The Times - UK (2022-05-28)

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Saturday 28 | Primetime digital guide

Talk TV

6.00am Cristo (R)
7.00 Claudia Liza and David Bull
The hosts brings you the
biggest stories of the day
that matter to you
10.00 Peter Cardwell The
Westminster insider
scours the latest news
from Parliament
1.00pm Trisha Goddard The
broadcaster takes a look
through the week’s leading
stories and gives her
opinion on the social
dilemmas making the news
4.00 Nick De Bois The former MP
cuts through the jargon and
asks the big question on
everyone’s minds
7.00 Mike & Kev’s Saturday
Night Talkaway Two
veterans of Fleet Street
work their way through
the week’s top stories
10.00-1.00am The James Whale
Show James Whale reacts
to the big stories of the day

BBC3

7.00pm EastEnders Callum fumes

at Ben for telling Lewis

about his vigilante actions

7.30 EastEnders Ben is in shock

about the night before

8.00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next

Make-Up Star The MUAs

enter the world of special

effects for Doctor Who.

Assisting the show’s

Prosthetic Designer, Danny

Marie Elias, they create alien

characters based around

recent nemeses (3/8)

9.00 Athletics: Diamond League

Eugene The Prefontaine

Classic. Coverage of the

third meeting of the

series, held in Oregon

11.00 Meet the Khans: Big in

Bolton Amir heads to the

UK at the end of training

camp (5/6)

11.30-1.00am David Beckham Into

the Unknown The former

footballer journeys through

the Amazon rainforest

BBC4

7.00pm A History of Ancient

Britain Neil Oliver explores

the origins of Britain and its

people, discovering how a

golden age of bronze gave

way to a period of social and

economic crisis (5/8)

8.00 Rick Stein’s Long Weekends

The chef visits the city of

Thessaloniki, revered as

the gourmet capital of

Greece and birthplace to

possibly the greatest

warrior general that ever

lived — Alexander (9/10)

9.00 Beck The police find

themselves under heavy

media pressure after fatally

shooting a 14-year-old boy.

A demonstration gets out

of hand. In Swedish.

See Viewing Guide (4/4)

10.30 Vikings How the age of the

Vikings came to an end (3/3)

11.30-12.15am Wogan: The Best Of

Terry Wogan recalls more of

his funniest guests (13/15)

More 4

6.55pm Dunkirk: The Forgotten

Heroes The untold story of

what happened after the

Dunkirk evacuation

7.55 Britain’s Beautiful Rivers

with Richard Hammond

Richard explores the

ecological and economic

importance of four rivers.

He begins by journey

along Britain’s longest

river, the Severn (1/4)

9.00 24 Hours in A&E Patients

whose visions of the world

are rocked by life-changing

events, including a

44-year-old man who is

flown in by air ambulance

after a cycling accident (2/8)

10.00 24 Hours in A&E

A 66-year-old is rushed to

St George’s struggling to

breathe (3/8)

11.05-12.10am Sarah Millican:

Control Enthusiast

A stand-up performance

by the comedian

Sky Atlantic

6.50pm Succession In the final

episode, Logan and his team

find themselves in defence

mode as word of the

Waystar takeover bid

spreads (10/10) (R)

8.00 Raised by Wolves

Grandmother reveals her

own agenda. Marcus seeks

revenge, and Mother sets

out to neutralise the

serpent, but is levelled by

the fallout (8/8) (R)

9.00 Game of Thrones Robb

weighs up a compromise

to repair his alliance with

House Frey, Roose Bolton

decides what to do with

Jaime, while Jon, Ygritte

and the wildlings face a

daunting climb (6/10) (R)

10.05 Game of Thrones

Melisandre reveals a secret

to Gendry (7/10) (R)

11.10-12.15am Game of Thrones

There is a wedding in King’s

Landing (8/10) (R)

Sky Documentaries

Sky History

7.00pm Putin’s Obsession: The

Fight For Ukraine A profile

of the Russian president,

exploring his complicated

relationship with Ukraine

and why this neighbouring

nation threatens his power

and identity (R)

