TV Guide 2023-03-11

The biggest thing on Monday night comes to an end. In the final of Only Connect (BBC2), the winners face a difficult decision: do they split the prize between them, or does one person try to take it for themselves?

Over on ITV2, the final of Love Island asks some difficult questions, like "What's the connection: devil, poach, scramble, boil?". The Great Pottery Throw Down concludes (C4, Sun). And Dancing on Ice reaches its conclusion (ITV, Sun): who will follow Jemima Cod, Johnny Plaice, and Julia Haddock as the series champion?

BBC3's Go Hard or Go Home finishes (Sun-Tue). ITV2 gains Loaded in Paradise - find a golden credit card, spend it, don't get caught, but don't be so greedy that it all runs out before the end of the series (from Tue). Fred's Last Resort (E4, Tue) has Fred Sirieix and a group of youngsters running a hotel.

Ninja Warrior Down Under comes to Dave (from Mon), as ITV's daytime schedule is replaced by horse racing from Chepchestershire. When Comic Relief Did Big Brother remembers the 2001 celeb edition. (BBC2, Fri)

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Contents 1 Saturday 11 March 1.1 Primetime 2 Sunday 12 March 2.1 Primetime 3 Weekday Daytimes 4 Monday 13 March 5 Tuesday 14 March 5.1 Bonus feature 6 Wednesday 15 March 7 Thursday 16 March 8 Friday 17 March - St Patrick's Day 8.1 Bonus feature 9 Sign language interpretation 10 Challenge 10.1 Saturday 10.2 Sunday 10.3 Monday - Friday

Saturday 11 March

• Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am). Cancelled owing to industrial relations problems in the sports unit.
• Ninja Warrior Down Under (ITV2, 11.20am).
• Breaking the News (Radio Scotland, 11.30am) Repeat from yesterday.
• Masterchef 2019 (RTÉ1, 11.55). Two episodes.
• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12 noon 1.45; Wales 2.15) Brought forward owing to industrial relations problems in the sports unit.
• Through the Keyhole (That's TV, 12.15) With Alan Coren, Eve Pollard, Doc Cox.
• Celebrity Best Home Cook (BBC2, 12.30) Repeat.
• The News Quiz (Radio 4, 12.30) Repeat from last night.
• Limitless Win (RTÉ1, 2.45) Repeat from January 2022.
• Dancing with the Stars (RTÉ1, 3.45) Repeat from last Sunday.
• A Question of Sport (BBC1 Wales, 4pm) Shown elsewhere last night.

Primetime

• Celebrity Mastermind (BBC1, 5.40) Jayne Middlemiss (Duran Duran), Neil Delamere (vikings), Harpreet Kaur (The Wolf of Wall Street), Amar Latif (Sam Cooke).
• Celebrity Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 6.10) Available people: Debbie McGee, Katie McGlynn, John Whaite, Rhys Stephenson.
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2, 6.45) Gareth Malone and Yolanda Brown, repeat.
• Pen/Campwyr (S4C, 6.45) A recent episode.
• The Wheel (BBC1, 6.55) Stephen Mangan, Charlotte Church, Sam Quek, Nihal Arthanayake, Kate Humble, Rosie Ramsey, and Keith Brymer Jones. Postponed from 25 February.
• Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV, 7pm; VM1, 7.30) Daisy May Cooper is the announcer, and Claudia Winkleman takes instruction. Repeated VM1 3.30 Sun.
• Am Dro! (S4C, 7.30) Repeat.
• Pointless Celebrities (BBC1, 7.55) Comedy: Rosie Holt, Nabil Abdulrashid, Shaparak Khorsandi, Mark Steel, Lou Sanders, Luke McQueen, Amy Gledhill, Chris Cantrill. The "pointless friend" is played by Richard Osman.
• Starstruck (ITV, 8.30).
• Love Island Weekend Edition (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm) Highlights from the week.
• Counterpoint (Radio 4, 11pm) Repeat from last Monday.

Sunday 12 March

• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15; not Wales).
• Home of the Year (RTÉ1, 1.10) Repeat from last Tuesday.
• Lego Masters Down Under (E4, 5.10) "Window to the Future".

Primetime

• Dancing With the Stars (RTÉ1, 6.30) The semi-final.
• Dancing on Ice (VM1 and ITV, 6.30) The grand final. Last in the present series.
• Come Dancing (BBC4, 7pm) From 1977, North East versus North West at Tiffany's Ballroom in Glasgow (closed 1984, now a casino). Barri Haynes commentates.
• Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm).
• Go Hard or Go Home (BBC3, 9pm) Crosses "who will stay loyal" and "is this the end of the road" off our Billings Bingo card.
• The Great Pottery Throw Down (C4, 9pm) The grand final. Subject to delay if Crufts goes to extra barks or scoops from the penalty spot.
• Love Island (WM2 and ITV2, 9pm) The night before the live final. Followed by Love Island Aftersun.

