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Saturday 28


BBC1 BBC2 ITV


6.00am Breakfast 10.00 Saturday
Kitchen Live. Matt Tebbutt is joined by
Bryn Williams, Philip Khoury and
Stephen Mangan 11.30 The Airport:
Back in the Skies (r) 12.00 Homes
Under the Hammer (r) 1.00pm BBC
News; Weather 1.15 Bargain Hunt.
Two teams compete at Lincolnshire
Antiques and Home Show (r) 2.00
Live Challenge Cup Rugby League:
Wigan Warriors v Huddersfield Giants
(Kick-off 3.00). Mark Chapman
presents all the action from the final,
which comes from Tottenham
Hotspur Stadium 5.40 The Bidding
Room. Items include a vintage train
set, a set of mid-century chairs and an
old butchers block (r) 6.25 BBC News
6.35 BBC Regional News; Weather
6.45 The Weakest Link. Quiz hosted
by Romesh Ranganathan (r)

7.30 Celebrity Catchpoint
Remi Burgz and DJ Target
take on Karen Hauer and
JJ Chalmers (5/8)

8.00 Pointless Celebrities Steve
Backley, Roger Black, Kelly
Sotherton, Sally Gunnell, Ashia
Hansen, Jo Pavey, Martin Offiah
and Gareth Chilcott compete

8.50 Casualty Rash, Paige, and David
try to save a suicidal patient,
who blames herself for a
tragic accident in her past and
keeps drinking a mysterious
fluid from a metal bottle

9.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys Agnes
resolves to give Trevor an
unforgettable send-off.
Brendan O’Carroll stars (2/6) (r)

10.00 BBC News

10.20 Radio 1’s Big Weekend x
Saturday Best Bits Highlights
of performances by artists
including Calvin Harris and Ed
Sheeran at Radio 1’s annual live
music event, at War Memorial
Park in Coventry

11.20 FILM The Company You Keep
(15, 2012) A former political
radical is forced to go on
the run when his identity is
exposed after 30 years. Thriller
based on the novel by Neil
Gordon, directed by and
starring Robert Redford, with
Shia LaBeouf and Julie Christie

1.15am Weather for the Week
Ahead 1.20 BBC News

6.30am The Dengineers (r) 6.55 Blue
Peter (r) 7. 2 5 Britain’s Best Young
Artist (r) 7.55 Britain’s Best Young
Artist (r) 8.25 Deadly Predators (r)
8.55 Super Smart Animals (r) 9.55 The
Great British Sewing Bee (r) 10.55 My
Unique B&B (r) 11.25 Britain’s Top
Takeaways (r) 12.25pm FILM The
Wooden Horse (U, 1950) PoWs in a
German camp try to escape by using
a vaulting horse. Fact-based Second
World War drama starring Leo Genn
(b/w) 2.05 FILM The Battle of the
River Plate (U, 1956) British naval
forces set out to find a German
battleship. Second World War
adventure with Anthony Quayle 4.00
Commando: Britain’s Ocean Warriors
(r) 5.00 Animal Babies: First Year on
Earth (r) 6.00 RHS Chelsea Flower
Show 2022. Highlights of the event

6.00am CITV 8.25 ITV News 8.30
Garraway’s Good Stuff. With Rachel
Parris and Jack Savoretti 9.25 James
Martin’s Saturday Morning 11.35
Ainsley’s Good Mood Food 12.40pm
James Martin’s French Adventure (r)
1.10 ITV News; Weather 1.25 Live
ITV Racing: From Haydock.
Oli Bell presents coverage of eight
races from three meetings, including
the John O’Gaunt Stakes from
Haydock Park, plus action from
Beverley and Chester 4.00 FILM
Nanny McPhee (U, 2005) A widower
struggles to control his seven unruly
children, until a strange-looking
nanny steps in. Period fantasy
adventure with Emma Thompson,
Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald 6.00
ITV News; Weather 6.15 Regional
News; Weather 6.30 In for a Penny

7.00 Romeo & Duet Oti Mabuse
presents the dating show that
uses the power of singing to
help people find their ideal
partners, with Fia, Andrew,
Vicky and Sheena-Rae taking
part this time (6/7)

8.00 Britain’s Got Talent Ant and Dec
host the nationwide talent
search, which sees a wide
variety of acts compete for
the chance to win a cash
prize and a slot at the Royal
Variety Performance.
See Viewing Guide

9.05 The 1% Club Quiz hosted by
Lee Mack in which the
questions are all about logic
and common sense, with 100
contestants in every show
having a chance of winning
£100,000 (8/8)

10.05 ITV News

10.25 When English Football Ruled
Europe Aston Villa’s European
Cup win in 1982 (2/2) (r)

11.15 FILM The Fast and the Furious:
Tokyo Drift (12, 2006) An
American teenager living in
Japan gets involved in illegal
street racing. Action adventure
starring Lucas Black

1.05am Teleshopping 3.00 Parveen’s
Indian Kitchen. The food writer
prepares a vegan recipe for tarka daal
(r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05
Nadia’s Family Feasts. Nadia Sawalha
and the Israeli chef Eran Tibi create a
Middle Eastern family feast (r) (SL)

7.00 Britney at the BBC Archive
performances by Britney
Spears, featuring hits including
Baby One More Time and Crazy

7.35 TOTP: The Story of 1999
A review of the year through
Top of the Pops performances,
looking at the influence of
Ibiza and the rise of UK garage,
and how the programme
went on tour.

