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wednesday 28 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story BBC2, 9pm Julie Walters stars as the eponymous housewife censor, who in 1963 waged war against what she called the ‘filth’ on the telly, and specifically the man she held responsible for putting it there – director general of the Beeb, Sir Hugh Carleton-Greene. A snapshot of media history.
My Car is My Lover: Strangelove Five, 10pm There’s always been comments about the closeness between some men and their cars. According to this, and with these two men, it’s all true. Well, most of it. They both claim to have sexual relationships with their cars and be ‘mechaphiles’. And they’re not even Transformers.
Stuart Maconie’s TV Towns ITV3, 9pm One of the fun things about seeing a film set in a familiar location is a bit of landmark spotting. How many people have wandered down East Street to check out the alleyway from Quadrophenia? Loads, that’s how many. Stuart Maconie brings his film crew to Newcastle to check out its celluloid past.
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6.00am Breakfast 9.15 Helicopter Heroes 10.00 Homes Under the Hammer 11.00 Open House 11.30 Cash in the Attic 12.15pm Bargain Hunt 1.00 BBC News 1.30 South East Today; Weather 1.45 Doctors 2.15 Diagnosis Murder 3.00 BBC News 3.05 Lazytown 3.30 Mortified 3.55 Frankenstein’s Cat 4.05 Thumb Wrestling Federation 4.10 Young Dracula 4.35 Blue Peter 5.00 Newsround 5.15 The Weakest Link
6.00 – 9.00am Children’s television 9.00 The Cramp Twins 9.10 Eliot Kid 9.25 What’s New Scooby-Doo? 9.45 ChuckleVision 10.00 The Story of Tracy Beaker 10.30 Dangermouse 10.50 Animal Park: Wild in Africa 11.20 FILM: Born Yesterday (1950) 1.00pm See Hear 1.30 Working Lunch 2.00 Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting 2.30 Through the Keyhole 3.00 Murder, She Wrote 3.45 Flog it! 4.30 Ready Steady Cook 5.15 Escape to the Country
6.00am GMTV 9.25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 10.30 This Morning 11.10 ITV News 11.15 Meridian News and Weather 11.20 This Morning 12.30pm Loose Women 1.30 ITV Lunchtime News and Weather 2.00 Dickinson’s Real Deal 3.00 House Guest 3.30 Taggart 5.00 Goldenballs
6.10am The Hoobs 6.35 The Hoobs 7.00 Freshly Squeezed 7.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Just Shoot Me 8.30 Frasier 9.00 Frasier 9.30 Will and Grace 10.00 The OC 11.00 Smallville: Superman The Early Years 11.50 Rescue Remedies 12.00pm News at Noon 12.30 FILM: Mysterious Island (1961) 2.20 A Place in the Sun: Home Or Away 3.25 Countdown 4.15 Deal Or No Deal 5.00 The Paul O’Grady Show
6.00-9.00am Children’s television 9.00 The Wright Stuff 10.30 Trisha Goddard 11.30 Put Your Money Where Your House is 12.00pm House Doctor 12.30 Five News 12.45 Law and Order 1.45 Neighbours 2.15 Home and Away 2.50 Rough Guide to Eco Escapes 3.10 FILM: Britannic (2000) 5.00 Five News With Natasha Kaplinsky 5.30 Neighbours
6.00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9.00 International Rugby Union 11.00 Athletics: Great Manchester Run 11.30 Football Asia 12.00pm LIVE Cricket: Friends Provident Trophy 8.00 Boots ‘n’ All 9.00 Trans World Sport 10.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 10.30 International Football 12.00am Boots ‘n’ All 1.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 1.30 International Football 3.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge III 2008 5.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5.30 Total Rugby
