TV Guide 2024-08-03

A new fact-smuggling show with one of comedy's power couple? That's The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4, Mon). The 3rd Degree also has a new episode (Radio 4, Sun), and we promise it is the final of Y Talwrn this week (Radio Cymru, Sun).

Other new thrills: Countdown and The Great House Giveaway (C4, weekdays), plus Catsdown and I Literally Just Told You (C4, Fri). There's also another chance to see Popmaster tv (C4, Fri). Cooking With the Stars continues (ITV, Tue), Battle in the Box concludes (The Dave Channel, Tue, Wed).

Imports: Shark Tank (BBC3) is joined by Love Island Us (ITVB). One old thrill: the inaugural My Music (Radio 4 Extra, Sat)

And with sports still colonising BBC1, they're spinning the random wheel of misfortune on BBC4. This week, classic episodes of Noel's House Party, The Generation Game with Larry and Isla, Bob's Full House, and more Blankety Blank than is good for you.

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Contents 1 Saturday 3 August 1.1 Primetime 2 Sunday 4 August 3 Weekday Daytimes 4 Monday 5 August 4.1 Bonus feature 5 Tuesday 6 August 6 Wednesday 7 August 7 Thursday 8 August 8 Friday 9 August 9 Sign language interpretation 10 Challenge 10.1 Saturday 10.2 Sunday 10.3 Monday - Friday

Saturday 3 August

• My Music (Radio 4 extra, 7.30am, 12.30, 6.30) The debut episode, hosted by Steve Race, with David Franklin and Frank Muir against Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
• Couples Come Dine with Me (C4, 12.50); Four in a Bed (C4, 1.50; five episodes) Repeats.
• Tipping Point Best Ever Finals (ITV, 4pm).

Primetime

• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2, 6.20; not Wales) Nikki Fox and Matt Allwright, repeat.
• Noel's House Party (BBC4, 7pm) Bob Monkhouse is the guest in this 1994 edition. There's a Gotcha Oscar for Sue Barker, and a gunge battle between Ross King and Alan Titchmarsh.
• Pointless Celebrities (BBC2, 7.20) Repeat: David Seaman, Frankie Seaman, Dr Alex George, Dr Sara Kayat, Eddie Kadi, Slim, Shemmy Alcott, Sarah Lindsay.
• The Chase Celebrity Special (ITV, 7.30) Jon Sopel, Maisie Summers-Newton, Perri Shakes-Drayton, Brian Conley play Jenny Ryan in an episode from January.
• Larry Grayson's The Generation Game (BBC4, 8pm) From November 1981.
• The 1% Club (ITV, 8.30) Repeat from 2023.
• Blankety Blank (BBC4, 9pm) Les Dawson invites Des Lynam, Faith Brown, Chris Serle, Sally James, Mike Reid, and Pat Coombs to BLANK in the blanks. From 1985.
• Canada's Drag Race vs The World (BBC3, 9pm) With guest judge Kirk Pickersgill.
• Bob's Full House (BBC4, 9.35) From 1987.

Sunday 4 August

• Four in a Bed (C4, 2.30) Five episodes.
• Tipping Point Best Ever Finals (ITV, 4pm).
• The 3rd Degree (Radio 4, 4.30) This week, Steve is in Falmouth, with film, journalism, and creative writing. We're promised a short outing for polyperspectivity in fictional narratives, the sort of nuance they don't do on Love Island.
• Y Talwrn (Radio Cymru, 7pm) The grand final, and we mean it this week.
• Shark Tank (BBC3, 8.10) Two episodes.