Weekday Daytimes

• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15; Scot 11.15am Thu).
• !mpossible (BBC2, 1pm, not Tue, Wed); Eggheads (BBC2, 1.45 and 2.15; not Wed, Wales Tue 2.40 and 3.10) Repeats.
• Countdown (C4, 2.10) Pat Nevin's saving the day. Repeated about 6am two-and-a-half working days later.
• Antiques Road Trip (BBC1, 3.45) New episodes. Repeated BBC2 7.15am next day.
• Ninja Warrior Down Under (Dave, 4pm) While ITV2 has series 3, Dave has series 1.
• Bridge of Lies (BBC1, 4.30) Repeats from series 1.
• Tipping Point Best Ever Finals (ITV, 4.30 Tu-Fr).
• Four in a Bed (C4, 5pm) New episodes.
• The Chase (ITV, 5pm) Repeats.
• Pointless (BBC1, 5.15) Repeats.
• Come Dine with Me (C4, 5.30) Huddersfield, new episodes.
• House of Games (BBC2, 6pm) Repeats, with Reeta Chakrabarti, Olga Koch, Gareth Thomas, but Andrew Maxwell. Judicious use of the fast-forward button is advised.
• Masterchef Down Under (W, 6pm) They paused recording for some months because of the pandemic. This is where they resumed.
• The Masked Singer Us (ITV2, 7pm) Originally shown in spring 2021.

Monday 13 March

• All the Way from Memphis (Radio 4 Extra, 9am, 2pm, 7pm).
• Dickinson's Real Deal (ITV, 2pm) Repeats.
• Lingo (ITV, 3pm) Repeats.
• Counterpoint (Radio 4, 3pm) Semi-final 1.
• Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm) Repeats.
• Mastermind (BBC2, 7.30) Semi-final 1: The Great Escape, Oscar-winning performances of the 1990s, life and death of stars, Peep Show.
• Only Connect (BBC2, 8pm) The grand final. Last in the present series
• Glow Up (BBC3, 8pm).
• University Challenge (BBC2, 8.30) Group phase, match 3.
• Go Hard or Go Home (BBC3, 9pm) Crosses "a secret that will change everything" off the Billings Bingo card. Sunday and Monday's episodes repeated on BBC1 at 11.05 (Wales 11.35, Scotland 12.20am, NI 12.05am and 11.10 on Tuesday).
• Love Island (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm) The grand final. Last in the present series.

Tuesday 14 March

• Who Goes There? (Radio 4 Extra, 9am, 2pm, 7pm) Biographies.
• Interior Design Masters (BBC1, 8pm; Scot 8pm Wed) Classrooms.
• Great Local Menu (BBC2, 8pm) Northern Ireland.
• Home of the Year (RTÉ1, 8.30) Dublin. Down, Cork.
• Go Hard or Go Home (BBC3, 9pm) The final. Last in the series.
• Fred's Last Resort (E4, 9pm) Fred Sirieix challenges youngsters to run a five-star hotel in the south of France. Best performer over the series wins a permanent job.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) Find a golden credit card. Spend 50.000€. Don't get caught. Make the money last to the end of the series.
• QI XS (BBC2, 10.15).

Bonus feature

• Itopia (S4C, 5.30) A drama set in the Prosiect Z universe.

Wednesday 15 March

• Great Local Menu (BBC2, 8pm).
• Glow Up (BBC3, 8pm) A recent final.
• Dinner Date (ITVBe, 8pm).
• Pen/Campwyr (S4C, 8.25) Swansea University rugby team take on James Hook.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) Champagne and canapes.
• The Piano (C4, 9pm) The final concert, all the prep and talking through the performances. A version without Lang Lang and Mika's prittling is on More4 at 10.15.
• Scotland's Greatest Escape (BBC Scotland, 10pm) Historic. Repeated 7.30 tomorrow evening.

Thursday 16 March

• The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4 Extra, 9am, 2pm, 7pm). This week, the squirrels talk about cheese.
• Pigo dy Drwyn (S4C, 5.25).
• Dragons' Den (BBC1, 8pm) This week, the dragons have a vacuum cleaner attachment.
• Great Local Menu (BBC2, 8pm).
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) A dramatic heist at the helipad.

Friday 17 March - St Patrick's Day

Holiday across Ireland

• Act Your Age (Radio 4 Extra, 9am, 2pm, 7pm).
• Breaking the News (Radio Scotland, 1.30).
• Prosiect Z (S4C, 5.30) Repeats of the game show in the Itopia universe from 2018.
• Glow Up (BBC3, 8pm) Series 4 repeats start here.
• Loaded in Paradise (ITV2, 9pm) Two truths, one lie, and a whole lotta drama.

Bonus feature

• Comic Relief (BBC1, 7pm) This year's charity telethon includes French and Saunders on The Traitors, Tony Robinson reads a Blackadder bedtime story, and Kylie Minogue joins the Ghosts at Bamber Gascoigne's old pad. Turn over for When Comic Relief Did Big Brother (BBC2, 10pm), reminiscences of the 2001 series from Jack Dee, Vanessa Feltz, Claire Sweeney, Keith Duffy, and Anthea Turner.

Sign language interpretation

• Dress to Impress (ITV2, 9.15am Sat).
• Dragons' Den (BBC2, 2.25am Tue).
• The Great Pottery Throw Down (C4, 3.50am Wed).
• Family Fortunes (ITV, 5.05am Wed).
• Take a Hike (BBC2, 8am Wed).

Challenge

Saturday

7am The Chase 9am Wheel of Fortune 11.30 Family Fortunes 1.30 Famous Family Fortunes 3pm Strike it Lucky 4pm Tenable 5pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 3am The Chase

Sunday

7am Scrapheap Challenge 10am The Chase 12 noon Family Fortunes 1pm Bruce's Price is Right 2pm Play Your Cards Right 3pm Blankety Blank 5pm The Chase

Monday - Friday

7am The Chase 10am Dickinson's Real Deal 11am Dale's Supermarket Sweep 12 noon Wheel of Fortune 1pm Catchphrase 2pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 3pm Play Your Cards Right 4pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5pm Bullseye 7pm Pointless 8pm The Chase 10pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight The Chase 4am Who Wants to be a Millionaire 5am Bullseye