TV Guide This Week
It's the grand final of Brain of Britain (Radio 4, 3pm Mon). There's a couples edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire (ITV, 7pm Sun), do tune in a bit late to miss Seb Coe. St Patrick's Day brings the All Ireland Schools Talent Search (RTE2, 3.55 Sun), and Paul Hollywood gets his spin-off show on BBC2 (8.30 Mon).
Schedules subject to change.
Shortcuts: Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri
Contents |
Saturday 16 March
| 0730 | BBC2 | Great British Menu x5 | The weekly catchup. |
| 1100 | Rad5 | Fighting Talk | |
| 1120 | ITV | Dinner Date | |
| 1430 | BBC2 | Mastermind | A repeat of last night's edition. Not Wales, Scotland 1300. |
| 1430 | CBBC | Hoopla | |
| 1500 | BBC2 | University Challenge | A repeat of last Monday's edition. Wales 1300, Scotland 1330. |
| 1500 | ITV | The Chase With Celebrities | Rita Simons and Russell Watson. |
| 1530 | TV5 | Questions Pour un Champion | |
| 1610 | CITV | Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge | |
| 1615 | C4 | Come Dine with Me x5 | |
| 1635 | CITV | Jungle Run | |
| 1800 | DAVE | Total Wipe Us Out | |
| 1900 | DAVE | Have I Got A Bit More News for You | |
| 1900 | ITV | Saturday Night Takeaway Your Money | Ant and Dec are sorry for Riverdance. |
| 1915 | BBC1 | Pointless Celebrities | Fatima Whitbread and Joe Pasquale. |
| 2000 | BBC1 | It In to Win It | |
| 2005 | RTE1 | Winning Streak | |
| 2020 | ITV | The Cube | Noel and Kevin. A different episode on TV3. |
| 2020 | TG4 | Survivor | |
| 2100 | S4C | Cor Cymru | Children's choirs. |
| 2220 | ITV2 | Celebrity Juice | |
| 2245 | C4 | Big Fat Quiz of the 00s | |
| 2300 | Rad4 | Brain of Britain | |
| 2330 | S4C | Dim Byd Fel Can i Gymru | The satire mob look back at highlights of the annual song contest. |
Sunday 17
| 0710 | WTCH | Scream If You Know the Answer! x2 | |
| 0825 | CBBC | Splatalot | Battle of the Nations. |
| 0900 | WTCH | Total Wipeout Canada | |
| 1125 | ITV | Famous Family Fortunes | |
| 1204 | Rad4 | Just a Minute | |
| 1555 | RTE2 | All Ireland Schools Talent Search Special | Brian Ormond hosts. |
| 1610 | CITV | Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge | |
| 1625 | Mor4 | Come Dine With Me Ireland x5 | |
| 1635 | CITV | Jungle Run | |
| 1700 | DAVE | QI | |
| 1730 | C4 | Deal or No Deal | Elbowed out by Woofts. AudioD. |
| 1740 | DAVE | Have I Got News for You | |
| 1800 | SKY1 | Got to Dance x2 | The live final. |
| 1820 | DAVE | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | |
| 1900 | RTE1 | The Voice of Holland Ireland | |
| 1900 | ITV | Who Wants to be a Millionaire Special | Seb Coe and Steve Cram, Sally Lindsay and Steve White, Louis Smith and Paul Hall. |
| 1900 | RLLY | Masterchef Australia | |
| 1900 | TV3 | Famous Family Fortunes | Samia Ghadie v Bill Tarmey. |
| 1900 | BBC2 | Dragons Den | Not Scotland, Wales. |
| 1900 | C4 | Come Dine With Me | Warwickshire. |
| 2000 | CHAL | Bullseye x2 | |
| 2000 | DAVE | QI XL night | |
| 2200 | BBC2 | Mock the Week Looks Back | Education. Not NI. |
| 2205 | RTE1 | Dragons Den |
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Weekdays
| 0910 | BBC2 | Great British Menu | Signed; three weeks behind the evening episode. |
| 1115 | CBBC | Trapped | |
| 1210 | CBBC | School of Silence | |
| 1215 | BBC1 | Bargain Hunt | Some episodes SD. |
| 1340 | CBBC | Copycats | |
| 1400 | RLLY | Celebrity Masterchef | |
| 1400 | ITV | Dickinson's Real Deal | Some episodes SD. |
| 1400 | CBBC | Splatalot | |
| 1415 | BBC2 | Classic Mastermind | Approx time. NI not Mo, Wales not Tu, nowhere We, 1400 Th. |
| 1445 | C4 | Countdown | Jon Culshaw, assuming he doesn't fall in the 2.50 at Cheltenham tomorrow. |
| 1500 | BBC1 | Beat the Pack | |
| 1530 | TV5 | Questions Pour un Champion | |
| 1530 | C4 | The Common Denominator | |
| 1600 | C4 | Deal or No Deal | AudioD. |
| 1700 | ITV | The Chase | |
| 1700 | C4 | Come Dine With Me | Essex. Old episodes at 1205. |
| 1700 | CHAL | Interceptor | A masterclass in yuppie ineptitude. From Wednesday. |
| 1715 | BBC1 | Pointless | |
| 1800 | BBC2 | Eggheads | Will they have another Brain of Britain on the team? Also BBC-HD. |
| 1900 | RLLY | Masterchef Australia | |
| 1900 | WTCH | Masterchef New Zealand | |
