TV Guide This Week

A guide to game shows for the nine days commencing Saturday 23 September 2006

New and notable this week:

Everyone's a Winner, BBC1, 7.20 Saturday

In which Noel Edmonds and a bevy of famous faces celebrate the good work that the lottery does for the community, without once mentioning that 98% of plays are certain to lose.

QI, BBC2, 10pm Friday

Series four, and the questions this year all begin with the letter "D". What are they going to do in the year 2029, that's what we'd like to know.

Miss World, all week on Challenge.

It's certainly new, and notable if only so that viewers who want to miss it can miss it.

The full listings

Saturday 23 September

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1228	Rad4	The News Quiz
1315	ITV	Millionaire
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1740	BBC2	Eggheads (Scotland only)
1805	C4	Deal or No Deal (S4C 1615)
1805	ITV	Saturday Night Takeaway	Now, what might persuade ITV to shift Antan Dec back two hours?
1910	ITV	X-Factor	It can't be this nonsense, where the troika rolls into London.
1920	BBC1	Everyone's A Winner	Maybe ITV's scared of Noel's Lottery Party, which really can't pass muster under the trades descriptions act. NLP continues at 2110 with something that might yet be a game show.
2010	RTE1	Winning Streak
2020	ITV	Millionaire	In the hot seat is Ingram Wilcox, who had the misfortune to be in the same Mastermind year as Fred Housego.
2100	G2	HIGNFY Night Special	Shows from 2004.
2300	Rad4	Brain of Britain	Given the lack of charity he shows, could Jorkins double as The Banker?

Sunday 24

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1045, 1410)
1204	Rad4	Quote Unquote
1300	LIV2	The Amazing Race x4 Special
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1810	Mor4	Deal or No Deal
2100	G2	HIGNFY Night Special	More shows from 2004.

Weekdays

0700	STYL	Bargain Hunt (also 1400)
1000	DSCI	Junkyard Wars (also 1300, 1700)
1025	TV5M	La cible
1125	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1525)
1130	BBC1	Bargain Hunt
1130	C4	The Deadly Knowledge Show
1230	ITV	The Price is Right
1232	TV5M	Des Chiffres et des Lettres
1300	MOR4	Countdown (approx time)	C4 episodes from 7 to 13 September.
1400	CBBC	Get Your Own Back
1515	BBC2	Through the Keyhole
1530	C4	Countdown (S4C 1510, C4 rpt about 58 hours later; 1525 Mon)	Philip Franks is in Dictionary Dell, and all's right with the world.
1615	C4	RTS Daytime Show Of the Year Deal or No Deal (S4C 1425, Mor4 1810)	Back to the usual time.
1715	BBC2	The Weakest Link (We 1710)
1800	BBC2	Eggheads (Scot not Th)
1900	BBC1	Celebrity Masterchef	The grand final's on Friday.
2300	C5	Trust Me I'm A Holidy Rep

Monday 25

1230	BBC7	ISIHAC (also 1930)
1330	Rad4	Brain of Britain 2006	Heat 4: The Home Counties.
1830	Rad4	Quote Unquote
2000	BBC2	Mastermind	R2: "Agatha Raisin", St Mark, Cryptography, Ian Dury.
2030	BBC2	University Challenge (not 2W)	R1: Newcastle v Royal Holloway
2245	CNBC	Conan O'Brien	CAUTION: Contains Jimmy Carr.

Tuesday 26

1230

BBC7

The News Quiz (also 1930)

Wednesday 27

1230	BBC7	Wireless Wise
2320	BBC2	The Apprentice USA	NI 2350

Thursday 28

1230	BBC7	Just a Minute (also 1930)
2000	BBC2	Dragon's Den (Scot 2100)
2000	ITV2	Gameshow Marathon US	5: Card Sharks
2100	ITV	Ladette to Lady New!	This may or may not count as a game show. We don't know, and probably don't care to find out.
2200	BBC2	Mock the Week	Jon Culshaw, Andy Parsons, Mark Watson.
2320	BBC2	The Apprentice USA

Friday 29

1830	Rad4	The News Quiz (also 1228 Sat)
1930	BBC1	A Question of Sport
2002	RTE1	Buille Faoi Thuairim
2030	C5	All Star Talent Show
2130	C4	Best Of The Worst
2132	RWal	Jest a Minute
2200	BBC2	QI (not 2W) New!	The next episode airs on BBC4 at 2230.

Saturday 30 (provisional)

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1745	C4	Deal or No Deal (S4C 1615)
1810	ITV	Saturday Night Takeaway
1910	ITV	X-Factor
1940	BBC1	One Against One Hundred
2015	RTE1	Winning Streak
2020	ITV	Millionaire
2240	BBC2	QI
2300	Rad4	Brain of Britain

Sunday 1 October (provisional)

0810	CBBS	The Shiny Show (also 1410)
0930	BBC1	The Great North Run	In which Kathryn Apanowicz, Susie Dent, and Carol Vorderman will be walking in memory of Richard Whiteley. Donations here.
1204	Rad4	Just a Minute
1530	CITV	Jungle Run
1810	Mor4	Deal or No Deal

Challenge?

Saturday

0700	The Crystal Maze
0800	Gladiators
0900	Knockout
1000	Catchphrase x3
1130	Family Fortunes x3
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye x2
1500	Miss World Talent Challenge New!	Beginning a week of special programming leading up to the Miss World contest next Saturday night.
1600	Knockout
1700	Gladiators
1800	The Crystal Maze
1900	Bullseye x2
2000	Fear Factor
2100	Miss World Talent
2200	Gambling

Sunday

As Saturday except

1430	Miss World Vote For Me	Gawks, they've got Piers Morgan and Lorraine Kelly now. Except they haven't, for that would be too entertaining.
1500	Miss World Beach Contest
2000	Vote For Me
2030	Can You Tell?
2100	Beach

Monday - Friday

0700	Knightmare
0730	Catchphrase
0800	Gladiators
0900	Supermarket Sweep
0930	Wheel of Fortune
1000	Catchphrase x2
1100	Eggheads x2
1200	Family Fortunes x2
1300	Millionaire
1400	Bullseye
1430	Vote For Me New!
1500	Fifteen-to-One x2
1600	Eggheads x2
1700	Family Fortunes
1730	Catchphrase
1800	Fear Factor
1900	Gladiators
2000	Vote For Me New!
2030	Bullseye
2100	Fear Factor
2200	Bullseye
2230	Millionaire
2330	Gambling

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)