The Times - UK (2022-06-11)

50 saturday review Saturday June 11 2022 | the times

BBC3

7.00pm Top Gear (6/6)

8.00 Eating with My Ex Harrison

wants to apologise to Emily

for putting the lads before

her, while Amaya and Mia

explore their teenage

sweetheart relationship,

which took place before

Amaya transitioned (2/4)

8.30 Flat Out Fabulous Jade, Dan

and Monica are hoping that

for the cost of a big night

out Whinnie and Tyler can

turn their living room into

every gamers’ dream (6/6)

9.00 FILM The Maze Runner

(12, 2014) A teen with no

memory wakes up in an

isolated community and

must find his way through a

deadly labyrinth in search of

freedom. Sci-fi adventure

starring Dylan O’Brien and

Kaya Scodelario

10.45 Glow Up: Britain’s Next

Make-Up Star (6/8)

11.45-12.45am Hungry for It

BBC4

7.00pm Fathers and Songs: Music

for Father’s Day A selection

of songs that celebrate

fatherhood and probe the

emotional complexities

of a man’s relationship

with his son or daughter

8.00 TOTP: 1993 Performances

by M-People, Duran Duran

and Def Leppard

8.30 TOTP: 1993 Performances

by Stereo MCs, Whitney

Houston and Sting

9.00 Brian Wilson at

Glastonbury 2005 The

former Beach Boy sings

classic hits, including

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, I Get

Around, God Only Knows,

Barbara Ann and Surfin’ USA

10.15 Elvis: The Rebirth of the

King The singer’s Las Vegas

period. See Viewing Guide

11.15-12.15am Sings Elvis Artists

including Cliff Richard

and John Cale cover

songs by Elvis Presley

More 4

6.55pm Escape to the Château:

DIY A couple battle to get

their château looking tip top

for a tour operator who may

potentially want to put it on

his books for visitors to the

nearby Le Mans track

7.55 The Dog House The

Olympic cyclist Victoria

Pendleton visits Wood

Green animal charity, to find

a dog she can co-parent

with her mother (8/9)

9.00 Nordic Murders A van

blows up at a police

inspection. Meanwhile,

Karin is feeling lost and

alone. Starring Katrin Sass.

In German (6/6)

11.00-12.05am 24 Hours in A&E

A 70-year-old woman with

lung cancer is rushed to

St George’s with suspected

sepsis, while an 83-year-old

man is brought into

resus after falling off his

roof at home (4/5)

Sky Atlantic

6.45pm The Wire Avon tries to

ensnare Marlo in a trap, the

detail tracks the buyer of

disposable phones for the

Barksdale crew and Brianna

and McNulty sit down for

a heart-to-heart about

D’Angelo (8/12) (R)

7.55 Game of Thrones Jon

enlists the help of an ally,

Daenerys makes a difficult

decision in Mereen, and

Theon remains under

Ramsay’s control (5/10) (R)

9.00 Das Boot After finding out

the truth about his son,

Wilhelm Hoffmann fights

with Hannie. Ehrenberg has

to say goodbye to Greta, and

Forster’s plan goes haywire.

In German (5/10) (R)

10.05 Treme Albert makes a

stand at a disused housing

project (7/10) (R)

11.10-12.15am Treme The residents

prepare for the Mardi Gras

festivities (8/10) (R)

Sky Documentaries

7.00pm Putin’s Obsession: The

Fight For Ukraine A profile

of the Russia president

Vladimir Putin, exploring his

complicated relationship

with Ukraine and examining

why this neighbouring

nation threaten his power

and identity (R)

8.00 The Nineties A look at the

impact on the decade of the

mainstream adoption of the

internet, leading to browser

wars and fears over the

Millennium Bug (7/8) (R)

9.00 Look Away Documentary

hearing from women

groomed in their teenage

years by rock stars, as well

as exploring the lengths the

music industry went to in

order to protect its own (R)

10.50-12.30am FILM Searching for

Sugar Man (12, 2012)

Documentary about two

fans searching for a

forgotten singer

ITV2

7.00pm All American A major

tragedy causes Spencer to

question everything (9/16)

8.00 Superstore The staff have a

clean out to start the new year

8.30 Superstore A new corporate

vice president shakes things up

9.00 Love Island The latest events

from the villa as the singletons get

on with their daily routine

10.05 Family Guy

10.35 Family Guy

11.05 Family Guy

11.35-12.05am American Dad!