| 1930 | BBC2 | Great British Menu | Cymru. Also BBC-HD. Wales not Fr. |
| 2000 | STRP | Masterchef India | Airing on Star Plus (subscription on some platforms.) |
Monday 18
| 0015 | BBC1 | The Apprentice Us x2 | Teed off. Scot 0055. |
| 1500 | Rad4 | Brain of Britain | It's the Grand Final! |
| 1725 | TG4 | Bog Stop | |
| 1830 | Rad4 | Just a Minute | |
| 1900 | LIV | The Biggest Loser Us x2 | |
| 2000 | BBC2 | University Challenge | St George's London v New Oxford. |
| 2030 | ALBA | Aibisidh | |
| 2030 | BBC1 | A Question of Sport | Adrian Moorhouse, Chris Paterson, Neil Robertson, Mark Bright. |
| 2030 | BBC2 | Paul Hollywood's Bread New! | The Bake Off judge manages life on the DHSS and a child who says, "Greetings". |
| 2305 | BBC1 | Have I Got Old News for You | Not NI, Wales. |
Shortcuts: Sat | Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri
Tuesday 19
| 0020 | BBC1 | The Apprentice Us | Clubbage. NI 0035, Wales 0050. |
| 0100 | E4 | My Little Princess | Oh dear. |
| 1835 | ALBA | Gleusta | |
| 1900 | BBC3 | Total Wipeout | |
| 2000 | ITV2 | Love in the Wild | |
| 2000 | ITV4 | The Chase With Celebrities | |
| 2100 | DAVE | QI XL | |
| 2200 | DAVE | Big Ask | Rebecca Front, Mark Steel, Clive Anderson. |
| 2240 | DAVE | Mock the Week |
Wednesday 20
| 1700 | CITV | Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge | |
| 1725 | TG4 | Bog Stop | |
| 1740 | S4C | Y Lifft | |
| 1830 | Rad4 | Dilemma | Jason Cook, Cerys Matthews, David "Trotsky" Aaronovitch, Sara Pascoe. |
| 2000 | ITV | Foov Glorious Food | Brighton. |
| 2000 | BBC1 | Masterchef | Navigating the schedules doesn't get harder than this! |
| 2200 | DAVE | Mock the Week | |
| 2245 | BBC1 | A Question of Sport | As Monday. NI 0000. |
Thursday 21
| 2000 | BBC1 | Masterchef | |
| 2000 | DAVE | QI XL | |
| 2100 | 5* | Pop Idol Us | |
| 2200 | DAVE | Have I Got A Bit More News for You | |
| 2200 | ITV2 | Celebrity Juice x3 | Danny Dyer and Chris Ramsey. |
| 2255 | DAVE | Mock the Week |
Friday 22
| 1330 | BBC2 | The Weakest Link | |
| 1800 | CBBC | Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-Up | |
| 1830 | RWal | What's the Story? | |
| 2000 | BBC2 | Mastermind | Birds of Britain, Takeshi Kitano, Newcastle Utd, Jagiellon Dynasty, Adam Dalgliesh Mysteries. Not Wales. |
| 2030 | BBC1 | Masterchef | |
| 2100 | 5* | Pop Idol Us | Results service. Remember, you could be watching England men play San Marino men at footballball (except Scotland). |
| 2100 | DAVE | Have I Got A Bit More News for You | |
| 2100 | C4 | 8 Out of 10 Cats | Jimeoin, Joe Wilkinson, Nancy Dell'Ollio, Greg Rutherford. |
| 2200 | CHAL | Takeshi's Castle Rebooted | |
| 2200 | BBC2 | QI | Jumble: Jo Brand, John Sessions, Dara O'Briain. |
| 2240 | DAVE | QI XL |
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Channel abbreviations
| 4MUS | 4 Music |
| ALBA | BBC Alba |
| BBC1 | BBC1 (Network unless otherwise noted) |
| BBC2 | BBC2 (Network unless otherwise noted) |
| BBC3 | BBC3 |
| BBC4 | BBC4 |
| BBCH | BBC-HD |
| C4 | Channel 4 |
| C5 | Channel 5 |
| CBBC | CBBC Channel |
| CBBS | Cbeebies |
| CHAL | Challenge |
| DAVE | Dave |
| ESPT | Eurosport |
| ESP2 | Eurosport 2 |
| HTV | HTV (ITV in Wales; Wales only unless noted) |
| ITV | ITV1 (Network unless otherwise noted) |
| ITV2 | ITV2 |
| ITV3 | ITV3 |
| ITV4 | ITV4 |
| LIV | Sky Living |
| LIV2 | Sky Living It |
| MOR4 | More 4 |
| PICK | Pick TV |
| Rad1 | BBC Radio 1 |
| Rad2 | BBC Radio 2 |
| Rad3 | BBC Radio 3 |
| Rad4 | BBC Radio 4 |
| Rad5 | BBC Radio 5 |
| Rd4X | BBC Radio 4Xtra |
| RCym | BBC Radio Cymru |
| RSco | BBC Radio Scotland |
| RUls | BBC Radio Ulster |
| RWal | BBC Radio Wales |
| RTE1 | RTE1 (Irish) |
| RTE2 | RTE2 (Irish) |
| RTR1 | RTE Radio 1 (Irish) |
| S4C | S4C |
| SKY1 | Sky 1 |
| SKYA | Sky Atlantic |
| STV | STV (ITV1 in North and Central Scotland) |
| TV3 | TV3 (Irish) |
| TV5 | TV5 Monde (Europe) |
| TG4 | TG 4 (Irish) |
| UTV | Ulster Television (ITV1 in Northern Ireland) |
| WTCH | Watch |
Other stations explained in the programme description.
AudioD - Audio Description for the blind.
Signed - in-vision British Sign Language translation.
Shows on BBC1, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV2, E4, Sky Living, and Sky One are in HD unless specified as SD. Shows on other channels are marked as HD.
