story of

financial fraudster

Allen Stanford (R)

11.00-12.45am FILM Fire in

Babylon (12, 2010)

Documentary examining

the West Indian cricket

team’s rise to international

success in the 1970s under

Clive Lloyd, and the place

the team occupied in

Caribbean culture

ITV2

6.40pm FILM Pitch Perfect 2 (12,

2015) The singers try to win the a

cappella world championships

after being beset by scandal.

Comedy sequel with Anna

Kendrick and Rebel Wilson

9.00 The Cabins New series.

The return of the dating show

10.00 Family Guy Chris’s

artistic talents come to light

10.30 Family Guy

11.00 Family Guy

11.30 American Dad!

12.00-12.25am American Dad!

ITV4

6.45pm FILM Dr No (PG, 1962)

A criminal mastermind plots

to sabotage America’s space

programme. James Bond spy

thriller starring Sean Connery

9.00 FILM Aliens (18, 1986) Lone

survivor Ripley joins a mission to

face the creatures that wiped out

her crew. Sci-fi thriller sequel

starring Sigourney Weaver

11.45-2.35am FILM Face/Off (18,

1997) An FBI agent tries to foil a

bombing. Action thriller starring

John Travolta and Nicolas Cage

E4

7.00pm Hollyoaks After Maxine is

left feeling rejected, Warren takes it

upon himself to make things right

7.30 The Big Bang Theory

Pilot episode of the comedy

8.00 Celebrity Coach Trip

New series. Famous faces

travel around Europe (1/15)

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

A rolling cast of famous faces

appraise Friends: The Reunion

and The Masked Dancer

10.00 Naked Attraction

11.05-12.05am Gogglebox

Dave

7.00pm Whose Line Is It Anyway?

USA With guest Jeanine Mason

7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? USA

With star guest Adam Rippon

8.00 Travel Man: 48 Hours in

Rome With guest Matt Lucas

8.30 Travel Man: 48 Hours in

Valencia With guest Sara Pascoe

9.00 QI XL Featuring Bill Bailey

10.00 Live at the Apollo

11.00 The Misadventures

of Romesh Ranganathan

12.00-12.40am Mock the

Week: Election Special

Drama

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine

Clegg agrees to drive Ludovic’s

newly acquired van home for him

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine

Compo, Clegg and Foggy put their

talents to use in the church concert

8.00 Jonathan Creek A dead body

impossibly vanishes from a locked

study — but the mysteries do not

end there for Jonathan and Joey

10.00 New Tricks Sandra and the

team try to unmask an assassin

11.20-1.20am Judge John Deed

Jo Mills defends a drug addict

Yesterday

7.00pm Secrets of the Transport

Museum A 100-year-old push bike

gets a wooden wheel built (9/10)

8.00 The Architecture The

Railways Built Tim Dunn sees Mt.

Snowdon’s summit station (7/10)

9.00 Steam Train Britain At the

East Lancashire Railway, the Race

the Train event begins (5/10)

10.00 Bangers and Cash A triple

collection of desirable cars (9/10)

11.00 Bangers and Cash (10/10)

12.00-1.00am Abandoned

Engineering A beachside resort

PBS America

6.30pm Terror The story of the

King David Hotel bombing in

Jerusalem back in 1946, in which

91 people were killed (1/6)

7.25 The War Four American

communities recall the impact

the Second World War had (1/14)

8.35 Billy Graham The life of the

superstar pastor Billy Graham

11.00 Terror The story of the

King David Hotel bombing (1/6)

12.00-1.10am The War American

communities recall the impact

the Second World War had (1/14)

Smithsonian

7.00pm Inside the Factory

The production of frozen pizzas

8.00 Food Factories: How They

Work The engineering behind the

manufacturing machines and

processes of his favourite foods

9.00 Food Factories: How

They Work A look at the ingenious

machines keeping Britain hydrated

10.00 Inside the Factory

11.00 Food Factories: How They

Work Manufacturing machines

12.00-1.00am Food

Factories: How They Work

Sky Arts

7.00pm Vermeer from the

National Gallery, London

Exploring the artist’s technique

8.00 André Rieu: Welcome to My

World A summer concert by the

violinist recorded in Maastricht

9.00 Hitsville: The Making of

Motown Rare performances,

interviews and rarely seen footage

come together to paint a picture of

the history and origins of Motown

11.00 Guy Garvey: From the Vaults

The Elbow frontman looks at 1984

12.00-1.00am Sky Arts Book Club

Sky Witness

7.00pm Nothing to Declare

8.00 Blue Bloods Frank works to

vindicate a detective who has been

accused of using excessive force

9.00 Criminal Minds

A multiple-murder case becomes

personal for Alvez (6/15)

10.00 The Equalizer McCall tries

to find a British mathematician

who has gone missing (5/10)

11.00 Law & Order: Special Victims

Unit An activist thinks her sister has

been kidnapped by a hate group

12.00-1.00am FBI Crime drama

Sky History

7.00pm Forged in Fire (8/15)

8.00 Storage Wars Rene takes

a risk which ends up backfiring

8.30 Storage Wars Brandi tries to

teach Danielle a lesson on trash

9.00 Secrets in the Ice New series.

Experts expose dark secrets,

forgotten treasures, and lost relics

10.00 I Saw It: Bigfoot and Beyond

Two explorers seek proof of

the fabled Bigfoot (1/2)

