The Times - UK (2022-05-23)

12 Monday May 23 2022 | the times

television & radio

daddy who sniffs it

encouragingly. It’s a

simple but clever idea

to profile prehistoric

Earth over five well-

funded series in the

manner of all those

great Attenborough

series of the past

(there’s even stirring

music from Hans

Zimmer). And the

baby T. rex even looks

rather sweet with all

its feathers.

Prehistoric Planet

Apple TV+

A baby turtle struggles

down a beach to

the sea, the soothing

voice of Sir David

Attenborough following

his journey until... a

baby T. rex tries to

catch it. This young

dinosaur has the killer

instinct but not the

hunting experience so

trots off back to its

counterparts probably

would. For this special

series the scriptwriters

also appear to be

seeking to inject a bit

of Jed Mercurio-style

thriller pace and

tension by inviting us

to think that there are

multiple high-level

conspiracies afoot,

especially when

another blast from

Silent Witness past

reappears.

predecessor’s obvious

closeness to the case.

Still, the professional

lines between the

folks with the rubber

gloves and microscopes

and the plods is always

somewhat blurred in

this show. And here

Nikki and her team of

Jack (David Caves) and

Simone (Genesis

Lynea), once again do

more sleuthing than

their real-life

Mashaba (Hugh

Quarshie) is shot

following the launch

of their new company

and a high-profile

government figure is

killed. Who was the

target? No 10 is

rocked and the

bat-call goes out to

Nikki, the best in

the business who is

quick to challenge

Sam on autopsy

protocol, given her

Ryan returns to action.

The actress (who led

the show for the first

eight series) also gets

to properly meet her

successor, Emilia Fox’s

Nikki, in a kind of

Avengers Assemble for

cosy forensic police

procedural drama.

Naturally, the

circumstances are

grim. Within minutes

of this opening episode,

Sam’s husband Jomo

Viewing Guide

Ben Dowell

Silent Witness
BBC1, 9pm

Marking 25
— 25! —
series of the
popular
drama, this special
six-parter has casting
news that will have
fans’ hearts aflutter:
Amanda Burton’s Sam

Top

pick

7PM

Early

8PM

9PM

10PM

11PM

Late

BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

7.00 The One Show Alex Jones and

Jermaine Jenas present topical

stories and showbiz chat

7.30 EastEnders Callum fumes at Ben for

telling Lewis about his vigilante

actions, and Lily wants to stay off

school to look after Jean (AD)

8.00 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Talks to

Emma Barnett Nazanin Zaghari-

Ratcliffe discusses her six years

of imprisonment in Iran

8.30 Hunting Putin’s War Criminals:

Panorama Paul Kenyon travels to

Kyiv to investigate war crimes

committed by Russian soldiers

9.00 Silent Witness New series.

In the first of a four-part story, Nikki

investigates the assassination of the

health secretary during a company

launch. Amanda Burton returns to the

crime drama series. Guest starring

Hugh Quarshie, with Emilia Fox.

See Viewing Guide (1/6) (AD)

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.40 The Airport: Back in the Skies

Jeremy Spake joins an Aer Lingus

captain in the simulator (3/6) (AD)

11.10 Have I Got a Bit More News for

You Adil Ray hosts an extended

episode of the satirical current affairs

quiz, with panellists James May

and MP Jess Phillips (8/9) (r)

11.55 Gordon Ramsay’s Future Food

Stars The final sees Gordon put the

remaining three businesses still in the

running for his £150,000 investment

under scrutiny (8/8) (r) (AD)

1.00am-6.00 BBC News

7.00 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from

a Kitchen Garden The chef travels

across the country to discover the

secrets of planting, rearing livestock

and growing vegetables to help

transform his smallholding (1/5)

8.00 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

Monty Don and Joe Swift launch BBC

Two’s coverage of the horticultural

event, exploring the 39 inspirational

gardens on offer and the displays

of growers in the Great Pavilion

9.00 The Chris & Rosie Ramsey Show

The husband and wife host the comedy

entertainment show, with celebrity

couple Martin and Shirlie Kemp joining

them to poke fun at topics including

relationships and parenting (2/6)

9.45 QI XL Sandi Toksvig hosts an extended

edition, with Alice Levine, Jason

Manford and Rose Matafeo joining

series regular Alan Davies to look at

sugar and spice and all things nice

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s

events presented by Mark Urban

11.15 Couples Therapy Matthew has two

breakthroughs. Last in the series

11.40 Between the Covers With Trevor

McDonald, Sarah Hadland, Peter

Davison and Cariad Lloyd (2/7) (r)

12.10am Sign Zone: Countryfile Matt Baker and Ellie

Harrison explore the grounds of Blenheim Palace (r) (SL)

1.05 Art That Made Us. The decisive shift of power from

countryside to the city during the 19th century (r) (AD,

SL) 2.05-2.35 Speed Kids — Our Lives. An insight into

the world of children’s motorcycle racing (r) (AD, SL)

