TV Guide This Week

Revision as of 10:45, 24 June 2006

A guide to game shows for the nine days commencing Saturday 24 June 2006

Schedules subject to change.

We have to pretend to be a grown-up listings magazine this week, and offer Schedule A and Schedule B for much of this week. Showing our Midlands sensibilities, we decree that Schedule A is for matches going out on ATV (or whatever the independent network is calling itself), and Schedule B is for matches going out on the BBC.

Saturday 24 June

0900	BBC2	Mighty Truck O' Stuff
1010	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1610)
1400	CBBC	Raven New!	Series one, just in case there's anyone on the planet who hasn't seen it yet.
1430	CBBC	50/50 New!
1600	CITV	Eliminator	ITV announced this week that they'd stop making children's programmes. That's as in programmes aimed at children, rather than programmes made by children, of which there's an example in the next Week.
1655	MOR4	Scrapheap Challenge Top 10
1730	C4	Deal or No Deal
1900	ITV	Millionaire	Back to a full hour.
2035	RTE1	Fame and Fortune
2115	C4	Big Brother (S4C 2200)

Sunday 25

0930	CITV	Eliminator
1005	ITV2	Millionaire
1100	BBC1	Bargain Hunt
1204	Rad4	ISIHAC	Possibly the best round of One Song To The Tune Of Another this century.
1810	Mor4	Deal or No Deal
2030	Rad4	Absent Friends	Tony Hawks investigates characters on the radio who write letters, but never appear on air. His trail starts with a correspondent in North Wales.
2100	C4	Big Brother (S4C 2200)

Weekdays

0700	STYL	Bargain Hunt
1025	TV5M	La cible
1110	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1510)
1130	CBBC	Raven
1230	TV5M	Jeu New!	Exact details to be confirmed.
1300	MOR4	Countdown (approx time)	C4 episodes from 9 to 15 June.
1325	S4C	Deal or No Deal x2
1455	C4	Coach Trip (S4C 1800)	Concludes on Friday.
1530	C4	Countdown (S4C 1510 next day, C4 rpt about 58 hours later.)	Jan Ravens is appearing one hour too early.
1545	Rad4	Georgian Giants New!	What's a hugely successful television quiz host to do after your long-running show has been axed in favour of lessons in how not to handle a telephone? If you're William G. Stewart, you'll make a week-long series of short documentaries on sporting heroes of the 18th century.
1615	C4	RTS Daytime Programme Of The Year Deal or No Deal (Mor4 1810)
1715	BBC2	Weakest Link
1800	ITV	The Price is Right	Extra time on Mo, Tu, Fr afternoons may mean this show is dispensible.
2100	C4	Big Brother (S4C Mo 2230, Tu-We 2200, Th 2210)

Monday 26

1230	BBC7	ISIHAC (also 1930)
1330	Rad4	The Write Stuff	Henry James.
1605	BBC2	Bamzooki New!	It's also Matt's last day on Blue Peter. The fond farewell might have gone out only on the CBBC channel, which would have been just wrong.
1830	Rad4	I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue	Back to the Halifax, where the regulars are joined by (Schedule A) Rob Brydon (Schedule B) Sandi Toksvig (Schedule C) Samantha.
2100	LIV2	The Amazing Race	Spain.

Tuesday 27

1230	BBC7	The News Quiz (also 1930)
1500	ITV	Cash Cab
1605	BBC2	Bamzooki
1700	ITV	The Price is Right
2030	BBC4	Never Mind the Full Stops
2100	FTN	Crazy Drivers
2200	BBC2	University Challenge - The Repeats (NI 2320)	News v Writers from 2 Jan.

Wednesday 28

1230	BBC7	Whispers
1500	ITV	Cash Cab New!	Postponed from Monday, the first of a new series.
1605	BBC2	Bamzooki
2300	Rad4	All The Way From Memphis

Thursday 29

1230	BBC7	Just a Minute (also 1930)
1500	ITV	Cash Cab
1600	S4C	Mama Mia
1605	BBC2	Bamzooki
2100	C4	Big Brother (S4C 2210)
2200	BBC2	Mastermind (not 2W)	Bruce Springsteen, The Titanic, Mary Secole, and the ultimate in small subjects, 20th Century Liechtenstein.
2230	BBC4	Never Mind the Full Stops	Jilly Cooper, Paddy O'Connell, Marina Hyde, Simon Fanshawe.

