The Times - UK (2022-04-30)

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505 saturday review Saturday April 30 2022 | the times


BBC3


7.00pm MasterChef Australia A
blindfold identification test
8.25 The Catch Up Headlines
8.30 Meet the Khans: Big in
Bolton Amir comes face to
face with long-time rival and
opponent Kell Brook at a
London press conference,
and Faryal gets her make-up
brand back on track with
partner Khadija (2/11)
9.00 Live Bellator Coverage of
the Bellator 280 event from
AccorHotels Arena in Paris,
where the bout between
Ryan Bader and Cheick
Kongo is the main event
11.30 Meet the Khans: Big in
Bolton Amir comes face to
face with Kell Brook (2/11)
12.00-12.30am Munya and Filly
Get Chilly Munya and Filly
work out with Wim Hof, play
football with the footballer
Chelcee Grimes and the
opera singer Alfie Boe in
the Wimter Games (4/6)

BBC4


7.00pm Ella Fitzgerald Sings A
performance from 1965
7.45 Folk America at the
Barbican American ragtime
and blues band the Wiyos
perform at the Barbican
8.00 Top of the Pops Tony
Dortie presents the show
first broadcast in 1992
8.30 Top of the Pops Mark
Franklin presents the pop
chart programme from 1992
9.00 Nina Simone & Me with
Laura Mvula The soul
singer travels to New York
City to explore Nina
Simone’s musical roots
9.30 Billie: In Search of Billie
Holiday Documentary
showcasing the American
performer, through the words
of those who knew her best
11.00 Louis Armstrong in Concert
The trumpeter performs
12.00-1.00am Jazz Piano Gold
Performances by artists
including Count Basie

More 4


6.55pm Love It or List It Australia
Andrew Winter and Neale
Whitaker help a Melbourne
woman who believes her
dated home can be
transformed
7.55 Escape to the Château
Angel redesigns the rooms
in one of the château’s
turrets with a fruits and
flowers motif, while Dick
puts together a parkour
fitness trail, but hits upon an
underground obstacle (3/7)
9.00 The Crimson Rivers (2/2)
More infected people are
discovered, while the media
are not helping to keep the
story under wraps. In French
10.00 24 Hours in A&E The staff at
St George’s A&E deal tend to
a 60-year-old bricklayer,
and a 93-year-old widow
11.05-12.10am 24 Hours in A&E
An ice hockey player is
rushed to St George’s after
suffering a cardiac arrest

Sky Atlantic


6.50pm The Affair Noah and Helen
are reunited by Whitney’s
crisis, which leads them
back to Montauk and Alison.
Conclusion of the drama
starring Dominic West and
Ruth Wilson (10/10) (R)
7.55 Game of Thrones The end
of the Baratheon brothers’
rivalry provides Lord Baelish
with a chance to further his
ambitions, and Arya
receives a favour from the
man she freed from
Harrenhal (5/10) (R)
9.00 Devils Massimo’s suspicions
over Wu Zhi and Liwei are
growing and as a result, he
helps Dominic sabotage a
deal of huge strategic
importance to NYL’s Chinese
investors (3/8)
10.05 Devils Massimo continues
to seek the truth (4/8)
11.10-12.10am The King Bruno
infiltrates the Muslim gang
with Farid (3/8) (R)

Sky Documentaries


Sky History


7.00pm Ghislaine Maxwell:
Epstein’s Shadow
Docuseries investigating
the complicated and
mysterious life of the former
socialite (2/3) (R)
8.10 The Sixties A look at the life
and work of Martin Luther
King Jr and his courageous
efforts to lead the civil rights
movement (5/10) (R)
9.00 Natalie Wood: What
Remains Behind Natasha
Gregson Wagner presents a
unique insight into her
mother’s life and movie
career. Featuring interviews
with friends and colleagues
and previously unseen
archive materials (R)
11.00-12.50am FILM Man on Wire
(12, 2008) Documentary
about Philippe Petit, who
undertook an illegal and
astonishing tightrope walk
between the towers of the
World Trade Centre in 1974

7.00pm Forged in Fire A bid to
create an Arkansas Toothpick knife
8.00 The Liquidator
8.30 The Liquidator
9.00 Hitler’s Secret Sex Life
Rumours, theories and disputed
historical accounts of Adolf Hitler’s
sexual psychology (3/4)
10.00 Ray Winstone’s Sicily (6/6)
11.00 When Big Things Go Wrong
The world’s worst engineering
disasters caught on tape (4/6)
12.00-1.00am Ross Kemp:
Shipwreck Treasure Hunter (3/4)

ITV2


7.00pm Superstore Amy gathers
character testimonies for Mateo
7.30 Superstore Jonah is forced to
become friends with Marcus as he
unionises the warehouse staff
8.00 Bob’s Burgers Tina and Bob
go to a Thunder Girls event
8.30 Bob’s Burgers Things get
spooky when Tina dissects a pig
9.00 FILM Pitch Perfect (12, 2012)
Comedy starring Anna Kendrick,
Rebel Wilson and Elizabeth Banks
11.15 Family Guy Animation
11.40-12.10am Family Guy

