TV Guide 2024-10-19

Ready to voyage? QI returns with the V-series (BBC2, Mon). Finals night for Young Musician of the Year (BBC2 and Radio 3, Sun) and for Dress the Nation (ITV, Tue). The Watch channel has Masterchef Down Under Dessert Masters (weeknights).

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Contents 1 Saturday 19 October 1.1 Primetime 2 Sunday 20 October 2.1 Primetime 3 Weekday Daytimes 4 Monday 21 October 5 Tuesday 22 October 6 Wednesday 23 October 7 Thursday 24 October 8 Friday 25 October 9 Sign language interpretation 10 Challenge 10.1 Saturday 10.2 Sunday 10.3 Monday - Friday

Saturday 19 October

• Game on, Grandparents! (BBC2, 7.15am) Crash Bandocoot.
• Fighting Talk (Radio 5, 11am).
• Couples Come Dine with Me (C4, 1pm); Four in a Bed (C4, 2pm). Repeats.
• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 1.15).
• Ninja Warrior (ITV, 5pm) Another chance to see an old series.

Primetime

• Alan Carr's Picture Slam (BBC1, 5.40).
• The Chase Celebrity Special (ITV, 6.20) Repeat with Mark Chapman, Gillian Joseph, Ryan Sidebottom, Fred MacAulay.
• Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, 6.25) Another week's hoofing. Signed on the Red Button.
• Stephen Mulhern's Celebrity Catchphrase with Stephen Mulhern (ITV, 7.15) Gyles Brandreth, Cliff Parisi, Perri Shakes-Drayton. Shown on VM1 at 8pm tomorrow.
• House of the Year (BBC2 NI, 7.50) Repeat from last week.
• The Wheel (BBC1, 8.20) Tonight's stars are David Walliams, Sabre from Gladiators, Angela Scanlon, Dion Dublin, Clara Amfo, Sara Davies, Dermot O'Leary.
• BBC The Voice of Holland (VM1 and ITV, 8.20) Semi-finals already.

Sunday 20 October

• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.30).
• BBC Brain (Radio 4, 4.30) Heat 8.
• Lego Masters Down Under (E4, 5.15) Up it goes..

Primetime

• Young Musician of the Year (Radio 3, 5.25; BBC2, 6.30) The grand final, hosted by Jess Gillam. Performances in full on Radio 3, and on BBC4 at 11pm.
• Tipping Point Lucky Stars (ITV, 7pm) Keith Duffy, Gok Wan, and Lesley Garrett.
• Strictly Come Dancing The Results (BBC1, 7.20) With a performance from Reg Snipton. Signed on the Red Button.
• Big Brother (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm) Layton Live follows at 10pm.

Weekday Daytimes

• That's My Dog (Rewind TV, 10am) Repeats of the mutt-and-man show.
• Bargain Hunt (BBC1, 12.15) New on Monday (Celebrating soaps), Wednesday (Wetherby), and Friday (Newark). Repeats Tuesday and Thursday.
• !mpossible (BBC2, 1pm); Unbeatable (BBC2, 1.45; Tue 2.45 Wales); The Boss (BBC2, 2.30; Tue 3.30 Wales) Repeats.
• Family Fortunes (ITV, 2pm) Repeats.
• Countdown (C4, 2.10) Linford Christie runs laps around everyone. Repeat at 6am next day.
• Lingo (ITV, 3pm) New episodes (Mon-Wed); repeats (Thu-Fri). Signed repeats at 5.05am next morning.
• Tipping Point (ITV, 4pm) New episodes (Mon-Wed); repeats (Thu-Fri).
• The Bidding Room (BBC1, 4.30) New episodes.
• The Chase (ITV, 5pm) New episodes.
• Pointless (BBC1, 5.15) Repeats with Nish Kumar.
• House of Games (3) (BBC2, 6pm; Wales not Fri) Chris Bisson, Danielle Harold, Katharine Merry, Robert Webb.
• Strictly Come Dancing It Takes Two (BBC2, 6.30; Wales 6.45 Fri).
• Masterchef Down Under: Dessert Masters (W, 7pm) Decadent and diabolical challenges, like walk through the set of Neighbours without making the walls wobble.
• Whose Line Is It Anyway Usa (Comedy Central, 8pm) New episodes.