6.00 BBC News 6.30 South East Today; Weather 7.00 The One Show 7.30 Fire Detectives Series following the work of the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Brigade investigation team. 8.00 Match of the Day Live Gary Lineker and guests present live coverage of England v USA at Wembley. Fabio Capello will be hoping his side fare better than in their last match, which they lost 1-0 to France. 10.00 BBC News 10.25 South East Today; Weather 10.33 BBC Weather 10.35 The National Lottery Draws Myleene Klass is live from Lottery HQ with the Thunderball, Dream Number and Lotto draws. Plus music from special guests Boyzone. Don’t you feel special? Would you feel more special if your numbers came up? 10.45 One Foot in the Grave Victor and Margaret visit a solicitor to sort out some legal matters. 11.15 FILM: Educating Rita (1983) Starring Michael Caine, Julie Walters. Moving comedy drama based on Willy Russell’s hit play. 1.00am Weatherview 1.05 Sign Zone: Seaside Rescue 1.35 Meet The Immigrants 2.05 An Island Parish 2.35 Ben Fogle’s Extreme Dreams (x2) 3.35 Animal 24:7
6.00 Eggheads Quizadelic. 6.30 A Taste of My Life Nigel Slater hosts a biographical chat show which explores the lives and loves of celebrities through their personal experiences of food. 7.00 Mountain Griff Rhys Jones continues his exploration of Britain’s mountains with a journey across the Pennines, the natural barrier between Yorkshire and Lancashire. 8.00 Springwatch Bill looks at efforts to bring back the European crane to the UK and finds out what the Springwatch audience have seen and filmed themselves. 9.00 Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story See highlights. 10.30 Newsnight Coverage of today’s important national and international news stories with Gavin Esler. 11.20 Visions of the Future Leading theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku looks at the revolution in genetics and biotechnology, which promises unprecedented health and longevity but also raises the spectre of a Frankenstein future of genetically engineered people. Will we, as transhumanists expect, evolve into a new species? Is Heroes closer than we think? 12.20am Joins BBC News 4.00 American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941
6.00 Meridian Tonight 6.30 ITV Evening News; Weather 7.00 Emmerdale Zak is in a fix when it looks like he’s spent Belle’s school fund. D’oh! 7.30 Coronation Street An attack on the café leaves Jerry fighting for his life. Norris takes drastic action to ensure that the Kabin is secure. T’Street’s not safe – not like t’good old days of serial killers and t’like. 8.30 Britain’s Got Talent Ant and Dec present the third live semi-final of Britain’s Got Talent. 10.00 News at Ten; Weather 10.40 Six Degrees Series following the lives of six people who are connected to each other, but don’t yet realise it. Laura is a grieving single mother, Whitney is the self-made success story, Steven is an artist and photographer, Damian is unable to escape his criminal brother’s shadow, Mae has a dangerous past that she is hiding from, and Carlos is the good guy with a crush – who doesn’t know what he’s in for. 11.40 Secret Diary of a Call Girl Drama series starring Billie Piper, based on the real-life diaries of an upmarket escort. 12.05am Bingo Night Live! 1.05 Quincy, ME 2.05 Loose Women Another helping 2.55 The Jeremy Kyle Show 3.50 ITV Nightscreen 5.30 ITV Early Morning News
6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Hollyoaks Louise accuses Frankie of damaging Evissa, and when a thug threatens Frankie in The Dog, she blames Louise and Warren. 7.00 Channel 4 News 7.55 3 Minute Wonder 8.00 Property Ladder Sarah Beeny meets Marigold Charles and Joel Peters who are attempting to turn a North London development opportunity into a large profit. 9.00 River Cottage Spring Hugh pits his mum’s shepherd’s pie to a taste test against Delia Smith’s ‘cheat’ version and challenges five Bristol families to convert a derelict area into a smallholding. 