The Times - UK (2022-04-30)

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Saturday 30 | Primetime digital guide

Talk TV

7.00am Claudia-Liza and David

Bull The biggest stories of

the day that matter

10.00 Richard Tice The former

MEP examines the state

of the nation

1.00pm Trisha Goddard

The host gives her thoughts

on the biggest social

dilemmas making the

news this week

4.00 Nick De Bois The former

MP cuts through the jargon

with monologues while

asking the big questions on

people’s minds via the calls

of viewers

7.00 Mike Graham and Kevin

O’Sullivan Two veterans of

Fleet Street carve their

way through the week’s

top stories, speaking to

legends from days of

old, and reflecting on

tales of yesteryear

10.00-1.00am The James Whale

Show Bold opinions

BBC3

7.00pm EastEnders

7.30 EastEnders

8.00 Meet the Khans:

Big in Bolton (1/11)

8.30 The Fast and the Farmer-ish

The grand final of the

tractor-driving

championship (7/7)

9.00 I Like the Way U Move

Trouble brews in the house

as one of the professionals

worries that their rookie is

becoming complacent (4/8)

10.00 FILM Weird Science (15,

1985) Two teenagers use

their computer to design

the perfect woman, but are

shocked when she comes to

life. John Hughes’ sci-fi

comedy with Kelly LeBrock

11.30 Meet the Khans: Big in

Bolton Amir’s grudge match

with Kell Brook is finally

signed, and Faryal models

bridalwear (1/11)

12.00-12.25am Peacock Comedy

starring Allan Mustafa (1/3)

BBC4

7.00pm A History of Ancient

Britain Neil Oliver examines

Britain and Ireland’s Stone

Age monuments, learning

about the religious and

sociological meanings of

these sacred sites (3/4)

8.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends

The chef visits the city of

Bologna in northern Italy,

where he learns how to

make the local fresh

egg pasta (5/10)

9.00 FILM By the Grace of God

(15, 2018) Three men band

together to dismantle the

code of silence protecting a

priest who abused them

decades ago. Fact-based

drama with Melvil Poupaud

and Denis Ménochet

11.10 Wogan: The Best Of Terry

Wogan remembers the US

stars who appeared on his

chat show (10/15)

11.55-12.55am The Many Faces of

June Whitfield

More 4

6.55pm The Great British Dig:

History in Your Back

Garden The team solves a

17th-century mystery in

King’s Lynn, as they hunt for

enormous defensive

earthworks that surrounded

the Norfolk town during the

English Civil War

8.00 Skeletons of the Mary Rose:

The New Evidence

Scientists use isotope and

DNA analysis to identify the

crew of Henry VIII’s flagship,

many of whom were of

African origin, and trace

their surviving descendants

9.00 24 Hours in A&E A cyclist is

rushed to A&E after he

“bullseyed” a car’s rear

window (8/11)

10.05 24 Hours in A&E A

71-year-old is rushed in after

being knocked over by her

husband’s car

11.10-12.15am 8 Out of 10 Cats

Does Countdown (4/6)

Sky Atlantic

7.00pm Six Feet Under Nate offers

support to Brenda at her

father’s funeral while Lisa is

out sampling the fare at a

food show (7/13) (R)

8.00 Raised by Wolves After the

Trust uses Paul to strike

back against Marcus,

Mother confronts the Trust

and threatens a coup.

Marcus has to keep his

followers from losing faith

as his powers disappear (R)

9.00 Game of Thrones Ned is

reinstated by Robert and

hears rumours that

associates of the Lannisters

have begun stirring up

trouble across the Seven

Kingdoms. Tyrion tries to

escape the Eyrie (6/10) (R)

10.05 Game of Thrones Ned

confronts Cersei about Jon

Arryn’s death (7/10) (R)

11.10-12.15am Game of Thrones

The Lannisters launch their

bid to seize power (8/10) (R)

Sky Documentaries

Sky History

6.00pm Chernobyl: The Lost

Tapes Archive footage and

witness accounts reveal the

story behind the 1986

nuclear disaster and the

efforts made to prevent

another explosion (R)

8.00 The Lady and the Dale

Automobile executive Liz

Carmichael’s meteoric rise

comes to a halt in 1974 when

the promotion of her cutting

edge car, The Dale, exposes

her criminal past (2/4) (R)

9.00 SIC: Prince of MotoGP

Profile of the MotoGP rider

Marco Simoncelli.