Friday 30

1500	ITV	Cash Cab	(Schedule A may apply)
1800	ITV	The Price is Right
2030	C4	Big Brother (also S4C)	Continues 2200.
2130	C4	8 out of 10 Cats (S4C 0005)

Saturday 1 July (provisional)

Schedules A and B for this date are yet to be confirmed.

0900	BBC2	Mighty Truck O' Stuff
1000	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1600)
1400	CBBC	Raven
1430	CBBC	50/50
1600	CITV	Eliminator
1745	C4	Deal or No Deal
1915	ITV	Millionaire
2035	RTE1	Fame and Fortune
2100	C4	Big Brother
2130	BBC2	QI
2216	TV5M	Fort Boyard New!	Which may or may not yet make it to air.

Sunday 2 (provisional)

0930	CITV	Eliminator
1020	ITV2	Millionaire
1100	BBC1	Bargain Hunt
1120	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1720)
1204	Rad4	ISIHAC
1400	CBBC	Raven
1430	CBBC	50/50
1810	Mor4	Deal or No Deal
2100	C4	Big Brother

Phew. The good news is that, after 1 July, only two more days suffer from Schedule A / Schedule B, and it's only the evenings that are affected.

Challenge?

Saturday

0700	Don't Try This at Home
0800	Gladiators
0900	Power Breaking
0930	Strongman Championship
1000	Dog Eat Dog
1055	Friends Like These
1200	Catchphrase x2
1300	Family Fortunes x2
1400	Larry Grayson's Generation Game
1515	Big Break
1600	Bullseye x2
1700	Gladiators
1800	Strongman
1830	Takeshi
1900	Larry Grayson's Generation Game
2015	Big Break
2100	Takeshi x2
2200	Gambling

Sunday

As Saturday, except

0700	Takeshi x2

Monday - Friday

0700	Takeshi
0730	Catchphrase
0800	Gladiators
0900	Supermarket Sweep
0930	Wheel of Fortune
1000	Fifteen-to-One
1100	Catchphrase x2
1200	Family Fortunes x2
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye
1430	Blind Date x2
1700	Friends Like These
1800	Takeshi x2
1900	Gladiators
2000	Stars in Their Eyes
2100	See below
2200	Millionaire
2300	Gambling

9pm programmes:

Mo - Bruce's Price is Right x2

Tu - Don't Try This At Home

We - Catchphrase x2

Th - Stars in Their Eyes

Fr - Family Fortunes x2, with Les Dennis

Channel abbreviations:

AONE	Adventure One
BBC1	BBC1 (Network unless otherwise noted)
BBC2	BBC2 (Network unless otherwise noted)
2W	BBC2 Wales digital service
BBC3	BBC3
BBC4	BBC4
BBC7	BBC7 (Radio)
C5	Five
CBBC	CBBC
CBBS	Cbeebies
DHL	Discovery Home and Leisure
DISC	Discovery
DSCI	Discovery Science
FTN	FTN
G2	UKTV G2
GOLD	UKTV Gold
ITV	ITV (Network unless otherwise noted)
ITV2	ITV2
ITV3	ITV3
ITV4	ITV4
LIV	UK Living TV
LIV2	UK Living TV 2
MOR4	More 4
PLYR	Player
Rad1	BBC Radio 1
Rad2	BBC Radio 2
Rad4	BBC Radio 4
RSct	BBC Radio Scotland
RUls	BBC Radio Ulster
RWal	BBC Radio Wales
RTE1	RTE1 (Irish)
RTR1	RTE Radio 1 (Irish)
S4C	S4C (analogue)
S4CD	S4C Digidol
SCOT	Scottish / Grampian (ITV in Scotland)
SKY1	Sky Onc
SKY3	Sky Thrcc
TV3	TV3 (Irish)
TV5M	TV5 Monde (Europe)
TG4	TG 4 (Irish)
UTV	Ulster Television (ITV in Northern Ireland)

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