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Gatwa and Princess

Margaret’s former

lady-in-waiting Lady

Glenconner to impress

the judges: the artist

Tai-Shan Schierenberg,

the curator Kathleen

Soriano and the art

dealer Kate Bryan.

The overall prize is a

£10,000 commission to

paint the ballet star

Carlos Acosta for the

Birmingham Museum

& Art Gallery.

Portrait Artist of

the Year 2020

Sky Arts/Now TV, 8pm

Stephen Mangan is

flying solo to present

the seventh series of

Sky Arts’ portrait

competition (Joan

Bakewell returns next

week with a spin-off

show). In this episode

the first nine artists are

painting the actress Fay

Ripley, the actor Ncuti

(Laurie Kynaston), who

is sporting a dapper

moustache, “What

woodland creature died

on your top lip?” This is

the role Ryan was born

to play. Next week’s

episode imagines a

meeting between Jimi

Hendrix (Zach Wyatt)

and the ghost of Handel

(David Haig), while the

final instalment has

Robbie Coltrane as

Orson Welles.

even losing the drag

queens.” The only role

available is “Man in

Black”, which Molinsky

blithely insists be

gender-swapped,

unaware there is a love

scene in the play and

she would have to kiss

another actress. There

are some great lines,

with Perkins nailing

Rivers’s acerbic wit.

The comedian asks the

play’s director, Jim

Driftwood when failing

club comedian Joan

Molinsky (Katherine

Ryan) storms in. A

flashback shows

Molinsky (she changed

her name to Rivers

around this time)

demanding her agent

get her a part in the

play. “I need a job,” she

tells him. “Something

dramatic. I can’t do

comedy any more; the

audiences hate me. I’m

imagines what

happened when Joan

Rivers and Barbra

Streisand starred

together in an off-

Broadway play in 1959.

The sparky script is

based on Rivers’s ribald

version of events, so

it’s outrageous fun. It

begins with 16-year-old

Streisand (Jessica

Barden, sporting a

prosthetic nose) in

rehearsals for

Viewing Guide

Joe Clay

Urban Myths

Sky Arts/Now TV, 10pm

The latest

run of “true-

ish” tales

(available on

free-to-air TV for the

first time) continues,

with Sue Perkins

writing and directing

an episode that

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7. 00 The One Show Magazine presented

by Alex Jones and Michael Ball

7 .3 0 Garden Rescue The team transform

a garden in Watford (6/11) (AD)

8. 00 The Repair Shop The team restores
   a bass guitar that once topped the
   charts in the hands of Tony Wilson,
   founding member of 1970s funk
   legends Hot Chocolate, but has since
   fallen into disrepair (r) (AD)

9. 00 AmbulanceA call comes in from

London Fire Brigade requesting

assistance at a fire in a block of flats

which immediately puts the team

under pressure (5/8)

10. 00 BBC News at Ten

10 .3 0 BBC Regional News and Weather

10 .45 Love Life Darby looks back on a

traumatic heartbreak (5/10) (AD)

11.1 5 Love Life Darby finds herself trapped

in a despondent marriage (6/10) (AD)

11.50Love Life Darby has a medical scare.

Anna Kendrick stars (7/10) (AD)

12.20am The Grand Party Hotel A busy Friday sees

almost 700 party-mad people checking in, but with just

minutes to go, there are problems with the plumbing. It’s

even worse for Charley, who has arrived for a hen party

organised by her brother, as there are problems with their

room (r) (AD) 1.25-6.00BBC News

7. 00 Celebrity Antiques Road Trip The

actors David Bradley and Nigel

Harman travel to Oxfordshire and

Somerset in search of antiques,

assisted by experts Natasha Raskin

Sharp and Christina Trevanion (r)

8. 00 Mary Berry’s Simple Comforts

Mary Berry travels to the Scottish

Highlands. Last in the series (AD)

8 .3 0 Nadiya Bakes Nadiya Hussain shares

some of her favourite recipes for low

cost baking (6/8) (AD)