10.00 Desperate Housewives With Mrs McCluskey’s house destroyed, Lynette faces the possibility that her family and Ida Greenberg may not have survived. Tornadoes – not just for hitchhiking to Oz. 11.05 The World’s Smallest Man and Me Mark Dolan travels to find out more about the contenders for the title of World’s Smallest Man. 12.10am The Making of Sex and the City: The Movie 12.40 4 Music: What About Me? 1.15 4 Music: The Nokia Green Room 1.40 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 3.25 Warlords Next Door? 4.20 3 Minute Wonder: Iraq and Me 4.25 St Elsewhere 5.15 Countdown
6.00 Home and Away Ric’s secret is out of the bag. What else does Noel have planned for Ric? Not a cake. 6.30 Monkey Life The new baby woolly monkey meets its own kind for the very first time. Insert your own relative here. 7.00 Five News With Natasha Kaplinsky 7.30 Massive Speed Chris Barrie embarks on a whirlwind tour of the history of aerial dog-fighting. Smoke him a kipper, he’ll be back for breakfast. 8.00 Megastructures Documentary series on huge engineering projects. 9.00 The Hotel Inspector Revisits Following on from the first visit of hotelier and author Ruth Watson, this week’s show sees the cameras return to Greenwich in South London to see how actor-hotelier Robert Gray has changed his three-bedroom B&B. 10.00 My Car is My Lover: Strangelove See highlights. 11.05 Most Evil Forensic crime series that looks into the minds of the most deadly criminals, with forensic psychiatrist Dr Michael Stone. This edition focuses on people driven to kill by jealousy. 12.05am PartyPoker.com European Open IV 1.35 Major League Baseball 4.40 IndyCar Series 5.10 House Doctor 5.35 Neighbours
Sky Sports 2 6.00am Test Cricket 8.00 Sports Unlimited 9.00 Ladies European Tour Golf 10.00 Poker: Sports Stars Challenge III 2008 12.00pm Golf: PGA EuroPro Tour 2.00 International Rugby Union 4.00 Golf: PGA EuroPro Tour 6.00 Boots ‘n’ All 7.00 LIVE Winning Post 9.00 Golf: PGA EuroPro Tour 11.00 NFL: Total Access 12.00am Tenpin Bowling: World Masters 1.00 Trans World Sport 2.00 Golf: PGA EuroPro Tour
Sky Sports 3 6.00am Aerobics: Oz Style 6.30 Pipeline Adventures 7.00 WWE Heat 8.00 Pool: World Cup Of Pool 9.00 Premier League Speedway 11.00 Aerobics: Oz Style 11.30 Racing News 12.00pm Sports Unlimited 1.00 NFL: Total Access 2.00 Premier League Speedway 4.00 Showjumping 5.00 WWE The Bottom Line 6.00 WWE Afterburn 7.00 Total Rugby 7.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 8.00 Polo 9.00 World Tenpin Bowling Masters 10.00 Boots ‘n’ All 11.00 Women’s Pool 12.00am Women’s Pool 1.00 Everyday Is Raceday: Touring Car Diaries 2.00 Boots ‘n’ All 2.30 Polo 3.30 Max Power
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2.00pm Tru Calling 3.00 Stargate SG-1 (x2) 5.00 Futurama (x3) 6.30 Malcolm in the Middle 7.00 The Simpsons (x2) 8.00 Don’t Forget the Lyrics 9.00 Cold Case 10.00 FILM: Passenger 57 (1993) 11.35 Prison Break 12.35am Road Wars 1.05 Cold Case 1.55 Tru Calling 2.50 Bite Size Brainiac
7.00pm Holby City 8.00 FILM: Shrek 2 (2004) 9.25 Ideal 9.55 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (x2) 10.55 Glamour Girls 11.25 American Dad (x2) 12.10am Ideal 12.40 Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (x2)1.40 Bizarre ER 2.10 The Wall 2.55 Glamour Girls 3.25 Spendaholics 4.25 Close
7.00pm World News Today 7.30 Sounds of the Seventies Solos 7.35 Batman 8.00 Venice 9.00 My New Best Friend 10.00 Death of a WAG: Storyville 11.00 Auntie’s War on Smut 12.00am What Happened Next? 1.00 My New Best Friend 2.00 Death of a WAG: Storyville 3.00 My New Best Friend
3.45pm The Ricki Lake Show 4.30 Britain’s Got Talent 6.00 Britain’s Got More Talent 7.00 Smallville 8.00 FILM: The Truth About Charlie (2002) 10.00 Britain’s Got More Talent 11.00 Keith Lemon’s World Tour 11.30 Laura, Ben and Him 12.00am Coronation Street 1.00 Britain’s Got More Talent
