Television
26 October
Friday
Robot Wars Extreme BBC 2 6.00pm
Friday 26 October
BBC 2
HTV
S4C
CHANNEL 5
6.00 Breakfast 9.00 Happy Birthday Neighbours 9.20 Kilroy 10.25 Happy Birthday Neighbours 10.50 Bargain Hunt 11.40 Happy Birthday Neighbours 12.00 Neighbours Revealed 12.30 Doctors 1.00 BBC News; Weather 1.30 Regional News and Weather 1.45 Neighbours 2.10 Diagnosis Murder 2.50 Birds of a Feather 3.25 Pingu 3.30 Tweenies 3.50 The Woody Woodpecker Show 4.10 Super Duper Sumos 4.35 Bring It On 5.00 Blue Peter 5.25 Newsround 5.35 Neighbours Dione's plan backfires. Darcy worries that Victor may have ruined everything. Um, no, not rude. So no ‘fnarr’ today. Sorry.
6.00 Open University 7.00 Pocket Dragon Adventures 7.10 Chipmunks Go to the Movies 7.35 Arthur 8.00 UBOS 8.25 The Wild Thornberrys 8.50 Gadget Boy 9.10 Dennis the Menace 9.35 The Wayne Manifesto 10.00 Smart Guy 10.30 Bill and Ben 10.40 Tweenies 11.00 Teletubbies 11.25 Pablo, the Little Red Fox Sounds like he should be a revolutionary. Probably isn’t, though. 11.30 Heartbreak High 12.15 Home Front Tricks 12.30 Working Lunch 1.00 Bill and Ben 1.20 FILM: Asterix in Britain 2.30 Racing from Newbury 4.00 Awash with Colour 4.30 Ready, Steady, Cook 5.15 The Weakest Link
6.00 GMTV 9.25 Watch to Win 9.30 Trisha 10.30 This Morning 12.30 ITV Lunchtime News; Weather 1.10 Shortland Street 1.40 The Biggest Game in Town 2.10 Get Gardening 2.40 Soft Sell 3.10 ITV News Headlines 3.15 HTV News and Weather 3.20 Hilltop Hospital Not the best place for a hospital – people with sore legs couldn’t get up there and people with wheelchairs would just go careering down the slope. Bad planning there, hospital fellas. 3.30 Angelina Ballerina 3.45 Jungle Run 4.05 Mouse 4.35 Two of a Kind 5.05 Nuts and Bolts 5.30 The Biggest Game in Town Bloody huge chess.
6.05 The Hoobs 6.30 The Hoobs 7.00 The Big Breakfast 9.00 Saved by the Bell - the New Class 9.25 T4: Malibu 9.55 Boy Meets World 10.20 King of the Hill 10.50 Little House on the Prairie 11.45 Family Guy 12.15 Bagpuss 12.30 Planed Plant: Tecwyn y Tractor 12.45 Planed Plant: Sali Mali 1.00 FILM: Brothers in Law 2.45 A Place in the Sun 3.15 Watercolour Challenge 3.45 Fifteen to One 4.15 Countdown 5.00 Planed Plant: CIC 5.30 Home from Home The Sutehalls leave a bottle of wine for their Norwegian counterparts. And? Have they never seen wine before?
6.00 ITN News Channel 7.00 Milkshake! 7.30 Rolie Polie Olie 8.00 Bear in the Big Blue House 8.30 Jay Jay the Jet Plane 9.00 Beachcomber Bay 9.30 The Powerpuff Girls 10.00 The Wright Stuff 11.00 Family Law 12.00 5 News at Noon 12.30 Home and Away 1.00 Family Affairs 1.30 Oprah 2.20 Open House with Gloria Hunniford 3.40 FILM: Frame-Up 5.20 Vox Pop 5.30 5 News Can I tell my joke now? Thanks. “I called my dog Blacksmith. Because every time I call his name he makes a bolt for the door.” Arf! What? It’s funny. And it’s not like there’s anything on Channel 5 right now. Jesus. Chill out.
