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Saturday 5th December BBC ONE 6:00 Breakfast 10:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30 Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen 12:00 BBC News 12:10 Regional News and Weather 12:15 Football Focus 1:00 Snooker: UK Championship 2:15 Rugby Union 4:30 Final Score 5:05 BBC News 5:15 Regional News and Weather 5:25 Hole in the Wall - Anton Du Beke hosts the madcap gameshow where celebrities dress in tight silver suits and try to avoid getting pushed into a pool of cold water by a fast-moving wall. Team captains Joe Swash and Austin Healey are joined by model Caprice, who gets the shock of her life, the Apprentice’s Ben Clarke, TV presenter Martin Roberts and actress Verity Rushworth 5:55 Merlin 6:40 Strictly Come Dancing - It’s the quarter finals of Strictly Come Dancing and the pressure is mounting. The five remaining couples must perform two different dances in a bid to stay in the competition. With the final in sight no one wants to leave now. Casting their critical eye over the performances are Judges Len Goodman, Alesha Dixon, Craig Revel Horwood and Bruno Tonioli 8:10 The National Lottery Draws 8:20 Casualty - As Others See Us - Medical drama series. Ruth gets a shock when a face from the past turns up at the ED. Meanwhile, Adam’s suspicions are raised when Sean tries to play happy families, and Polly struggles to come to terms with recent events 9:10 The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson 9:40 Strictly Come Dancing Results 10:10 BBC News 10:30 Match of the Day 11:55 The Football League Show
BBC TWO 6:00 Me Too! 6:20 Big Cook Little Cook 6:40 Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies 7:00 Dennis & Gnasher 7:10 Dennis & Gnasher 7:25 Sportsround 7:40 What’s New Scooby Doo? 8:00 Gimme a Break 8:30 TMi 10:00 Doctor Who 10:45 ChuckleVision 10:55 The Story of Tracy Beaker 11:30 Animals at Work 12:00 The Cut 12:25 The Season 12:55 The 5:19 Show 1:15 Kyle XY 2:00 Animal Park 2:45 FILM: The Big Circus 4:30 Snooker 6:05 Dad’s Army 6:40 Dinner at Noon 7:20 An Englishman Abroad - Alan Bates, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Harold Innocent, Vernon Dobtcheff, Czeslaw Grocholski. Dir: John Schlesinger. Alan Bennett’s award-winning film drama based on a meeting between Australian actress Coral Browne and British spy Guy Burgess. When a mysterious Englishman appears in her dressing room, Coral Browne assumes he is attached to the Embassy, but if so, why are his trousers out at the knees? What does he want with her face powder? An invitation to lunch will perhaps explain, though the lunch consists of one tomato 8:25 Talking Heads - Her Big Chance. Julie Walters. Dir: Giles Foster. Drama monologue by Alan Bennett, starring Julie Walters. Lesley is a small-part actress who lands a role in a video set on a yacht, but things are not as they seem 9:00 Talking Heads 2 - Waiting for the Telegram. Thora Hird. Dir: Stuart Burge. Drama monologue written by Alan Bennett, starring Dame Thora Hird. Violet’s long life includes two telegrams, both from the monarch. Awaiting the second, she remembers the first 9:30 Being Alan Bennett 10:30 The Thick of It 11:00 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 11:45 Snooker 12:35 Snooker
BBC ONE 6:00 Breakfast 7:30 Match of the Day 9:00 The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 Fern Britton Meets... 11:00 Country Tracks 12:00 The Politics Show 1:00 Cash in the Attic 1:30 Keeping Up Appearances 2:00 Murder, She Wrote 2:45 EastEnders 4:40 Points of View 4:55 Songs of Praise 5:30 BBC News 5:45 Regional News and Weather 6:00 Life 7:00 Countryfile - Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury bring us another slice of country life, including an investigation by John Craven into the alarming rise in wildlife crime. James Wong heads off to Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, to gather some mistletoe and to see how much it fetches at the town’s annual auction and on Adam’s farm in the Cotswolds, he and his dad are inspecting the hedgerows to find out why they have produced such a bumper crop of berries this year 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Small Island - John Alexander. Andrea Levy’s award-winning story of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert her new husband in England where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women have both married in unpromising circumstances. As Hortense remembers her life in Jamaica and the love she had for Michael and his betrayal of her, Queenie also remembers her night of passion with the same Michael when her husband was away at war. Will they uncover the secret they share? 10:30 BBC News 10:50 Regional News and Weather 10:55 FILM: Down with Love 12:35 The Sky at Night