See Viewing Guide

11.00-1.00am FILM Being Frank:

The Chris Sievey Story (15,

2018) Documentary

exploring the life and career

of the musician and

comedian Chris Sievey, who

found relative fame wearing

the papier-mache head of

alter ego Frank Sidebottom

7.00pm Britain’s Most Historic

Towns Cardiff (3/6)

8.00 Britain’s Most Historic Towns

Alice Roberts explores the history

of Oxford during the Civil War (4/6)

9.00 Art of War Sun Tzu’s Art of

War, the ultimate guide for

winning at conflict

11.00 The Proof Is Out There

A strange object seen over the

skies of inner Mongolia

11.30 The Proof Is Out There

12.00-1.00am Forged in Fire

A pair of Spetsnaz shovels

ITV2

8.00pm FILM Snow White & the

Huntsman (12, 2012) A princess

joins forces with the warrior sent

to kill her to overthrow an evil

queen. Fantasy adventure starring

Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth

and Charlize Theron

10.20 Celebrity Juice With Joel

Dommett, Will Mellor, Verona Rose

and Katherine Ryan

11.10 Family Guy Quagmire

decides to open a cat cafe

11.35-12.05am Family Guy

Brian runs for mayor

ITV3

7.00pm Midsomer Murders The

bell-ringers of Midsomer Wellow

are mysteriously murdered one

by one. John Nettles stars

9.00 FILM Downton Abbey (PG,

2019) The Crawley family prepares

for a royal visit from George V and

Queen Mary. Drama based on the

television series starring Hugh

Bonneville, Michelle Dockery

and Maggie Smith

11.30-1.30am Agatha Christie’s

Poirot An aristocrat’s wife is

stabbed to death

ITV4

8.00pm FILM Cannonball Run II

(PG, 1984) Daredevil motorists

head off on an illegal cross-country

car race for the chance to win a

million-dollar prize. Comedy

sequel, with Burt Reynolds, Shirley

MacLaine and Dean Martin

10.15-12.30am FILM True Grit

(15, 2010) A farm girl recruits a

hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal

to help her track down the man

who killed her father. The Coen

brothers’ Western with Jeff Bridges

and Hailee Steinfeld

E4

7.00pm The Big Bang Theory

Sheldon and Leonard make a road

trip to end a family feud

7.30 The Big Bang Theory Amy

and Sheldon prepare to tie the knot

8.00 The Big Bang Theory Amy

and Sheldon go on honeymoon

8.30 The Big Bang Theory

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox

American Pie, The Graham Norton

Show, Love Island and Killing Eve

are appraised (2/6)

10.00 Gogglebox

11.05-12.10am Gogglebox

Dave

7.00pm Would I Lie to You? The

Unseen Bits Extra material from

the panel show

7.40 Not Going Out Lee and Lucy

plan a friendly night of quizzing

with Toby and Anna in the pub

8.20 Not Going Out Lee’s father

announces his engagement

9.00 Not Going Out

9.40 Mock the Week

10.20 Mock the Week

11.00 QI Stephen Fry hosts

11.40-12.40am Have I Got a Bit

More News for You

Drama

6.00pm The Brokenwood

Mysteries Mike and the team are

reacquainted with familiar faces

8.00 The Mallorca Files Miranda

and Max attempt to find a masked

assailant who stole the famous

Icon of St Nicholas

9.00 Banished Governor Phillip

orders work to cease on the

building of the church

10.20 Banished Reverend Johnson

challenges Major Ross over his

demands on Kitty

11.40-1.10am Rebus

Yesterday

7.00pm Great British Railway

Journeys West Yorkshire

7.30 Great British Railway

Journeys Norwich to Chichester

8.00 Great British Railway

Journeys Ipswich to Chelmsford

8.30 Great British Railway

Journeys Faversham to Dorking

9.00 Smoke & Steel (6/6)

10.00 Porridge

10.40 Porridge

11.20 Porridge

12.00-1.00am Impossible

Engineering (9/12)

PBS America

6.00pm The First World War The

final months of the conflict (10/10)

7.10 The Somme 1916: From Both

Sides of the Wire The events of the

First World War battle (1/3)

8.30 The Somme 1916: From Both

Sides of the Wire The phase of the

battle from the middle of July to

mid-September (2/3)

9.45 The Somme 1916: From Both

Sides of the Wire The final months

of the campaign (3/3)

11.00-12.05am The First World

War The Western Front (6/10)

Smithsonian

7.00pm Combat Ships The ships

involved in the biggest naval

deployments in recent history

8.00 Combat Ships Stories of

naval ships that sank

9.00 Combat Ships A look at naval

armaments through history

10.00 Combat Ships How speed

gives ships and small vessels an

advantage in naval battles

11.00 Combat Ships Stories of the

cut-throat world of river warfare

12.00-1.00am Combat Ships The

story of the Viking longship

Sky Arts

6.30pm The Hollies: Look

Through Any Window A profile

9.00 Bob Dylan: No Direction

Home Martin Scorsese’s profile

sees the story take a dark turn as

Dylan tries to find a new musical

vocabulary in response to

expectations from the old Left

and the media (2/2)

10.50-12.50am FILM Leonard

Cohen: I’m Your Man (12, 2005)

Documentary about the life

and career of the Canadian

singer-songwriter

Sky Max

7.00pm The Flight Attendant

Cassie goes against Annie’s advice

to lay low and tries to find some

answers (2/8)

8.00 Agatha Raisin Agatha and

the gang visit a fayre (4/4)

10.00 Strike Back: Retribution

Section 20 attempts to track down

an ex-CIA contractor (7/10)

11.00 Rob & Romesh vs

Strongman Rob Beckett and

Romesh Ranganathan enter the

world of strongman competitions

12.00-1.00am The Rising (2/8)