6.00 BBC News 6.30 Wales Today; Weather Regional news. 7.00 Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook “I saw Neil Pearson today,” chirps Celeb Desk. “He was walking past the Bute Building and looked really annoyed that all these students were everywhere. And he was quite fit – which is odd because lots of famous people ming in real life.” 7.30 Top of the Pops 8.00 EastEnders 8.30 My Family 9.00 Have I Got News for You Guests are the BBC's Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond and former Blue Peter presenter Richard Bacon. Somewhat telling that Bacon is still known as an ex-BP presenter rather than a current Big Breakfast star. 9.30 They Think It's All Over 10.00 BBC News 10.25 Regional News and Weather 10.35 Just Up Your Street 11.05 Jo Brand's Commercial Breakdown 11.35 Jo Brand's Commercial Breakdown 12.05 The Stand-Up Show 12.35 LA Pool Party 1.25 FILM: Jimmy Hollywood “It’s got Joe Pesci and Christian Slater in it but it doesn’t sound much cop,” splurges Film Desk. 3.15 Joins BBC News 24
6.00 Robot Wars Extreme This edition features the most deadly robots ever seen on the programme. Remind me to tell you about the revolutionary ‘Tray of Skunk’ – the world-beating robot invented by my housemate. It’s yet to actually get built but when it does...BOW DOWN BEFORE ITS MIGHT! 6.45 Scrum V Live: Bridgend v Munster 9.00 Band of Brothers 9.50 Planets – Brief Encounters 10.00 Gardeners' World 10.30 Newsnight 11.00 Newsnight Review Mark Lawson discusses the week's cultural highs and lows with John Carey, Natasha Walter and Philip Hensher. Sorry, I must be very ignorant – I have no idea who these people are. 11.35 Later with Jools Holland Jools Holland introduces a diverse mix of music performers: Pulp, Jack Bruce, Eels and the Algerian king of rai, Cheb Mami. Ace, who?, ace and probably ace – because it sounds like the sort of thing Andy Kershaw would play and that always rules. 12.35 The X Files 1.20 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.05 Robot Wars Extreme 3.00 BBC Learning Zone
6.00 HTV News and Weather 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 7.00 Emmerdale The children decide to lie in wait and confront their pursuer. Gah! Old man Withers from the amusement arcade. 7.30 Coronation Street Janice and Dennis can't get enough of each other. Dirty buggers. Still, fnarr, eh? 8.00 Rich and Famous Today's programme visits Frankie Dettori at home near Newmarket racecourse. Hmm, at least its handy for work, I suppose. 8.30 House of Horrors 9.00 The Bill 10.00 Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner Is it just me or is anyone else suffering from an overexposure to Frank Skinner right now? I mean, funny bloke and everything. But you can have too much.... 11.00 ITV Weekend News 11.20 HTV News and Weather 11.30 Ceri Du Pre Unfrocked 12.00 Pulling Power 12.30 Dial-a-Date 1.00 Players 1.50 New Music Television 2.20 Take the Mike 2.50 Box Office America 3.15 World Football 3.40 Trisha 4.35 Judge Judy 4.55 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News
6.00 Newyddion 6 News 6.10 Heno 7.00 Pobol y Cwm 7.30 Newyddion News 8.00 Cefn Gwlad 8.30 Gwyn a'i Fyd: Awstralia 9.00 Friends 9.30 Will and Grace 10.00 Brookside 10.35 So Graham Norton 11.25 Sex and the City 12.25 Bar Wars 12.55 South Park 1.25 Hollyoaks Omnibus: Movin' on 2.55 Beach Volleyball: FIVB World Tour 2001 3.25 FILM: Comanche
6.00 Home and Away 6.30 Family Affairs Cat tries to apologise to Jim, but accidentally reveals that Claire and Nikki run an escort agency. Realising her mistake, Cat retires to her basket and licks her arse to hide her blushes. 7.00 Cleopatra 2525 Hel, Sarge and Cleopatra discover an underwater city which has possession of a Bailey. Huh? Bill Bailey? That would be cool. Or a bottle of Baileys. That would be quite nice too. 7.30 5 News 8.00 Ancient Secrets: Sacrifice Examining ritual human sacrifice in the South American Aztec, Mayan and Moche civilisations, and amongst the ancient Chinese, Sumerians and Minoans. Sounds good. Bit messy. 9.00 FILM: Dead Silent “Recent Rob Lowe film – so it’s got to be bed,” reasons Film Desk. 10.55 FILM: Ultimate Desire Erotic thriller about a perfumier who comes under suspicion when a number of beautiful women are murdered after being sprayed with an expensive perfume. “With Martin Kemp!” shrieks Film Desk 12.45 FILM: The Fatal Image 2.20 FILM: Funny Business 4.05 Night Stand 4.45 Strange Luck 5.30 Okavango
CH4. As S4C except: 11.45 Montel 12.20 Spin City 12.50 Cheers 1.20 Icons: Elizabeth Taylor 1.35 FILM: Against the Wind 4.15 5.00 A Place in the Sun 5.25 Home from Home 6.00 Friends 6.30 Model Behaviour 7.00 Channel 4 News 7.30 Unreported World: Colombia's Oil Fix 8.00 In Search of Mythical Monsters: Chinese Wildmen 8.30 Brookside 9.00 Friends 9.30 Will and Grace 10.00 So Graham Norton 10.50 Los Dos Bros 11.25 South Park 11.55 Bar Wars 12.55 Hollyoaks Omnibus: Movin' on 2.25 Third Watch 3.15 Third Watch 4.00 Jack and Jill 4.45 Bloom 5.10 Countdown 5.55 Bagpuss
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BBC2’s Friday evenings, once a hotbed of fine comedy programming, seems to have lost its way slightly. Band of Brothers is wasted here – it deserves a slightly more prominent time-slot
because it’s not half bad. And I’m sorry but Gardener’s World and Newsnight Review aren’t enough to lure me away from the pub. Or Channel 4. But maybe I’m missing the point. People who don’t go out on Friday nights are probably the sort of people who like patronising gardening shows and ever-so-slightly pretentious arts reviews. Still, Robot Wars Extreme, eh? Phwoar! [Get out – TV Ed] 22.10.01