7.30 Emmerdale Vanessa and Suzy

question their relationship, Leyla is

worried, and Ethan is concerned that

he is going to be punished (AD)

8.00 Coronation Street Hope uncovers

the truth about Phill when she borrows

his laptop, Tim gets a shock when he

goes to see Dr Gaddas, and Daniel

breaks the news to Ken that he is

giving up teaching (AD)

9.00 Long Lost Family: Born Without

Trace New series. Davina McCall and

Nicky Campbell return with more

stories of people who were abandoned

as babies, helping them try to find

their birth families (1/3) (AD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

10.30 Regional News

10.45 Yorkshire Ripper: The Secret

Murders Examining the police

investigation into the crimes of Peter

Sutcliffe and the missed opportunities

to charge him for his earlier,

unacknowledged crimes (1/2) (r) (AD)

11.45 All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite

Hard-hitting action from the

world of All Elite Wrestling

1.25am Teleshopping 3.00 Loose Women. Interviews

and studio discussion (r) 3.50 Unwind with ITV. Daily

escape designed to calm the mind and encourage

relaxation 5.05-6.00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard

hosts the quiz in which contestants answer questions

to win turns on an arcade-style machine (r) (SL)

7.00 Channel 4 News

7.30 MPs Under Threat: Dispatches

Newly-elected MP Kim Leadbeater

investigates the threats and

abuse faced by MPs (AD)

8.00 Food Unwrapped Gets Baking

Special episode featuring baking-

related reports. Briony May Williams

gets to the bottom of a pretzel

mystery, and learns the surprising

truth about bicarbonate of soda (AD)

9.00 Hunted The hunters track Elinor and

Meurig to his sister’s house in Brecon,

where Meurig makes a dramatic

getaway. Despite a close shave,

Shoba and Amarinder continue to rely

on their family network. Nathan and

James devise a plan to lure the

hunters to a fake rendezvous (AD)

10.00 Troy Deeney: Where’s My History?

The footballer discusses his campaign

to make the teaching of black, Asian

and minority ethnic histories and

experiences mandatory in the school

curriculum. Troy meets people on both

sides of the debate, and talks about his

own troubled school experiences (AD)

11.05 999: On the Front Line A woman

collapses in the street while out

shopping and may have broken her hip,

while a man threatens to take an

overdose if the paramedics do not

take him to hospital (5/10) (r)

12.10am Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted Gordon Ramsay

explores the Indonesian island of Sumatra (AD) 1.00 24

Hours in A&E (r) (AD) 1.55 The Cane Field Killings (AD)

2.55 Grand Designs (r) (AD, SL) 3.50 George Clarke’s Old

House, New Home (r) (AD, SL) 4.45 Location, Location,

Location (r) (AD) 5.40-6.05 The Perfect Pitch (r) (SL)

7.00 Police Interceptors Riding in

high performance patrol cars, on

the ground with the dog team and

busting down doors of dealers, the

documentary footage puts you in

the thick of the action (r)

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 The Motorway In the north west,

officers are searching for a pedestrian

on the M6 in poor visibility due to

heavy rain, when they are re-assigned

to a six-car pile-up. Maintenance men

are on the A1M, cleaning a notorious

litter hotspot just outside a busy

motorway service station (3/8)

9.00 Inside the Force: 24/7 On a busy

Saturday night, a PC responds to an

urgent call that has come in about an

aggressive man who has been

threatening an officer in Lincoln

city centre. Last in the series

10.00 Casualty: Every Second Counts

Patients include an elderly man due to

fly to Cyprus in two days, an ex-miner

with breathing difficulties, a youngster

with a footballing injury and a case of

suspected meningitis (10/12) (r)

11.05 Ambulance: Code Red Paramedics

rush to help a child who was hit by a

car, and a woman who took a bad fall

off her horse needs urgent care;

paramedics help after a car crash (r)

12.05am Robbing Your Relatives: Families at War

(r) 1.00 Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News

3.10 Litter Louts: At War with the Law (r) 4.00 Cruising

(r) (SL) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10 House Doctor (r)

(SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) (AD, SL) 5.40 Paw Patrol (r) (SL)

5.50-6.00 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures (r)

6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show

hosted by Kym Marsh and Gethin Jones 10.00 For Love or

Money. A woman whose online friend tried to fleece her

out of thousands of pounds (r) 10.45 Rip Off Britain.

Victims of a text scam about parcel deliveries discuss

their experiences (r) 11.15 Homes Under the Hammer.

Properties about to be auctioned in the West Midlands,

Surrey and Lancashire (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt.

