A guide to game shows for the nine days commencing Saturday 22 July 2006
Schedules subject to change.
Saturday 22 July
| 0700 | DISC | Scrapheap Challenge
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| 1120 | CBBS | The Shiny Show (also 1720)
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| 1231 | RWal | Extra Time Quiz | Sports. Also 1732.
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| 1400 | CBBC | Raven
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| 1430 | CBBC | 50/50
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| 1600 | CITV | Eliminator
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| 1620 | S4C | Deal or No Deal
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| 1735 | BBC1 | Weakest Link New! | Television and Tabloid, postponed from 23 June.
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| 1750 | C4 | Deal or No Deal | Last in the present series.
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| 1825 | BBC1 | Dancing in the Street New! | We have a horrible feeling about this. Continues at 2105.
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| 1905 | C4 | Viking Boat Race New! | According to What Longship parchment, teams from Oxford and Cambridge can go from nought to 60 in under ten weeks.
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| 1925 | BBC1 | Init To Winnit New! | Dale Winton is in the right place at the right time. But will the viewers?
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| 1950 | ITV | It's Now Or Never New! | In which Phillip Schofield invites people to make a special announcement in an unusual manner. So this is how they'll tell the world that ITV will be sold for 27p and a used piece of chewing gum.
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| 2015 | RTE1 | Fame and Fortune
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| 2105 | C4 | Big Brother (S4C 0000)
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| 2216 | TV5M | Fort Boyard
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| 2235 | BBC2 | QI New!
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Sunday 23
| 0930 | CITV | Eliminator
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| 1120 | CBBS | The Shiny Show (also 1720)
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| 1204 | Rad4 | Just a Minute
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| 1205 | BBC1 | Bargain Hunt (not Scotland)
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| 1400 | CBBC | Raven
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| 1430 | CBBC | 50/50
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| 1810 | Mor4 | Deal or No Deal
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| 2100 | C4 | Big Brother (S4C 2200)
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Weekdays
| 0900 | DOCU | Time Commanders
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| 1025 | TV5M | La cible
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| 1030 | CITV | Jungle Run
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| 1100 | RTE2 | The Memoriser New!
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| 1130 | CBBC | Raven
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| 1232 | TV5M | Des Chiffres et des Lettres
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| 1300 | MOR4 | Countdown (approx time) | C4 episodes from 7 to 13 July.
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| 1330 | CBBC | Get Your Own Back New!
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| 1400 | STYL | Bargain Hint New!
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| 1455 | BBC1 | Bargain Hint (Mo-Th only, NI 1130 Tu) New!
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| 1530 | S4C | RTS Daytime Programme Of The Year Deal or No Deal | It's not dead, it's just resting. S4C has a backlog stretching back into June.
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| 1545 | C4 | Countdown (S4C 1615, C4 rpt about 58 hours later.) | Kaye Adams is a veteran of top tea-time quizzery. Note the new start time.
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| 1605 | BBC1 | Bamzooki (not Fr) New!
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| 1630 | C4 | Come Dine With Me (S4C 1800) New! | A celebrity week, including Anneka Rice, Rowland Riverfood, and Carry Oot.
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| 1635 | BBC1 | Raven (not Fr) New! | Promotion to the big channel! And to afternoons! Not entirely sure which series this is, nor how the Not Friday thing works.
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| 1640 | CBBS | The Shiny Show
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| 1700 | ITV | Price is Right (TV3 1800) | Now reduced to a single episode.
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| 1715 | BBC2 | The Weakest Link
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| 1800 | BBC2 | Eggheads (not Fr) | For the correspondents who wondered what happened to the prize fund: these shows are repeats, and they have been since Wimbledon finished.
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| 2200 | C4 | Big Brother (Tues 2100. S4C Mo 2230, Tu 2200, We 2200, Th 2215)
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| 2200 | ITV | No Celebrity Love Island (also TV3)
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Monday 24
| 1230 | BBC7 | ISIHAC (also 1930)
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| 1330 | Rad4 | X Marks The Spot New! | Filling in while Brain of Britain completes its recording schedule. Panellists are Rod Liddle, Lars Tharp, Daphne Fowler.
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| 1830 | Rad4 | Just a Minute | Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Charles Collingwood, Iain Duncan Smith.
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| 2000 | BBC2 | Mastermind | Well, looks like the shift away from 10pm is permanent. Anything to boost CLI's audience, eh. In the chair are Hunter S Thompson, Thunderbirds, Kenneth Williams, the Academy Awards.
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| 2030 | BBC2 | University Challenge: The Professionals (not 2W) | Granta v Royal Statistical Society. Members of the latter - and an eagle-eyed reader from the Bodleian - will have noted that there are more than four heats. In fact, there are five, of which this is the last.
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| 2100 | LIV2 | The Amazing Race
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Tuesday 25
| 1230 | BBC7 | The News Quiz (also 1930)
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| 2030 | BBC2 | University Challenge: The Professionals (not 2W) | The first semi-final. Naming the competing teams would be a spoiler.