11.00 Mythical Beasts

12.00-1.00am Alien Autopsy:

The Search for Answers (1/4)

Alibi

6.20pm Death in Paradise (6/8)

7.40 Death in Paradise A man from

JP’s past is caught red-handed (7/8)

9.00 Clarice An armed militia

group shoots a federal agent (2/13)

10.00 Ragdoll The team hunts

down the second victim (2/6)

11.00 The Good Wife

12.00-1.00am Death in Paradise

Discovery

7.00pm Railroad Alaska Jim and

Nancy visit an abandoned cabin

8.00 Bitchin’ Rides Dave and the

crew proved they could execute

Dave’s production Corvette vision

9.00 Bitchin’ Rides The team

works on the Kindig CF Corvettes

10.00 Street Outlaws: Memphis

12.00-1.00am Bitchin’ Rides

Nat Geographic Comedy Central

7.00pm Friends Four editions

9.00 FILM Mission: Impossible

— Rogue Nation (12, 2015) The

agents of the Impossible Mission

Force become fugitives in order to

bring down a shadowy society of

assassins. Thriller sequel starring

Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg

11.45-12.45am Lee Evans: XL Tour

Gold

6.25pm The Vicar of Dibley

7.20 Dad’s Army

8.00 Gavin & Stacey

8.30 Miranda

9.15 Mrs Brown’s Boys

9.55 French & Saunders: Funny

Women The duo discuss crucial

female contributions to comedy

12.00-12.35am Mrs Brown’s Boys

W

7.00pm Dr Christian: Special

Clinics Christian Jessen re-opens

his clinic for more appointments

8.00 Inside the Ambulance

9.00 The Shift: Women on the Force

10.00 999 Rescue Squad

11.00 Inside the Operating Theatre

12.00-1.00am One Born Every

Minute Following two students

7.00pm Car S.O.S Tim and Fuzz

restore a Porsche 356 (1/10)

8.00 Ocean Wreck Investigation

The team discovers two ships

9.00 Air Crash Investigation

10.00 Disasters Engineered (5/10)

11.00 Air Crash Investigation

12.00-1.00am WW2:

Hell Under the Sea (3/6)

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

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

7.45am Live Big Bash League:

Melbourne Stars v Melbourne

Renegades The T20 match

11.30 Live SPFL: Hibernian v

Hearts (Kick-off 12.30)

2.45pm Live EFL: Swansea City

v Fulham (Kick-off 3.00)

5.00 Live MNF: Manchester

United v Wolves (Kick-off 5.30)

8.00-11.00 Live World Darts

Championship The final on day 16

1.00am-4.30 Live NFL: Pittsburgh

Steelers v Cleveland Browns

(Kick-off 1.15). From Heinz Field

Sky Premier League

5.00pm Live MNF: Manchester

United v Wolves (Kick-off 5.30).

Coverage of the Premier

League match at Old Trafford

8.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits

8.30 Premier League Icons

9.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

With Jamie Carragher (1/6)

9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

With Phil Neville (2/6)

10.00 Soccer AM: The Best Bits

10.30-12.15am MNF Action

from Manchester United v

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Sky Cricket

7.30am-3.30pm Live Test Cricket:

South Africa v India Coverage of

day one of the second Test in the

three-match series, at Wanderers

Stadium in Johannesburg

5.00 Captain’s Log

6.00 Test Cricket

7.00 Big Bash League Melbourne

Stars v Melbourne Renegades

11.00 Test Cricket South Africa v

India. Action from day one of the

Second Test in the three-match

series, at Wanderers Stadium

12.00-1.00am Captain’s Log

BT Sport 1

2.30pm-5.15 Live Vanarama

National League: Grimsby Town v

Halifax Town (Kick-off 3.00)

7.15 The Cricket’s On

8.15 Gallagher Premiership

Rugby Highlights

9.45 Rugby Tonight

10.30 Vanarama National

League Highlights

11.00 WWE Raw Highlights

12.00 WWE SmackDown

Highlights All the best action

1.00am-4.15 Live: WWE

Monday Night Raw

BT Sport 2

7.00pm BT Sport Films

8.30 DIY Pundit

9.00 Fishing: On The Bank With

Rob Hughes and Andy Ford

10.00 PL World

10.30 Ligue 1 Highlights

11.00 BT Sport Reload

11.30 IFSC Climbing

World Cup Highlights

12.00-2.00am Live College

Basketball: TCU Horned Frogs v

West Virginia Mountaineers

(Tip-off 12.00). The NCAA

encounter from Schollmaier Arena

Sky Comedy

7.00pm Will & Grace Jack’s self-

obsession begins to annoy Will

7.30 Will & Grace Will struggles to

cope with Grace’s taste in decor

8.00 Parks and Recreation (1/6)

8.30 Parks and Recreation (2/6)

9.00 Miracle Workers Comedy

starring Daniel Radcliffe (1/7)

9.30 Miracle Workers God asks

Sanjay to take down an atheist (2/7)

10.00 How to Make It in America

11.00 And Just Like That (5/10)

12.00-1.15am Dan Soder:

Son of a Gary A stand-up special

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

SKY 114, VIRGIN 135

Bank Holiday Monday | Digital guide

FV Freeview FS Freesat

Salvador Dalí

The surrealist is the subject

of a new Art on the BBC

documentary

BBC4, 9pm

Can Christiano Ronaldo fire

Man United to victory against

Wolves? (Sky Main Event, 5pm)