ITV3

7.00pm Heartbeat A film crew

descends on Aidensfield

8.00 Midsomer Murders A

barrister is killed with a lethal dose

of morphine and suspicion falls on

an ex-convict who has recently

returned to the village where he

committed murder years earlier

10.00 Grantchester A young

man is found dead and stark

naked out on the Fens (4/6)

11.05-12.05am Grantchester An

unexpected twist lies in store at a

charity boxing match (5/6)

ITV4

7.00pm Isle of Man TT A look back

at the best moments from this

year’s staging of the event

8.00 Isle of Man TT A second look

back at the best moments from

this year’s staging of the event

9.00 FILM Hellboy (12, 2004) A

demon baby summoned during a

Nazi experiment grows up to be a

US government agent fighting

against supernatural evil. Action

fantasy starring Ron Perlman

11.25-1.30am All Elite Wrestling:

Dynamite Hard-hitting action

E4

7.00pm Hollyoaks Mercedes

realises that her son is in danger

after a warning from Sally

7.30 The Neighborhood Calvin

and Tina enlist the services of a

professional matchmaker

8.00 Below Deck Captain Lee

worries that Chandler is

mismanaging his deck team

9.00 FILM The Inbetweeners

Movie (15, 2011) Comedy with

Joe Thomas, Simon Bird, James

Buckley and Blake Harrison

11.00-12.05am Naked Attraction

Dave

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of

Games With Angela Scanlon

7.40 Room 101 With Ray Mears,

Fiona Bruce and Katherine Ryan

8.20 QI XL With Phill Jupitus,

Holly Walsh and Nish Kumar

9.00 QI XL With Cariad Lloyd,

Dermot O’Leary and Phill Jupitus

10.00 Mock the Week With Maisie

Adam and Angela Barnes

10.40 Mock the Week With

Catherine Bohart and Ed Byrne

11.20 Would I Lie to You?

12.00-1.00am QI XL

Drama

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine The

trio target a tight-fisted pub-goer

8.00 Father Brown Flambeau is

incarcerated under suspicion

of murder, but he denies killing

his cohort Flynn

9.00 Rev Adam helps a parishioner

who claims her home is haunted

9.40 Rev The new teacher

at the church school turns out

to be an atheist

10.20 New Tricks

11.40-1.55am Silent Witness

Yesterday

7.00pm Abandoned Engineering

Examining a ghost island once

belonging to a secretive country

on Europe’s fringes

8.00 War Factories The GM Opel

Blitz and the American-owned

war factories that would produce

them. See Viewing Guide (5/6)

9.00 Secrets of the London

Underground (7/10)

10.00 Bangers and Cash (3/10)

11.00 Abandoned Engineering

12.00-1.00am Abandoned

Engineering

PBS America

6.15pm Yellowstone Wolves: The

Renewal of Nature Documentary

following the largest wolf pack in

the national park

7.25 Rebellion: The Stuarts in Exile

Clare Jackson reveals how the

Jacobite campaign took place

on a European-wide stage (2/2)

8.40 Plot to Overturn the Election

Claims that Donald Trump was

cheated out of a second term

9.50 The Jihadist

11.00-12.10am Yellowstone

Wolves: The Renewal of Nature

Smithsonian

7.00pm Aerial Greece The south of

Greece — a land of Spartan

warriors and mythical legends

8.00 Aerial America An aerial tour

of New York City, spanning the

city’s five boroughs

9.00 Searching for Secrets A look

at life in New York, addressing the

questions about the US city that

visitors tend to pose

10.00 Searching for Secrets

11.00 Aerial America

12.00-1.00am Searching for

Secrets Life in New York

Sky Max

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 A brutal

predator wreaks havoc

8.00 Dating No Filter Comedians

observe people on first dates (1/8)

8.30 Dating No Filter (2/8)

9.00 A League of Their Own

All the best pranks, jokes and

outtakes that were never meant

for the air (10/10)

10.00 The Lazarus Project Sci-fi

thrilller with Paapa Essiedu (1/8)

11.00 The Blacklist

12.00-1.15am Banshee Drama

starring Antony Starr (1/10)

Discovery

7.00pm Outback Truckers

8.00 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail

9.00 Expedition Bigfoot

The expedition takes a frightening

turn when a team member

goes missing

10.00 Expedition X

11.00 Supertruckers

12.00-1.00am Expedition Bigfoot

Nat Geographic

7.00pm Air Crash Investigation

8.00 Secrets of Christ’s Tomb

9.00 Secret Lives of the Apostles

The lives of Jesus’ 12 apostles

following his death

10.00 Head of John the Baptist

The origins of a 5th-century urn

11.00 Air Crash Investigation

12.00-1.00am Car S.O.S

Sky Comedy Comedy Central

7.00pm Friends

7.30 Friends

8.00 Friends

8.30 Friends

9.00 FILM Just Go with It (12, 2011)

Comedy starring Adam Sandler

11.35-2.05am FILM Get Him to

the Greek (15, 2010) Comedy

starring Russell Brand

Gold

6.40pm Dad’s Army

7.20 Dad’s Army

8.00 The Vicar of Dibley

8.40 The Vicar of Dibley

9.20 Gimme Gimme Gimme

10.00 Peep Show

10.35 Peep Show

11.10 Inside No 9

11.50-12.30am Inside No 9

W

7.00pm Celebrity Masterchef

Australia Cooking challenge

8.00 The Shift: Women on the

Force Documentary

9.00 Inside the Ambulance

10.00 The Catherine Tate Show

10.40 The Catherine Tate Show

11.20 The Catherine Tate Show

12.00-1.00am 999 Rescue Squad

7.30pm 30 Rock

8.00 Mr Mayor (9/10)

8.30 Mr Mayor (10/10)

9.00 Girls (9 & 10/12)

10.00 After Hours (1 & 2/6)

11.00 The Tonight Show Starring

Jimmy Fallon American chat show

12.00-1.00am The Late Late

Show with James Corden

Sky Main Event

11.00am-12.55pm Live NRL:

Melbourne Storm v Brisbane

Broncos (Kick-off 10.55am).

