TV Guide Last Week

A guide to game shows for the week commencing Saturday 16 December 2006

New and notable this week:

One Man and His Dog (BBC2, Saturday 6.10 and Sunday 6.20)

Woof! Woof! Snap! Woof! (Translation: It's less bitchy than X-Factor.)

Fighting Talk: Any Other Business (7pm Sunday, Radio 5)

The sports-talk contest moves into the news for a one-off pilot.

The Weakest Link Is 1000 (5.15 Monday, BBC2)

Celebrations for the thousandth episode of the BBC's favourite daytime quiz show. Apart from Eggheads. And Sudo-Q.

Countdown (3.30 Friday, C4)

The series grand final, and the end of the all-too-short Lynam Interlude.

Come Dine with Me (8pm Friday, C4)

A move into prime-time for the competitive cookery challenge.

The full listings

Saturday 16 December

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1100	Rad5	Fighting Talk (also R Scotland)
1103	RUls	The Blame Game
1200	LIV	The Amazing Race
1304	RWal	Jest a Minute
1600	CITV	Jungle Run
1600	ITV	Extinct: The Quiz	The final.
1630	S4C	Deal or No Deal
1800	BBC1	Strictly Come Dancing	And 2125.
1810	BBC2	One Man And His Dog New!	Concludes tomorrow.
1900	ITV	X Factor	And 2130.
1945	BBC1	In It to Win It
2020	RTE1	Winning Streak
2230	BBC2	QI
2300	Rad4	Brain of Britain

Sunday 17

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1140	Mor4	Codex
1204	Rad4	ISIHAC
1430	S4C	Codex x2	China, and Anglo-Saxon.
1600	CITV	Jungle Run
1625	Mor4	Deal or No Deal
1732	RWal	Jest a Minute
1750	C4	Deal or No Deal
1800	LIV	So You Think You Can Dance
1820	BBC2	One Man And His Dog
1840	C4	Codex	Episode 6, Egypt.
1900	R5	Fighting Talk: Any Other Business New!	Richard Bacon hosts as the game talks about the news.

Weekdays

0600	DSCI	Robotica (also 1200, 1900)
1000	DSCI	Scrapheap Challenge (also 1300, 1700)
1025	TV5M	La cible
1100	Mor4	Deal or No Deal (approx time)
1145	Mor4	Countdown (approx time)	23 - 29 November.
1215	BBC1	Bargain hunt
1232	TV5M	Des Chiffres et des Lettres
1400	ITV	The Price is Right
1430	ITV	Dickinson's Real Deal
1530	C4	Countdown (S4C 1510, C4 rpt about 58 hours later)	Finals week concludes with Paul Zenon.
1600	CITV	Jungle Run
1615	C4	Deal or No Deal (S4C 1425 some days later, Mor4 1805 and next morning)
1715	BBC2	The Weakest Link
1700	ITV	The Price is Right
1830	BBC2	Strictly Come Dancing (Scot not Th)
1830	C5	In The Grid
1930	BBC7	ISIHAC
2000	FTN	Fort Boyard

Monday 18

1230	BBC7	I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (also 1930)
1330	Rad4	Brain of Britain 2006	16/17 Second round: High-scoring runners-up
1400	CBBC	Raven
1715	BBC2	Happy 1000th Birthday Weakest Link Special	Another airing for the show celebrating Anne Robinson's one thousandth birthday.
1800	BBC2	Weakest Link - The Story So Far Special	Favourite moments, out-takes, and an investigation into whatever happened to the initial "The".
1830	Rad4	I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
2030	BBC2	University Challenge (not 2W)	Rep: Pembroke Cambridge v Reading
2200	LIV	Jade's Pa
2200	BBC2	Have I Got News For You (not 2W, NI)

Tuesday 19

1230	BBC7	The News Quiz (also 1930)
2000	NGEO	Chasing Time x2
2100	G2	HIGNFY Night Special	From 2005.
2200	BBC2	Have I Got Old News For You Special	William Hague, Mark Mardell, Peter Serafinowicz.

Wednesday 20

1230	BBC7	My Music (also 1930) New!
1733	TV5M	La Carte aux Tresors	Picardy.
2100	C4	The Secret Millionaires

Thursday 21

1230	BBC7	Just a Minute (also 1930)
1830	Rad4	The Personality Test	This week's host is Adam Hart-Davis.
2200	BBC2	The Blame Game (NI only)

Friday 22

1230	BBC7	Who Goes There? (also 1930)
1530	C4	Countdown	The grand final, and the last appearance of Des Lynam.
1655	BBC1	The Slammer
1700	TOON	Skatoony
1900	BBC1	A Question of Sport
2000	C4	Come Dine With Me Special	A prime-time special.
2000	C5	UK's Strongest Man Special
2100	ITV4	Spy Master
2200	BBC2	QI (not 2W)
2235	BBC1	The Blame Game (NI only)

The next edition will be a Christmas and New Year double bill.

Challenge?

Saturday

0700	Takeshi
0800	Knockout
0900	The Crystal Maze
1000	Catchphrase x3
1130	Price is Right x3
1300	Millionaire x2
1500	Family Fortunes x3
1630	Play Your Cards Right x2
1800	Bullseye x3
1930	Blankety Blank x2
2100	Fear Factor
2200	Gambling

Sunday

As Saturday until

1630	Weakest Link x9
2100	as Saturday

Monday - Friday

0700	Knightmare
0730	Catchphrase
0800	Gladiators
0900	Family Fortunes x2
1000	Price is Right x2
1100	Play Your Cards Right x2
1200	Catchphrase x2
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye
1430	Family Fortunes
1500	Weakest Link
1600	Eggheads x2
1700	Takeshi x2
1800	Crystal Maze
1900	Gladiators
2000	Fear Factor
2100	Millionaire x2
2200	Showbiz Darts New!
2300	Bullseye

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
TOON	Cartoon Network
TV3	TV3 (Irish)
TV5M	TV5 Monde (Europe)
TG4	TG 4 (Irish)
UTV	Ulster Television (ITV in Northern Ireland)