TV Guide This Week

A guide to game shows for the nine days commencing Saturday 2 September 2006

Schedules subject to change.

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1130	ITV	Millionaire
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1750	C4	Deal or No Deal (not S4C)
1905	BBC1	Maria
1905	ITV	X-Factor
2005	BBC1	Init To Winnit
2035	RTE1	Winning Streak New!
2035	ITV	Millionaire
2120	BBC1	Test The Nation The National IQ Test Special	Remember, this test has no scientific validity whatsoever. Answers at 2300.
2125	BBC2	The Story of Light Entertainment	Chat shows.
2216	TV5M	Fort Boyard
2300	Rad4	X Marks the Spot	For the last programme in the present series, the team has decamped to Iberia. The budget wouldn't run to an additional "S".

0700	STYL	Bargain Hunt (also 1400)
1000	DSCI	Junkyard Wars (also 1300, 1700)
1025	TV5M	La cible
1125	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1525)
1215	BBC1	Bargain Hunt
1230	ITV	The Price is Right New!	In place of the delayed lunchtime news, Joe Pasquale gives away some tat.
1232	TV5M	Des Chiffres et des Lettres
1300	MOR4	Countdown (approx time)	C4 episodes from 18 to 24 August.
1400	CBBC	Get Your Own Back
1515	BBC2	Through the Keyhole New!
1530	C4	Countdown (S4C 1510 not Fr, C4 rpt about 58 hours later; 1525 Mon)	Martin Jarvis.
1615	C4	Come Dine With Me Back!
1630	BBC1	50/50 (not Fri)
1645	C4	RTS Daytime Show Of the Year Deal or No Deal (S4C 1425 not Fr; Mor4 1810)	Moving later to fill a gap in the schedules.
1630	BBC2	Let Me Entertain You
1715	BBC2	The Weakest Link

1230	BBC7	ISIHAC (also 1930)
1330	Rad4	Brain of Britain 2006 New!	Sixteen weeks from 4 September is 25 December. Move over, Liz, we'll be far more interested in Robert Robinson.
1830	Rad4	Just a Minute	Graham Norton, Marcus Brigstocke, Clement Freud, Pam Ayres.
2000	BBC2	Mastermind	Hammer Films; Little House novels; British Motorcycles; Rolling Stones.
2030	BBC2	University Challenge (not 2W)	Brighton v Imperial College of Medicine.

1230	BBC7	The News Quiz (also 1930)
2200	BBC2	Old News (not 2W) New!	Alexander Armstrong, Jo Caulfield, Michael Winner.

1230	BBC7	Wireless Wise
1733	TV5M	Fort Boyard	The children's edition, which (according to the publicity blurb) was the 1000th episode made.
2320	BBC2	The Apprentice USA	NI 0020, 2W 0000

1830	Rad4	The News Quiz (also 1228 Sat) New!	With new host, Dame Sandi Toksvig.
1930	BBC1	A Question of Sport
2002	RTE1	Buille Faoi Thuairim
2030	C5	All Star Talent Show Special	It's not got any stars, there's no talent on offer, and it's got nothing on show. We can't fault the word "All", though, especially followed by "Full".
2130	C4	Best Of The Worst	Another programme that doesn't live down to its billing, then.
2132	RWal	Jest a Minute

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1745	C4	Deal or No Deal (S4C 1615)
1815	BBC1	Weakest Link
1900	BBC1	Maria
1900	ITV	X-Factor
2000	BBC1	Init To Winnit
2000	RTE1	Winning Streak
2000	ITV	Millionaire	First in the new series proper; lines close in April.
2100	G2	QI night Special
2216	TV5M	Fort Boyard
2300	Rad4	Brain of Britain

0700	Takeshi x2
0800	The Crystal Maze
0900	Knockout
1000	Catchphrase x3
1130	Family Fortunes x3
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye x3
1530	Dodgeball
1600	Knockout
1700	The Crystal Maze
1800	Stars In Their Eyes x2
2000	Fear Factor x2 (Su Takeshi x2, Fear Factor x1)
2200	Blackjack
2300	Gambling

The schedule calls for just four hours of Takeshi this week - have the controllers finally realised that one can have too much of it?

0700	Knightmare New!
0730	Catchphrase
0800	Gladiators New!
0900	Supermarket Sweep New!
0930	Wheel of Fortune
1000	Catchphrase x2
1100	Eggheads x2
1200	Family Fortunes x2
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye
1430	Catchphrase
1500	Fifteen-to-One x2
1600	Eggheads x2
1700	Gladiators New!
1800	Fear Factor New!
1900	The Crystal Maze
2000	Bullseye New!
2100	Fear Factor
2200	Bullseye New!	The unseen Dave Spikey episodes
2230	Millionaire
2330	Gambling

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)