Weekday Daytimes

• Bargain Hunt (BBC2, 12.15) Repeats.
• Dickinson's Real Deal (ITV, 2pm). Repeats.
• Countdown (C4, 2.10) Clara Amfo in the corner. Repeated about 6am one-and-a-half working days later.
• Tenable (ITV, 3pm) Repeat.
• Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm) Repeat.
• The Great House Giveaway (C4, 4pm) New.
• The Chase (ITV, 5pm) Repeat.
• Come Dine with Me (C4, 6pm) Repeats from Sheffield.
• House of Games (BBC2, 7pm) No Pointless, but we do get this classic week with Myra DuBois, Charlie Hedges, Dame Bonnie Langford, Tyler West.
• Celebrity Come Dine with Me (E4, 7.30) Hollyoaks week, repeated from 2020.
• Shark Tank (BBC3, 8pm) Yankee Dragons' Den.
• Loaded in Paradise (VM2, 9pm) Ireland gets to see the show from ITV2 earlier in the year.
• Love Island Usa (ITVB, 10pm) Oh, good grief.

Monday 5 August

Bank holiday in Ireland and Scotland

• Just a Minute (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Classic episodes. This one's from Edinburgh in 2009.
• The Unbelievable Truth (Radio 4, 6.30) New series of David Mitchell's fact-smuggling show. This week: Tony Hawks, pro/celebrity Face/Off champion Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons, and Justin Edwards.
• Picture Slam (BBC Scotland, 10.30) Er, quite.

Bonus feature

• The Piano (BBC2, 11.05) It's the 1993 film with Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin, and a wonderful score by Michael Nyman. No danger of bumping into Claudia Winkleman. Soz.

Tuesday 6 August

• The Personality Test (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Lorraine Kelly.
• Cooking with the Stars (ITV, 8pm) This week, we see Katherine Ryan, Christopher Biggins, Linford Christie, Ellie Simmonds.
• Battle in the Box (The Dave Channel (or whatever stupid name it's got this week), 9pm) This week, it's Jamie Laing and Nabil Abdulrashid against Ellie Taylor and Jess Knappett.

Wednesday 7 August

• Wordaholics (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm) Gyles Brandreth effuses about words, from 2013.
• Battle in the Box (UKTV G2, 9pm) The challenge concludes. Last in the series.

Thursday 8 August

• Am Dro! (S4C, 9.30) The Eisteddfod episode is repeated, and saves us from the first blank day in twenty years of compiling these listings.

Friday 9 August

• Breaking the News (Radio Scotland, 1.32).
• All the Way from Memphis (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Music quiz, from 2004.
• Popmaster tv (C4, 8pm) Another chance to see the celeb edition with Toyah Willcox, Richard Blackwood, Sally Lindsay, Mista Jam, and Kimberly Wyatt. Previously shown on More 4.
• 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (C4, 9pm) Jon Richardson and Katherine Ryan play Richard Ayoade and Laura Smyth, with Mat Ewins.
• I Literally Just Told You (C4, 10pm) Karl, Riuying, Lateef, Charlotte, and Sonny.

Sign language interpretation

• Deal or No Deal (ITV, 5.05am Sun).
• Ainsley's National Trust Cook Off (ITV, 5.05am Mon).
• Scotland's Home of the Year (BBC Scotland, 2.30pm Mon).
• The Bidding Room (BBC2, 1.55am and 7.15am Tue).
• Family Fortunes (ITV, 3am Tue).
• Wheel of Fortune (ITV, 5.05am Thu).
• In for a Penny (ITV, 5.05am Fri).

Challenge

Saturday

7am The Chase 9am Bruce's Price is Right 10am Supermarket Sweep 11am Famous Family Fortunes 1pm Cash Trapped 3pm The Chase 11pm Bullseye 4am The Chase

Sunday

7am Scrapheap Challenge 10am The Crystal Maze 11am Play Your Cards Right 12 noon Dickinson's Real Deal 1pm Blankety Blank 3pm Through the Keyhole 5pm The Chase

Monday - Friday

7am The Chase 10am The Weakest Link 11am Celebrity Catchphrase 12 noon Cash Trapped 1pm All Star Family Fortunes 3pm Catchphrase 4pm Blockbusters 5pm Bullseye 7pm Celebrity Catchphrase 8pm The Chase 10pm Who Wants to be a Millionaire 11pm Bullseye 12 midnight The Weakest Link 1am Cash Trapped 2am The Chase 4am Who Wants to be a Millionaire 5am Bullseye