9 .00Hugh Grant: A Life on Screen The

Bafta-winning actor discusses his

career, from his early days in a comedy

troupe to his role inFour Weddings and

a Funerall and his acclaimed turn in A

Very English Scandall (r)

10. 00 Motherland Everyone spends

half-term at a cottage in the

countryside (5/6) (r) (AD)

10 .3 0 Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the

Lobby (5/6) (r) (AD)

10 .45 Newsnight Headline analysis

1 1.3 0 In the Face of Terror

The Muellers continue their search

for answers about their missing

daughter (2/3) (r) (AD)

1 2.30am Sign Zone: Saving Lives at Sea The

volunteers of the RNLI race to rescue a paddleboarder

being blown out to sea, a man overboard and two teenage

girls trapped on a sandbank and at risk of drowning (r)

(AD, SL) 1 .30The Shipman Files: A Very British Crime

Story (r) (AD, SL) 2 .30-3.15Critical Incident (r) (SL)

7. 00 Emmerdale Mandy tries various ways

to get the money together and Paul

wonders how he can help (AD)

7 .3 0 Coronation Street George reveals his

plan to stage a mock funeral so that

Mick will think Todd is dead (AD)

8. 00 Heathrow: Britain’s Busiest
   Airport Vietnam Airlines are battling
   baggage woes (AD)

8.3 0 Coronation Street Todd puts

Eileen in danger when he lets himself

into Number 11 (AD)

9. 00 The Savoy The hotel hosts a series of

BAFTA-related events, which sees a

multitude of famous faces and film

stars from across the globe coming in

and out of the hotel (3/4) (AD)

10. 00 ITV News at Ten

10 .3 0 Regional News

1 0.4 5 Peston Political magazine show

presented by Robert Peston, featuring

major interviews with MPs topicalmajor interviews with MPs, topical

guests and cultural figures

1 1.40Uefa Nations League Highlights

Mark Pougatch presents action from

the fourth round of fixtures

1 2.55am Teleshopping3. 00 James Martin’s American

Adventure. The chef heads towards Louisiana’s

swamplands, before travelling to the nearby city of

Lafayette, where he visits the family run smokehouse,

Johnson’s Boucaniere (r) (AD, SL)3.50ITV Nightscreen

5 .05-6.00Judge Rinder (r) (SL)

7. 00 Channel 4 News

7. 55 Anita’s Story: Stand Up to Cancer

A woman who discovered she had

cancer weeks before her wedding (r)

8. 00 Autumn at Jimmy’s Farm New

series. Following life on Jimmy

Doherty’s farm during the autumn

months, as the team prepare the farm

and wildlife park for the oncoming

seasonal changes (1/4) (AD)

9 .00 2 4 Hours in A&E Following three

patients who have miraculously

survived when the odds were stacked

against them, including a motorcyclist

who was thrown under a car after

crashing into a bus (AD)

10. 00 First Dates Thirty-four-year-old

plumber Jamie, 57-year-old personal

trainer Shelly, father-of-two Nathan

and steampunk enthusiast Joe

enter the restaurant hoping

to find romance (AD)

11.0 5 The BridgeTwelve strangers come

together on a lakeside to try to win a

life-changing sum of money, needing to

build an 850-foot bridge by hand within

2 0 days to reach it (1/5) (r) (AD)

12.10am Angry, White and American

Documentary presented by Gary Younge (r) 1 .05Trump:

An American Dream (r) (AD, SL) 2. 00 Adult Material (r)

(AD, SL) 2 .55Five Guys a Week (r) (AD)3.5 0 Vet on the

Hill (r) (SL)4.45Fifteen to One (r)5.40Kirstie’s Fill

Your House for Free (r)5.50-6.30Countdown (r)

7. 00 Walking Britain’s Roman Roads

Dan Jones travels the historic Roman

road of Ermin Way, which links the two

Roman towns of Calleva Atrebatum

and Glevum, now known as Silchester

and Gloucester (5/6) (r)

8. 00 Inside the Tower of London New

series. In February 2020, Prince Charles

and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall visit

the Tower to celebrate the Yeoman

Warders’ anniversary (1/4)

9 .00Henry VIII: Rise of a Tyrant New

series. Three-part drama-documentary

series revealing the truth about

England’s most infamous King, King

Henry VIII. Narrated by Jason Isaacs.