Coverage from AAMI Park

1.00-1.00am Live US Open Golf

Coverage of the second day of the

2022 US Open, which takes place

at The Country Club in Brookline,

Massachusetts. This is the fourth

time the tournament has been

held here, and the first time it has

hosted the Major since 1988, when

Curtis Strange and Nick Faldo

battled it out in the final round

Sky Premier League

7.00pm Premier League A replay

of Leeds United v Leicester City

9.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

Gary sits down with former

Manchester United and England

team-mate Paul Scholes to discuss

their time in the game and some

of their most notable matches

9.30 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

The presenter talks to Robbie

Fowler about matches they

faced each other in

10.00 Premier League Icons

10.30-12.30am PL Retro

Sky Cricket

2.20pm Live International T20

Cricket: India v South Africa

Coverage of the fourth T20 in the

five-match series from Saurashtra

Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot

6.15 Live Vitality T20 Blast

Cricket: Surrey v Middlesex

Coverage of the South Group

match from Kia Oval, London

10.00 Spinwash 1993 England’s

controversial and chaotic

tour of India in 1993

11.15-12.00 My Icon Profiles of

Charlotte Edwards and Moeen Ali

BT Sport 1

10.30am-1.30pm Live AFL: St Kilda

Saints v Essendon Bombers

(Bounce-up 10.50) Coverage of

the match from Marvel Stadium

2.30 Live Test Cricket: West Indies

v Bangladesh Coverage of the

second day of the first Test in the

two-match series, taking place at

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium

11.00 MotoGP: ICYMI

11.15 BT Sport Reload

11.30 Rugby Stories

1.00-3.00am Live WWE Friday

Night SmackDown Wrestling

BT Sport 2

8.00am-3.00pm Live MotoGP

MotoGP action from the opening

day of the Grand Prix of Germany

7.00 Live MLB: Chicago Cubs v

Atlanta Braves (Start-time 7.20)

Coverage of the National League

match from Wrigley Field

10.30 Live UFC A look ahead to this

weekend’s UFC Fight Night action

11.00pm 30 for 30: June 17th, 1994

12.30-3.30am Live CFL: Winnipeg

Blue Bombers v Ottawa Redblacks

Coverage of the match from

TD Place Stadium

TalkTV

6.00am James Max Top stories

6.30 Jeremy Kyle Political panel

debates and interviews

10.00 The Independent Republic

of Mike Graham The host

tears his way through the

morning newspapers

1.00pm Ian Collins Hard-hitting

monologues, debates and

dedicated time for your calls

4.00 Rob Rinder The legal eagle

discusses the week’s stories

7.00 The News Desk with Tom

Newton Dunn The host

tackles the biggest stories

8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored

Best Of The host presents

his verdict on the week’s

global events

9.00 The Talk A panel of famous

faces debate the hot topics

everybody’s talking about

10.00 The James Whale Show

The presenter reacts to

the big stories of the day

11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan

Uncensored Best Of (R)

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

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 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

FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106

FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129 FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

SKY 401, VIRGIN 511, BT 440 SKY 402, VIRGIN 512 SKY 404, VIRGIN 514

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

SKY 110, VIRGIN 124, BT 343 FV 25, FS 156, SKY 132, VIRGIN 125

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273

SKY 413, VIRGIN 527, BT 430 SKY 414, VIRGIN 528, BT 431

Sky Arts

6.00pm Portrait Artist of the

Year 2020 The contestants are

challenged to paint former Strictly

judge Len Goodman, the rapper

Tinie Tempah and the actress

Harriet Walter. Joan Bakewell and

Stephen Mangan present

7.00-1.00am Isle of Wight Festival

2022 Coverage of the opening day

of the event held in Seaclose Park

in Newport, with Lewis Capaldi

headlining the main stage and

Madness and Nile Rodgers and

Chic also appearing (1/3)

Sky History

7.00pm Forged in Fire The

bladesmiths battle to create

weapons worthy of a Greek god

8.00 The Liquidator

8.30 The Liquidator

9.00 The Boer War The sieges of

Kimberley, Mafeking and

Ladysmith (2/4)

10.00 Egypt’s Unexplained Files

Death and the afterlife (2/6)

11.00 Nature Gone Wild

11.30 Nature Gone Wild

12.00-1.00am Bomber: Terror of

WWII The attack on Warsaw (2/6)

FV 11, FS 147 SKY 130, VIRGIN 165 SKY 123, VIRGIN 270

Friday 17 | Primetime digital guide

Brian Wilson

The Beach Boys’ creative

visionary performs at

Glastonbury in 2005

BBC4, 9pm

FV Freeview FS Freesat

A triple bill of the classic

comedy sketch show from

Catherine Tate (W, 10pm)