8.35 TOTP: Biggest Hits 1999 Top of
the Pops performances from
the year, including appearances
by Blondie, Whitney Houston,
Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez,
Christina Aguilera, Eminem
and Ricky Martin

9.35 Later: with Jools Holland With
performances by the actress
Jessie Buckley and the
ex-Suede guitarist Bernard
Butler, the singer-songwriter
Poppy Ajudha, post-punk band
Warmduscher and Australian
quartet Confidence Man (3/6)

10.20 The Chris & Rosie Ramsey
Show The husband and wife
host the comedy entertainment
show, with guests Martin
and Shirlie Kemp (2/6) (r)

11.05 Live at the Apollo Jamali
Maddix introduces Fern Brady
and Sindhu Vee (6/7) (r)

11.50 Travis with the BBC SSO at the
Barrowland A collaboration
from the Barrowland (r)

12.50-2.15am FILM Good Morning
Karachi (12, 2013) A Pakistani woman
hopes to pursue a career as a model
despite disapproval from her mother
and rising tensions in the country.
Drama with Amna Ilyas and Beo
Raana Zafar. In Urdu and English

7.15 Channel 4 News

7.30 The Yorkshire Dales and
the Lakes In the Lakes,
GP Stuart Allen attempts a
50-mile ultra-run

8.00 The Great Garden Revolution
The team are in Bradford to
help a family create a grow-
your-own garden, and offer tips
on planting your own food. Plus,
Scarlett Moffatt shows us
around her own garden

9.00 Secrets of the Queen’s
Coronation Behind the scenes
at the coronation ceremony in
1953, with memories and
anecdotes from people who
played key roles in the day,
many speaking publicly for the
first time. See Viewing Guide

10.00 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix
Qualifying Highlights Action
from the battle for pole in the
seventh round of the season,
held at Circuit de Monaco

11.30 FILM The Great Wall (12, 2016)
Fantasy adventure starring Matt
Damon and Willem Dafoe

1.25am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
USA. Gordon Ramsay heads to
Wilkinson in Pennsylvania (r) 2.15 Wife
Swap USA (r) (SL) 3.05 Hollyoaks
Omnibus (r) (SL) 5.10 The Perfect
Pitch (r) (SL) 5.35 Kirstie’s Fill Your
House for Free (r) 5.50 Cheers (r)

Channel 4 Channel 5


6.00am Cheers (r) 6.30 Cheers (r)
6.55 Cheers (r) 7. 2 5 Everybody Loves
Raymond (r) 7.50 Everybody Loves
Raymond (r) 8.15 Everybody Loves
Raymond (r) 8.45 Frasier (r) 9.15
Frasier (r) 9.45 Frasier (r) 10.15 The
Simpsons (r) 10.45 The Simpsons (r)
11.15 The Simpsons (r) 11.45 The
Simpsons (r) 12.10pm The Simpsons
(r) 12.40 Couples Come Dine with Me
(r) 1.40 Four in a Bed (r) 2.10 Four in a
Bed (r) 2.40 Four in a Bed. At the
Crown Inn in Grewelthorpe, North
Yorkshire (r) 3.15 Four in a Bed. The
final venue is a glamping site in
Rutland — but one guest is not at
all happy (r) 3.45 Four in a Bed. The
B&B owners meet to settle some
scores (r) 4.15 Live Heineken
Champions Cup Rugby: Final — La
Rochelle v Leinster (Kick-off 4.45)

6.00am Milkshake! 10.05 SpongeBob
SquarePants (r) 10.15 SpongeBob
SquarePants (r) 10.40 Friends (r)
11.10 Friends (r) 11.40 Friends (r)
12.05pm Friends (r) 12.35 Friends (r)
1.05 Our Yorkshire Farm (r) 2.05 Our
Yorkshire Farm. Sidney continues
training his sheepdog Nell (r) 3.05
FILM The Goonies (12, 1985) The
discovery of a treasure map plunges
seven kids into the adventure of a
lifetime to save their homes from
developers. Family adventure starring
Sean Astin and Corey Feldman
5.15 Cruising the Nordics with Jane
McDonald. Travelling aboard the
Viking Sky, Jane visits Tallinn in
Estonia, St Petersburg in Russia,
Helsinki in Finland and ends in the
Swedish capital of Stockholm (r)
6.30 5 News Weekend

6.35 The Queen: 70 Years in Her
Own Words Documentary
showcasing Elizabeth II’s
speeches and interviews
from across her reign, from
her first public address at the
age of 14 to the 75th
anniversary of D-Day (r)

8.00 Secrets of Buckingham Palace
Behind-the-scenes tales of the
royal residence in the City of
Westminster, including the
occasion when love letters
were stolen from Princess
Anne’s private apartments (r)

9.00 Are You Being Served?:
Secrets and Scandals Behind
the scenes of the sitcom,
revealing how the show’s
creators had to fight the BBC
throughout its run to keep it on
air and the tragedies that befell
the cast. See Viewing Guide

10.00 FILM Are You Being Served?
(PG, 1977) Havoc descends on
the coast of Spain as staff from
Grace Brothers arrive for their
annual holiday. Comedy
spin-off starring John Inman
and Mollie Sugden

11.50 Gobsmacking Ads with Jason
Manford Commercials from
around the world (1/2) (r)

12.50am Entertainment News on 5
1.00 The LeoVegas Live Casino Show
3.10 The Hamptons: Home of the Rich
& Famous (r) 3.55 My Mum’s Hotter
Than Me! (r) (SL) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r)
(SL) 5.10 House Doctor (r) (SL)
5.35-5.40 Peppa Pig (r) (SL)

Robert Redford stars (11.20pm) Christina Aguilera (8.35pm) F&F sequel Tokyo Drift (11.15pm) The Great Wall (11.30pm) Are You Being Served? (9pm)

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