Charlie Ross presents the show from Southwell,

Nottinghamshire (AD) 1.00 BBC News at One; Weather

1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45 Doctors. Emma

goes on a flight of fancy when examining two men (AD)

2.15 Five Bedrooms. New series. Ben launches himself as

a B&B accommodation provider (AD) 3.00 Escape to the

Country. Steve Brown returns to his home county of Kent

in search of a new home each for two sisters from London

3.45 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022. Nicki Chapman and

Angellica Bell present exclusive access to the opening

day 4.30 The Bidding Room. Items include a spy kit, a

tribal paddle and an architect’s drawing board (r) 5.15

Pointless. Quiz hosted by Alexander Armstrong 6.00 BBC

News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) (AD) 7.15 Garden Rescue (r)

8.00 Sign Zone: Secrets of the Museum (r) (AD, SL) 9.00

BBC News 10.00 BBC News 12.15pm Politics Live 1.00

Ready Steady Cook. A pair of food obsessives are best

friends but today they become rivals as they bring in the

ingredients for chefs Anna Haugh and Ellis Barrie to serve

up the best dish (r) 1.45 Eggheads. Quiz show hosted by

Jeremy Vine (r) 2.15 James Martin: Home Comforts. The

chef demonstrates chicken chasseur and pork loin stuffed

with chestnuts and sage (r) (AD) 3.00 Britain in Bloom.

Chris Bavin heads to the Wiltshire market town of

Melksham (r) 3.30 Murder, Mystery and My Family.

Criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein examine

the case of a fatal shooting on a farm in Staffordshire in

1893 (r) (AD) 4.15 Interior Design Masters with Alan

Carr. The four remaining designers are challenged to

transform two hair salons in Richmond, London (r) (AD)

5.15 Flog It! Treasures found at Powderham Castle in

Devon (r) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of Games. With

Maisie Adam, Rory Bremner, James Cracknell and

Michelle Gayle (r) 6.30 Animal Park. Hamza Yassin

helps with the annual survey of heron numbers (AD)

6.00am Good Morning Britain. Magazine featuring a

lively mix of news and current affairs 9.00 Lorraine.

Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well

as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly

10.00 This Morning. A mix of chat, lifestyle features,

advice and competitions. Including Local Weather

12.30pm Loose Women. Showbiz interviews and studio

discussion from a female perspective 1.30 ITV News;

Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David Dickinson and

the team visit Wolverhampton, where Henry Nicholls

picks up two paintings with very different price tags and

Karen Dalmeny ends up with a very fancy clock (r) (AD)

3.00 Tenable. A team of five family members answer

questions about top 10 lists, then try to score a perfect

10 in the final round. Quiz hosted by Warwick Davis (r)

4.00 Tipping Point. Ben Shephard hosts the

arcade-themed quiz in which contestants drop tokens

down a choice of four chutes in the hope of winning a

£10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh presents

as four contestants work as a team to take on one of

the ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize (r) 6.00

Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.05am Countdown. Jo Brand is in Dictionary Corner (r)

6.45 Cheers (r) 7.35 The King of Queens (r) (AD) 9.00

Frasier (r) (AD) 10.30 Undercover Boss USA. A real

estate boss goes undercover in his business (r) 11.25

Channel 4 News Summary 11.30 Couples Come Dine with

Me. Three couples from Glasgow compete for the cash

prize of £1,000 (r) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch.

Weekday magazine show hosted by Steph McGovern 2.10

Countdown. Dr Linda Papadopoulos is in Dictionary Corner

3.00 A Place in the Sun. A south London pair seek a

property in Marbella, southern Spain (r) 4.00 The Great

House Giveaway. Transforming a decrepit property in

Aldridge, Walsall 5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses.

A former estate agent from Warrington is looking for a

spacious villa in Almeria, and a family looks for a holiday

home in Alicante (r) 6.00 The Simpsons. Homer requires

the help of his new friend, a former CIA agent, when he

gets into a spot of bother with a Ukrainian terrorist.

Guest starring Kiefer Sutherland (r) (AD) 6.30

Hollyoaks. An exciting job offer leaves one Hollyoaks

resident with a tricky decision to make, while Cindy

and Zara make a discovery on Ollie’s laptop (r) (AD)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host

Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out

viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm Shoplifters &

Scammers: At War with the Law. Documentary charting

methods used to thwart criminals targeting shops,

beginning with a private crimes team employed to catch

shoplifters in London’s West End (r) 1.10 5 News at

Lunchtime 1.15 Home and Away. Nikau tries reaching out

to Chloe to clear the air (r) (AD) 1.45 Neighbours (AD)

2.15 A Prescription for Murder: Hailey Dean Mysteries.

Hailey helps the police when the CEO of a hospital dies

and the coroner discovers that she has been poisoned.

Whodunit starring Kellie Martin (r) 4.00 Bargain-Loving

Brits in the Sun. A Cumbria native is trying to drum up

some extra cash for local animal rescue charity at a car

boot sale, while a Yorkshireman is off for a lads’ day

out at the track 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00 Neighbours.

Mackenzie accepts Hendrix’s proposal, and in a secluded

cottage, Corey keeps Harlow in a drugged state (r) (AD)

6.30 Eggheads. Team Wiki Woo takes on the team of

experts as they try to win the rolling prize fund (r)