The Times - UK (2022-04-30)

46 saturday review Saturday April 30 2022 | the times

BBC3

7.00pm MasterChef Australia

Chloe’s cucumber with

smoked labneh is one of the

standout dishes of the day

7.55 The Catch Up

8.00 Meet the Khans: Big in

Bolton Amir faces rival

Kell Brook at a press

conference (2/11)

8.30 Stitch, Please! (3/4)

9.00 Brickies Molly realises her

career aspirations will only

be reached if she can

overcome her fear of

driving, and the brickies

have a heavy night out

watching England v

Germany in Euro 2020 (4/6)

9.30 Hot Property

10.00 FBoy Island (6/10)

10.50 MOTDx Football discussion

hosted by Jermaine Jenas

11.20 Meet the Khans: Big in

Bolton Amir faces rival

Kell Brook at a press

conference (2/11)

11.50-12.20am Brickies (4/6)

BBC4

7.00pm Johnny Kingdom: A Year

on Exmoor (8/10)

7.30 Return to Pembrokeshire

Farm Griff Rhys Jones

meets opposition from the

locals over his plans to

renovate the mill (2/5)

8.00 The RKO Story: Tales from

Hollywood Edward Asner

explores the studio’s Thirties

musicals featuring Fred

Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

See Viewing Guide (2/6)

9.00 FILM Top Hat (U, 1935) A

woman becomes attracted

to a famous dancer, but

mistakenly believes he is

her friend’s husband.

Musical with a score by

Irving Berlin starring Fred

Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

See Film Choice

10.40-12.20am FILM The Gay

Divorcee (U, 1934) Romantic

musical comedy starring

Fred Astaire and Ginger

Rogers. See Film Choice

More 4

6.55pm Love It or List It Australia

Real-estate expert Andrew

Winter and interior-design

guru Neale Whitaker meet

Queensland couple Damien

and Olivia, who live in a

home with a stunning view

but rotten interior

7.55 Escape to the Château

Angel transforms the attic

into a studio and storage

space for her vintage

treasures, while Dick has his

own plans for repurposing

some ancient tools (2/7)

9.00 Royal Flying Doctors

As he buries his loved ones,

a shattered Pete adjusts

to his new reality (2/8)

10.00 Emergency Helicopter

Medics A skydiver

suffers injuries after

smashing into a house

11.00-12.05am 24 Hours in A&E

A man arrives in A&E

with a piece of driftwood

lodged in his eye

Sky Atlantic

6.50pm The Affair Autumn arrives,

and Helen asks Noah to

represent the family at a

literary award ceremony

for her father back in

Montauk — a trip that brings

him back into contact with

Alison (8/10) (R)

7.55 Game of Thrones Tyrion

struggles to find a way to

curb Joffrey’s excesses.

Catelyn urges the Baratheon

brothers to unite against the

Lannisters, and Daenerys

arrives at the walled city of

Qarth (4/10) (R)

9.00 The Staircase Based on the

documentary series of the

same name, Colin Firth and

Toni Collette star in this

dramatised adaptation

which explores the life of

Michael Peterson. See

Viewing Guide (1/8) (R)

10.20 The Staircase (2/8) (R)

11.35-12.50am The Staircase

Toni Collette stars (3/8) (R)

Sky Documentaries

Sky History

7.00pm Ghislaine Maxwell:

Epstein’s Shadow

Docuseries investigating

the complicated and

mysterious life of the former

socialite (1/3) (R)

8.00 The Sixties A look at the

complexities that led to

America’s involvement in

the Vietnam War and how it

changed the country in

ways that can still be felt

even today (4/10) (R)

9.00 FILM Being Frank: The Chris

Sievey Story (15, 2018)

Steve Sullivan’s

documentary explores

the life and career of the

musician and comedian

Chris Sievey, who found

relative fame wearing the

papier-mache head of alter

ego Frank Sidebottom

11.00-1.00am Memory Box:

Echoes Of 9/11 Eyewitness

accounts of the World Trade

Centre Attacks (R)