8.00 Mother Teresa: For the Love

of God An in-depth look at

the life of the nun and

missionary, who was

canonised as a saint by

Pope Francis in December

2015 (3/3) (R)

9.00 The Real Charlie Chaplin

A look at the life and work

of the silent comedy star,

featuring an interview he

gave to Life magazine in

1966. See Viewing Guide
      11.10-1.20am Music Box The story
      of Woodstock 1999, a music
      festival promoted to echo
      unity but instead devolved
      into riots, lootings and
      sexual assaults (1/6) (R)

7.00pm History’s Greatest Aircraft

The Heinkel He 111, one of the most

numerous German bombers of the

Second World War (5/6)

8.00 History’s Greatest Aircraft

The fascinating story behind

wooden aircraft the Mosquito (6/6)

9.00 Lost Cities of the Trojans

The notorious tale of the Trojans

10.00 Lost Cities of the Trojans

Examining new evidence

11.00 Lost Home Movies of Nazi

Germany Amateur footage (2/2)

12.00-1.00am Forged in Fire

ITV2

6.00pm FILM Johnny English (PG,

2003) Spy comedy starring Rowan

Atkinson and John Malkovich

7.50 FILM The Proposal (12, 2009)

Romantic comedy starring Sandra

Bullock and Ryan Reynolds

10.00 Celebrity Juice With guest

panellists Jordan North, Big Zuu,

Mark Labbett and Becky Hill

10.45 Family Guy Peter opens up

his own food truck business

11.15 Family Guy Taylor Swift

agrees to go to homecoming

11.45-12.10am American Dad!

ITV3

7.00pm Midsomer Murders A man

acquitted of murder is the latest

inductee into a post-operative

heart rehab club, but then its

members start dying

9.00 Midsomer Murders As the

owners of Karras Games gather for

a murder mystery weekend, the

experience takes a puzzling twist

when a killer strikes for real

11.00-1.00am Vera The team

investigate the murder of a

respected surgeon and the

abduction of his two daughters

ITV4

6.40pm FILM Escape to Victory

(PG, 1981) Allied PoWs take on the

Nazis in a propagandist football

match, but plan to escape during

the game. Second World War

adventure starring Michael Caine

9.00 FILM Taken (15, 2008) A

former CIA agent puts his skills to

use in rescuing his daughter from a

gang of European sex traffickers.

Thriller with Liam Neeson

10.50-11.50pm FILM RoboCop 3

(18, 1993) Sci-fi thriller sequel

starring Robert Burke

E4

5.50pm FILM Transformers:

Age of Extinction (12, 2014)

Sci-fi adventure starring Mark

Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci

9.00 Celebrity Gogglebox The

Andrew Neil Interviews with

Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson

and Killing Eve are appraised (6/6)

10.00 Gogglebox Opinions on The

Graham Norton Show, Mary Berry:

Love to Cook and Sex Unzipped

11.05-12.10am Gogglebox Opinions

on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of

Here! and Tiger King 2

Dave

6.40pm Would I Lie to You? With

Fern Britton, Stephen Mangan, Ken

Livingstone and Reginald D Hunter

7.20 Would I Lie to You? With

Jimmy Carr, Jamelia, Marcus

Brigstocke and Terry Christian

8.00 Not Going Out Lucy is forced

to look after her god-daughter

8.40 Not Going Out The gang

spends a weekend on Frank’s boat

9.20 Not Going Out

10.00 Hypothetical

11.00 Mock the Week

11.40-12.20am Mock the Week

Drama

6.00pm The Brokenwood

Mysteries A fundraising evening at

the historic Brokenwood Empire

Cinema becomes fatal

8.00 The Mallorca Files Miranda

and Max investigate the death of a

famous DJ. With Elen Rhys

9.00 Leonardo Leonardo ventures

to the city of Milan to visit the

Duke Regent, Ludovico Sforza

10.00 Leonardo Ludovico asks

Leonardo to create a sculpture in

honour of his father

11.10-1.20am Rebus Crime thriller

Yesterday

7.00pm Great Continental Railway

Journeys Michael Portillo travels

through Poland (3/6)

