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BBC1 BBC2 ITV
6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Morning Live
10.00 For Love or Money (r) 10.45 Rip
Off Britain (r) 11.15 Homes Under the
Hammer 12.15pm Bargain Hunt (r)
1.00 BBC News at One; Weather 1.30
BBC Regional News; Weather 1.45
Doctors. Valerie’s first day as Leona
the Lion does not go as planned 2.15
Five Bedrooms. Ben and Heather are
“helped” to create dating app profiles
3.00 Escape to the Country. Steve
Brown guides a couple on house hunt
in Bedfordshire 3.45 Garden Rescue.
Lee Burkhill and Flo Headlam design
an Asian-inspired garden in Fleet 4.30
The Bidding Room. Items include a
unique 1960s vase and a curious
mirror (r) 5.15 Pointless. Quiz, hosted
by Alexander Armstrong 6.00 BBC
News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC
Regional News; Weather7.00 The One Show With Emma
Willis and Jermaine Jonas7.30 EastEnders Kheerat is worried
to hear Stacey could be
developing sepsis and Zack and
Nancy continue their plans8.00 DIY SOS: The Big Build
Nick Knowles and the team
head to Northumberland to
finish a build they started
before the pandemic, helping a
couple whose daughter has
complex medical and mental
health issues (4/5)9.00 Silent Witness A secret from his
father propels Jack to Belfast,
where he faces tragedy
head-on. Simone and Nikki
investigate the mystery of
a burned body (4/6)10.00 BBC News at Ten10.30 BBC Regional News10.40 Who Do You Think You Are?
Television presenter and
comedian Sue Perkins discovers
more about her orphaned
grandfather and a great
grandfather interned as an
“enemy alien” during the First
World War (1/5) (r)11.40 Bad Love: Why Did Fri Kill Kyle?
The murder of Kyle Farrell by
21-year-old Fri Martin, his
childhood sweetheart and
mother of his children. At her
trial, Fri claimed she was
acting in self-defence (r)12.40am Weather for the Week
Ahead 12.45 BBC News6.30am Bargain Hunt (r) 7.15 Garden
Rescue (r) 8.00 Sign Zone: Antiques
Roadshow (r) (SL) 9.00 BBC News
10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Ready
Steady Cook (r) 1.45 Eggheads (r) 2.15
Mastermind. Specialist subjects
include the Mughal Empire and The
Twilight Zone (r) 2.45 Britain in Bloom.
Brightening up the Oxfordshire
village of Goring-on-Thames (r) 3.15
Richard Hammond’s Journey to the
Bottom of the Ocean (r) 4.15 This
Farming Life. Martin has concerns
about two of his pregnant cows (r)
5.15 Flog It! From Sandon Hall,
Staffordshire (r) 6.00 Richard
Osman’s House of Games. With Raj
Bisram, Josie Lawrence, Mark Watson
and Laura Whitmore (r) 6.30 Animal
Park. The threat of a deadly disease
forces the keepers to take action (r)6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00
Lorraine 10.00 This Morning 12.30pm
Loose Women 1.30 ITV News;
Weather 1.55 Regional News; Weather
2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David
Dickinson helps people in Stoke-on-
Trent to sort treasures from their
trash, including a biscuit poster and a
collection of cigarette cards that leads
to an emotional auction (r) 3.00
Tenable. A team of colleagues answer
questions about top 10 lists, then try
to score a perfect 10 in the final round
(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. Quiz show hosted by
Bradley Walsh 6.00 Regional News;
Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather7.00 Emmerdale Noah rejects
Charity, and David cannot bring
himself to confide in Victoria7.30 Coronation Street While Abi
realises that the game is up,
Toyah wants to go to the police
and Imran vows to come clean8.00 Britain’s Got Talent Ant and Dec
host the second of this week’s
live semi-finals, which sees
some of the acts that have
previously impressed the
judges Simon Cowell, Amanda
Holden, Alesha Dixon and David
Walliams return to the stage.