ITV3


6.55pm Heartbeat A special
constable mysteriously disappears
8.00 Doc Martin It is the annual
Portwenn versus Port Carran gig
race, and Morwenna needs to find
a replacement rower when Eric
dislocates his finger (7/8)
9.00 Doc Martin Sigourney
Weaver guest stars (8/8)
10.05 Agatha Christie’s Poirot
A restaurant customer’s change
of diet intrigues Poirot
11.10-12.15am White House Farm
Drama starring Mark Addy (5/6)

ITV4


7.00pm The Chase Celebrity
Special (4/8)
8.00 Griff’s Great Australian
Adventure Griff Rhys Jones views
the renowned landmark Uluru (6/6)
9.00 FILM Rocky IV (PG, 1985)
A retired Italian Stallion steps back
into the ring against a mighty
Russian boxer who caused the
death of his friend. Drama starring
Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren
and Carl Weathers
10.55-1.00am All Elite Wrestling:
Dynamite Hard-hitting action

E4


7.00pm Hollyoaks James gives
John Paul an ultimatum
7.30 The Big Bang Theory
Amy tries to find Raj a date
8.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean
Courtney and Lexi bond
9.00 FILM Now You See Me 2 (12,
2016) A gang of magicians-turned-
criminals reunites to expose a
ruthless businessman. Crime
thriller starring Jesse Eisenberg
11.35-12.40am Naked Attraction
Featuring a 24-year-old martial
arts instructor from Hull

Dave


7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of
Games With Susie Dent
7.40 Room 101 With Cilla Black,
Hugh Dennis and Mel Giedroyc
8.20 QI With Sally Phillips, Ross
Noble and Nish Kumar
9.00 QI XL With Isy Suttie, Tim
Minchin and Bill Bailey
10.00 Live at the Apollo Sindhu
Vee introduces sets by Lou
Sanders and Alex Edelman
11.00 QI With Matt Lucas
11.40-12.20am Meet the
Richardsons at Christmas

Drama


6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine
Howard grows convinced he was
abandoned at birth
7.20 Last of the Summer Wine A
message in a bottle intrigues Truly
8.00 Father Brown The sleuthing
priest discovers a shocking secret
9.00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
Sister Boniface investigates
when tragedy strikes at a war
memorial ceremony
10.00 New Tricks
11.10-1.20am Silent Witness
Leo is accused of fraud

Yesterday


7.00pm Great Continental Railway
Journeys Michael Portillo ventures
from Vienna to Trieste (2/6)
8.00 The Architecture the
Railways Built Tim Dunn explores
the ornate St Pancras station in
London and its sister hotel (6/10)
9.00 Secrets of the London
Underground The disused Jubilee
line areas of Charing Cross (1/10)
10.00 Bangers and Cash (6/10)
11.00 Abandoned Engineering
12.00-1.00am Great Continental
Railway Journeys (2/6)

PBS America


6.35pm Asia’s Ancient
Civilisations (4/4)
7.35 My Life in Hitler’s Germany
The arrest of 30,000 Jewish
men, who were sent to
concentration camps (2/2)
8.45 The Last Voices of World War
One Archive recollections (3/6)
9.50 Children of the Sun The story
of the Maya civilisation (3/3)
11.00 Asia’s Ancient Civilisations
The Majapahit Empire (4/4)
12.00-1.15am My Life in Hitler’s
Germany (2/2)

Smithsonian


7.00pm How Did They Build That?
How engineers built two New York
skyscrapers and connected them
with a sky bridge 700ft up
8.00 Aerial Greece An exploration
of Greece’s landscape, culture and
history, from tourist hotspots to
hidden grandeur
9.00 Aerial Greece The south of
Greece — a land of Spartan
warriors and mythical legends
10.00 Aerial New Zealand
11.00 Aerial Greece
12.00-1.00am Aerial Greece

Sky Arts


7.00pm Video Killed the Radio
Star An insight into the making
of Elbow’s music videos
7.30 Video Killed the Radio Star
A look at Britney Spears’ most
famous music videos
8.00 Classic Albums Examining
Deep Purple’s Machine Head
9.00 Deep Purple: Come Hell or
High Water A concert filmed at
Birmingham’s NEC in 1993
11.20-12.50am Rock and Roll
Examining heartache’s pervasive
presence in the genre (2/10)

Sky Max


7.00pm Stargate SG-1 (1/2) The
team encounters a super-soldier
8.00 Rob & Romesh vs the West
End The comedians try to crack
the world of musicals
9.00 The Rising Alex questions
Katie about the events of the night
her stepsister died (3/8)
10.00 Never Mind the Buzzcocks
10.45 Never Mind the Buzzcocks
11.30-12.30am A League of Their
Own Road Trip: Dingle to Dover
Previously unseen moments
from the trip (5/6)

Discovery


7.00pm Supertruckers
8.00 Hoffman Family Gold
Todd Hoffman is ready to get back
in the mining game
9.00 Expedition Bigfoot The team
uncovers a potential kill zone
10.00 Aliens In Alaska
11.00 Railroad Alaska
12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