7.00pm Forged in Fire

8.00 Secrets of the Viking Stone

Peter and Elroy meet a team that’s

made another interesting

discovery (6/6)

9.00 Forged in Fire The recreation

of a Firangi Sword

10.00 Rust Valley Restorers

Mike converts a 1957 GMC truck

to run on alcohol for a truck-

obsessed teenage girl

11.00 Counting Cars

12.00-1.00am Hitler’s Secret Sex

Life Documentary (2/4)

ITV2

7.00pm Superstore The staff come

together to try and save one of

their own. Ben Feldman stars

7.30 Superstore

8.00 Bob’s Burgers

8.30 Bob’s Burgers

9.00 Family Guy

9.30 Family Guy

10.00 Celebrity Juice With Shirley

Ballas, Melvin Odoom, Chelcee

Grimes and the Vivienne

10.50 Family Guy

11.20 Family Guy

11.45-12.15am American Dad!

ITV3

6.55pm Heartbeat Jo and Nick are

stranded during a snowstorm

8.00 Vera The detective

investigates a petrol-bomb attack

on an ex-colleague and his

daughter. Crime drama starring

Brenda Blethyn and Steven Hartley

10.00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot A

man receives letters threatening to

kidnap his son. Drama with David

Suchet and Geoffrey Bateman

11.05-12.10am White House Farm

Stan continues to search for

answers. Mark Addy stars (4/6)

ITV4

7.00pm Cycling: Tour Series

Highlights of the second round

of the campaign, as the riders

negotiated 1km circuits in the

Scottish Borders town of Galshiels

8.00 Griff’s Great Australian

Adventure Griff Rhys Jones

wrestles a crocodile and rides the

legendary Ghan train (5/6)

9.00 Against the Odds The story

of jockey Johnny Murtagh

10.05-12.20am FILM Sudden

Death (18, 1995) Action thriller

starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

E4

7.00pm Hollyoaks Nadira makes a

shocking proposition to Shaq

7.30 The Big Bang Theory

8.00 Below Deck: Mediterranean

Love is in the air during the crew’s

first night out as Courtney

celebrates Mzi’s birthday and

David becomes smitten with Malia

9.00 Naked Attraction

10.00 Temptation Island Chelsea

accuses Blake of being fake (4/12)

11.00-12.05am One Night Stand

Meg hopes Charlie has finally

got his ex out of his head

Dave

7.00pm Richard Osman’s House of

Games With Susie Dent, Nick

Owen, Chemmy Alcott and

Dane Baptiste

7.40 Room 101

8.20 QI With Bill Bailey

9.00 QI XL With Jo Brand, Colin

Lane and David Mitchell

10.00 Meet the Richardsons at

Christmas More celebs turn up,

which is perfect for Lucy’s panto

10.40 Comedians Giving Lectures

11.20 Mock the Week

12.00-12.40am Big Zuu’s Big Eats

Drama

6.40pm Last of the Summer Wine

Truly persuades Marina to stop

seeing Howard

7.20 Last of the Summer Wine

Auntie Wainwright’s bargain

proves a puzzle

8.00 Jonathan Creek The duo

investigate an apparent miracle

9.05 New Tricks Gerry and Steve

investigate the unsolved murder of

a bookie in Glasgow

10.20 New Tricks The team tries to

unmask an assassin

11.40-2.20am Silent Witness

Yesterday

7.00pm Bangers and Cash (7/15)

8.00 Secrets of the London

Underground New series. Tim

Dunn and Siddy Holloway explore

the disused Jubilee line areas of

Charing Cross (1/10)

9.00 Scouting for Toys A huge

consignment of Meccano arrives

from a single seller (6/10)

10.00 Bangers and Cash

A Cold War Soviet classic (6/10)

11.00 Abandoned Engineering

12.00-1.00am Great Continental

Railway Journeys (1/6)

PBS America

6.35pm Asia’s Ancient

Civilisations (3/4)

7.35 My Life in Hitler’s Germany

The true stories of those who lived

under the Nazis (1/2)

8.45 The Last Voices of World War

One The Battle of the Somme (2/6)

9.50 Children of the Sun The rise

and fall of the Inca empire (2/3)

11.00 Asia’s Ancient Civilisations

The Khmer civilisation of

south-east Asia (3/4)

12.00-1.15am My Life in Hitler’s

Germany (1/2)

Smithsonian

7.00pm How Did They Build That?