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| 2100 | FTN | Crazy Drivers
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| 2230 | BBC3 | Annually Retentive
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Wednesday 26
| 1230 | BBC7 | Wireless Wise New!
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| 1733 | TV5M | Fort Boyard | Four comedians on the team this week, plus footballer Olivier Kapo. And an animatrice, which is (ruffles dictionary) someone drawn on bits of paper.
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| 1830 | Rad4 | The Personality Test | Caution: contains Gyles Brandreth.
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Thursday 27
| 1230 | BBC7 | Just a Minute (also 1930)
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| 1600 | S4C | Mama Mia
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Friday 28
| 2030 | C4 | Big Brother (also S4C) | Continues 2200.
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Saturday 29 (provisional)
| 0700 | DISC | Scrapheap Challenge
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| 1231 | RWal | Extra Time Quiz | Sports. Also 1732.
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| 1400 | CBBC | Raven
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| 1430 | CBBC | 50/50
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| 1600 | CITV | Eliminator
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| 1735 | BBC1 | Weakest Link | A celebrity edition
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| 1745 | C4 | Deal or No Deal | That's what it says here.
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| 1925 | BBC1 | Init To Winnit
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| 2005 | RTE1 | Fame and Fortune
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| 2100 | C4 | Big Brother
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| 2216 | TV5M | Fort Boyard
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| 2300 | Rad4 | X Marks the Spot
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| 2315 | ITV | Celebrity Love Island
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Sunday 30 (provisional)
| 0930 | CITV | Eliminator
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| 1204 | Rad4 | Just a Minute
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| 1400 | CBBC | Raven
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| 1430 | CBBC | 50/50
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| 1740 | Mor4 | Deal or No Deal
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| 2100 | C4 | Big Brother
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| 2200 | ITV | Celebrity Love Island
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Challenge?
Saturday
| 0700 | Don't Try This at Home
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| 0800 | The Crystal Maze
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| 0900 | Knockout
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| 1000 | Takeshi
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| 1100 | Catchphrase x2
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| 1200 | Family Fortunes x2
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| 1300 | Millionaire
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| 1400 | Blankety Blank x2
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| 1530 | Bullseye
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| 1600 | It's a Knockout
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| 1700 | The Crystal Maze
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| 1800 | Takeshi
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| 1900 | Blankety Blank x2
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| 2030 | Bullseye
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| 2100 | Gambling
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Sunday
As Saturday, except
| 0700 | Takeshi
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| 1900 | Takeshi x4
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Monday - Friday
| 0700 | Takeshi
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| 0730 | Catchphrase
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| 0800 | The Crystal Maze
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| 0900 | Supermarket Sweep
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| 0930 | Wheel of Fortune
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| 1000 | Fifteen-to-One x2
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| 1100 | Eggheads x2
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| 1200 | Family Fortunes x2
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| 1300 | Millionaire
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| 1400 | Bullseye x2
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| 1500 | Catchphrase
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| 1600 | Price is Right
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| 1700 | Gladiators
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| 1800 | Takeshi x2
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| 1900 | The Crystal Maze
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| 2000 | Family Fortunes x2
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| 2100 | Bullseye x2
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| 2200 | Millionaire
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| 2300 | Gambling
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Channel abbreviations:
| AONE | Adventure One
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| BBC1 | BBC1 (Network unless otherwise noted)
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| BBC2 | BBC2 (Network unless otherwise noted)
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| 2W | BBC2 Wales digital service
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| BBC3 | BBC3
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| BBC4 | BBC4
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| BBC7 | BBC7 (Radio)
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| C5 | Five
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| CBBC | CBBC
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| CBBS | Cbeebies
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| DHL | Discovery Home and Leisure
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| DISC | Discovery
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| DSCI | Discovery Science
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| FTN | FTN
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| G2 | UKTV G2
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| GOLD | UKTV Gold
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| ITV | ITV (Network unless otherwise noted)
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| ITV2 | ITV2
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| ITV3 | ITV3
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| ITV4 | ITV4
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| LIV | UK Living TV
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| LIV2 | UK Living TV 2
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| MOR4 | More 4
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| PLYR | Player
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| Rad1 | BBC Radio 1
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| Rad2 | BBC Radio 2
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| Rad4 | BBC Radio 4
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| RSct | BBC Radio Scotland
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| RUls | BBC Radio Ulster
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| RWal | BBC Radio Wales
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| RTE1 | RTE1 (Irish)
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| RTR1 | RTE Radio 1 (Irish)
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| S4C | S4C (analogue)
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| S4CD | S4C Digidol
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| SCOT | Scottish / Grampian (ITV in Scotland)
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| SKY1 | Sky Onc
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| SKY3 | Sky Thrcc
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| TV3 | TV3 (Irish)
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| TV5M | TV5 Monde (Europe)
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| TG4 | TG 4 (Irish)
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| UTV | Ulster Television (ITV in Northern Ireland)
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See also
TV Guide Last Week