See Viewing Guidee (1/3)

10. 00 Dando: 20 Year Hunt for a Killer

Documentary re-examining the case of

Jill Dando’s murder, looking back at

some of the unanswered questions

surrounding the case

11.0 5 Rhys Jones: 5 Clues That Caught

His Killer Documentary examining the

investigation into the murder of

1 1-year-old Rhys Jones, a schoolboy

shot dead on his way home from

football training in 2007 (r)

1 2.05am Extreme Nightmare Tenants (r) 12.

Access 1. 00 The 21.co.uk Live Casino Show3. 00 Access

3.1 0 Mind the Age Gap. Tracy enrols octogenarian Dee on

Tinder (r)4. 00 Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony

Robinson (r) (SL)4.45Wildlife SOS (r) (SL)5.10Divine

Designs (r) (SL) 5 .35-6.00House Doctor (r) (SL)

6 .00amBreakfast 9 .15Rip Off Britain. A report on the

people fighting back against thieves stealing their mail

and their identities 10. 00 Homes Under the Hammer.

Properties about to be auctioned in Cumbria, Derby and

near Crewe (r) (AD) 1 1. 00 Critical Incident. How

groundbreaking research into the psychology of crowds

could help prevent attacks on police 1 1.4 5 Paramedics on

Scene. Paramedics respond to a major crash on the M

(AD) 1 2.15pmBargain Hunt. From Newark antiques fair

(r) (AD)1. 00 BBC News at One; Weather 1 .3 0 BBC

Regional News; Weather 1 .4 5 The Indian Doctor. More

and more villagers sign up for New Trefelin (r) (AD)2.3 0

Hairy Bikers’ Best of British. How certain ingredients

combine to make traditional pairings (r)3. 00 Escape to

the Country. A couple search for their first home together

in rural Devon (r) (AD)3.45Garden Rescue. Charlie

Dimmock and Harry and David Rich come up with plans

for a tranquil garden in Newport, Wales, which must be

suitable for growing herbs and practicing meditation (r)

(AD) 4 .3 0 The Bidding Room. Including movie posters and

Scandinavian furniture 5 .1 5 Pointless 6 .00BBC News at

Six; Weather 6 .30BBC Regional News; Weather

6 .30amCritical Incident (r) 7. 15 The Bidding Room (r)

8. 00 Sign Zone: Eat Well for Less? (r) (AD, SL) 9. 00 BBC
   News at 9 10. 00 BBC News 1 1.1 5 Politics Live 1 .00pm
   Decimate (r) 1 .45Flipping Profit (r) (AD) 2 .3 0800
   Words. A car discovered at the bottom of a ravine and is
   found to contain the body of Bill’s long-lost wife Trina.
   George wants to investigate, but Big Mac stands in his
   way (r) (AD) 3.1 5 The Great British Sewing Bee. In a
   1 970s-themed edition, judges Patrick Grant and Esme
   Young challenge the sewers to create flared jeans,
   punk-inspired outfits, and maxi dresses. Joe Lycett
   presents (r) (AD) 4.1 5 Tribes, Predators & Me. Gordon
   Buchanan joins a group of Bushmen in Botswana’s
   Kalahari Desert to learn their ancient secrets for
   surviving on foot among wild lions (r) (AD) 5 .1 5
   Flog It! Antiques expert Elizabeth Talbot discovers a
   valuable sculpture at Rochester Cathedral in Kent and Raj
   Bisram finds a ghostly Victorian photo album (r) 6.
   Richard Osman’s House of Games. With Ade Adepitan,
   Jean Johansson, Stephen Mangan and Vikki Stone 6.
   Fish Town. New recruit Gavin Burnett heads out on
   Peterhead trawler Ocean Endeavour (AD)

6 .00amGood Morning Britain 9 .00Lorraine.

Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well

as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly

10. 00 This Morning. A mix of chat, lifestyle features,

advice and competitions. Including Local Weather

1 2.3 0 pmLoose Women. Another helping of topical

studio discussion from a female perspective, featuring

interviews 1 .3 0 ITV News; Weather 2. 00 Judge Rinder.

Cameras follow the criminal barrister Robert Rinder as he

takes on real-life cases in a studio courtroom3. 00

Tenable. A team of five colleagues answer questions

about top 10 lists from the realms of pop culture and

general knowledge, then try to score a perfect 10 in the

final round to take home the prize money. Hosted by

Warwick Davis (r) 4. 00 Tipping Point. Game show hosted

by Ben Shephard, in which contestants answer questions

to win turns on an arcade-style machine in the hope of

winning up to £1 0 , 0005. 00 The Chase. Bradley Walsh

presents as four contestants answer general knowledge

questions and work as a team to take on one of the

ruthless Chasers and secure a cash prize 6 .00Regional

News; Weather 6 .30ITV News; Weather

6 .30amMike & Molly (r) 7 .1 0 Cheers (r)8. 05 Everybody

Loves Raymond (r) (AD) 9 .35Frasier (r) (AD) 10 .3 5

Undercover Boss USA (r) 1 1.3 0 Channel 4 News

Summary 1 1. 35 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r)

1 2.3 0 pmSteph’s Packed Lunch2.1 0 Countdown. The

comedian Shappi Khorsandi takes her place in Dictionary

Corner3. 00 A Place in the Sun. Searching for a property

in the town of Mojacar on the Costa de Almeria4. 00 The

Great House Giveaway. Strangers are given the

opportunity to buy a property in north Wales 5. 00 Four in

a Bed. The third visit of the week takes place at Vera’s

Kitchen and B&B in Lechlade, Gloucestershire 5 .3 0 Come

Dine with Me. Beautician Claire hosts the third dinner

party in Cardiff (r) 6 .00The Simpsons. Homer takes Ned

Flanders to Las Vegas, where they go on a drunken binge

at a casino and wake up with hangovers to find

themselves married to sleazy, gold-digging cocktail

waitresses. Featuring the guest voices of the Moody

Blues (r) (AD) 6 .30Hollyoaks. Edward suggests that

Diane should stop wearing her wedding ring, Warren is

furious when PC Kiss pays him a visit, and Mercedes is

confused by a sinister text message (AD)

6 .00amMilkshake! 9 .15Jeremy Vine 1 1.1 5 Can’t Pay?

We’ll Take It Away! The agents chase almost £3,000 owed

by Indian takeaway owners, and in east London they face

a race against time to recover more than £8,000 from an

electrical services company (r) 1 2.1 0 pm 5 News at

Lunchtime 12 .1 5 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door.

A Barnsley couple whose dispute with a neighbour led to

him waging a nine-year campaign of intimidation, and a

south London couple battling to evict squatters (r) 1 .1 0

Access 1 .1 5 Home and Away (r) (AD) 1 .4 5 Neighbours

(AD)2.15 FILM: Concrete Evidence — A Fixer Upper

Mystery (PG, TVM, 2017) Renovation specialist

Shannon Hughes turns private detective to solve the

1 5-year-old missing persons case. Mystery drama sequel

starring Jewel Kilcher4. 00 Friends. Monica celebrates her

engagement (r)4.3 0 Friends. Monica starts making

wedding plans (r) 5. 005 News at 55 .3 0 Neighbours.

Dipi and Pierce spend the night by themselves after

confrontations, and Ned paints Scarlett, but her prying

into his personal life makes his situation worse (r) (AD)

6 .00Home and Away. John is bothering Alf at the Surf

Club (r) (AD) 6 .305 News Tonight