Monday 21 October

• We've Been Here Before (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm and 8pm) Clive Anderson's history panel game, from 2004.
• Just a Minute (Radio 4, 6.30) Desiree Burch, Glenn Moore, Lucy Porter, Gyles Brandreth.
• Mastermind (BBC2, 7.30) Subjects: Claudius, Watergate, Lloyd Webber's Phantom, futurism.
• Only Connect (BBC2, 8pm) Second chance round: Pipe Dreamers vs Tea Totallers.
• House of the Year (BBC1 NI, 8pm) Mixed bag.
• University Challenge (BBC2, 8.30) St Andrews vs Cardiff.
• Call My Bluff (BBC4, 9pm) A classic episode.
• Big Brother (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm). Layton Live follows at 10pm.
• Out of Order (Comedy Central, 9pm) Best bits.
• Face the Music (BBC4, 9.25) Joyce Grenfell, Robin Ray, David Attenborough, and guest Stephen Dodgson.
• Have I Got A Bit More News for You (BBC1 England, 10.40; Wales 11.40, NI 11.45, Scotland 12.40am) Hannah Fry, Carol Vorderman, Phil Wang, from last Friday.

Tuesday 22 October

• Act Your Age (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Lucy Porter and Roy Walker, together in 2008.
• Bake Off (C4, 8pm) Pastry week, with a flaky technical. Sign language interpretation on 4Seven.
• Dress the Nation (ITV, 8pm) The grand final: full collections, with Cat Deeley from Britain's Got the Pop Factor and Possibly a Brand New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soap Star Superstar Strictly on Ice!
• QI XL (BBC2, 9pm) Voyaging, with Nabil Abdulrashid, Joe Lycett, and Lou Sanders. First in the new series.
• Big Brother (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm). Layton Live follows at 10pm.
• Unforgivable (BBC2, 9.45) Mel Giedroyc and Lou Sanders, as seen on UKTVG2-Dave in 2021.
• Have I Got News For You America (BBC2, 11.05) With guests Kerry Berry and Lesley Presley.

Wednesday 23 October

• Never Mind the Buzzcocks (KYTV Maximillian 2am; repeated KYTV Maximillian and The Satellite Channel, 9pm) Sophie Willan, Susan Wokoma, AJ Tracey, Nelly Furtado.
• Counterpoint (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Repeats from 2013.
• Portrait Artist of the Year (Artsworld and The Satellite Channel, 8pm) Sitting: Dan Snow, Layton Williams, Steven Frayne.
• Big Brother (ITV2, 9pm; VM2, 10pm). Layton Live follows at 10pm.
• BBC New Comedy Award 2024 (BBC3, 10pm) Serena Terry from Belfast, where local comedians make up just 60% of the contestants.
• Survivor (TG4, 11.35) "The thorn in my thumb". Repeated next Saturday.

Thursday 24 October

• Bake Off an Extra Slice (C4, 8pm) Alexander Armstrong and AJ Odudu.
• Taskmaster (C4, 9pm) "Captain Jackie and the Hotdog".
• RuPaul's Drag Race (BBC3, 9pm) Graham Norton chats. Repeated BBC1 late Friday.
• Big Brother (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm). Layton Live follows at 10pm.

Friday 25 October

• Breaking the News (Radio Scotland, 1.32; BBC Scotland tv 11.30) Kemah Bob, Stuart McPherson, Jay Laffety, Chris Forbes.
• All the Way from Memphis (Radio 4 Extra, 2pm, 8pm) Music quiz, chaired by James Walton.
• The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30) Ian Smith is this week's guest host.
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2, 7pm; not Wales) Nina Hossain and Lucrezia Millarini.
• Would I Lie to You (BBC1, 8pm; not Scotland) A classic edition with Mist, Jayde Adams, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, Ellie Simmonds.
• Have I Got News for You (BBC1, 9pm) Grayson Perry and Angela Barnes are involved.
• Big Brother (VM2 and ITV2, 9pm) Eviction night. Layton Live follows at 10.15.

Sign language interpretation

• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (BBC2, 2.55am Sat, 2.10am Fri).
• Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Red Button, 6.25pm Sat, 7.15pm Sun).
• Bake Off (E4, 11.50 am Sun); Bake Off An Extra Slice (C4, 12 midnight Tue). Last week's shows.
• Scotland's Greatest Escape (BBC Scotland, 3pm Mon) This year's series.
• Lingo (ITV, 5.05am Tue-Thu) Shown earlier in the day.
• Bake Off (4Seven, 8pm Tue; C4, 12.05am Thu) This week's show.
• Taskmaster (12.20am Wed) Last week's show.
• Ninja Warrior (ITV, 3am Wed).
• The Money List (RTÉ2, 3.35am Wed).
• RuPaul's Drag Race (BBC3, 2.40am Fri) Shown earlier in the night.

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 4pm Cash Trapped 5pm The Chase

Monday - Friday

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