Discovery

7.00pm Gold Rush: Freddy

Dodge’s Mine Rescue

8.00 Hoffman Family Gold

9.00 Building Off the Grid A family

sets out to build an underground

home in Idaho

10.00 Blowing Up History

11.00 Expedition Bigfoot

12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

Nat Geographic

7.00pm Drain the Oceans (2/15)

8.00 Drains the Oceans (3/15)

9.00 Drain the Oceans (4/15)

10.00 Drain the Oceans

The recovery of ships used in

the Gold Rush (5/15)

11.00 Drain the Oceans (6/15)

12.00-1.00am Drain the Oceans

Second World War wrecks (9/15)

Sky Comedy Comedy Central

5.00pm FILM The Green Hornet

(12, 2011) Comic-book adventure

7.15 FILM Mr Deeds (12, 2002)

Romantic comedy remake starring

Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder

9.00 FILM The Naked Gun 2 1/2:

The Smell of Fear (15, 1991)

10.35-1.35am When TV Favourites

Go Horribly Wrong

Gold

7.00pm Ghosts

7.40 Ghosts

8.20 Ghosts Pat’s family make a

pilgrimage to the site of his death

9.00 Ghosts

9.40 Ghosts

10.20 Ghosts

11.00 Billy Connolly Does...

12.00-1.00am Live at the Apollo

W

6.40pm My Family

7.20 My Family

8.00 Gavin & Stacey

8.40 Gavin & Stacey

9.20 Gavin & Stacey

10.00-12.05am FILM Louis

Theroux: My Scientology Movie

(15, 2015) The reporter investigates

the controversial religion

7.00pm The Office (US)

7.30 The Office (US)

8.00 The Office (US)

8.30 The Office (US)

9.00 Insecure (10/10)

9.45 Insecure: The End

11.00 The Tonight Show Starring

Jimmy Fallon American chat show

12.00-12.35am Girls (6/10)

FV 237, FS 217, SKY 526, VIRGIN 627 FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 108 FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 108 SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 26, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

SKY 132, VIRGIN 126 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 322 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351 SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344 SKY 110, BT 343 FV 25, FS 156, SKY 109

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 826, VIRGIN 165 SKY 115, VIRGIN 135 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112

Sky Main Event

6.00am-7.30 Live Super Rugby:

Fijian Drua v Highlanders (Kick-off

5.35). From Suva, Fiji

12.00 Live EFL An EFL fixture

3.00pm Live Indian Premier

League: Rajasthan Royals V

Mumbai Indians

5.00 Live: SNF Leeds United v

Manchester City (Kick-off 5.30)

8.30 Live NBA Basketball

1.00am Live LPGA Tour Golf

2.00 Live Fight Night International

Oscar Valdez v Shakur Stevenson

5.30-6.00 Live Suncorp Netball

Sky Premier League

11.00am-2.00pm Live WSL:

Manchester City v Brighton and

Hove Albion (Kick-off 11.30). The

Women’s Super League match at

Academy Stadium

5.00 Live: SNF Leeds United v

Manchester City (Kick-off 5.30)

Coverage of the Premier League

match at Elland Road

8.30 Renault Game of the Day

A full 90-minute rerun of one of

the Saturday afternoon fixtures

in the Premier League

10.30-12.15am Premier League

Sky Cricket

10.50am Live Indian Premier

League: Gujarat Titans v Royal

Challengers Bangalore

2.50pm Live Indian Premier

League: Rajasthan Royals v

Mumbai Indians Coverage from

Dr DY Patil Sports Academy

7.00 Ace: A Programme For

Change How the ACE Programme

has re-engaged the black British

community with cricket

7.25 Cricket’s Climate Crisis

7.45 Best of ICC WT20

8.00-4.00am IPL

BT Sport 1

11.30am-3.00pm Live Premier

League: Newcastle United v

Liverpool (Kick-off 12.30).

The top-flight St James’ Park

5.00 Live Vanarama National

League: Stockport County v

Boreham Wood (Kick-off 5.20)

7.30 Live: Serie A Football from

Italy’s top division

9.45 BT Sport Reload

10.00 Live UFC The Preliminary

bouts from UFC Fight Night

12.00-3.30am Live UFC:

Rob Font v Marlon Vera

BT Sport 2

8.00am Live MotoGP

11.00 Live MotoGP

3.00pm Live MotoE The MotoE

Championship Grand Prix of Spain

4.00-5.00 Live Red Bull MotoGP

Rookies Cup From Jerez, Spain

5.15 Live: Serie A

7.00 Uefa Champions League

7.30 BT Sport Reload

7.45 Live Ligue 1: Rennes v

St. Etienne (Kick-off 8.00)

10.00 Ligue 1

11.00 Serie A

12.00-3.30am Live MLB

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 440 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, BT 430 SKY 414, BT 431

FV Freeview FS Freesat

Weird Science

Kelly LeBrock and Anthony

Michael Hall star in John

Hughes’s 1985 comedy

BBC3, 10pm

Jos Buttler’s Rajasthan Royals

face Mumbai Indians in the IPL

(Sky Main Event, 3pm)