A New York skyscraper that seems

to defy the laws of physics

8.00 Inside the Factory: How Our

Favourite Foods Are Made The

production and history of milk

9.00 Impossible Repairs One of

the world’s largest open ocean fish

farm operations

10.00 D-Day and the Dambusters

How 617 Squadron fooled the

Nazis as to the location of

the Allied invasion

11.30-12.30am Impossible Repairs

Sky Arts

7.00pm The Directors The life and

work of Sergio Leone (10/10)

8.00 Discovering: Michael Caine

A look at the life and career of

the Oscar-winning actor

9.00 FILM Barnacle Bill (U, 1941)

A fisherman faces financial

hardship when forced to enter

into a big-time contract. Drama

starring Wallace Beery

10.40 The Movies Films from the

1990s, including Jurassic Park

and Titanic (9/12)

11.40-1.35am I Am Patrick Swayze

Sky Max

7.00pm Stargate SG-1 The Stargate

system is plunged into chaos

8.00 Karl Pilkington: The Moaning

of Life Karl Pilkington travels the

world to answer some of life’s

biggest questions (1/5)

9.00 Rob & Romesh vs the West

End The comedians try to crack

the world of musicals

10.00 A League of Their Own

Road Trip: Dingle to Dover (5/6)

11.00-1.00am Agatha Raisin

The sleuth finds herself the prime

suspect in a murder case

Discovery

7.00pm Supertruckers

8.00 Kindig Customs

9.00 Building Off the Grid Building

an off-grid retreat overlooking

Tennessee’s Ocoee River

10.00 Naked and Afraid

In a coastal Colombian jungle

12.00-1.00am Building Off the

Grid An off-grid retreat

Nat Geographic

7.00pm Car S.O.S

8.00 Car S.O.S

9.00 Primal Survivor: Escape the

Amazon Hazen Audel fights

through endless mangrove

swamps (4/6)

10.00 Lawless Island

11.00 Air Crash Investigation

12.00-1.00am Drugs Inc

Sky Comedy Comedy Central

7.00pm Friends

9.00 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

10.00 Richard Hammond’s Brain

Reaction With guests Guz Khan

and Kiri Pritchard-McLean

11.00 Channel Hopping with Jon

Richardson With Jonathan Ross

12.00-1.00am Paul Chowdhry:

Live Innit A stand-up performance

Gold

7.00pm Hi-de-Hi! Spike and Gladys

are thrown together

7.40 Keeping Up Appearances

8.20 Dad’s Army

9.00 Miranda

9.40 Miranda

10.20 The Royle Family

11.00 Live at the Apollo

12.00-12.30am Key & Peele

W

7.00pm Property Brothers:

Forever Homes

8.00 Nurses on the Ward

9.00 Emma Willis: Delivering

Babies The midwives perform a

risky procedure to induce labour

10.00 One Born Every Minute

11.00 Inside the Ambulance

12.00-1.00am Nurses on the Ward

7.00pm Will & Grace

8.00 30 Rock

9.00 Sex and the City

9.35 Sex and the City

10.00 Moonbase 8 (3/6)

10.30 Moonbase 8 (4/6)

11.00 Wellington Paranormal (5/6)

11.30-12.30am The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon

FV 9/24, FS 173, SKY 116, VIRGIN 108 FV 10, FS 115, SKY 119, VIRGIN 117 FV 18, FS 124, SKY 136, VIRGIN 147 SKY 108 SKY 121, VIRGIN 278

SKY 113, VIRGIN 122

FV 6, FS 113, SKY 118, VIRGIN 115 FV 26, FS 117, SKY 120, VIRGIN 118 FV 13, FS 122, SKY 135, VIRGIN 106 FV 20, FS 158, SKY 143, VIRGIN 130 FV 27, FS 159, SKY 155, VIRGIN 129