Eight acts will perform, with the
first finalist chosen via public
vote and the second finalist
chosen by the judges. Who will
dazzle the judges and viewers
at home to progress to the next
phase of the competition?10.00 ITV News at Ten; followed by
Weather10.30 Regional News10.45 On Assignment Investigating
dowry abuse in India11.20 Long Lost Family: Born Without
Trace Heart-wrenching news
awaits a woman discovered as a
newborn baby (3/3) (r)12.15am Teleshopping 3.00 Loose
Women. More interviews and topical
debate from a female perspective (r)
3.50 Unwind with ITV 5.05 Tipping
Point. Contestants drop tokens down
a choice of four chutes in the hope of
winning £10,000 (r) (SL)7.00 Marcus Wareing’s Tales from a
Kitchen Garden A trip to Kent
inspires Marcus Wareing to
plant a nut orchard on the farm,
before he gets a lesson in
perfecting compost (5/5) (r)8.00 Springwatch Chris Packham
and Michaela Strachan delight
viewers with rare views of the
lesser spotted woodpecker, Iolo
Williams tracks adders live on
Mull, while Megan McCubbin
gets to ring some new arrivals
in a tawny owl nest (2/12)9.00 The Black Death: Lucy Worsley
Investigates Lucy Worsley
examines Britain’s deadliest
pandemic, the Black Death, and
explores how its monumental
death toll changed the face of
the country forever. See
Viewing Guide (2/4)10.00 State of the Union Comedy,
starring Brendan Gleeson10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events, with Kirsty Wark11.15 The Chris & Rosie Ramsey
Show Comedy entertainment
show (3/6) (r)12.00 FILM Ophelia (15, 2018)
Romantic drama, starring Daisy
Ridley. See Film Choice 1.40am Sign
Zone: Eden: Untamed Planet. The
hidden water resources of the Namib
Desert (r) (SL) 2.30-3.30 The Great
British Sewing Bee (r) (SL)7.00 Channel 4 News Including
sport and weather8.00 Bake Off: The Professionals
The teams take all their
patisserie skill and spin it on its
head by creating 24 savoury
slices. They also need to
execute razor-sharp precision
as they make 24 layered crepe
cakes. See Viewing Guide9.00 24 Hours in A&E Compilation of
some of the most memorable
staff and patient stories,
including a personal trainer
who was kicked so hard by a
horse that her leg was broken.
Plus, a man whose nose
won’t stop bleeding10.00 Five Dates a Week A 22-year-
old nightclub host recently
moved from Liverpool to
London, and is looking for his
Mr Right. He meets interior a
design student from Scotland11.05 Gogglebox The armchair
critics’ opinions on shows from
November 2020, including
Strictly Come Dancing, I’m a
Celebrity — A Jungle Story,
24 Hours in Police Custody
and Naked Attraction (r)12.05am Ramsay’s Kitchen
Nightmares USA (r) 12.55 Taskmaster
(r) (SL) 1.50 The Lateish Show with
Mo Gilligan (r) 2.50 Spreadsheet (r)
(SL) 3.45 Grayson’s Art Club (r) (SL)
4.40 Location, Location, Location
(r) 5.35 The Perfect Pitch (r)Channel 4 Channel 5
6.05am Countdown (r) 6.45 Cheers (r)
7.10 Cheers (r) 7.40 The King of
Queens (r) 8.05 The King of Queens
(r) 8.30 The King of Queens (r) 9.00
Frasier (r) 9.30 Frasier (r) 10.00
Frasier (r) 10.30 Undercover Boss USA
(r) 11.25 Channel 4 News Summary
11.30 Couples Come Dine with Me (r)
12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch 2.10
Countdown 3.00 A Place in the Sun (r)
4.00 Château DIY 5.00 Come Dine
with Me. A bike enthusiast plans
an evening of motoring mayhem
5.30 Drawers Off: The Big Naked
Painting Challenge. The contestants
have a life model to draw inspiration
from 6.00 The Simpsons. Apu’s wife
has octuplets (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks.
Ethan has some serious explaining
to do when he’s caught wearing a
police uniform (r)6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine
12.15pm Shoplifters & Scammers: At
War with the Law (r) 1.10 5 News at
Lunchtime 1.15 Home and Away. The
friendly game of volleyball between
Jasmine and Rose turns fierce 1.45
Neighbours 2.15 FILM Skeletons in
the Closet: Darrow and Darrow
Mystery (PG, TVM, 2017) A lawyer
who always wants to do right is faced
with a challenge when a friend is
convicted of stealing from a jewellery
store. Mystery starring Kimberly
Williams-Paisley 4.00 Bargain-Loving
Brits in the Sun. Following new
character Uncle Ron as he opens his
latest bar 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00
Neighbours. Hendrix absorbs some
bad news (r) 6.30 Eggheads. Casual
Chess will be looking for a winning
strategy to defeat the Eggheads (r)7.00 Big Antique Adventure with
Susan Calman Susan and the
team learn a unique way to
pick up a prized possession
down at a local farm7.55 5 News Update8.00 The Yorkshire Vet Matt
responds to an urgent call from
a 16-year-old farmer who is
worried about his pregnant
ewe, which has been
struggling to give birth (6/12);
followed by 5 News Update9.00 Flight MH370: The Silence
Four months after MH370
disappeared, the relatives of
those on board are no closer to
finding out what happened to
their loved ones, and start their
own investigations (2/3)10.00 The Mysterious Murder of
Caroline Crouch The story of a
British woman in Greece who
was found dead on her bed
beside her 11-month-old baby
girl, with her husband claiming
she was killed by burglars (r)11.30 Crimes That Shook Britain The
events that led to the country’s
most heinous crimes (r)12.30am Police Interceptors (r) 1.20
The LeoVegas Live Casino Show 3.20
Entertainment News on 5 3.30
Shoplifters & Scammers: At War
with the Law (r) 4.20 Witches: A
Century of Murder (r) (SL) 5.10 House
Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Milkshake!EastEnders’ Whitney Dean (7.30pm) Lucy Worsley Investigates (9pm) A visit to Emmerdale (7pm) Bake Off’s Liam and Stacey (8pm) Kerry and her dog Teddy (8pm)