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7.00 Channel 4 News Including
sport and weather8.00 Location, Location, Location
Kirstie Allsopp visits Devon to
meet a single mum who has
moved back to Exmouth and
wants a place where she and
her son can call home9.00 George Clarke’s Flipping Fast
A mother and daughter are
searching in their home town of
Blackpool, and believe that
creating a stylish show home
will catapult them into first
place. See Viewing Guide (2/6)10.00 Gogglebox The critics share
their opinions on what they
have been watching during the
week, with cameras capturing
their instant reactions (r)11.05 Spreadsheet A “sex-ccident”
ends in embarrassment for
Lauren (5/8)11.35 Spreadsheet Lauren slips up
and sleeps with someone she
probably shouldn’t (6/8)12.05am The Great Garden
Revolution (r) (SL) 1.05 Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares USA (r) 1.55 The
Simpsons (r) 2.20 FILM Zoolander 2
(12, 2016) Comedy sequel (SL) 4.00
Come Dine with Me (r) 4.55 Location,
Location, Location (r)BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5
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 (r) 12.15pm Bargain Hunt
Jubilee Special 1.00 BBC News at One;
Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News;
Weather 1.45 Doctors. Princess needs
a new plan to get Scarlett to help her
2.15 Five Bedrooms. Harry straddles
the hens’ shindig and bucks’ bash
3.00 Escape to the Country. A couple
who want to move from the Essex
coast to the Suffolk countryside (r)
3.45 Garden Rescue. Charlie Dimmock
and Chris Hull design a relaxing
retreat in Bristol 4.30 The Bidding
Room. Items include a fairground car
transformed into a table and chair (r)
5.15 Pointless. Quiz show 6.00 BBC
News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC
Regional News; Weather7.00 The One Show With Emma
Willis and Jermaine Jenas7.30 EastEnders Jack questions
Denise about Linda’s
investment8.00 The Repair Shop Jubilee
Special Jay Blades and the
team mark the year of the
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by
bringing four treasured
heirlooms, each with a royal
connection, back to life.
See Viewing Guide9.00 The Great British Sewing Bee
Music week brings a pattern for
a parka once loved by the
Mods, old denim gets the
country music treatment,
and David Bowie inspires the
sewers for their Made to
Measure outfits (6/10)10.00 BBC News at Ten10.30 BBC Regional News10.40 Peacock New “authentic” Andy
is set to go on a second date
with Georgia (3/3) (r)11.05 Life and Death in the
Warehouse Drama inspired by
real-world events, telling the
story of young Welsh worker
Alys, who begins to fall behind
at her warehouse job after
becoming pregnant (r)12.05am Weather for the Week
Ahead 12.10 BBC News6.30am Escape to the Country (r) 7.15
Garden Rescue (r) 8.00 Sign Zone:
See Hear (SL) 8.30 Cornwall’s Wildest
Wave: Our Lives (r) (SL) 9.00 BBC
News 10.00 BBC News 1.00pm Ready
Steady Cook. Competitive couple
Declan and Clare take on the culinary
challenge (r) 1.45 Eggheads. Quiz
show hosted by Jeremy Vine (r) 2.15
Mastermind (r) 2.45 Britain in Bloom
(r) 3.15 Richard Hammond Builds a
Planet. The presenter creates a
computer-generated world (r) 4.15
This Farming Life (r) 5.15 Flog It!
From Margam Country Park in south
Wales (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 keepers try a new strategy
to get the koalas mating (r)6.00am Good Morning Britain
9.00 Lorraine 10.00 This Morning
12.30pm Loose Women. Topical
studio discussion from a female
perspective, featuring celebrity
interviews 1.30 ITV News; Weather
1.55 Regional News; Weather 2.00
Dickinson’s Real Deal. In Hartlepool,
The Duke croons to Barbra Streisand,
Hoggy lays his hands on a huge
organ and James pursues a Roald
Dahl classic (r) 3.00 Tenable. Five
steampunk enthusiasts 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 5.00
The Chase. Quiz show hosted by
Bradley Walsh 6.00 Regional News;
Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather6.05am 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
(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. Robert Hardman joins
Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner 3.00
A Place in the Sun (r) 4.00 Château
DIY 5.00 Come Dine with Me 5.30
Drawers Off: The Big Naked Painting
Challenge. Jenny Eclair hosts as the
painters must portray a model on a
ladder 6.00 The Simpsons. Moe’s bar
towel turns out to have a life of its
own (r) 6.30 Hollyoaks. Juliet
supports Nadira when she panics
about her future (r)6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine
12.15pm Shoplifters & Scammers: At
War with the Law. Criminals using the
mobile phones and computers to
steal from others (r) 1.10 5 News at
Lunchtime 1.15 Home and Away. At
the hospital, Martha and Roo meet
with the transplant coordinator 1.45
Neighbours 2.15 FILM A Killer
Engagement: Matchmaker Mysteries
(PG, TVM, 2019) When a woman is
murdered and her fiancé is the prime
suspect, matchmaker Angie works to
prove her client’s innocence.