3.30pm Jeeves and Wooster 4.35 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 5.45 Heartbeat 6.50 Dempsey And Makepeace 7.55 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 9.00 Stuart Maconie’s TV Towns. See highlights. 10.00 Trial and Retribution 12.10am Tales of the Unexpected (x2) 1.10 Hack 1.55 Ironside (x2)
4.25pm Hollyoaks 5.00 Friends (x2) 6.00 Scrubs (x2) 7.00 Hollyoaks 7.30 My Name is Earl 8.00 Friends (x2) 9.00 Reaper 10.00 Big Bang Theory 10.30 The Inbetweeners 11.00 Comedy Showcase: Kevin Bishop Sketch 11.30 Brothers and Sisters 12.30am Scrubs (x2) 1.25 The Simple Life (x2)
4.00pm A Place in the Sun (x2) 5.05 Relocation, Relocation 6.05 Deal Or No Deal 7.00 Grand Designs 8.00 More4 News 8.30 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart 9.00 Dispatches: Warlords Next Door? 10.00 Father Ted 10.35 The IT Crowd 11.05 Gary’s War 11.40 Shrink Rap 12.40am The Closer 1.40 Gary’s War
4.00pm Charmed (x2) 6.00 America’s Next Top Model 7.00 The Steve Wilkos Show 7.55 The Fix 8.00 Desperate Learners Driving School (x2) 9.00 Nothing to Declare (x2) 10.00 CSI: Miami 11.00 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 12.00am Grey’s Anatomy 1.00 Living With Kimberly Stewart 2.00 Bewitched (x2)
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6.20pm My Family 7.00 Open All Hours 7.40 Dinnerladies 8.20 The Thin Blue Line 9.00 Jonathan Creek 10.10 Only Fools and Horses (x2) 12.35am Open All Hours 1.15 The Thin Blue Line 1.55 New Adventures of Old Christine 2.20 Fantasy Island 3.10 The Bill 3.55 Close Up
2.00pm Becker (x2) 3.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 4.00 King of Queens (x2) 5.00 Everybody Loves Raymond (x2) 6.00 Frasier (x2) 7.00 Scrubs (x2) 8.00 Two and a Half Men (x2) 9.00 Scrubs (x2)10.00 South Park (x4) 12.00am Comedy Store 12.30 Edinburgh and Beyond 1.30 South Park
6.00pm American Chopper 7.00 How it’s Made 7.30 How Do They Do It? 8.00 My Shocking Story 9.00 Rome 10.00 Bone Detectives 11.00 Crime Scene Australia 12.00am Most Evil 1.00 The FBI Files 2.00 Forensic Detectives 3.00 Bone Detectives 3.50 My Shocking Story 4.40 Building The Future
12.00pm The Lost World 1.00 Quantum Leap 2.00 FILM: Coneheads (1993) 4.00 Star Trek 5.00 The Lost World 6.00 Dark Angel 7.00 Quantum Leap 8.00 Angel 9.00 FILM: Spirit Trap (2005) 10.50 FILM: Stargate (1994) 1.10am FILM: Hercules and the Circle of Fire (1994) 3.00 Flash Gordon 4.00 Star Trek
1.55pm The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) 5.10 Billion Dollar Brain (1967) 7.00 Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) 9.00 Shenandoah (1965) 10.50 The Grissom Gang (1971) 1.00am Billion Dollar Brain (1967) 3.00 The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) 4.30 A King in New York (1957)
10.00am Apres Vous (2003) 11.55 Them (2005) 1.15pm Factotum (2005) 2.55 The Ground Truth (2006) 4.15 Tube Tales (1999) 5.50 The Thin Red Line (1998) 8.40 Them (2005) 10.00 Pangea Day Highlights 11.20 Factotum (2005) 1.00am The Ground Truth (2006) 2.20 The Page Turner (2006)
1.00pm Boomerang (1947) 2.50 The Hunters (1958) 5.05 The Riddle of the Sands (1979) 7.05 A Walk in the Clouds (1995) 9.00 White Noise (2004) Communicating with the dead and the past through an old trannie – transistor radio. 10.50 Principles of Lust (2003) 12.55am Waking Life (2001)
1.00pm The Mayor of Casterbridge (x2) 3.00 Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) 5.10 Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter (1968) 6.50 Logan’s Run (1976) 9.00 The Dead Pool (1988) 10.40 Hit Man (1972) 12.20am Meet Me in St Louis (1944) 2.20 Sergeant York (1941) 5.00 The Verdict (1946)
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