SKY 132, VIRGIN 126 SKY 125, VIRGIN 250, BT 322 SKY 129, VIRGIN 266, BT 351 SKY 112, VIRGIN 181, BT 344 SKY 110, BT 343 FV 25, FS 156, SKY 109

FV 19, FS 157, SKY 111, VIRGIN 127

FV 84, FS 155, SKY 174, VIRGIN 273 FV 57, FS 175, SKY 171, VIRGIN 276 FV 11, FS 147, SKY 826, VIRGIN 165 SKY 115, VIRGIN 135 SKY 107, VIRGIN 112

Sky Main Event

Midday Live PGA Tour Golf:

The Wells Fargo Championship

Day one at TPC Potomac at Avenel

Farm in Washington, D.C

1.30pm-6.30 Live DP World Tour

Golf: The Betfred British Masters

Hosted By Danny Willett Coverage

of the opening day of the event at

the Belfry in Sutton Coldfield

7.00 Live EFL A League One

play-off semi-final first-leg

10.15 Sky Sports News

11.00-12.00 Live Path to the Draft

News, reports and analysis

Sky Premier League

7.00pm Premier League

Matchpack A preview of the

weekend’s fixtures

7.30 PL World A round-up of the

latest headlines and interviews

8.00 Gary Neville’s Soccerbox

9.00 Premier League Matchpack

A preview of the weekend’s fixtures

9.30 PL World A round-up of the

latest headlines and interviews

10.00 PL 100 Club Former

Manchester United striker

Romelu Lukaku’s best goals

10.30-5.30am PL Retro

Sky Cricket

2.50pm Live Indian Premier

League: Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers

Hyderabad Coverage of the match

from Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai

7.00 Best of England v India

7.20 Best of England v India

7.40 Best of England v India

The Group B match from the

2011 World Cup in Bangalore

8.00 IPL Highlights

9.00 IPL Highlights of Delhi

Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad

10.00 IPL Highlights

11.00-12.00 IPL

BT Sport 1

10.00am Live Isuzu UTE A-League:

Western Sydney Wanderers v

Wellington Phoenix

12.00-2.00pm Live Hockey:

Germany v England

(Push-back 12.00)

2.30-4.30 Live Hockey: Germany v

England (Push-back 2.30)

7.00 Live Uefa Europa League

Coverage of a semi-final second-

leg fixture (Kick-off 8.00)

10.30 Live Uefa Europa League

Highlights All the goals

11.30-3.00am Live MLB

BT Sport 2

10.00am Serie A Back-to-back

editions of match highlights

4.30pm WWE Monday Night Raw

7.00 Live Uefa Europa League

Coverage of a semi-final second-

leg fixture (Kick-off 8.00)

10.30 The Football’s On A look

at the week’s football stories

with Ian Stone and guests

11.30 Premier League Match Pack

A preview of this weekend’s action

12.00-3.30am Live NCAA Baseball:

Kentucky Wildcats v Tennessee

Volunteers (Start-time 12.00)

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

TalkTV

6.30am The Julia Hartley-Brewer

Breakfast Show

10.00 The Independent Republic

of Mike Graham

1.00pm Afternoons with

Ian Collins Hard-hitting

monologues, and debate

4.00 Jeremy Kyle

7.00 The News Desk Tom

Newton-Dunn tackles the

biggest stories of the day

8.00 Piers Morgan Uncensored

The host presents his

verdict on the day’s global

events with an hour of

debate, straight-talking

interviews with leading

figures, and plenty of fun

9.00 The Talk A panel of

opinionated famous

faces debate the latest

hot topics

10.00 The James Whale Show

Bold opinions and

commentary, reacting to

the big stories of the day

11.00-12.00 Piers Morgan

FV 237, FS 217, SKY 526, VIRGIN 627

Thursday 5 | Primetime digital guide

FV Freeview FS Freesat

Being Frank

Steve Sullivan’s film tells

the story of Chris Sievey,

aka Frank Sidebottom

Sky Documentaries, 9pm

The golfer Danny Willett hosts

the Betfred British Masters

(Sky Main Event, 1.30pm)