Whodunnit, with Danica McKellar and
Victor Webster 4.00 Bargain-Loving
Brits in the Sun 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00
Neighbours. Hendrix and Mackenzie
plan their fast-tracked wedding (r)
6.30 Eggheads. Dicing with Danger
will try to outplay the Eggheads (r)7.00 Emmerdale David is still
worried about his financial
situation and Leyla upsets Priya7.30 Coronation Street Imran pulls
Toyah from the wreckage8.00 Britain’s Got Talent Ant and Dec
host the third 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 judges10.00 ITV News at Ten; followed
by Weather10.30 Regional News; followed
by Regional Weather10.45 It’ll Be Alright on the Night
There is an embarrassing
stumble for one of the Real
Housewives, and a car explodes
on the set of Top Gear. David
Walliams narrates (r)11.45 The 1% Club Quiz hosted by
Lee Mack (8/8) (r)12.35am Teleshopping 3.00 The
Switch. Quiz, hosted by Sanjeev
Bhaskar (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV.
Daily escape designed to calm the
mind and encourage relaxation and
reflection 5.05 Tipping Point. Quiz,
hosted by Ben Shephard (r) (SL)7.00 Big Antique Adventure with
Susan Calman Susan and the
team find a relic that is ripe
for restoration, in Cheshire’s
glitzy Golden Triangle7.55 5 News Update8.00 Police Interceptors A stolen
Vauxhall Astra being driven at
speed the wrong way up a dual
carriage crashes head-on into
an oncoming car (r); followed
by 5 News Update9.00 Flight MH370: Murder at
30,000 Feet? When the
Government-led search for
MH370 finishes, a private
company with cutting-edge
technology steps in to try to
finally find the missing plane.
Last in the series10.00 FILM The Rock (15, 1996)
A renegade general and his
crack team of mercenaries take
over the abandoned fortress
prison of Alcatraz and threaten
San Francisco with toxic
nerve-gas rockets to extort a
massive ransom. To break their
stranglehold on the city, the FBI
sends in a chemical weapons
expert and a jailed SAS veteran,
chosen because he is the only
man to have ever escaped
from the infamous penitentiary.
Action thriller starring Sean
Connery and Nicolas Cage12.40am 999: Criminals Caught on
Camera (r) 1.30 The LeoVegas Live
Casino Show 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
Peppa Pig (r) 5.40 Paw Patrol (r) (SL)7.00 Nadiya’s Time to Eat Recipes to
take the stress out of
impressing guests (4/6) (r)7.30 Between the Covers With Jo
Brand, Darren Harriott, Nina
Wadia and Neil Morrissey (4/7)8.00 Springwatch Chris Packham
and Michaela Strachan
showcase some of the season’s
most recognisable wildlife, and
Megan McCubbin revels in
Kielder Forest being one of the
best dark sky locations (3/12)9.00 DNA Family Secrets Four more
people test their DNA to help
answer life-changing questions.
Stacey Dooley presents (4/6)10.00 Inside No 9 Reece Shearsmith
and Steve Pemberton’s dark
comic anthology. See Viewing
Guide (6/6)
10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s
events, with Kirsty Wark11.15 Unspun World with John
Simpson The week’s major
global news stories11.45 The Black Death: Lucy Worsley
Investigates (2/4) (r)12.45am Sign Zone: See Hear. A
celebration of Deafinitely Theatre’s
20th birthday and National Children’s
Gardening Week (r) (SL) 1.15 Idris
Elba’s Fight School. Training takes its
toll on Idris’s team (r) (SL) 2.15-3.15
Britain’s Top Ta k e a w ays (r) (SL)The Great British Sewing Bee (9pm) Reece Shearsmith stars (10pm) Coronation Street (7.30pm) Katherine Parkinson stars (11.05pm) Action thriller The Rock (10pm)