BBC TWO 6:00 Me Too! 6:20 Big Cook Little Cook 6:40 Mama Mirabelle’s Home Movies 7:00 Uncle Max 7:10 OOglies 7:30 Prank Patrol 8:00 The Secret Show 8:15 The Secret Show 8:30 Best of Friends 9:00 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 10:00 Something for the Weekend 11:30 Escape to the Country 12:15 FILM: Tiger Bay 2:00 Snooker 5:20 Talking Heads 6:05 A Day Out 6:55 Talking Heads 7:30 James May on the Moon - James May commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landings. He meets three of the men who walked on the moon, before experiencing the thrill of weightlessness, and the bone-crushing G forces of a Saturn V rocket launch. Finally, he puts on a space suit and flies to the edge of space in a U2 spy plane, where he looks down at the curvature of the earth and upwards into the black infinity of space 8:30 Top Gear 9:30 Miranda 10:00 Match of the Day 2 - Adrian Chiles presents highlights from the day’s Premier League games. Everton and Tottenham Hotspur meet at Goodison Park. Just one goal - an own goal - was scored in the two meetings between the sides in the 2008/09 season, but Spurs put two past the Toffees in the League Cup earlier in 2009. At Craven Cottage, Sunderland visit Fulham - two teams who have made promising starts to the season. The Black Cats’ striker Kenwyne Jones has scored in each of his previous three games against the Cottagers 10:50 Never Mind the Buzzcocks 11:20 Argumental 11:50 Snooker 12:40 Snooker
Birthdays: Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards (1964) - Ronnie O’Sullivan (1975) - Frankie Muniz - (1985) On this Day: Amadeus Mozart dies aged 35 (1791) The Final episode of ‘Monty Pythons Flying Circus’ airs (1974)
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GMTV 6.00 The Fluffy Club 7.25 Toonattik 9.25 CITV:Horrid Henry 9.40 CITV:Horrid Henry 9.55 CITV:Atomic Betty 10.10 CITV:Atomic Betty 10.25 CITV:Art Attack 10.50 CITV:Tricky Quickies 10.55 ITV News & Weathe 11.00 FILM: Pollyanna 1.35 FILM: Peter Pan3.35 Calendar News and Weather 3.50 FILM: Star Wars: Episode VI 5.00 ITV News & Weather 5.15 FILM: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 6.30 Totally You’ve Been Framed! 7.30 Harry Hill’s The Best of TV Burp The first of three Best of TV Burp shows in the run up to Christmas is jam-packed full of the best clips, skits and quips from all previous series. Featuring Jamie Oliver performing The Jamie Rap, Phil Mitchell deflating, and the trailer for new detective series Life as Meat, in which Harry wakes up in the 70s as an oven-ready chicken, ready to fight crime. Plus Burp legend Paul Burrell is up to his usual tricks in Australian Princess, and a host of top telly stars express their astonishment after learning that Emmerdale’s Val has cataracts 8.00 The X Factor - Dermot O’Leary hosts the semi-finals. The four remaining acts must perform two songs each, and it will be up to them to really sing their hearts out if they are to be in with a chance of making it to next week’s final. Judges Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, Dannii Minogue and Louis Walsh will be crossing their fingers for their favoured acts. Who will impress the panel and the voters at home? 9.30 Rod Stewart: One Night Only 10.45 ITV News & Weather 11.00 FILM: Ray 1.45 FILM: Clean and Sober
Sunday 6th December
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6:10 Planet Cook 6:30 Yo Gabba Gabba 7:00 7:30 Freesports On 4 8:00 The Morning Line 8:55 T4: Rimmel London Presents The World’s Greatest Pop Star 10:00 T4: Friends 10:35 T4: Hollyoaks Music Show 11:10 T4: 4music Favourites: Robbie Williams 12:10 T4: 90210 1:10 T4: Mariah Carey: T4 Special 1:45 Channel 4 Racing 3:50 My First Year 4:20 Come Dine With Me 4:50 Come Dine With Me 5:20 Come Dine With Me 5:50 Come Dine With Me 6:20 Come Dine With Me 6:50 Channel 4 News 7:20 - Speed 2: Cruise Control - Annie (Bullock) And Her Boyfriend Alex (Jason Patric) Take A Romantic Cruise To The Caribbean, But Also Aboard The Cruise Liner Are A Gathering