The Times - UK (2022-05-25)

12 Wednesday May 25 2022 | the times

television & radio

which six teams with

no previous experience

as developers try to

buy, renovate and sell

their way to a property

fortune. The teams

start with £100,000

each and the winner is

the team with the most

profit after 12 months.

In tonight’s opener the

teams face perhaps the

toughest challenge of

all — sourcing the

perfect property.

George Clarke’s

Flipping Fast

Channel 4, 9pm

The “flipping” refers to

the strategy of buying

houses with no

intention of living in

them; doing them up

quickly and selling for a

profit. George Clarke

and the sibling property

experts Scarlette and

Stuart Douglas oversee

this six-part series in

who have submitted

their art for a national

exhibition he is

organising to mark the

jubilee. He also meets

the 93-year-old who

spent two years

knitting a replica of

Sandringham. “Making

art about our monarch

— whatever it might

tell us about her — can

tell us some revealing

things about ourselves,”

Grayson muses.

portraits of the Queen

through the ages. The

Perrys are joined in

their studio by the Bake

Off judge Prue Leith,

who decides to make a

chandelier decorated

with the royal-themed

antique cups she

collects. As always

Grayson is keen that

the general public get

involved and he talks to

talented amateur artists

around the country

pottery charger — a

large plate, popular in

the 17th century and

often decorated with an

image of the monarch.

The medium doesn’t

allow for him to go for

an exact likeness, so

instead it’s all about the

“strong, symbolic

aspect of Her Majesty”.

Meanwhile his

psychotherapist wife is

making a tankard out

of clay that includes

bit of flag-waving, and

are devoting this

episode of Art Club to

the jubilee. Grayson

begins by adorning a

cake with an image of

the Queen in icing,

wrinkles and all. It

won’t be competing

with the jubilee pud at

this year’s street

parties, but it’s not a

bad job. The potter is

soon on more familiar

territory as he makes a

Viewing Guide

Joe Clay

Grayson’s Art

Club: Queen’s

Jubilee Special
Channel 4, 10pm

Grayson
and Philippa
Perry might
not seem
like pillars of the
establishment, but even
they are not averse to a

Top

pick

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BBC1 BBC2 ITV Channel 4 Channel 5

7.00 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

Sophie Raworth and Joe Swift reveal

the gardens in contention for the BBC/

RHS People’s Choice Award (6/13)

7.30 EastEnders Kathy is stunned to hear

that Ben apparently cheated on Callum,

and Rainie discovers Stuart has been

lying about taking his painkillers (AD)

8.00 The Repair Shop Jay Blades and the

team of experts set about restoring

two Olympic medals along with their

wooden cases, a musical jewellery box,

a mythical creature and a hammer

that helped make a home (AD)

9.00 The Great British Sewing Bee

The sewers follow the pattern for a

sailor suit for children’s week, create

an out-of-school garment from old

school uniforms and make fancy

dress Hallowe’en outfits (5/10)

10.00 BBC News at Ten

10.30 BBC Regional News and Weather

10.40 Peacock Andy applies for the head

trainer role and tries to get serious

with Carly (2/3) (r) (AD)

11.10 DIY SOS: The Big Build

Nick Knowles and the team travel

to Southmead in Bristol, where a

charity-owned adventure playground

known as the Ranch has fallen into

disrepair and is now rendered unfit

for purpose (3/5) (r)

12.15am-6.00 BBC News

7.00 Nadiya’s Time to Eat Demonstrating

time-saving recipes for an easy end to

the day, including a beetroot pasta,

and a salmon poke bowl (3/6) (r) (AD)

7.30 Between the Covers With Richard E

Grant, Deborah Meaden, Stephen

Bailey and Sukh Ojla (3/7)

8.00 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022

Monty Don and Joe Swift take a look

at the smaller gardens of the show.

Carol Klein reveals the winner of the

Platinum Jubilee Award, the biggest

award in the Great Pavilion (7/13)

9.00 DNA Family Secrets A 46-year-old

found out as a teenager that she was

conceived using a sperm donor. Now

she wants to see if she can find her

biological father’s identity by decoding

her DNA, and discovers far more than

she ever expected (3/6) (AD)

10.00 Inside No 9 A woman and her son

encounter a mysterious stranger.

See Viewing Guide (5/6) (AD)

10.30 Newsnight Analysis of the day’s

events with Kirsty Wark

11.15 Unspun World with John Simpson

The week’s major global news stories

11.45 Haftar’s Russian Mercenaries

Uncovering evidence of war crimes

carried out in Libya by mercenaries

12.40am Sign Zone: Idris Elba’s Fight School The

actor needs to see a massive improvement across his

entire squad, but he is faced with a difficult decision as

Sophie’s injury takes a turn for the worse (r) (AD, SL)

1.40-2.40 Fergal Keane: Living with PTSD. The impact of

post-traumatic stress disorder on the reporter (r) (SL)

7.30 Emmerdale Charity is stunned by

Noah’s plan, David makes a romantic

gesture, and Leyla is frustrated (AD)