8.00 Great Continental Railway

Journeys Michael Portillo travels

through Spain and Portugal (4/6)

9.00 Bangers and Cash A 1970s

Bond Bug three-wheeler divides

opinion among customers (4/10)

10.00 One Foot in the Grave

10.40 One Foot in the Grave

11.20 One Foot in the Grave

12.00-1.00am Bangers and Cash

A 1967 Aston Martin DB6 (9/15)

PBS America

6.15pm The Great War Exploring

the impact of the First World War

on America (3/3)

8.40 The Harlem Hellfighters’

Great War The story of the

all-black 15th regiment of New

York’s National Guard, sent to

fight in the First World War

9.50 The SS: A Barbaric State

Revealing the history of the

organisation, originally Hitler’s

personal protection unit

11.00-12.10am The Harlem

Hellfighters’ Great War

Smithsonian

7.00pm Air Warriors The top 10

flying arsenals of democracy that

literally saved the world

8.00 Air Warriors The F-86 Sabre,

America’s first swept-wing jet

fighter takes on the Soviet MiG

9.00 Air Warriors The B-29

Superfortress was employed to

drop the bomb on Hiroshima

10.00 Air Warriors Exploring the

history of The Hawker Hurricane

11.00 Air Warriors The Me-109

12.00-1.00am Air Warriors

Examining the B-24 Liberator

Sky Arts

6.00pm Pink Floyd: Live in Venice

A 1989 performance

7.15 Discovering: The Mamas & the

Papas A look at the life and career

of the American folk-rock group

7.45 California Dreamin’: The

Songs of the Mamas and the

Papas The pop group’s success

9.00 Pearl Jam: At the Garden

The American band perform

12.00-1.00am Guy Garvey: From

the Vaults The Elbow frontman

introduces music from the TV

archives from 1986 (3/5)

Sky Max

7.00pm S.W.A.T Hondo teams up

with a cop for a rescue mission

8.00 NCIS: Los Angeles A

Japanese-American veteran is the

victim of a vicious hate crime

9.00 Strike Back: Silent War

Section 20 investigate when a

Russian nuclear bomber vanishes

10.00 Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at

Rockfield Following the singer as

he records at Rockfield Studios

11.00 The Rising (6/8)

12.00-1.00am The Force: North

East A stabbing outside a pub

Discovery

7.00pm Lone Star Law
8.00 Gold Rush: Dave Turin’s Lost
Mine The team divides in the
remote Idaho Rockies
9.00 Hoffman Family Gold
10.00 Building Off the Grid
11.00 Expedition Bigfoot
12.00-1.00am Nasa’s Unexplained
Files Baffling space imagery

Nat Geographic

7.00pm Top Ten Natural Disasters

Game-changing disasters

9.00 Seconds from Disaster

A deadly attempt to descend

from Mount Everest in 1996

10.00 Seconds from Disaster

11.00 Seconds from Disaster

12.00-1.00am Seconds from

Disaster A 1994 helicopter crash

Sky Comedy Comedy Central

6.50pm Friends Four shows

9.00 FILM Crocodile Dundee (15,

1986) Comedy starring Paul Hogan

and Linda Kozlowski

11.00 FILM Kevin Hart: Let Me

Explain (15, 2013) At New York’s

Madison Square Garden

12.00-1.00am Jimmy Carr Live:

Comedian Recorded in 2007

Gold

6.50pm Only Fools and Horses

Del-Boy becomes a yuppie

7.55 Only Fools and Horses

Del faces an explosive situation

9.00 The Vicar of Dibley Alice

and Hugo’s baby is christened

10.00 Murder, They Hope

11.00 Inside No 9

11.40-12.20am Inside No 9

W

7.00pm My Family Ben learns

about Janey’s potential suitors

7.40 My Family Comedy series

8.20 My Family Comedy series

9.00 The Catherine Tate Show

9.40 The Catherine Tate Show

10.20 The Catherine Tate Show

11.00-12.20am Louis Theroux: Life

and Death in LA Documentary

7.00pm The Office (US)

7.30 The Office (US)

8.00 The Office (US)

8.30 The Office (US)

9.00 Curb Your Enthusiasm Nancy

and Larry have a disagreement

9.35 Curb Your Enthusiasm

10.15-12.15am Russell Howard:

Wonderbox A gig in Bristol

FV 237, FS 217, SKY 526, VIRGIN 627 FV 23, FS 179, SKY 117, VIRGIN 107 FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 108 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 108 SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 26, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130

SKY 125, VIRGIN 250 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351 SKY 114, VIRGIN 135, BT 346 SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344 SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343 FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106

FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129 FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147 SKY 130, VIRGIN 165 SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

Sky Main Event

11.45am-1.10pm Live Formula 1

2.00pm Live Formula 1 Qualifying

4.00 Live EFL The League Two

Play-off Final (Kick-off 4.00)

7.00 Live PGA Tour Golf: The

Charles Schwab Challenge

12.00 Live LPGA Tour Golf:

The Bank of Hope Match-Play

2.00am Live NBA Basketball:

Dallas Mavericks v Golden State

Warriors (Tip-off 2.00)

4.30-6.45am Live Suncorp

Netball: Melbourne Vixens v

Sunshine Coast Lightning

Sky Premier League

4.00pm Premier League Brighton

& Hove Albion v Burnley

6.00 Premier League Crystal

Palace v Aston Villa

8.00 Premier League Everton v

Leeds United

10.00pm Best PL Goals: Chelsea v

Man Utd The finest Premier

League goals scored in matches

between the sides

10.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

The presenter talks to former

striker Alan Shearer

11.00-1.00am PL Retro

Sky Cricket

2.15pm Live Vitality T20 Blast

Cricket: Leicestershire Foxes v

Derbyshire Falcons Coverage of

the North Group match from

Uptonsteel County Ground

6.00 Live Women’s T20 Challenge

Coverage of the final

7.00 Vitality T20 Blast Cricket

10.45 T20 Blast 2006

Leicestershire Foxes v Notts

Outlaws in the 2006 final

11.00-12.00 Vitality T20 Blast

Cricket Sussex v Hampshire

from the 2004 competition

BT Sport 1

7.30am-10.30 Live AFL:

Melbourne Demons v Fremantle

Dockers (Bounce-up 7. 3 5). Action

from Melbourne Cricket Ground

12.00-2.45pm Live Vanarama

National League The opening play-

off semi-final. (Kick-off 12.30).

League runners-up Wrexham face

the winner of Eliminator A

6.00 Live Uefa Champions

League: Liverpool v Real Madrid

(Kick-off 8.00) Coverage of this

year’s final from Stade de France

11.00-3.30am BT Sport Films

BT Sport 2

8.00am Live MotoGP The third

practice of the Grand Prix of Italy

11.00-3.00pm Live MotoGP

The qualifying session

3.15 Live MotoE Race one

from the Grand Prix of Italy

4.00 Live Heineken Champions

Cup: Leinster v La Rochelle

7.15 Live MLB: St Louis Cardinals v

Milwaukee Brewers

10.30 WWE Friday Night

SmackDown

12.00-3.30am Live MLB: Chicago

White Sox v Chicago Cubs

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 440 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514 SKY 413, VIRGIN 527, BT 430 SKY 414, VIRGIN 528, BT 431

FV Freeview FS Freesat

The Mamas

and the Papas

The career of the

Californian folk-rock group

Sky Arts, 7.15pm/7.45pm

Liverpool’s Mo Salah will face

Real Madrid in the Champions

League final (BT Sport 1, 6pm)