Of Diamond Merchants, And Arch-Villain John Geiger (Willem Defoe), Who Intends To Steal Their Merchandise. He Plans To Ram The Ship Into Dry Land And, In The Mayhem, Escape With The Loot. Bullock And Patric Are Perfect As The Dynamic Duo Who Save The Day And The Ocean-Going Scenario Allows For More Spectacular Special Effects Than The Original. Edited For Language And ViolEnce 9:40 - Premonition - Stars Sandra Bullock As Linda Hanson, An Ordinary Housewife With Two Children Whose Life Is Thrown Upside Down When Her Husband Jim (Julian Mcmahon) Is Killed In A Car Crash. After Falling Into A Grief-Stricken Sleep, She Awakens To Find Him In The Kitchen Drinking Coffee. At First She Believes She Has Had A Nightmare But The Next Morning She Awakes To His Funeral Preparations. While Everyone Else Thinks She’s Going Mad, Linda Realises That She’s Caught In A Time Slip, With The Days Before And After Jim’s Death All Mixed Up. Now She Must Work Out How To Prevent His Death Without Consequences For Her Or Her Daughters. Network Premiere 11:40 8 Out Of 10 Cats 12:154music: Live From Abbey Road
FIVE 6.00 Sunrise National and international news 7.00 Angels of Jarm 7.05 Milkshake! Bop Box 7.10 Fireman Sam 7.25 Rupert Bear 7.35 Mio Mao 7.40 Hana’s Helpline 7.55 Noddy in Toyland 8.05 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.25 Mist 8.40 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 9.00 Olivia 9.15 Little Princess 9.30 Gerald McBoing Boing 10.00 NFLUK 11.00 The Gadget Show: Winter Special 12.00 Britain’s Best Brain 1.00 Zoo Days 1.10 Film: Brave Warrior 2.40 Film: Operation Pacific 4.55 Film: Cool Hand Luke - Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J D Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin. Sharp, bruising prison drama about a man who, following a drunken spree, is sentenced to two years on a chain gang in the southern United States. Despite the brutalities of the prison regime, the high-spirited individual refuses to submit to authority and becomes a hero to his fellow convicts 7.15 Five News 7.20 NCIS 8.15 CSI: NY - Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Hill Harper, Eddie Cahill, Claire Forlani. New York-based spin-off of the crime drama series. Mac and Stella investigate the death of a woman at the French Consulate, while Danny and Lindsay try to find out who killed an up-and-coming chef with a corkscrew 9.10 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Eric Szmanda, Paul Guilfoyle, Wallace Langham. Drama series about a team of forensic investigators in Las Vegas. The CSIs are called to the murder of a motorcycle gang member at a biker bar. The investigation intensifies when the team discovers the victim was working undercover - but who revealed his true identity to the gang? 10.10 Law and Order 11.10 CSI: NY 12.05 SuperCasino
TV Highlights
Rod Stewart - One Night Only ITV - 9:30pm
Rod Stewart performs a selection of the iconic hits that have made him a music legend, including Maggie May and I Don’t Want to Talk About It, together with his new interpretations of some of soul music’s greatest songs
Ray five - 11pm
Oscar-winning drama telling the turbulent life story of blind musical genius Ray Charles. Ray’s audacity and groundbreaking talent made him a phenomenon on the road and in the studio, but drugs, women and bad memories took a heavy toll on his personal life
Birthdays: Ira Gershwin (1896) - Rick Buckler (1955) - Peter Buck (1956) - Andrew Flintoff (1977) On this Day: First pieces of international space station were constructed (1998) Roy Orbison dies (1988)
ITV 1 6.00 GMTV 6:00 The Fluffy Club 7.25 Toonattik 9.25 CITV:Paz. Starry, Starry Night 9.35 CITV:Supernormal 9.50 CITV:Horrid Henry 10.05 CITV:Atomic Betty 10.20 CITV:Emu 10.35 CITV:Planet Sketch 10.45 Coronation Street Omnibus 1.00 ITV News & Weather 1.05 Kids Do the Funniest Things 2.05 Columbo 4.10 Agatha Christie’s Poirot 6.10 Calendar News and Weather 6.25 ITV News & Weather 6.45 All Star Family Fortunes - Vernon Kay hosts the gameshow in which two celebrities and their families battle it out in a bid to win up to 30,000 pounds for the charity of their choice. Today Dancing on Ice judge Karen Barber and clan take on comedian Paddy McGuiness and his Bolton-based brood. The Barbers are playing for Cancer Research, while the McGuinnesses are supporting the British Heart Foundation 7.30 The X Factor - Find out the results of the latest public vote, as Dermot O’Leary reveals which performers will have to fight for survival in a sing-off. The bottom two acts will face the judges again, and one will be eliminated, losing their chance of competing in next week’s final. Who is going home today? 8.30 FILM: Batman Begins 11.10 ITV News & Weather 11.20 Carol Ann Duffy: The South Bank Show 12.20 Guinness Premiership Rugby