8.00 Coronation Street Phill asks Fiz to

marry him, Summer starts to panic

over her blood sugar levels, and Toyah

takes a call requesting an urgent

meeting regarding Elsie (AD)

9.00 Long Lost Family: Born Without

Trace Heart-wrenching news awaits a

woman discovered as a newborn baby

on the steps of a tower block, while a

man hopes DNA can help him find his

roots. Last in the series (AD)

10.00 ITV News at Ten

10.30 Regional News

10.45 Peston Political magazine show,

featuring major interviews with MPs,

topical guests and cultural figures

11.40 British Touring Car Championship

Highlights Action from the fourth,

fifth and sixth races of the season,

held at Brands Hatch (r)

12.55am Teleshopping 3.00 The Switch. Quiz hosted

by Sanjeev Bhaskar (r) (SL) 3.50 Unwind with ITV. Daily

escape designed to calm the mind 5.05-6.00 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 (r) (SL)

7.00 Channel 4 News

8.00 Location, Location, Location

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer

search Bristol with a couple who are

buying their first home together,

and pair who are moving from

London to a city they barely know

9.00 George Clarke’s Flipping Fast

New series. Reality challenge in which

six would-be property developers from

across the UK are given a £100,000

investment and compete to make

the biggest profit in 12 months.

See Viewing Guide (1/6) (AD)

10.00 Grayson’s Art Club: Queen’s

Jubilee Special Grayson Perry

presents a one-off edition to mark the

Platinum Jubilee, asking viewers to

make artworks that celebrate the

Queen and her contribution to national

life. See Viewing Guide (AD)

11.05 Spreadsheet Lauren finds her actions

have unsavoury consequences. Comedy

with Katherine Parkinson (3/8) (AD)

11.40 Spreadsheet Lauren discovers she

needs a partner for a work event,

or she will be forced to go with

the office oddball (4/8) (AD)

12.10am Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA (r)

1.00 Come Dine with Me (r) 1.55 FILM: The Purge —

Election Year (15, 2016) Action horror sequel

starring Frank Grillo (SL) 3.45 MPs Under Threat:

Dispatches (r) (AD, SL) 4.15 How Healthy Is Your Gut?

(r) (AD, SL) 5.10-6.05 Location, Location, Location (r)

7.00 Secrets of the Fast Food Giants

Alexis Conran steps behind the scenes

at a branch of KFC, as he looks to

uncover secrets behind the famous

breadcrumb coating that gives KFC’s

chicken its taste. Last in the series

7.55 5 News Update

8.00 Police Interceptors Officers hunt

down a familiar foe — a Citroen

Picasso that has given cops the slip

three times in a week, and the knife

crime team are circling an estate,

waiting for a suspected dealer

to slip up. Last in the series

9.00 The Chernobyl Disaster: Firestorm

With the reactor on fire and radiation

spewing out, firefighters battle to

bring the blaze under control.

A helicopter pilot reveals what it

was like flying over the core (2/3)

10.00 Draining Alcatraz: The Impossible

Escape Documentary using visual

effects to “drain” the waters around

Alcatraz island, revealing the secrets of

San Francisco Bay — including why the

notorious prison was so inescapable (r)

11.05 Porn Stars: Our Secret World

The ladies share their experiences

working in the adult industry,

disclosing how it operates and what

measures are in place to protect the

safety of the performers (3/6) (r)

12.05am Adults Only: Cam Girl Millionaires (r) 1.00

Live Casino Show 3.00 Entertainment News 3.10 Litter

Louts: At War with the Law (r) 3.55 My Mum’s Hotter

Than Me! (r) (SL) 4.45 Wildlife SOS (r) (SL) 5.10 House

Doctor (r) (SL) 5.35 Peppa Pig (r) 5.40 Paw Patrol (r)

5.50-6.00 Milkshake! Monkey’s Amazing Adventures (r)

6.00am Breakfast. Presented by Sally Nugent and Jon

Kay 9.15 Morning Live. Magazine show hosted by Sam

Quek and Gethin Jones 10.00 For Love or Money. A man

who tricked a businesswoman out of almost £60,000 (r)

10.45 Rip Off Britain. Consumer show (r) 11.15 Homes

Under the Hammer. The progress of properties in Kent,

Surrey and Staffordshire (r) (AD) 12.15pm Bargain

Hunt. Natasha Raskin Sharp is joined by Charles Hanson

and David Harper at a fair in Newbury (r) (AD) 1.00 BBC

News at One; Weather 1.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

1.45 Doctors. Al’s visit to Valerie does not have the

outcome he expected, while Scarlett feels like she is

walking on eggshells (AD) 2.15 Five Bedrooms. Heather’s

world is blown apart when she learns of Ben’s betrayal

3.00 Escape to the Country. Nicki Chapman is in

Shropshire to help a man look for a property on a

£475,000 budget (r) 3.45 RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022.

Mark Lane has advice on borders and Frances Tophill

delves into the world of clematis 4.30 The Bidding Room.