Nat Geographic


7.00pm Extreme China (1/3)
8.00 Airport Security: Rome
Police seize cocaine sewn into a
shirt and hidden in a shoe (2/8)
9.00 Car S.O.S Fuzz Townshend
and Tim Shaw restore vehicles
10.00 Ice Road Rescue
11.00 Air Crash Investigation
12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc (3/10)

Sky Comedy Comedy Central


7.30pm Friends
8.00 Friends
8.30 Friends
9.00 FILM The Naked Gun 2 1/2:
The Smell of Fear (15, 1991)
Comedy starring Leslie Nielsen
10.35 FILM Frank Skinner: Man
in a Suit (2014) A stand-up show
11.50-12.50am Live at the Apollo

Gold


7.00pm Hi-de-Hi! Joe Maplin
announces Gladys’s engagement
7.40 Keeping Up Appearances
8.20 Dad’s Army
9.00 Miranda
9.40 Miranda
10.20 Only Fools and Horses
11.40-12.40am Billy Connolly
Does... Dream locations

W


7.00pm Property Brothers:
Forever Homes
8.00 The Shift: Women on the
Force Documentary
9.00 Inside the Ambulance
10.00 Gavin & Stacey
10.40 Gavin & Stacey
11.20 Gavin & Stacey
12.00-1.00am 999 Rescue Squad

8.00pm Los Espookys (5/10)
8.30 Wellington Paranormal (5/6)
9.00 Girls (7/10)
9.30 Girls (8/10)
10.00 Late Late Show Best of the
Week Highlights of the talk show
11.00 The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon American chat show
12.00-12.35am Sex and the City

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


8.00am-10.00 Live Super Rugby:
Blues v Rebels (Kick-off 8.05)
12.00 Live PGA Tour Golf: The
Wells Fargo Championship
1.30pm-6.30 Live DP World Tour
Golf: The Betfred British Masters
Hosted By Danny Willett
7.00 Live EFL A League One
play-off semi-final first-leg
10.15-11.45 Live Formula 1: Miami
Grand Prix The second practice
12.45am-3.00 Live NBA Basketball
5.30-7.30 Live Super Rugby:
Moana Pasifika v Waratahs

Sky Premier League


7.00pm Premier League Preview
7.30 Premier League Matchpack
8.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox
Gary sits down with former
Manchester United and England
teammate Paul Scholes
8.30 Inside the WSL The latest
from the Women’s Super League
9.00 Premier League Preview
9.30 Premier League Matchpack
10.00 Inside the WSL
10.30-12.30am PL Retro
Manchester United v Liverpool
from the 2008/09 season

Sky Cricket


2.50pm Live Indian Premier
League: Gujarat Titans v Mumbai
Indians The T20 match from
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
7.00 25 Years of Women’s Cricket
on Sky A look back at some of
the most memorable moments
7.25 Best of T20 Blast Finals Day
A look back at some of the
best ever T20 Blast finals
7.40 India’s Amazing Run Chase
Action from the final of the 2002
NatWest Series in England
8.00-4.10am IPL

BT Sport 1


10.30am-1.30pm Live AFL: Port
Adelaide Power v Western
Bulldogs (Bounce-up 10.30)
7.00 Sport in Focus
7.15 Live European Rugby
Challenge Cup Match action
10.15 Rugby Stories
10.45 MotoGP Rewind
11.00 WWE NXT UK
1.00am Live WWE Friday Night
SmackDown Wrestling action
3.00-6.00 Live NCAA Baseball: UC
Irvine Anteaters v Santa Barbara
Gauchos (Start-time 3.00)

BT Sport 2


6.15pm The Football’s On
With Ian Stone and guests
7.15 Ligue 1 Show A look ahead
to the games in the top flight
7.45 Live Ligue 1 Football action
from France’s top division
10.00pm-12.00 Live PSA Squash
Action from the women’s
semi-finals, taking place at Grand
Central Terminal in New York
1.00am-3.30 Live PSA Squash
Action from the men’s semi-finals,
taking place at Grand Central
Terminal in New York

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

TalkTV


6.30am Jeremy Kyle Debates
10.00 The Independent Republic
of Mike Graham
1.00pm Afternoons with Ian
Collins Hard-hitting debates
4.00 Rob Rinder Answers to
the week’s big questions
7.00 The News Desk Tom
Newton-Dunn tackles the
biggest stories of the day
8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored
Best Of The week’s global
events unpicked by the
outspoken host in an hour
of debate, big-name
interviews and plenty
of fun
9.00 The Talk Sharon Osbourne
and a panel of opinionated
famous faces from the
worlds of politics, showbiz,
business and current affairs
debate the latest hot topics
10.00 The James Whale Show
The big stories of the day
11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan
Uncensored Best Of (R)

FV 237, FS 217, SKY 526, VIRGIN 627

Friday 6 | Primetime digital guide


Billie: In Search
of Billie Holliday
The story of the American
singer and performer
BBC4, 9.30pm
FV Freeview FS Freesat

Rory McIlroy defends his title at
the Wells Fargo Championship
(Sky Main Event, noon)
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