CHANNEL 4 6:05 Sali Mali: Autumn Leaves 6:10 Planet Cook: Aliens Ate My Kebab 6:30 Yo Gabba Gabba 7:00 Avp Pro Beach Volleyball Tour 7:55 The British Gas Great Swim Series 8:50 T4: Friends 9:25 T4: Hollyoaks Omnibus 12:00 T4: 90210 1:00 T4: Friends 1:40 T4: Ugly Betty 2:40 T4: Ugly Betty 3:40 T4: The Simpsons 4:10 T4: The Simpsons 4:45 Deal Or NO Deal - Noel Edmonds Asks The All-Important Question As Contestants Do Battle With The Banker In Their Quest To Leave The Dream Factory With £250,000 5:40 Channel 4 News 6:10 Son Of The Mask - The Magical Mask Goes Missing Once Again In Lawrence Guterman’s Sequel To The Mask . After Cartoonist Tim Avery’s (Jamie Kennedy) Dog Finds It In A Stream, Tim Lands A Big Account, Only To Lose It, And His Job, When He Loses The Mask. It’s Found By His Infant Son Alvey Who Is So Familiar With Tv Cartoons, He’s Not Amazed By His New Toy. But It’s Not Only His Dad Who Wants It Back; The Norse God Of Mischief Loki (Alan Cumming) Needs To Find It Before His Dad Odin (Bob Hoskins) Realises It’s Missing… 8:00 Come Dine With Me 9:00 FILM: Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh’s Oscar-Nominated Comedy-Drama Stars Sally Hawkins As Poppy, A Perpetually Optimistic Primary School Teacher. After Introducing Her Friends, And Setting Up Poppy’s Character, Leigh Moves The Plot Along With The Introduction Of Scott (Eddie Marsan), Poppy’s Misanthropic Driving Instructor, Who Is Her Exact Opposite. As Her Lessons Progress, In TaNdem With A Tentative Romance, The Relationship Between The Pair Develops In One Of The Sharpest Comedies Of Recent Years. Network Premiere. 11:20 FILM: The Hills Have Eyes 2
FIVE 6.00 Sunrise National and international new 7.00 Angels of Jarm 7.05 Milkshake! 7.10 Fireman Sam 7.25 Rupert Bear 7.35 Hana’s Helpline 7.45 The WotWots 8.00 Noddy in Toyland 8.15 The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky 8.35 The Mr. Men Show 8.50 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 9.00 Olivia 9.20 Little Princess 9.35 Gerald McBoing Boing 10.00 Snobs 10.35 Wizards of Waverly Place 11.10 Hannah Montana 11.45 The Tribe 12.10 Rogue Raiders: Cheetahs 1.00 Building the Super Tower 2.00 Film The Last Starfighter 3.50 Film Last Action Hero 6.05 Five News 6.10 Film: Kelly’s Heroes - Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Don Rickles, Carroll O’Connor, Harry Dean Stanton. World War II adventure about an American soldier who captures a German officer and discovers that his prisoner knows the whereabouts of $16million in Nazi gold. He finds out where the bullion is hidden and quickly gathers together a crew of military misfits to help him with his unusual and daring robbery 9.00 Film: Blood Work - Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Tina Lifford, Wanda De Jesus. Crime thriller. A former FBI profiler has retired following a heart transplant. At first, he refuses a woman’s request to hunt down her sister’s killer, but she has a compelling reason for him to take the case - he is living on borrowed time provided by her sister’s heart 11.10 True Horror (Frankenstein) Three-part series that explores the myths surrounding some of the most iconic and terrifying monsters ever created. Revealing the gruesome story of Giovanni Aldini, the inspiration for Mary Shelley’s chilling tale, who used electricity to animate corpses 12.10 FlashForward
TV Highlights
Top Gear BBC 2 - 8:30pm
Jeremy Clarkson travels to Belfast to conduct an extremely thorough test of the Renaultsport Twingo 133 involving a tunnel, a ferry and the actor Ross Kemp. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond investigates ways to speed up your next summer holiday through the crucible of motorsport as he invents the brand new sport of airport vehicle racing.
Batman Begins ITV - 8:30pm
Action adventure reboot of the comic book story, telling the story of how Bruce Wayne came to be Batman. Having watched his parents murdered in front of him, the boy Wayne endures a stint in an Asian prison and is then trained in the martial arts