Items include a puzzle box and a surgical light (r) 5.15

Pointless. Quiz hosted by Alexander Armstrong 6.00 BBC

News at Six; Weather 6.30 BBC Regional News; Weather

6.15am Homes Under the Hammer (r) 7.15 Escape to

the Country (r) 8.00 Sign Zone: Our Changing Planet (r)

(AD, SL) 9.00 BBC News 11.15 Politics Live 1.00pm

Ready Steady Cook (r) 1.45 Eggheads (r) 2.15 James

Martin: Home Comforts. The chef prepares his favourite

pick-me-up recipes (r) (AD) 3.00 Britain in Bloom. Chris

Bavin heads to the historic market town of Oakham in

Rutland (r) 3.30 Murder, Mystery and My Family. Sasha

Wass and Jeremy Dein revisit 1926 to explore a case of a

Leeds landlady who died, it was believed, at the hands of

her lodger (r) (AD) 4.15 Interior Design Masters with

Alan Carr. The two finalists are challenged to transform

luxury holiday villas in Cornwall, before Judge Michelle

Ogundehin decides who will be this year’s winner (r) (AD)

5.15 Flog It! Featuring previously unseen finds from the

show’s travels around Britain, visiting sites including

Muncaster Castle in Cumbria and the Bowes Museum in

County Durham (r) 6.00 Richard Osman’s House of

Games. With Maisie Adam, Rory Bremner, James

Cracknell and Michelle Gayle (r) 6.30 Animal Park.

A mysterious illness appears to be stopping the

rock hyrax mum from feeding her babies (AD)

6.00am Good Morning Britain 9.00 Lorraine.

Entertainment, current affairs and fashion news, as well

as showbiz stories and gossip. Presented by Lorraine Kelly

10.00 This Morning. A mix of showbiz chat, lifestyle

features, advice and competitions. Including Local

Weather 12.30pm Loose Women. Another helping of

topical studio discussion from a female perspective,

featuring showbiz interviews 1.30 ITV News; Weather

2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal. David Dickinson and the team

are in the coastal town of Bridlington, where Alys Dobbie

is given a run for her money in one of the longest haggles

in history (r) (AD) 3.00 Tenable. Five members of a

Surrey bowling club 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 in which

contestants drop tokens down a choice of four chutes in

the hope of winning a £10,000 jackpot 5.00 The Chase.

Bradley Walsh presents as contestants from Glasgow,

Glossop, South Shields and London answer general

knowledge questions and work as a team 6.00

Regional News; Weather 6.30 ITV News; Weather

6.05am Countdown. Jo Brand joins Susie Dent in

Dictionary Corner (r) 6.45 Cheers (r) 7.40 The King of

Queens (r) (AD) 9.00 Frasier (r) (AD) 10.30 Undercover

Boss USA. Lowell Hawthorne, the CEO of Caribbean food

company Golden Krust, goes undercover, working

alongside a cashier, two chefs and a forklift operator as

he considers expansion plans (r) 11.25 Channel 4 News

Summary 11.30 Couples Come Dine with Me. Three

couples compete for the cash prize of £1,000 in the west

of Scotland (r) 12.30pm Steph’s Packed Lunch. Weekday

magazine show hosted by Steph McGovern 2.10

Countdown. Linda Papadopoulos joins Susie Dent in

Dictionary Corner 3.00 A Place in the Sun. Lee

Juggurnauth shows a couple five properties on Crete (r)

4.00 The Great House Giveaway. A communications

worker and a kitchen designer renovate a house in

Tonypandy 5.00 Sun, Sea and Selling Houses. A Bolton

couple want a property with a rooftop solarium (r) 6.00

The Simpsons. Lisa creates a social network that takes

the town by storm (r) (AD) 6.30 Hollyoaks. Ollie prepares

to reunite with his estranged son, and Olivia is reeling

from the news of her fiancé’s fling with Yazz (r) (AD)

6.00am Milkshake! 9.15 Jeremy Vine. The broadcaster

and guests discuss the issues of the day, with co-host

Storm Huntley joining him for phone-ins and reading out

viewers’ correspondence 12.15pm Shoplifters &

Scammers: At War with the Law. Private undercover

detectives Ed and Steve have received a call from a store

manager who has detained a woman he suspects is part

of a pickpocketing gang (r) 1.10 5 News at Lunchtime

1.15 Home and Away. Mackenzie recruits Ziggy to help

with the poker night, during which an enraged Dean walks

in to see Ziggy getting propositioned by a player 1.45

Neighbours 2.15 The Miss Teagarden Mysteries:

The Honeymoon Murder. While on a pre-honeymoon

getaway, Aurora and Nick discover a body. Mystery

starring Candace Cameron Bure and Niall Matter 4.00

Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun. A wedding planner is

working hard to dress a church for a couple’s big day, and

a baker is busy making cakes for a fundraising event for a

local dog charity 5.00 5 News at 5 6.00 Neighbours.

A stubborn Christabel is brought in for questioning,

but justice eludes Harlow for now (r) 6.30 Eggheads.

The FF9 Friends will try to outplay the Eggheads (r)